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August 07,2002 00:00:00 AM
As pressure mounts for imposition of Governor’s Rule before polls in J-K, National Conference chief Omar Abdullah said today it was pos...
Wed, Aug 07, 2002
August 02,2002 00:00:00 AM
The Vajpayee Government is set to pull off a political surprise by handing over the plum post of President of the Indian Council for Cultura...
Fri, Aug 02, 2002
August 01,2002 00:00:00 AM
The Centre’s prescription for a ‘‘free and fair’’ election in Jammu and Kashmir is polls under Governor’s Rule...
Thu, Aug 01, 2002
August 01,2002 00:00:00 AM
Her husband’s last night will probably remain a poignant memory for late Vice President Krishan Kant’ wife, Suman. Grandmotherly d...
Thu, Aug 01, 2002
July 31,2002 00:00:00 AM
US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s visit has revived the Government’s sagging hopes for its Kashmir initiative. While his commen...
Wed, Jul 31, 2002
July 30,2002 00:00:00 AM
With less than two months left for the Jammu and Kashmir poll process to begin, separatist leaders have mounted a fresh initiative to open c...
Tue, Jul 30, 2002
July 27,2002 00:00:00 AM
After the high ground, the climbdown. At a detailed strategy session this afternoon to prepare for US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s...
Sat, Jul 27, 2002
July 26,2002 00:00:00 AM
The Government has held back an appointment for US Secretary of State Colin Powell with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee when he visits N...
Fri, Jul 26, 2002
July 24,2002 00:00:00 AM
The Centre is attempting to sail in two boats at the same time by keeping the terms of reference for the Arun Jaitley mission on Kashmir vag...
Wed, Jul 24, 2002
July 24,2002 00:00:00 AM
Health Minister Shatrughan Sinha is preparing to take his final bow as an actor with three last performances of his ticket to the Union Cabi...
Wed, Jul 24, 2002
July 23,2002 00:00:00 AM
If the Opposition managed to regroup today and paper the cracks that had emerged in its ranks after the disagreement over the choice of Abdu...
Tue, Jul 23, 2002
July 22,2002 00:00:00 AM
With no separatist leader or militant group willing to give a firm commitment about participating in the elections, Prime Minister Atal Beha...
Mon, Jul 22, 2002
July 17,2002 00:00:00 AM
Security nerves at Parliament House have been unbearably stretched after the December 13 terrorist attack. In fact, the New Delhi police and...
Wed, Jul 17, 2002
July 14,2002 00:00:00 AM
Home Minister L.K. Advani, in his new avtaar as Deputy PM, is emerging as the Government’s chief interface on political matters. His ro...
Sun, Jul 14, 2002
July 11,2002 00:00:00 AM
One wonders whether the Congress is at all serious about recapturing the country’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh, which boasts of as man...
Thu, Jul 11, 2002
July 10,2002 00:00:00 AM
With Omar Abdullah indicating father Farooq’s willingness to accept a roving ambassadorship, the Centre is now awaiting the J-K CM’...
Wed, Jul 10, 2002
July 03,2002 00:00:00 AM
Minister of State Ravi Shankar Prasad must be feeling a bit like presidential hopefuls P C Alexander and Krishan Kant did when they were fir...
Wed, Jul 03, 2002
June 30,2002 00:00:00 AM
In a move that underlines his pre-eminent position in the Vajpayee Government and could have far- reaching implications for the embattled Pr...
Sun, Jun 30, 2002
June 27,2002 00:00:00 AM
BJP president Jana Krishnamurthy’s refusal to move from the party to the Government has put a spoke in the BJP’s springcleaning pl...
Thu, Jun 27, 2002
June 26,2002 00:00:00 AM
The ascendancy of the Mayawati Government in Lucknow has given a fillip to Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi’s st...
Wed, Jun 26, 2002
June 25,2002 00:00:00 AM
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah’s insistence on a senior Cabinet slot for himself, preferably the external affairs por...
Tue, Jun 25, 2002
June 25,2002 00:00:00 AM
Kashmiri separatists have set dialogue as a condition for taking part in the October polls. This has been conveyed to the Government by emis...
Tue, Jun 25, 2002
June 23,2002 00:00:00 AM
The controversy stirred up by the Time magazine article on his health has come at a particularly inopportune moment for Prime Minister Atal ...
Sun, Jun 23, 2002
June 19,2002 00:00:00 AM
It's not just the PMO that’s upset with Time magazine’s article on Vajpayee’s health. There are rumbles in North Block too an...
Wed, Jun 19, 2002
June 19,2002 00:00:00 AM
With Gujarat topping Left Front nominee Laxmi Sehgal’s campaign agenda for the Presidential polls, the Government called off A P J Abdu...
Wed, Jun 19, 2002





