The Perils
of Pawar
The Maharashtra leader may be stripped of his post as Congress leader in the Lok Sabha for daring to challenge Sitaram Kesri in the party presidential election.
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Pawar, Pilot complain of rigging in Congress presidential poll
The complaints of widespread rigging indicate that the duo have virtually thrown in the towel.
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Aviation for Jayanti, external affairs for Sherwani
The prime minister reshuffles the portfolios of his ministers.
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UF's Common Minimum Programme falls short of promises
One year after the CMP was chiselled out of a multitude of political ideologies, many of the promises made by the 13-party United Front partners have not been implemented.
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Joginder Singh may get the axe
Mounting pressure from the Congress and Janata Dal has forced Prime Minister I K Gujral to look for a successor to the CBI's controversial director Joginder Singh.
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Washington Post makes another revelation on Prithvi
''American diplomats quietly tried to get the Indians to undo this apparently unprovoked initiative and were told that there was insufficient storage space back at the production site,'' says the newspaper.
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Laloo refuses to quit as Bihar CM
He says the chargesheet is part of a political conspiracy to malign him.
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40 killed in Thanjavur temple fire
Eyewitnesses said a fire cracker lit near the temple fell on the yagasala and sparked the fire.
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Mahanta has providential escape as bomb explodes minutes after his motorcade passes
None was injured in the explosion, but a big crater was created on the road and windows of a nearby school were blown off under its impact.
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Explorer or Exploiter?
May 20, 1998 will mark 500 years of Vasco da Gama's arrival in India. Plans for a proposed celebration have fallen on rough weather. Amidst allegations that he marked the advent of colonialism, the Portuguese explorer is trapped in controversy in new age India.
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'The Portuguese Crown had rather a lot in common with the RSS and VHP'
Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam, author of the much acclaimed recent biography, The Career and Legend of Vasco Da Gama, discusses the controversy, in an eloquent interview.
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JUNE 7

'You can't fool around with Laloo Yadav'
Lacing his arguments with rare fireworks, the Janata Dal president and Bihar chief minister outlines his survival strategy.
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Make Dandavate, Surendra Mohan returning officers for JD presidential poll: Delhi high court
Alternatively, the party may reach a consensus on any two names and save itself from derecognition. If this is not done, Justice Kapoor said the court would adopt its own legal means to sort out the problem.
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Ordinance seeks to keep out non-serious presidential candidates
President Shankar Dayal Sharma on Friday promulgated an ordinance to substantially increase the number of proposers, seconders as well as the security deposit for presidential and vice-presidential candidature.
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Rao backs Pawar in Congress presidential poll
Former party general secretary Devendra Nath Dwivedi's announcement lets the cat out of the bag.
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Kerala party poll postponement may hit Kesri
A majority of the state unit's 300 votes would have gone to Kesri, as the factions headed by A K Antony and Ramesh Chennithala had openly declared their support for him.
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US Congress seeks 'to work closely' with Gujral
The resolution said Gujral was committed to strengthening ties between the United States and India through the continuation of free market reforms and initiatives.
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Sri Lankan military offensive may bring major gains, but peace is miles away
As troops close in on the LTTE to wrest a key highway controlled by it, analysts fear that such offensives will drive the rebels away from the negotiating table.
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JUNE 6

Army officer held for killing J&K human rights activist
Police sources said the accused, Major Avatar Singh, was arrested in the North-East, where his unit is posted, and brought to Srinagar two days ago.
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Presidential poll on July 14
The Commission has decided to appoint S Gopalan, secretary general of the Lok Sabha, as returning officer for the election.
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Prithvi dashes hopes of Indo-Pak friendship: Pak ambassador
Riaz Khokhar said it was regrettable that India had decided to deploy its medium-range missiles.
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Governors' guidelines for tackling hung legislatures
Where a combination of parties proposes to stake a claim to form the government, the conference decided it would be desirable that ahead of staking a claim, the respective parties and groups resolve to coordinate their legislature strengths with each other to form the government.
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Goa may implement Right to Information Act
Chief Minister Pratapsing Rane says such an act is necessary "considering the changing socio-economic scenario, with liberalisation and globalisation in the country".
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Over the next decade the arena of violence will shift from Punjab, J&K and Assam, to coastal India
Bittu Sahgal reflects on the state of the Indian environment on World Environment Day.
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The question is not of saving the tiger or the brow-antlered deer but of using our natural resources wisely
Sudhakar Solomon Raj on the 'we-them' attitude in Indian environmentalism.
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Congress saw only three presidential polls in its 112-year history
On all three occasions the country's oldest party split, and the elected chiefs did not last long.
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JUNE 5

Ready for War!
The Prithvi warhead test is a success! The defence ministry, however, denies that some missiles have been posted at Jalandhar.
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US will 'react very negatively' if India or Pak deploys missiles
State department spokesman Nicholas Burns made this statement while commenting on a report that India had moved a small number of Prithvi missiles to a prospective launch site near the Pakistani border which he was unable to confirm.
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Rao discharged, Chandra Swami indicted in St Kitts case
Also discharged is former minister of state for external affairs, K K Tewary.
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Insat-2D launched into space
Insat-2D, the fourth of the second generation indigenous multi-purpose satellites, was shot into space by Europe's Ariane rocket in a flawless launch from Kourou at the French Guiana Space Centre early on Wednesday.
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ULFA sets terms for talks
The outlawed organisation has demanded that the government take a clear stand on the withdrawal of army from the north-eastern state, hold negotiations in a foreign country and that the talks be centred on the sovereignty of Assam.
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Fearing defeat, Pawar camp blasts Kesri
Sitaram Kesri has made a mockery of the Congress presidential election by doctoring the voters's lists in his bedroom, allege A R Antulay and G Venkataswamy.
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Laloo's political health deteriorates as patch-up efforts fail
The JD president pleaded with senior JD leaders like Madhu Dandavate and Bapu Kaldate that he should be allowed to retain the post.
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Faction war may freeze AIADMK election symbol
''Both Jayalalitha and Thirunavukkarasu are after the symbol as it makes them party founder M G Ramchandran's heir,'' said a former AIADMK leader. ''They are also out to ensure that the other faction does not get the symbol.''
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Human rights activists condemn Gill's demand for amnesty
'The way Mr Gill castigates human rights activists and inveighs the nation for being ungrateful towards police officers, "they say, "is nothing new but stock-in-trade of the Nazis and others who tried to save their countries from subversives by genocidal methods.''
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Bargains of compromise
Admiral J G Nadkarni, the former naval chief, feels the perpetual lack of transparency by the defence ministry coupled with the media's penchant for sensationalising even minor matters has compounded the ignorance and created many myths about how armed forces make purchases.
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JUNE 4

No war memorial on I-Day
The government shelves plans to build a memorial honouring soldiers slain in battle.
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Jaya expelled from AIADMK
The Thirunavkkarasu faction strikes before Amma does!
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PM adds 4 women to his ministry
Ratnamala Savanur, Kamala Sinha, Jayanti Natarajan and Renuka Chowdhury are the four new ministers.
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Pawar-Pilot axis threatens Kesri's position
If their gameplan succeeds, Pawar or Pilot will romp home with Kesri supporters's second preference votes.
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L K Advani: Life at 100 kms an hour
Behind the scenes at the Swarna Jayanti Rath Yatra.
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Dead men tell no tales
Even as the noose of the fodder scam dangles precariously over Bihar Chief Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, the mysterious death of a co-accused in the case has caused alarm in Bihar and become the subject of intense speculation from Patna to New Delhi.
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Laloo makes legal move to check Samantray
The Janata Dal president moved the Delhi high court on Tuesday seeking that the May 31order restraining him from interfering in the party election be vacated.
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Show the world that we are capable of tackling any crisis: Sharma
The President on the role of the constitutional head in a hung House.
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Don't blame gun culture, seeds of Kashmir militancy were sown in 1947
The policy of ''discrimination'' was followed from 1947 up to 1989-90 which paved way for militancy and the subsequent migration of the Kashmiri pandit community, says a recent report, Chargesheet on Autonomy.
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Fifty years later, the Nehru-Patel war of nerves still simmers
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was most unhappy with Jawaharlal Nehru for his utterances, in the wake of the cabinet mission proposals, propelling Mohammad Ali Jinnah to ''renew'' the demand for Pakistan with the Muslim League deciding on ''direct action.''
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JUNE 3

Mr President?
The BJP is willing to let Vice-President K R Narayanan become India's next President, but wants its candidate to be the vice-president.
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Time to prove that we can tackle hung legislatures: President
Dr Sharma on Monday called for ''wholesome, comprehensive, constructive and meaningful'' examination of the problem thrown up by hung legislatures.
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Panel pulls up defence ministry for sitting on 105,411 audit queries
Some of these audit objections date back to 1971-72, says the Public Accounts Committee report.
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Terrorism poses an extraordinary threat: Advani
The ISI, he said, operates not only in Kashmir and the North-East, but is also very active in South India specially Tamil Nadu.
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Probe human rights violations in Kashmir: civil liberties delegation
Prominent human rights activists have demanded immediate withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and other ''draconian laws'' which ''give unlimited powers to the armed forces''.
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Indian embassies to go online
The plan, initiated by Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral when he was external affairs minister, provides for the gradual networking of all passport offices in India and missions abroad to speed up services and curb passport law violations.
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Konkan railway running far behind schedule
The much-awaited Konkan railway has finally entered Goa, but soft sand and sinking embankments over a brief stretch makes it impossible for it to be opened to the Bombay-Mangalore traffic till the year end.
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Unique accident insurance cover for NRIs
For a small one-time premium, the policy brings in a compensation as high as Rs 500,000. In addition, in case of death abroad, Rs 50,000 would be paid towards transportation of the body to India.
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'We are dealing with organised terrorism fathered by a few religious bigots and fanatics'
A string of cold blooded retaliatory killings among the Shi'ites and Sunnis is causing great sectarian tension in Pakistan
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