The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

September 11, 2004 02:01 IST
India does not believe that a ‘‘purely military solution’’ is the answer to the crisis afflicting Nepal and hopes that t...
Sat, Sep 11, 2004
September 09, 2004 00:00 IST
BJP prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had carved himself a reputation last April by unhinging the Indo-Pakistan dialogue from the mutual a...
Thu, Sep 09, 2004
September 08, 2004 01:45 IST
Acknowledging the role of the media in normalising relations between India and Pakistan, External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh and his c...
Wed, Sep 08, 2004
September 07, 2004 02:20 IST
India and Pakistan today committed themselves to a slow but sustained process to keep the dialogue going, in which New Delhi for the first t...
Tue, Sep 07, 2004
September 06, 2004 01:32 IST
The broad smiles on the part of both India and Pakistan only told part of the story today, masking the painfully slow progress that will be ...
Mon, Sep 06, 2004
September 05, 2004 02:21 IST
India and Pakistan may just be inching back on the long road to reconciliation, with both sides today sounding surprisingly upbeat about the...
Sun, Sep 05, 2004
September 04, 2004 02:12 IST
Taking off from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s prescription of ‘‘thinking out of the box’’ with Pakistan, the Gove...
Sat, Sep 04, 2004
September 03, 2004 02:09 IST
Talks between India and Pakistan this weekend just acquired an extra edge as US Secretary of State Colin Powell called External Affairs mini...
Fri, Sep 03, 2004
September 03, 2004 00:00 IST
Watching the Potala palace as it turns from an inky, translucent blue to a pearly grey-off white in the early morning light, is a singular e...
Fri, Sep 03, 2004
September 02, 2004 02:10 IST
The palpable relief over the release of the Indian hostages in Iraq mixed with the anguish over the killing of Nepalese hostages as South Bl...
Thu, Sep 02, 2004
September 02, 2004 00:00 IST
When Awami League leader and former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina escaped an attempt on her life in Dhaka on August 21, and PM Kha...
Thu, Sep 02, 2004
August 31, 2004 01:49 IST
India has formally offered Bangladesh help in investigating the assassination attempt on former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina some 10 days ag...
Tue, Aug 31, 2004
August 26, 2004 01:51 IST
India will wait and watch how soon Maldivian President Abdul Gayoom pursues a truly democratic reform agenda in his country, the first test ...
Thu, Aug 26, 2004
August 26, 2004 00:00 IST
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was probably taking a leaf out of Deng Xiaoping Thought when he spoke at the JRD Tata commemorations in the ca...
Thu, Aug 26, 2004
August 25, 2004 00:00 IST
“The central government in Beijing will not eat its words.”The mild-mannered assistant commissioner in charge of ethnic and religi...
Wed, Aug 25, 2004
August 24, 2004 02:29 IST
Unnerved by the unusual international interest in the state of emergency he clamped on his nation 10 days ago, Asia’s longest-serving d...
Tue, Aug 24, 2004
August 18, 2004 00:00 IST
Jordan's geographical proximity to Iraq is highly significant in the current circumstances. Amman is the last stop that connects the rest of...
Wed, Aug 18, 2004
August 17, 2004 03:08 IST
India is closely monitoring the ‘‘very restive’’ situation in the Maldives, where President Abdul Gayoom has imposed a s...
Tue, Aug 17, 2004
August 17, 2004 02:35 IST
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet US President George Bush, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, Russian President Vladimir Putin and ...
Tue, Aug 17, 2004
August 14, 2004 01:30 IST
Books may be a man — or a woman’s — best friend, but they may soon be pressed into the service of warming up the frost that s...
Sat, Aug 14, 2004
August 12, 2004 02:09 IST
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi will be in India for the second time in two years tomorrow, but the sinking feeling that persists...
Thu, Aug 12, 2004
August 11, 2004 00:00 IST
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is slated to visit Kashmir in the week after August 15, taking his idea of a ‘‘caring’’ go...
Wed, Aug 11, 2004
August 08, 2004 01:37 IST
In small but authoritative ways, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is showing he’s certainly no pushover. Some days ago, Nobel Laureate Ama...
Sun, Aug 08, 2004
August 06, 2004 02:19 IST
With Kargil casting a long shadow over the Siachen talks between India and Pakistan today, the first discussions since the 1999 war, both si...
Fri, Aug 06, 2004
August 05, 2004 02:13 IST
India and Pakistan are likely to talk past each other when the two Defence Secretaries meet tomorrow, after six long years, to discuss the S...
Thu, Aug 05, 2004



