The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

April 18, 2004 00:00 IST
JUST when you’re beginning to wonder if it’s yet another predictable quickie on India-Pakistan, the twin-set relationship that has...
Sun, Apr 18, 2004
April 14, 2004 00:00 IST
What with the all-consuming attention on things domestic, India seems to have taken a considered decision not to publicly comment on or crit...
Wed, Apr 14, 2004
April 10, 2004 00:00 IST
New Delhi asked for a postponement of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service talks that were supposed to have been held in Islamabad on April...
Sat, Apr 10, 2004
April 09, 2004 00:00 IST
He may wince in the lobby of his Delhi hotel about the deep divide in the electorate back home. Fact is, Norman Ornstein, hotshot psephologi...
Fri, Apr 09, 2004
April 07, 2004 00:00 IST
For the longest time since 1947 and at least till 1980, the house that Mohammed Ali Jinnah built and lived in on Malabar Hill in Bombay, bef...
Wed, Apr 07, 2004
April 06, 2004 00:00 IST
Pakistan is believed to have informally told India that it would considerably ease the reopening of the Karachi consulate if New Delhi was w...
Tue, Apr 06, 2004
April 01, 2004 00:00 IST
Under the cover of watching the Indo-Pak one-day international in Lahore last week, Principal Secretary Brajesh Mishra met Tariq Aziz, secre...
Thu, Apr 01, 2004
March 31, 2004 00:00 IST
The maulvi of Mandvi, Baroda, and his wife, alias the parents of Irfan Pathan, are off to Lahore to watch their young son and India’s s...
Wed, Mar 31, 2004
March 27, 2004 00:00 IST
India and the US have agreed to support Nepal against the European Union and Switzerland’s decision to castigate Kathmandu’s recor...
Sat, Mar 27, 2004
March 24, 2004 00:00 IST
Israel's early Monday morning assassination of the wheelchair-bound cleric, Sheikh Yassin of Hamas, created shockwaves through the region an...
Wed, Mar 24, 2004
March 21, 2004 00:00 IST
India voiced its ‘‘disappointment’’ today over US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s refusal to share information th...
Sun, Mar 21, 2004
March 17, 2004 00:00 IST
Acknowledging that the outsourcing of jobs is the ‘‘reality of the global environment in the 21st century,’’ US Secretar...
Wed, Mar 17, 2004
March 17, 2004 00:00 IST
The election season at home has thrown an avoidable spanner in the works in the nicely progressing talks between India and China on the boun...
Wed, Mar 17, 2004
March 16, 2004 00:00 IST
As India and the US get into election gear, a simmering spat on the outsourcing of jobs to India from the US will not be allowed to hit the ...
Tue, Mar 16, 2004
March 15, 2004 00:00 IST
Sri Lanka will finally mitigate some of the anger that continues to simmer in the Indian Army over its humiliating withdrawal from the islan...
Mon, Mar 15, 2004
March 10, 2004 00:00 IST
India seems to be laying out the red carpet for Iran, with arch-conservative and judiciary chief Hashemi Shahroudi receiving the right royal...
Wed, Mar 10, 2004
March 09, 2004 00:00 IST
India will ask for the return of ULFA terrorists like Anup Chetia, Paresh Barua and Sanjib Deb Barman when Foreign Secretary Shashank travel...
Tue, Mar 09, 2004
March 03, 2004 00:00 IST
‘‘WAH Dutt sultan, Hindu ka dharma, Musalman ka iman/Wah Dutt sultan, adha Hindu, adha Musalman.’’ Here’s a saying ...
Wed, Mar 03, 2004
February 28, 2004 00:00 IST
For the first time since he escaped to India four years ago from Chinese-controlled Tibet, Karmapa lama Ugyen Trinley Dorji has stated that ...
Sat, Feb 28, 2004
February 25, 2004 00:00 IST
Iran must be the flavour of the next few weeks with the visit of Iranian national security advisor Hasan Rohani tomorrow to dialogue with hi...
Wed, Feb 25, 2004
February 19, 2004 00:00 IST
As Pak President Pervez Musharraf, dressed in his military fatigues and speaking before a conference of religious teachers here this afterno...
Thu, Feb 19, 2004
February 18, 2004 00:00 IST
Pakistan has reiterated that it would be willing to use its ‘‘influence’’ in Kashmir to end terrorism, but that India mu...
Wed, Feb 18, 2004
February 17, 2004 00:00 IST
India and Pakistan today took a respectable leap for their nations and a small, reassuring step for the region, when they resumed their prom...
Tue, Feb 17, 2004
February 16, 2004 00:00 IST
As the Pakistan government directed its provinces to provide ‘‘fool-proof’’ security to the Indian cricket team and anno...
Mon, Feb 16, 2004
February 15, 2004 00:00 IST
If cricket was war—and friendship—by any other means, then welcome to the Indian tour of Pakistan next month. Tonight, though, the...
Sun, Feb 15, 2004



