The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

June 19, 2004 00:00 IST
Aiming to settle the somewhat noisy rhetoric in the new Indian establishment with Israel, Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon telephoned Pri...
Sat, Jun 19, 2004
June 19, 2004 00:00 IST
Five years after they agreed to put together a series of nuclear confidence-building measures at Lahore in 1999, senior officials from India...
Sat, Jun 19, 2004
June 16, 2004 00:00 IST
The two Special Representatives on the Sino-Indian border question will have their third meeting in July. Although dates have not been confi...
Wed, Jun 16, 2004
June 13, 2004 00:00 IST
Taking a leaf out of its very successful medical-military intervention in Somalia exactly a decade ago, India is planning to put together a ...
Sun, Jun 13, 2004
June 11, 2004 00:00 IST
The man responsible for bringing both structure and sanity to India’s roller-coaster relationship with Nepal, Ambassador Shyam Saran, w...
Fri, Jun 11, 2004
June 10, 2004 00:00 IST
India's formal welcome of the UN Security Council resolution on Iraq today —stressing the ‘‘central role of the UN’’...
Thu, Jun 10, 2004
June 10, 2004 00:00 IST
External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh’s determination to take the dialogue with Pakistan forward is manifesting itself in an unsche...
Thu, Jun 10, 2004
June 09, 2004 00:00 IST
As a regional power, India has often fallen between a fulsome exercise of strength, or an extraordinary hesitation in saying its piece. Ofte...
Wed, Jun 09, 2004
June 09, 2004 00:00 IST
Setting at rest speculation about a dip in Indo-US relations since the Congress-led government came to power, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ...
Wed, Jun 09, 2004
June 06, 2004 00:00 IST
Having assisted in mounting a Congress-led revolution at home barely a fortnight ago, External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh’s visit...
Sun, Jun 06, 2004
June 05, 2004 00:00 IST
Developments in India have been so dramatic over the last few weeks that it has almost eclipsed the raw display of power simultaneously enac...
Sat, Jun 05, 2004
June 04, 2004 00:00 IST
When K Natwar Singh travels to Nepal tomorrow on his first visit as External Affairs minister, he will seek to impress upon King Gyanendra a...
Fri, Jun 04, 2004
June 02, 2004 00:00 IST
External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh today sought to put a personal stamp on the country’s foreign policy by indicating that India ...
Wed, Jun 02, 2004
June 02, 2004 00:00 IST
Pakistan's National Security Council secretary Tariq Aziz—the man who, at least vis-a-vis India, carried the buck on its last journey t...
Wed, Jun 02, 2004
June 01, 2004 00:00 IST
India will signal its displeasure on the US occupation of Iraq when Douglas Feith, a major star of the American neoconservative establishmen...
Tue, Jun 01, 2004
May 28, 2004 00:00 IST
On his fortieth death anniversary, the spirit of Jawaharlal Nehru was all but invisible in the new South Block. Commandeered by External Aff...
Fri, May 28, 2004
May 28, 2004 00:00 IST
National Security Adviser J.N. Dixit will inherit the mantle of his predecessor Brajesh Mishra on all the strategic engagements India has be...
Fri, May 28, 2004
May 27, 2004 00:00 IST
The appointment of former Foreign Secretary J N Dixit as National Security Advisor (NSA) today is clear evidence that the foreign policy of ...
Thu, May 27, 2004
May 08, 2004 00:00 IST
• There was a moment about a year ago, in the days of ‘Mission Accomplished’, when Donald Rumsfeld looked like a brilliant ta...
Sat, May 08, 2004
May 05, 2004 00:00 IST
The European Union added 10 new nations and 75 million people on May Day, creating the biggest trading bloc on earth and, finally, oblitera...
Wed, May 05, 2004
May 01, 2004 00:00 IST
Describing India as an ‘‘important partner’’ in its war against terror, the US today went beyond expressing its distaste...
Sat, May 01, 2004
April 30, 2004 00:00 IST
Days after Sri Lanka invited Norway to help in brokering the peace process with the LTTE, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar sa...
Fri, Apr 30, 2004
April 28, 2004 00:00 IST
When Cuba introduced a resolution at the Human Rights Conference in Geneva just under a fortnight ago, condemning the US for keeping 600 det...
Wed, Apr 28, 2004
April 21, 2004 00:00 IST
At least the world seems to have taken the calculated risk that the BJP-led NDA alliance is returning to power in a month’s time. The l...
Wed, Apr 21, 2004

