
April 29, 2003 00:00 IST
BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu has accepted the resignation of Ramdas Agrawal as the central party in-charge of Rajasthan, general secretary...
Tue, Apr 29, 2003
April 29, 2003 00:00 IST
Rashtriya Kranti Party president and former UP chief minister Kalyan Singh has virtually put an end to speculation about his returning to th...
Tue, Apr 29, 2003
April 28, 2003 00:00 IST
The Central and the UP governments here today constituted a four-member committee to find a solution to the problems of sugarcane farmers. A...
Mon, Apr 28, 2003
April 27, 2003 00:00 IST
As her ‘‘rath’’ gets rolling over the desert state tomorrow, Rajasthan BJP president Vasundhara Raje Scindia embarks on ...
Sun, Apr 27, 2003
April 26, 2003 00:00 IST
Pushed to the edge by Mayawati, the BJP high command is redrawing its strategy for Uttar Pradesh. The proposals on the table range from rein...
Sat, Apr 26, 2003
April 25, 2003 00:00 IST
Much to the discomfiture of the Government, key BJP-ally Shiv Sena persisted with its resistance to disinvestment of the HPCL and BPCL and j...
Fri, Apr 25, 2003
April 24, 2003 00:00 IST
After having taken the initiative of offering his “hand of friendship to Pakistan”, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee lobbed the ball b...
Thu, Apr 24, 2003
April 23, 2003 00:00 IST
Barely a day after stepping in to the truckers’ mess, BJP General Secretary Pramod Mahajan washed his hands of the issue. Sources said ...
Wed, Apr 23, 2003
April 22, 2003 00:00 IST
United by their rivals’ alleged vindictive actions in the states, members across party-lines demanded that the Prime Minister convene a...
Tue, Apr 22, 2003
April 22, 2003 00:00 IST
An exclusive agenda for Dalits, a heady mix of Hindutva and ‘‘yatras’’, complete statehood for Delhi and projection of M...
Tue, Apr 22, 2003
April 21, 2003 00:00 IST
It is camaraderie versus comrades! The strains in the BJP-Trinamool relationship became history today as the presidents of the two parties m...
Mon, Apr 21, 2003
April 21, 2003 00:00 IST
Political parties will now be required to file income-tax returns only for donations received from companies or individuals that exceed Rs 2...
Mon, Apr 21, 2003
April 20, 2003 00:00 IST
Describing the action against VHP general secretary Pravin Togadia as a ‘‘sinister political conspiracy’’, RSS Sarsanghc...
Sun, Apr 20, 2003
April 18, 2003 00:00 IST
Sniping has given way to confusion. Samata Party factions have suddenly begun searching for a formula to check ‘‘indiscipline’...
Fri, Apr 18, 2003
April 18, 2003 00:00 IST
BJP president M. Venkaiah Naidu met PM A.B. Vajpayee here this evening and appealed to him to intervene to end the truckers’ agitation....
Fri, Apr 18, 2003
April 17, 2003 00:00 IST
Perhaps taking a cue from UP Chief Minister Mayawati, Haryana CM Om Prakash Chautala on Wednesday hinted at registering cases against his pr...
Thu, Apr 17, 2003
April 17, 2003 00:00 IST
Two days after Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) founder Dattopant Thengadi lambasted Government’s economic policies with a liberal use of me...
Thu, Apr 17, 2003
April 16, 2003 00:00 IST
Samata Party president and Defence Minister George Fernandes are set to meet with Railways Minister Nitish Kumar in a last-minute bid to ave...
Wed, Apr 16, 2003
April 16, 2003 00:00 IST
The unduly sharp attack by the Swadeshi Jagran Manch on the economic policies of the A.B. Vajpayee Government here yesterday has shattered t...
Wed, Apr 16, 2003
April 16, 2003 00:00 IST
Welcome to the new-age shakha. The RSS ‘pracharaks’ on deputation to the BJP — long-perceived as the self-sacrificing, simple...
Wed, Apr 16, 2003
April 15, 2003 00:00 IST
After lying low for some time, the Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) upped the ante today by embarking on a two-month-long nation-wide agitation a...
Tue, Apr 15, 2003
April 15, 2003 00:00 IST
The Samata Party is heading for a split. The proxy battle at Patna is set to shift to New Delhi. Given the level of mistrust which has devel...
Tue, Apr 15, 2003
April 14, 2003 00:00 IST
If the Savarkar portrait issue saw the BJP and the Congress snarling at each other, a statue seeks to patch them up. The statue of Maratha p...
Mon, Apr 14, 2003
April 14, 2003 00:00 IST
Knives were out today in the Samata Party as the faction led by Union Railway Minister Nitish Kumar struck at the loyalists of Defence Minis...
Mon, Apr 14, 2003
April 09, 2003 00:00 IST
Kicked out of the Cabinet for indiscipline, former Rural Development Minister Shanta Kumar has decided to complete a novel in Hindi rather t...
Wed, Apr 09, 2003



