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- Arun Nehru
- BJP stabilises at a time of uncertainties The Pioneer
- March 16, 1999
>>> The BJP has undoubtedly consolidated its position with
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee negotiating a fairly
peaceful week and Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha accepting
favourable comments on a job well done. Meanwhile, the
Congress party has baffled everyone with its position on
...
- Arun Shourie
- Body-counts have become big, compelling business India Connect
- March 16, 1999
>>>The Church had but to get established and it became obsessed with numbers -with the number of souls it had, to use the term so favoured by churchmen,
"harvested" for Jesus. Numbers remain its singular obsession today. The
impulse is not just its own history in this regard. The impulse is not just
its character -- it is, after all, primarily an organization, and therefore
e
...
- Bharti Jain
- Biswajeet Banerjee
- Editorial
- Firm Stand Daily Excelsior
- Mar 11, 1999
>>>Prime Minister AB Vajpayee has made it amply clear that Pakistan has to stop
killings of innocent people in Jammu & Kashmir State by ceasing export of
mercenaries and extending all other material help to them. Mentioning Lahore
Declaration, he reminds Pakistan of the commitment of fight terrorism jointly
wherever it takes place. But some statements emanating from Islamabad reflect
...
- Holi high Times of India
- Mar 3, 1999
>>>>From shaky Friday to comeback Monday, the BJP-led government has
traversed a psychological distance that should spread cheer both in
bureaucratic and party circles. The weekend had begun ominously for
the BJP coalition, a gloomy economic forecast combining with looming
parliamentary uncertainties to place a question mark on its
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- HT Correspondent
- K. Brahma Singh Major (Retd)
- How Pakistan scuttled plebiscite issue in Kashmir Daily Excelsior
- Mar 07, 1999
>>>It is ironical that inspite of the high idealism, bordering on the ridiculous,
displayed by India with regard to the issue of self-determination in Kashmir,
Pakistan, through the medium of viscious propaganda, has been able to create a
strong feeling among the Kashmiris that it is India which is responsible for
denying to them, what they consider to be, their right. So strong has, in
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- Kanchan Gupta
- Krishnan Guruswamy
- M. Gautham Machaiah
- Narain kataria
- News Agencies
- Nikhat Kazmi
- Buddha, Gandhi, Jehangir under the Bodhi tree, celebration BJP style Times of India
- March 19, 1999
>>> NEW DELHI: Five hundred actors, five festooned
elephants, fifty thousand square feet of prime
land, five thousand years of Indian history, a
monumental budget of Rs 1.5 crore along with
Sada-e-Sarhad, the famous bus to Lahore,
...
- OFBJP
- OFBJP Congratulates Vajpayee Govt at its Anniversary (no publication) - March 18, 1999
>>>Today, the BJP led coalition government completes one year in the office.
It is a matter of great satisfaction and joy that despite numerous
obstacles, adverse circumstances and constant attacks from all sides, the
government has performed well and made several historical achievements.
Prime Minister Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee has provided a strong,
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- P R Bhattacharjee
- Pioneer News Service
- Pioneer News Service / Calcutta
- Political Bureau
- Posted By Dinesh Agrawal
- Vajpayee celebrates govt's first anniversary The Pioneer
- March 20, 1999
>>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee could not have chosen a
more apt manner to celebrate the first anniversary of his
Government. Putting his best foot forward, he broke bread
with the residents of Sikheda, a village in UP's Ghaziabad
district; visited a Dalit household and accepted the Quran
...
- A giant step towards self-reliance: BJP Times of India
- Mar 1, 1999
>>>Patna: Top BJP leaders including its national vice-president
Kailashpati Mishra said that the Union budget presented by Union
Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha in the Parliament on Saturday was a
giant step taken by the BJP led coalition to make the country
self-reliant apart from taking care of the poor and down trodden.
- Prabhu Chawla
- "I am not at Congress' Mercy": Vajpayee India Today
- March 22, 1999
>>> Even before he became Prime Minister, Atal
Bihari Vajpayee combined formidable eloquence in
public speaking with colossal reticence during interviews.
Things haven't really changed. Vajpayee remains economical
with his words and observations. A year in office has,
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- Vajpayee turns adversities into strengths India Today
- March 15, 1999
>>> The Chinese phrase for crisis incorporates the characters
of both "danger" and "opportunity". Worldwide, leaders
appreciate this duality. So does Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee it seems. After faltering and floundering for over
11 months, the prime minister is slowly learning the tricks
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- PTI
- Govt's stability not in doubt: Advani Daily Excelsior
- Mar 07, 1999
>>>KHASA (AMRITSAR), Mar 6: Union Home Minister L K Advani today said the
Vajpayee Government's success in getting the statutory resolution on
Presidential Rule in Bihar passed in the Lok Sabha coupled with Vajpayee's
historic bus ride to Pakistan and presentation of Union budget have erased
doubts about decisiveness and stability of the BJP-led Government.
- Rajeev Srinivasan
- The value of a human life Rediff on the Net
- march 29, 1999
>>> Casteism has been a problem in India, and it continues to
be so in certain quarters. No impartial observer will
disagree with that statement. What I personally find
ironic is where such attitudes are found: not only amongst
the usual suspects, but amongst the angels, as it were,
...
- Shekhar Iyer
- Staff Reporter
- CPM flaunts Varsity stranglehold The Telegraph, Calcutta
- march 17, 1999
>>>Surabhi Banerjee may yet find her place in history. Not for writing Jyoti
Basu's biography, but for being the catalyst in bringing out in the open
what has so far been in the realm of suspicion. In an honest admission,
CPM's West Bengal secretary Anil Biswas has put it beyond doubt that his
party has colonised institutions of learning and that Banerjee's
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- Sudha G. Tilak
- BJP open to pact with Congress on Bihar issue Times of India
- Mar 3, 1999
>>>CHENNAI: BJP general secretary M. Venkiah Naidu on Tuesday reeled
out a host of statistics to prove that the BJP-led government at the
Centre had taken the right step to sack the Bihar government,
accusing Laloo Prasad Yadav of entering into a
'I'll-ruin-Bihar-and-you-ruin-India' pact with Sonia Gandhi.
- Swapan Dasgupta
- Tara Shankar Sahay
- Tavleen Singh
- The Times of India News Service
- TIO News Service
- UNI
- Virender Kapoor
- Virendra Kapoor
- Nail the canard of Guruswamy The Pioneer
- March 14, 1999
>>> It is a strange paradox: The Vajpayee Government is doomed
if it performs. It is also doomed if it performs badly. In
either case, the main Opposition party will try and pull
the plug on it with the help of malcontents in the
present-day polity. Given the precarious numbers backing
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