The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.
June 08, 1997 00:00 IST
KATHMANDU June 7: In the absence of any contentious issues between the two countries, Nepal today assured India that it would not allow its...
June 07, 1997 00:00 IST
KATHMANDU, June 6: In a dramatic, free-wheeling manner that stunned assembled businessmen from Nepal and India here today, Prime Minister I...
June 06, 1997 00:00 IST
KATHMANDU, June 5: India today agreed to take another look at the 1950 Indo-Nepal treaty of peace and friendship that Kathmandu has been pr...
June 05, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, June 4: Indo-US relationship seems set to enter a new, rocky phase with New Delhi rejecting Washington's charges that Bharat Ele...
June 01, 1997 00:00 IST
In the 1940s, Winston Churchill once described the Soviet Union as a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma. The description could ha...
May 27, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 26: The near-takeover of Afghanistan by the Pakistan-aided Taliban militia last weekend has sent a body blow to whatever the...
May 25, 1997 00:00 IST
The story goes that in his recent incarnation as External Affairs Minister, I.K. Gujral told a visiting Bangladeshi delegation that India w...
May 21, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MAY 20: Young Elizabeth was barely 20 years old when her father, George VI, signed the India Act granting independence to, and a...
May 19, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MAY 18: PRIME Minister I K Gujral will undertake two foreign visits next month to Nepal in early June and to South Africa in the...
May 17, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 16: India scored a major diplomatic victory on Tuesday when it was elected unopposed chairman of the executive council of th...
May 11, 1997 00:00 IST
The South Asian Association for Regi-onal Cooperation's (SAARC) ninth summit in the Maldives beginning today offers the perfect pitch for P...
May 08, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 7: Though Pakistan does not have a single-point agenda for the forthcoming talks between Prime Ministers I K Gujral and Nawa...
May 05, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 4: Prime Minister I K Gujral's old friend and ideologue -- and now Officer on Special Duty in the PM's office -- Bhabani Sen...
May 04, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 3: An all-party fact-finding team that has just returned from investigating the Haj fire tragedy in Mina, Saudi Arabia, has ...
May 03, 1997 00:00 IST
MEDITATING ON MEDIATION: Cook. The return of Labour to 10, Downing Street, at any other time might well have brought back the goosebumps ...
