The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express

December 11, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 10: Laloo Yadav may have the last laugh as far as the Janata Dal is concerned though it remains to be seen if he gets the be...
Thu, Dec 11, 1997
December 05, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 4: It was finally curtains on the 26-day drama when President KR Narayanan telephoned Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma at 2 pm to...
Fri, Dec 05, 1997
December 04, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 3: Although every Lok Sabha MP wanted to avert a mid-term poll, no compromise to save the 11th House of the people worked. I...
Thu, Dec 04, 1997
December 02, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 1: The isolated salvo fired by Mulayam Singh Yadav in far-away Purnea in Bihar, reverberated in Andhra Pradesh Bhavan here, ...
Tue, Dec 02, 1997
November 29, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, NOV 28: Sitaram Kesri has staked his claim to form a government not because he thinks the arithmetic favours him but essentially...
Sat, Nov 29, 1997
November 28, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, November 27: The Gujral Government is now all set to go. The Prime Minister gave an indication of this at a meeting in the Capit...
Fri, Nov 28, 1997
November 27, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 26: The threat posed by Tamil pride and southern consolidation against the party appears to have made the Congress jittery.T...
Thu, Nov 27, 1997
November 26, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, November 25: The Government will take at least a couple of weeks to go out of office, even if the ongoing efforts for a compromi...
Wed, Nov 26, 1997
November 25, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 24: Speaker P A Sangma, who adjourned the House indefinitely today, has allowed for a cooling off period to restore rational...
Tue, Nov 25, 1997
November 24, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, NOV 23: The cracks between the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC), papered over in the past, a...
Mon, Nov 24, 1997
November 23, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, November 22: Veteran journalist Nikhil Chakravarty is to head the long awaited Prasar Bharati Board to grant autonomy to Doordar...
Sun, Nov 23, 1997
November 22, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, November 21: The Congress leader, who precipitated the current political crisis and outwitted Sitaram Kesri is Arjun Singh. The ...
Sat, Nov 22, 1997
November 21, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 20: The Congress, suffering from the syndrome all parties who lend support to the government from outside go through after a...
Fri, Nov 21, 1997
November 20, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 19: There is a strong move by the BJP to try and form a government when the Gujral ministry is brought down by the Congress....
Thu, Nov 20, 1997
November 19, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 18: A significant change in the political scenario during the last 24 hours was the shifting of focus -- from ``whether poll...
Wed, Nov 19, 1997
November 18, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 17: The situation seems to be heading towards a mid-term poll even as both the United Front and the Congress are engaged in ...
Tue, Nov 18, 1997
November 17, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, November 16: The fate of the long awaited Broadcasting Bill has now got linked to shenanigans inside the Congress party, and it ...
Mon, Nov 17, 1997
November 17, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 16: One thing is becoming increasingly clear. If the Government goes, whether it is in the next few days or three months hen...
Mon, Nov 17, 1997
November 09, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, NOV 8: The appointment of Chakravarti Rangarajan as Governor of Andhra Pradesh is the culmination of a four-month long search fo...
Sun, Nov 09, 1997
November 07, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, November 6: With Gujarat holding the key to the future of the Congress at the Centre, all eyes are now fixed on the confidence m...
Fri, Nov 07, 1997
November 07, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 6: The Women's Reservation Bill, which had been put on the backburner, created fireworks at yesterday's meeting of the Unite...
Fri, Nov 07, 1997
November 03, 1997 00:00 IST
November 1: The furore kicked up over the Uttar Pradesh imbroglio might have settled down now, but political parties and leaders have come ...
Mon, Nov 03, 1997
October 24, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Oct 23: If accountability has any meaning, Romesh Bhandari should have resigned by now. The President's decision to return the U...
Fri, Oct 24, 1997
October 23, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, October 22: Yesterday Sitaram Kesri was calling the shots. The United Front government was forced to take a decision which the P...
Thu, Oct 23, 1997
October 20, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Oct 19: Differences within the Government are dogging the Prasar Bharati Act expected to ensure the long awaited autonomy for Al...
Mon, Oct 20, 1997




