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March 15, 2005 00:06 IST
Justice G.T. Nanavati has not reacted well to the finding that the fire in the railway compartment near Godhra was ‘‘accidental...
Tue, Mar 15, 2005
March 02, 2005 00:51 IST
A Representative from a third world country impressed his counterparts with the way he would vote at meetings of the WTO. Every time he said...
Wed, Mar 02, 2005
February 15, 2005 00:00 IST
WHEN it comes to the feelings of neighbouring countries, our government is inclined to be insensitive. It behaves like any other big power w...
Tue, Feb 15, 2005
February 01, 2005 00:30 IST
I wish the Government of India had a policy on Kashmir. It has defended the state against all odds. But this is only a territorial assertion...
Tue, Feb 01, 2005
January 18, 2005 00:36 IST
I don't see any rationale in the proposal to increase foreign equity in the print media. The present limit of 26 per cent has already given ...
Tue, Jan 18, 2005
January 04, 2005 00:00 IST
I have gone through the gist of talks between the government of Andhra Pradesh and the Naxalite groups in the state. The two sides were proc...
Tue, Jan 04, 2005
December 21, 2004 00:00 IST
The question is moral, not legal,’’ said Mahatma Gandhi when a Punjab Congress leader, Sardul Singh Kaeshwar, argued that he was n...
Tue, Dec 21, 2004
December 07, 2004 00:07 IST
I have known BJP president L.K. Advani from the days he was in journalism. I was then information officer at the Press Information Bureau of...
Tue, Dec 07, 2004
November 23, 2004 00:33 IST
Kashmir is nowhere near a solution. Still the noise is getting louder. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Srinagar, Pakistan Pres...
Tue, Nov 23, 2004
November 09, 2004 00:12 IST
Information and Broadcasting Minister Jaipal Reddy is a product of the Jayaprakash Narayan movement. He opposed the Emergency and suffered b...
Tue, Nov 09, 2004
October 26, 2004 00:00 IST
I was present at the Pakistan National Assembly session in Islamabad when the bill authorising President Pervez Musharraf to retain his unif...
Tue, Oct 26, 2004
October 12, 2004 00:00 IST
Jayaprakash Narayan wasn’t built to be a hero: slight of figure, racked by adverse circumstances and battle-worn. Yet, he proved to be ...
Tue, Oct 12, 2004
September 28, 2004 00:00 IST
Don't tinker with the problem, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru cautioned Union Law Minister A.K. Sen when he convened the state law minister...
Tue, Sep 28, 2004
September 14, 2004 00:00 IST
I was at the meeting of young journalists from India and Bangladesh at Dhaka where Foreign Minister Morshed Khan made the speech that create...
Tue, Sep 14, 2004
September 07, 2004 00:00 IST
Whatever else they may convey, Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri’s parleys with different Hurriyat leaders send out a loud and ...
Tue, Sep 07, 2004
August 24, 2004 00:00 IST
At a meeting with the Editors Guild of India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated that tainted ministers were not only those who had commit...
Tue, Aug 24, 2004
August 10, 2004 00:00 IST
Certain remarks leave you confused. You know what has been said is true. Still you cannot distill the main point. Before Gladys Staines, a l...
Tue, Aug 10, 2004
July 27, 2004 00:00 IST
Nations, like individuals, look ugly when they break the rules. It was for the nth time that Pakistan raised Kashmir at the recent SAARC for...
Tue, Jul 27, 2004
July 13, 2004 00:00 IST
I was not assessing the fallout of the budget. I was following the disappearance of a town called Harsud in Madhya Pradesh from the face of...
Tue, Jul 13, 2004
June 29, 2004 00:00 IST
There are far too many retired bureaucrats in key positions in this government for one’s comfort. That Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ha...
Tue, Jun 29, 2004
June 15, 2004 00:00 IST
The anti-India feeling in Bangladesh is so strong, you can taste it. When even Sheikh Hasina, considered New Delhi’s friend, refuses to...
Tue, Jun 15, 2004
June 01, 2004 00:00 IST
That we need economic reforms is something which was recognised as far back as 1991 when Congress Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao began hi...
Tue, Jun 01, 2004
May 18, 2004 00:00 IST
Was it possible that they could swallow that?’’ wondered Winston Smith, the hero of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four afte...
Tue, May 18, 2004
May 04, 2004 00:00 IST
Had I been an ordinary citizen, I would have filed an FIR against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi,’’ said outgoing the Chief ...
Tue, May 04, 2004
April 20, 2004 00:00 IST
Some 75 members, roughly one-third, retire this year from the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of 250. For the first time, the state assemblies ...
Tue, Apr 20, 2004





