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Starting: Wed 01 Apr 1998 - 08:49:37 EDT
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  • 50 Christian groups promise no missionary activity in Israel
    • Posted By Ashok Chowgule    CNN Networks - 31 March 1998
      • >>>JERUSALEM (AP) Representatives of 50 Christian evangelical groups have agreed to make an unprecedented joint statement promising not to carry out missionary activity in Israel. As a result, Israeli legislator Nissim Zvili said Monday he would drop his sponsorship of an anti-proselytizing bill that has drawn ...
  • Advani and Vajpayee repeat history
    • Neerja Chowdhury    Indian Express - April 13, 1998
      • >>>Though comparison is odious, there are many similarities between the Nehru-Patel team and the Vajpayee-Advani duo. The most obvious one is that poet and Prime Minister Vajpayee, like writer and Prime Minister Nehru, has decided to retain the External Affairs portfolio. This is not just a coincidence, but also a ...
  • Amma's Limited options
    • Shenoy    Mid-Day - April 25, 1998
      • >>>Many years ago I saw a Bengali film one of Satyajit Ray's as I recall - that beautifully brought out the point that there everywhere. A god-man solemnly intoned: ehold! By my power the sun shall now rise. ...
  • Ancient Ram image unearthed in Tripura
  • Apple appeases Beijing
    • Posted By Krishnakant Udavant    The Observer - April 21, 1998
      • >>>Advertisements created by Apple computer featuring Tibet's exiled religious leader, the Dalai Lama, will not be run in Asia because the company claims he is not asily recongnised The company's explanation for the move has been criticised by the Tibetan spiritual leader's spokesman in London. according to the south ...
  • Bangladesh will not tolerate anti-India militancy
    • Abdus Samad Azad    The Times Of India - April 24, 1998
      • >>>Bangladesh foreign minister Abdus Samad Azad, the no. 2 in the Sheikh Hasina government was in New Delhi this week to "get acquainted" with the new BJP-led coalition in India. The Awami League founded by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and now led by his daughter, has always had excellent relations with successive ...
  • Better security helped BJP win the Patna seat
    • Sudhir K. Singh    The Times Of India - April 4, 1998
      • >>>Few will doubt that the thumping BJP victory sit Patna by an unexpectedly large margin of over 52,000 votes was substantially due to the better security arrangements during the re-poll for this prestigious Lok Sabha seat on March 30. ...
    • Sudhir K. Singh    The Times Of India - April 4, 1998
      • >>>Few will doubt that the thumping BJP victory sit Patna by an unexpectedly large margin of over 52,000 votes was substantially due to the better security arrangements during the re-poll for this prestigious Lok Sabha seat on March 30. ...
  • Beyond Coimbatore
    • The Editorial    The Indian Express - April 27, 1998
      • >>>The White paper presented by the Tamil Nadu government on the blasts that shook Coimbatore on the eve of the Lok Sabha elections has elicited predictable reactions from the contending political camps. None of these, however, reveals the necessary recognition of the main political point that needs to be made.
  • Big Man Small Pleasure
    • Saba Naqvi Bhaumik    The India Today - April 20, 1998
      • >>>Dogs, Cats and Disneyland are not naturally associated with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. But few politicians have separated the public from the private as successfully as Vajpayee. There is the public stage where Vajpayee the mass politician has endured for four decades. The stage that has ...
  • Birthpangs of a stable government
    • Dina Nath Mishra    The Observer - April 23, 1998
      • >>>A question is being asked as to how long the Vajpayee government would last. Arguments are being put forward that the BJP-led government suffers from internal contradictions similar to those of United Front governments. Predictions are being made that it would fall sooner than the latter. The way Vajpayee government ...
  • BJP in transition
    • Editorial    The Pioneer - April 14, 1998
      • >>>The call by outgoing president LK Advani for a "new BJP" at the party's national executive meet sends out significant signals on three fronts-the relationship between the party and Government; the party and it's "core" agenda; and the party and its allies. On the first count, Mr Advani has done well to drive home that ...
  • Church to market Cross as brand image
    • Ruth Gledhill    The Times Monday - April 13, 1998
      • >>>The Church of England is adopting modern management techniques, including marketing the Cross as a "brand image", in a desperate attempt to halt the decline in attendance. Moreover, poor management means that some people have become ...
  • Civilisation wakes up to step into 5000-year past
    • Anand sundas    Indian Express - April 22, 1998
      • >>>Dholavira. The lost empire that 300 labourers and a six-member team of archaeologists have made it their mission to rediscover. After seven long years of hope and sweat they have stumbled on to something - something really big. ...
  • Clinton warms to Vajpayee
    • Seema Sirohi    The Telegraph - March 28, 1998
      • >>>Contrary to conventional wisdom, 'the Clinton administration is warm and upbeat about the new BJP-led coalition in New Delhi and -is making a special effort to send a series of positive signals. Formal messages of congratulations apart, officials appear ...
    • Seema Sirohi    The Telegraph - March 28, 1998
      • >>>Contrary to conventional wisdom, 'the Clinton administration is warm and upbeat about the new BJP-led coalition in New Delhi and -is making a special effort to send a series of positive signals. Formal messages of congratulations apart, officials appear ...
  • Culture shock troops
    • Rakesh Sinha    Telegraph - April 7, 1998
      • >>>After the 1998 general elections, India's polity is in equilibrium between anti Bharatiya Janata Party and non-Congress formations. A corollary to this is the national agenda of the BJP and its allies. Ideologically neutral, this charter of social and economic programmes contains no disputed issues. The demands ...
  • Does secularism amount to anti-Hinduism?
    • P.S Sharma    The Free Press Journal - April 15, 1998
      • >>>If so, the pre-partition Muslim League was, and is, the most secular party of the Indo-Pak Sub-continent. A distinguished American pacifist and Gandhian, Homer A Jack, had in an open letter to 'Hindu friends', published in the Statesman ...
  • Double act
    • Sachidananda Murthy    The Week - April 12, 1998
      • >>>Atal Bihari Vajpayee's favourite hobby is cooking. Hence it was no surprise that he began assembling a kitchen cabinet soon after he won the trust of the Lok Sabha, with the liberal help of the Telugu Desam. ...
  • Facts and fallacies of remote control
    • Dina Nath Mishra    The Observer - April 9, 1998
      • >>>The question whether the RSS controls the BJP or not has amused greater importance as there Is a BJP-led government at the Centre. In nine states, either there is a BJP-government or the BJP has a participatory role in the government. If there exists a remote control in Nagpur, it would be certainly considered an ...
  • For the BJP , lower vote share translated into more seats
    • Aisha Khan    Asian Age - March 5, 1998
      • >>>The Congress' total vote share in the 12th Lok Sabha elections was 0.41 per cent more than that of the Bharatiya Janata Party, but its success rate was only 29.75 per cent compared to the BJP's huge 46.61 per cent. The only other party with such an impressive winning ratio was the CPI(M) which registered a 45.07 ...
    • Aisha Khan    Asian Age - March 5, 1998
      • >>>The Congress' total vote share in the 12th Lok Sabha elections was 0.41 per cent more than that of the Bharatiya Janata Party, but its success rate was only 29.75 per cent compared to the BJP's huge 46.61 per cent. The only other party with such an impressive winning ratio was the CPI(M) which registered a 45.07 ...
  • Ghazni's best-kept secret
    • S.C. Sharma    The Indian Express - April 25, 1998
      • >>>Provocative Ghauri was the title of an editorial that appeared on this page earlier this month. Pakistan has named its missiles Ghauri and Ghaznavi with the specific intention of taunting India. These worthies' claims to fame and glorification, in the perception of the Pakistanis, lies in the fact that they were ...
  • God, Godse and the PR War
    • Janaki Bahadur Kremmer    Out Look - April 6, 1998
      • >>>Aportent of hard times for the foreign media to report freely on India, or a long overdue reaction to distorted portrayals of India? Whichever it is, the warning signals for the Delhi-based foreign media have begun to flash. ...
  • Haunted By Murdoch
    • Swapan Dasgupta    The India Today - April 20, 1998
      • >>>Misinformation being so recurrent in India, it is heartening that some democracies are unwilling to view the phenomenon with the same indulgence. Last month, the public administration committee of the British Parliament decided to summon Prime Minister Tony Blair's official spokesman to answer charges of misleading the ...
  • Hindu vote-bank cemented in ravidian TN
    • N Sathiya Moorthy    The Observer - April 7, 1998
      • >>>Is the 'Hindu vote-bank, getting consolidated in the Dravidian, Tamil Nadu and becoming a bone of contention between the Bharatiya Janata Party and its AIADMK ally? "There is definitely a 'Hindu votebank' in the State now, though ...
    • N Sathiya Moorthy    The Observer - April 7, 1998
      • >>>Is the 'Hindu vote-bank, getting consolidated in the Dravidian, Tamil Nadu and becoming a bone of contention between the Bharatiya Janata Party and its AIADMK ally? "There is definitely a 'Hindu votebank' in the State now, though ...
  • Hindu-Muslim Confrontations Raise Old Fears in Malaysia
    • Chen May Yee    Indian Express - April 16, 1998
      • >>>When a tiny Hindu temple began ringing its bells three times a day in January, they took a serious toll. Muslims in a nearby mosque complained that the bells were too loud, and in late March, antagonism had reached a point where ...
  • How to be an Alien
    • Tavleen singh    India Today - April 13, 1998
      • >>>Our Prime Minister, you will be happy to know, has finally been given a clean, "secular" chit by Time magazine. This should come as a great relief to us since no foreign publication is more widely circulated in this country than Time. But what is most interesting about the certificate of good behaviour are the ...
    • Tavleen singh    India Today - April 13, 1998
      • >>>Our Prime Minister, you will be happy to know, has finally been given a clean, "secular" chit by Time magazine. This should come as a great relief to us since no foreign publication is more widely circulated in this country than Time. But what is most interesting about the certificate of good behaviour are the ...
  • If Vajpayee decides not to contest
    • S S Bhandari    Sunday Observer - April 5-11, 1998
      • >>>>From the debate on the vote of confidence in the Atal Behari. Vajpayee government to the one on the president's address to the joint session of Parliament, the Bhartiya Janata-Party did its best to affirm its secular credentials. But at the same time, party vice-president Sunder Singh Bhandari was busy drawing ...
  • If Vajpayee decides not to contest the polls after five years, someone else will fill the gap
    • S S Bhandari    Sunday Observer - April 5-11, 1998
      • >>>>From the debate on the vote of confidence in the Atal Behari. Vajpayee government to the one on the president's address to the joint session of Parliament, the Bhartiya Janata-Party did its best to affirm its secular credentials. But at the same time, party vice-president Sunder Singh Bhandari was busy drawing ...
  • Imam backs French ban on veils in schools
  • India has failed its people
    • Kalpana chauhan    Asian Age - March 22, 1998
      • >>>To the onlooker, the Royal appointment as Master of Trinity College seems like the chance of a life time but for the scholarly Amartya Kumar Sen, it is only yet another distinction in a life that has been marked with laurels. ...
  • Indian missiles fuel nuclear arms race
    • Christopher Thomas    The Times Wednesday - April 15, 1998
      • >>>India has developed a longer-range version of the Prithvi, its surface-to-air missile, capable of reaching Pakistan's main cities and installations. it marks a further escalation of the arms race between the old enemies, both capable of quickly developing nuclear weapons.
  • Indian secularism linked to Kashmir
    • Statesman News Service    Statesman - April 19, 1998
      • >>>Secularism in India is connected to Kashmir and if it goes to Pakistan, the end of secularism in this country would be imminent, said Dr Rafiq Zakaria, while delivering a lecture on "Challenge before the Indian Muslims in the next millennium". ...
  • Interpreting Hindutva as Swadeshi
    • Chandan Mitra    The Pioneer - April 17, 1998
      • >>>Neither the BJP's most euphoric supporters, nor its strident critics are in a position to assert that the formation of a Government led by the party marks a paradigm shift in Indian politics. What should have been a momentous occasion, possibly a decisive break in the polity, has stopped well short of that.
  • Kerala may ban some terrorist groups
    • P. K. Surendran    The Times Of India - April 3, 1998
      • >>>The leftist government in Kerala began discussions with officials and legal experts on whether or not to ban some extremist organisations. The move comes in the wake of the frequent forays of the Tamil Nadu police into Kerala's border districts in search of Islamic fundamentalists behind the Coimbatore blasts, ...
  • Left doesn want BJP govt to fall till Cong gains ground
    • Kamil Zaheer    Economic Times - April 27, 1998
      • >>>The Left is not interested in the BJP-led government falling immediately as it realises that the Congress is in a state of flux and the United Front (UF) is in poor shape. Both CPI and CPI(M) leadership feel that it would not ...
  • Lethal Weapons
    • Ahmed Rashid    Far Eastern Economic Review - April 23, 1998
      • >>>Enemies since birth, Pakistan and India have been squabbling for more than 50 years. But though the hostility may manifest itself in politics or territorial dispute, religion is its underlying motif. Hardly surprising, then, that Pakistan should plump for religious symbolism in choosing a name for its first medium- ...
  • Lost glory
    • N Narasimhan / V P Naidu    The Economic Times - April 2, 1998
      • >>>When Dag Hammarskjoeld, the UN secretary general, died in an aircrash, the then super powers, the soviet Union and the US, decided to back Mr. C V Narasimhan, an outstanding Indian diplomat and a top level UN of ficial, for the post. The die was thus cast for his appointment as secretary general.
  • Man With The Towel
    • Saba Naqvi Bhaumik    India Today - April 27, 1998
      • >>>As the results of the general election poured in, the BJP central office on Delhi's Ashoka Road wore a carnival atmosphere. Buoyant cadres jostled with victorious candidates to distribute mithai and garland the leaders. It was the moment of saffron fulfilment, the moment the 18 -year-old BJP had been waiting for. But sitting ...
  • Media portrayal of BJP, far from reality
    • Sridhar Krishnaswami    The Hindu - March 28, 1998
      • >>>Although the political establishment in the U.S. is not exactly bending over backwards to say good things about the new government in New Delhi, there is a feeling the image of the BJP as portrayed by the American media is very different from the reality.
  • Men behaving badly
    • Varsha Bhosle    The Sunday Observer - March 15-21, 1998
      • >>>I hate my job when politicians begin to act up every day. Over the last week, I've written, and then shredded, some four articles. When political conditions become fluid, the written word becomes stale almost overnight. ...
  • Militant moneybags
    • Aasha Khosa    The Indian Express - April 24, 1998
      • >>>Shabir shah failed his admirers across Kashmir by declaring his assets worth Rs one crore created out of the funds sent from abroad for the "liberation movement". ou too?" exclaimed Kashmiris, who have grudgingly ,watched the rags-to-riches rise of many leaders of the armed agency. Shah's sudden concern for ...
  • Mission Accomplished
    • Debashish Mukerji    The Week - April 26, 1998
      • >>>By downplaying Ayodhya and forging valuble alliances, L.K. Advani brought intellectual muscle and power to the BJP When the deadline for filing nominations to the post of BJP national president was reached at 3 p.m. on April 14, there was ...
  • Naturally fresh
    • V.K. Shashikumar    The Week - April 12, 1998
      • >>>For Omak Apang, one may run short of introductions. Here's the tea plantation owner and rice farmer in Saing, Arunachal Pradesh, who tried to introduce community farming among tribals; the maiden MP; the son of Chief Minister Gegong Apang. But more than any of these, Omak is the youngest minister in the Atal Bihari ...
  • Nuclear Hype
    • The Editorial    The Times Of India - April 1, 1998
      • >>>That Pakistan would want to draw mileage from the mention in the BJP's ational Agenda of Governance about "exercising the option to induct nuclear weapons" was expected. What is difficult to understand is the politicisation of the issue by the Indian Opposition, especially after both the Prime Minister and the ...
  • On the horns of a dilemma
    • Hasan Suroor    The Hind - April 19, 1998
      • >>>Concerned over the drift in the Left parties, a sympathiser said recently In mock-seriousness that they needed a dose of "Stalinism" to bring them back on track. That was clearly an extreme suggestion, but there is no denying that the ideological and organisational laissez faire which has gripped the Left ...
  • One-way flow of devotees averted mishap at Haridwar
    • Lalit K Jha    The Observer - April 16, 1998
      • >>>Authorities are heaving a sigh of relief that probably the largest religious congregation in human history concluded here without any mishap. The sheer magnitude of ten million people, who took part in the ...
  • Parties disliking UF ideology can leave
    • Sudheer    The Observer - April 3, 1998
      • >>>Janata Dal's Parliamentary party leader and former Railway Minister Ram Vilas Paswan finds himself in a bind while reacting to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's call for consensus on important issues. The simple reason distrust. ...
  • Patriarchal prod
    • Debashish Mukerji    The Week - April 12, 1998
      • >>>Ours is a parivar (family) in the truest sense. There is the father, the patriach, which is the RSS. And there are the sons, who are all working in different fields. As in any typical family, one brother may be a doctor, another a farmer, a third something else. They may not necessarily agree on every subject.
  • Reds in Blues
    • Javed M. Ansari    India Today - April 27, 1998
      • >>>Marxists are caught in a nutcracker on the question of an alliance with the Congress, as the Kerala group opposes the West Bengal prescription In one of his last articles in Deshabhimani, the CPI(M) party ...
  • RSS goes global, chalks out expansion plan
    • Suresh Unnithan    The Observer - April 3, 1998
      • >>>The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has decided to expand its activities and networking across the- globe. Towards this, it conducted a week long 'Workers Camp' at Chennana Hally in Bangalore from March 23 to 29, soon after the ...
  • RSS to counter irresponsible criticism openly
    • Bishwanth Ghosh    Asian Age - April 16, 1998
      • >>>The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh has decided to come out openly against those making allegations against the organisation. The RSS took former Congress president Sitaram Kesri to court two months back for his allegation that the RSS was behind the serial ...
  • Ruling on Ayodhya charge-sheet soon
    • Raman Kirpal    The Indian Express - April 27, 1998
      • >>>The Allahabad High Court is expected to rule shortly on ether charges can be framed against the accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case. Those who have been named as accused include Union Home Minister L K Advani, Human Resources Minister Murli Manohar Joshi and Minister of State for Youth and Sports Uma ...
  • Securing national interests, BJP style
    • Ashok K Mehta    Indian Express - April 4, 1998
      • >>>During a television debate in the run up to the elections, while other parties were ambivalent about exercising their nuclear option, Brajesh Mishra, the BJP's spokesman for foreign affairs, was unequivocal: 'My party will make the bomb'. He derived the authority to go nuclear from the BJP's election manifesto - ...
    • Ashok K Mehta    Indian Express - April 4, 1998
      • >>>During a television debate in the run up to the elections, while other parties were ambivalent about exercising their nuclear option, Brajesh Mishra, the BJP's spokesman for foreign affairs, was unequivocal: 'My party will make the bomb'. He derived the authority to go nuclear from the BJP's election manifesto - ...
  • She came, saw and sank!
    • Tavleen Singh    News Time - March 15, 1998
      • >>>Let me begin by recommending to you an interesting little exercise. Before you sell last month's newspapers to the kabadiwallah just scan through the front page headlines. You will notice that the only political leader whose speeches were reported nearly every day on page one was Sonia Gandhi.
  • Shrines of Trouble
    • Anoop Kamath    Outlook - April 13, I998
      • >>>Its a scenario that's become painfully familiar to most Indians over the last few years-riots between Hindus and Muslims over a temple/mosque site. The difference in the latest instance is that it took place in the normally serene Malaysian resort island of Penang, about 400 km northwest of Kuala Lumpur.
  • Survey finds many takers for swadeshi
    • Posted By Krishnakant Udavant    Business Standard - April 7, 1998
      • >>>Seventy five per cent of urban ,educated Indians want the BJPled coalition government to protect Indian industry Sixty two per cent Indians prefer Indian products to foreign ones. These are the findings of an opinion Poll commissioned by weekly ...
    • Posted By Krishnakant Udavant    Business Standard - April 7, 1998
      • >>>Seventy five per cent of urban ,educated Indians want the BJPled coalition government to protect Indian industry Sixty two per cent Indians prefer Indian products to foreign ones. These are the findings of an opinion Poll commissioned by weekly ...
  • Taliban groups pose threat to India, warns book
  • Temple priest shot at in Malaysia
  • Text of BJP's political resolution
    • Posted By Krishnakant Udavant    The Hindu - April 13, 1998
      • >>>The following is the text of the political resolution adopted by the BJP national executive here today. The Bharatiya Janata Party National Executive halls the formation of Government at the Centre by the BJP and its allies. The BJP ...
  • The 1998 election marks a watershed
    • Surya Prakash    The Pioneer - April 13, 1998
      • >>>While calling for a "very candid" in-house assessment of the state of the party, the political resolution adopted by the Congress at its AICC session in Delhi this month said "this is a time for self-introspection and admission of the stark realities that stare us in the face". Whatever the party may or may not do ...
  • The blueprint for a new BJP
    • Sudheer    The Observer - April 16, 1998
      • >>>BJP president L K Advani's inaugural speech in the recently-held working committee meeting of the party was a good strategic move on his part to apply and operational correctives suitable to the new political era. He addressed and challenges thrown by opponents with a clear vision and reason. His attracted a wide ...
  • The Bofors papers all points to the Gandhi family
    • Ranjit Bhushan    Out look - April 6, 1998
      • >>>Sten Lindstrom is chief of the investigation division of the Swedish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). In 1987-88, as special prosecutor appointed by the Swedish government to probe alleged wrongdoing on the part of main collaborators in Sweden, Lindstrom personally headed the most wide ranging probe into the ...
  • The Changing Formula
    • Harinder Baweja    The India Today - April 20, 1998
      • >>>It is the nerve centre of power. The country's engine room where confidential files are sifted and policies formulated. Where aides roll up their sleeves and burn the midnight oil in the ornate, high-ceilinged, teak-panelled rooms of South Block. Where officials and the contents of the briefs they write reflect the ...
  • The fernandes factor
    • Shekhar Gupta    The Indian Express - April 4, 1998
      • >>>If you wished to be cynical, as is easy to be in this city, or uncharitable, which is tempting when talking of an MNC bashing socialist, you could say that George Fernandes' only qualification for the defence minister's job could be that he has been a life-long loose cannon, albeit of a high calibre. But ...
  • The PM and his men
    • K Srinivasan    The Hindustan Times - April 12, 1998
      • >>>The breakfast table at the Vajpayee household doubles often as the Prime Minister's executive table. And as he digs into his well done toast and plate of Papaya he takes decisions that Inevitably will make the front page of every newspaper the next morning. Inevitably the two key aides who are around at this ...
  • The relevance of Indian Ocean
    • M V Kamat    The Daily - April 5, 1998
      • >>>The author of this important work Kenneth McPherson, is Director of the Indian Ocean Centre at Curtin University in Western Australia. He claims that this volume evolved out of fifteen, years of teaching undergraduate courses in South Asian and Indian Ocean history and that and that in writing this book he has ...
  • Thinking the holy unthinkable
    • Posted By Krishnakant Udavant    The Economist - March 28, 1998
      • >>>Lebanese of different religions stopped massacring one another seven years ago, after a 17-year civil war. Now President Elias Hrawi thinks they are ready to marry one another. Last week he presented the cabinet with a bill to permit marriages regulated by civil rather than religious authorities, making it much easier ...
  • Tilting at windmills
    • The Editorial    The Observer - April 15, 1998
      • >>>The opposition parties have shown no signs of letting up on their 'hidden agenda' campaign against the ruling BJP. But do they have a credible case for it? The answer sadly is in the negative. Especially since top BJP leaders, including Prime ...
  • Under BJP, I see a positive outlook for FDI, FII investments
    • Posted By Krishnakant Udavant    The observer - April 16, 1998
      • >>>Articulate and forthright in his views, HSBC Capital Markets chief executive officer Shaun Browne is a relaxed man these days. Browne, along with his peers in Kotak Mahindra and DSP-Merrill Lynch, successfully leadmanaged the $350-million Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd GDR last December, against all odds (just ...
  • United colours of swadeshi
    • Anoop Kamath    Out look - April 13, 1998
      • >>>Computer chips, potato chips, swadeshi-videshi, where does the average educated Indian stand on those issues? That's what Outlook commissioned market research agency mode to find out. mode polled 1,220 graduate men and women aged between 18 and 40 years in the four metros, Bangalore and Hyderabad to get a fix on ...
  • Untruthful Manipulator
    • Ila Prasad    India Today - April 20, 1998
      • >>>In his interview Subramaniam Swamy has stated that if he was not included in the new Cabinet, "it will be to their loss" ("The Odd One Out", March 23). He has claimed that he is eminently qualified to hold an important position in the new Government since he was a professor of economics at Harvard at a very young ...
  • Vanishing Clues
    • Ranjit Bhushan    Out Look - April 6, 1998
      • >>>It was a familiar case of too little, too late. Last fortnight, when a two-member CBI team, comprising a superintendent of police and a legal advisor, reached the Channel Islands to probe the transfer of 50 million Swedish kroner (approximately Rs 26 crore) >from Ottavio Quattrocchi's AE Services account in Switzerland to ...
  • VHP getting temple ready in bits and pieces
    • Sudesh K Verma    Business standard - April 4, 1998
      • >>>The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has undertaken piecemeal construction of a temple in the hope that it will be in a position to put the structure together at the site of the proposed Ram temple at Ayodhya. ...
    • Sudesh K Verma    Business standard - April 4, 1998
      • >>>The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has undertaken piecemeal construction of a temple in the hope that it will be in a position to put the structure together at the site of the proposed Ram temple at Ayodhya. ...
  • Vindictive politics
    • The Editorial    The Observer - April 23, 1998
      • >>>F you are not with us, you are against us' used to be the attitude of American secretary of state John Foster Dulles, the architect of the Cold War politics, when dealing with neutral, Third World countries. This holier-than-thou attitude symbolised the irrationality and sheer arrogance of the United States. But, ...
  • We are for an integrated nation without barriers
    • Bhaskar Roy    The Times of India - April 7, 1998
      • >>>Unlike the other Young Turks in the BJP, M Venkaiah Naidu first emerged as a mass leader, won an Assembly election and then occupied an important position in the party. Normally the Pracharakpoliticians are first groomed in the organisation before they look for safe seats to enter Parliament. But then Naidu has ...
    • Bhaskar Roy    The Times of India - April 7, 1998
      • >>>Unlike the other Young Turks in the BJP, M Venkaiah Naidu first emerged as a mass leader, won an Assembly election and then occupied an important position in the party. Normally the Pracharakpoliticians are first groomed in the organisation before they look for safe seats to enter Parliament. But then Naidu has ...
  • We have nothing to say in our defence, we were compelled
    • Posted By Krishnakant Udavant    The Indian Express - April 27, 1998
      • >>>BJP national secretary Narendra Modi represents the party's young and aggressive face. A swayamsewak since his childhood - he is still a pracharak - the 45-year-old leader steered his party to success in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh in the recent Lok Sabha elections Ironically, it was Gujarat which handed him a shock ...
  • West happy with Cong.'s defiance of Vajpayee govt.'s
    • Prakash Nanda    The Times of India - April 2, 1998
      • >>>Criticisms of both the national agenda for governance of the BJPled coalition government and the presidential address in Parliament by the opposition parties on the nuclear question seems to have come as a big relief to the diplomats of the Western countries based here. .
  • Why Sonia treads softly
    • Arvind N. Das    Indian Express - April 22, 1998
      • >>>The Congress party is truly like the Bourbons: it forgets not and learns nought. Despite having been reduced to pathetic stagnation in parliamentary representation and being deprived of the oxygen of power which sustains it, the Congress goes on as ever, with Congressmen engaged more in getting one up on each other than in ...
  • Will of the people
    • The Editorial    The Pioneer - March 3, 1998
      • >>>Any other Outcome of the vote of confidence sought by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee from the Lok Sabha would have been unmitigated disaster as it would have thrown India off the precipice once again. To that extent even the political critics of the BJP, at least those who still look beyond their provincial ...
    • The Editorial    The Pioneer - March 3, 1998
      • >>>Any other Outcome of the vote of confidence sought by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee from the Lok Sabha would have been unmitigated disaster as it would have thrown India off the precipice once again. To that extent even the political critics of the BJP, at least those who still look beyond their provincial ...
  • Yet another Congress od faileth
    • Jagpreet Luthra    The Observer - April 2, 1998
      • >>>Ambition is a merciless thing. Like the chemical which exposes and develops a picture from its negative to positive, cruel ambition has exposed Sonia Gandhi. It has transformed her from being a question mark for the nation to a non answer for Congress, the reluctance of her loyalists to accept this truth, ...

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