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October 22,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCT 21: The Vajpayee Government seems to have decided to put the contentious ``foreigner'' issue on the backburner while going...
Fri, Oct 22, 1999
October 20,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCT 19: By assuming the crucial office of Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and retaining the Amethi seat instead of B...
Wed, Oct 20, 1999
October 20,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCT 19: By assuming the crucial office of Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and retaining the Amethi seat instead of B...
Wed, Oct 20, 1999
October 08,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCT 7: Knives are out for the old guard in the Congress as Sonia loyalists closed ranks behind her today to shield her from an...
Fri, Oct 08, 1999
October 08,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCT 7: Knives are out for the old guard in the Congress as Sonia loyalists closed ranks behind her today to shield her from an...
Fri, Oct 08, 1999
October 07,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCT 6: After a six-month long faceoff between the BJP and the Congress, stability remains an urban middle-class pipedream as t...
Thu, Oct 07, 1999
September 29,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, SEPT 28: The United States has quietly begun the spadework for President Bill Clinton's proposed visit to the subcontinent ear...
Wed, Sep 29, 1999
September 22,1999 00:00:00 AM
SAMBHAL, SEPT 21: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today accused the BJP Governments at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh of deliberately cr...
Wed, Sep 22, 1999
September 19,1999 00:00:00 AM
The last time BJP spokesman Arun Jaitley, 46, faced his Congress counterpart, Kapil Sibal, 51, on television, the show sizzled with so mu...
Sun, Sep 19, 1999
September 09,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, SEPT 8: Congress president Sonia Gandhi will kick off her campaign in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh from Amethi where she...
Thu, Sep 09, 1999
September 05,1999 00:00:00 AM
PM and precedentPrime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's appearance in Bellary to campaign for Sushma against Sonia Gandhi has taken the Con...
Sun, Sep 05, 1999
August 15,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, Aug 14: With the country in the thick of its thirteenth general election, Independence Day cannot but be different this year. ...
Sun, Aug 15, 1999
August 13,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 12: The Congress is at war with itself over the proposed tie-up with fading Jat leader Ajit Singh in western Uttar Prad...
Fri, Aug 13, 1999
August 08,1999 00:00:00 AM
Blow below the beltIt's not like ex-Railway Minister Nitish Kumar to be catty. So newshounds were quite surprised last week when he bared...
Sun, Aug 08, 1999
August 01,1999 00:00:00 AM
Uma's youthful tantrumsPoor Uma Bharati. She is learning the hard way that babudom is made of sterner stuff than her party bosses. Her su...
Sun, Aug 01, 1999
July 29,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, JULY 28: As the day of reckoning draws near, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is grappling with her biggest dilemma yet: To con...
Thu, Jul 29, 1999
July 24,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, JULY 23: The core group, drawn from the National Security Advisory Board, which has been advising the Government on the Kargil...
Sat, Jul 24, 1999
July 22,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, JULY 21: Kargil is set to become the main election issue with the Congress Working Committee (CWC) deciding today to blame Pri...
Thu, Jul 22, 1999
July 22,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, JULY 21: Kargil is set to become the main election issue with the Congress Working Committee (CWC) deciding today to blame Pri...
Thu, Jul 22, 1999
June 23,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, JUNE 22: The United States is believed to have assured India that it will not support any move to internationalise the Kashmir...
Wed, Jun 23, 1999
June 23,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, JUNE 22: The United States is believed to have assured India that it will not support any move to internationalise the Kashmir...
Wed, Jun 23, 1999
June 20,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, June 19: Rashtrapati Bhavan is the cynosure of all eyes as pressure mounts to broadbase the decision-making process on the Kar...
Sun, Jun 20, 1999
June 20,1999 00:00:00 AM
The Sonia blitzkriegSonia Gandhi has finally agreed to break her silence with an interview blitz prior to the elections. Her think tank h...
Sun, Jun 20, 1999
June 13,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, JUNE 12: Pakistani Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz is believed to have mooted a three-point formula for defusing the Kargil crisi...
Sun, Jun 13, 1999
May 30,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, MAY 29: If the Opposition parties today trained their guns on Defence Minister George Fernandes at Prime Minister Atal Behari ...
Sun, May 30, 1999



