The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express

March 13, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MARCH 12: So near and yet so far -- that summed up the situation on Thursday as a tense nation awaited the process of government ...
Fri, Mar 13, 1998
March 08, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 6: The question today is not so much who will form the government but how long it can last. Though the BJP increased its ta...
Sun, Mar 08, 1998
March 08, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 7: The swearing-in of a Congress government in Himachal Pradesh goes to reinforce the growing opinion that President K R Na...
Sun, Mar 08, 1998
March 07, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 5: Chandrababu Naidu's decision to postpone his arrival in Delhi today, the cancellation of the United Front's Core committ...
Sat, Mar 07, 1998
March 07, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 6: The question today is not so much who will form the government but how long it can last. Though the BJP increased its ta...
Sat, Mar 07, 1998
March 06, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 5: Chandrababu Naidu's decision to postpone his arrival in Delhi today, the cancellation of the United Front's Core committ...
Fri, Mar 06, 1998
March 03, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 2: Inter-party alliances have made a crucial difference in the just-concluded elections. As the trends started pouring in t...
Tue, Mar 03, 1998
February 25, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, February 24: Stung by criticism that he had washed his hands off Romesh Bhandari affair, Prime Minister I K Gujral has mounted a ...
Wed, Feb 25, 1998
February 24, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, February 23: While President K R Narayanan is learnt to have strongly expressed to the Prime Minister his unhappiness with Romesh...
Tue, Feb 24, 1998
February 14, 1998 00:00 IST
SAMBHAL, February 13: Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to the prize fight of the year. In the red corner is Mulayam Singh Yadav, ex-wrestler, S...
Sat, Feb 14, 1998
February 13, 1998 00:00 IST
MEERUT, Feb 12: Muslims in Uttar Pradesh are looking at the Congress afresh following the advent of Sonia Gandhi and her apology for the dem...
Fri, Feb 13, 1998
February 11, 1998 00:00 IST
Sonia Gandhi's arrival in India's political life has made "Dynasty" theunderlying theme of Election 1998. With Priyanka and Rahul ...
Wed, Feb 11, 1998
February 05, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Feb 4: Consensus-building is the new byword of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Gone are the Trishul types, instead, there is a pragma...
Thu, Feb 05, 1998
January 29, 1998 00:00 IST
ROHTAK, Jan 28: Sonia Gandhi made it clear today that she is in politics to stay, though she has decided not to contest elections from Ameth...
Thu, Jan 29, 1998
January 18, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Jan 17: It appears to be a season for contrition for the Congress. Last fortnight, Madhavrao Scindia publicly apologised on behal...
Sun, Jan 18, 1998
January 18, 1998 00:00 IST
Former finance minister Manmohan Singh's name has been doing the rounds as the Congress' prime minister-in-waiting. Neerja Chowdhury spoke t...
Sun, Jan 18, 1998
January 12, 1998 00:00 IST
There are only three states left in the Indian Union where the electoral fight is going to be between the mainline parties. There is a direc...
Mon, Jan 12, 1998
January 11, 1998 00:00 IST
After a long exile in political wilderness, Ramakrishna Hegde has managed to come back to the news columns. Expelled from the Janata Dal aft...
Sun, Jan 11, 1998
January 08, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Jan 7: By the time she has finished campaigning for the Congress, Sonia Gandhi would have covered enough miles to qualify her for...
Thu, Jan 08, 1998
December 23, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, December 22: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Kanshi Ram has totally ruled out any tie-up with Mulayam Singh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh, da...
Tue, Dec 23, 1997
December 21, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 20: The Government is learnt to have decided to write to the Chief Justice of India and convey its view that the apex court'...
Sun, Dec 21, 1997
December 19, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 18: Three women -- Sonia Gandhi, J Jayalalitha and Mamata Banerji -- have suddenly made life difficult for 82-year-old Sitar...
Fri, Dec 19, 1997
December 16, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 15: It is not just the political parties which are apprehensive of going back to the people. There are many political mahara...
Tue, Dec 16, 1997
December 15, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 14: A Congress leader from Tamil Nadu recently sent word to some colleagues in Delhi that the time had come for the party to...
Mon, Dec 15, 1997
December 14, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 13: If there is a leader who holds the key to the national election this time, it is Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Kanshi ...
Sun, Dec 14, 1997





