The writer is a former MP from Rajasthan
May 13, 1999 00:00 IST
Doctor Sahab awoke on a bedsheet drenched in sweat. It wasn't just the fact that it was four in the afternoon, or that Karachi was experi...
Thu, May 13, 1999May 04, 1999 00:00 IST
The televised blitz unleashed by the United Stated led-North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NA-TO) over the lands of the southern Slavs de...
Tue, May 04, 1999May 02, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 1: Boarding-school friends squabbling over prestige and ``stomach cramps.'' It was the most mysterious fallout amongst fri...
Sun, May 02, 1999April 21, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, APRIL 20: Squabbling scientists, tit-for-tat tests, competing laboratories, and missiles changing names has exposed Pakistan's...
Wed, Apr 21, 1999April 15, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 14: Disgruntled Army, Navy and Air Force personnel may no longer have to go to a court of law in search of justice. The ...
Thu, Apr 15, 1999April 12, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, APRIL 11: India moved a step forward in ensuring the delivery of its 11-month-old nuclear deterrent when the Agni-II Intermedi...
Mon, Apr 12, 1999April 07, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, APRIL 6: A disquiet has descended upon the prestigious United Services Institution (USI) with the feeling that the solicited v...
Wed, Apr 07, 1999April 06, 1999 00:00 IST
A distressing feature of the petition is that highly sensitive documents/statements pertaining to performance of different types of equip...
Tue, Apr 06, 1999March 29, 1999 00:00 IST
Opinions are now accepted without an armed intervention in favour of one argument against the other,' was how a religious leader from Tyr...
Mon, Mar 29, 1999March 28, 1999 00:00 IST
BEIRUT, MAR 27: ``Destroyed houses can be repaired, dead people are buried, but kidnapped people, what can you do'', asked a woman who ha...
Sun, Mar 28, 1999March 16, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MARCH 15: The `humble farmer' turned into a tank commander and technologist over a luncheon meeting with select journalists at...
Tue, Mar 16, 1999March 12, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MARCH 11: As the restructuring of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) enters the final, proposal-whetting phase, bureaucrats in Sout...
Fri, Mar 12, 1999March 09, 1999 00:00 IST
TWO bottles of rum; that was what it took Hav Ram Avtar to make his way into the train compartment at Jammu, not the rail warrant issued ...
Tue, Mar 09, 1999March 07, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MARCH 6: Constrained by legal advice, Naval Headquarters has finally been moved to appoint controversial Vice Admiral Harinder...
Sun, Mar 07, 1999March 04, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MARCH 3: India's flip-flop over the Agni Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) programme finally comes to an end with fl...
Thu, Mar 04, 1999March 01, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Feb 28: In the country's first post-Pokharan Budget, the allocation for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been increased by 11...
Mon, Mar 01, 1999February 27, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, FEB 26: As Sada-e-Sarhad rolled over the Radcliffe Line at the Wagha/Attari border last Saturday, carrying the Prime Minister,...
Sat, Feb 27, 1999February 22, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Feb 21: Women officials in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) are tougher than their male colleagues. So it seems from the MoD's ef...
Mon, Feb 22, 1999January 12, 1999 00:00 IST
Khanabal transit camp is not the most pleasant place to begin the new year. But Havildar Ram Avtar had no option. He had been sanctioned ...
Tue, Jan 12, 1999January 08, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JAN 7: Exigencies imposed by budgetary constraints and the secure shadow of a credible nuclear deterrent have compelled the Ar...
Fri, Jan 08, 1999January 01, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 31: Spring cleaning has come early to the Defence Ministry as it begins 1999 with new service chiefs at the Air Force and ...
Fri, Jan 01, 1999December 31, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 30: In an attempt to correct the impression that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was deliberately interfering and stalling A...
Thu, Dec 31, 1998December 31, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 30: Ground Zero on a cold afternoon was over the eastern end of South Block as the Government dismissed Chief of Naval Sta...
Thu, Dec 31, 1998December 28, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 27: On the power of the fibre optic cable, the Army is riding into a future that is going to be networked from the South B...
Mon, Dec 28, 1998December 28, 1998 00:00 IST
Jalandhar gave this world Zia ul-Haq. The late general, chief martial law administrator and president of Pakistan has left behind a legac...
Mon, Dec 28, 1998