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Starting: Mon 01 Mar 1999 - 11:24:31 EST
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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 ...
  • The law of the land vs their singular focus   India Connect - march 10, 1999
  >>>Now that they have moved out of the headlines, events relating to missionaries can be considered without histrionics. There were seven sets of incidents. The first -- the one that most blackened the name of the country -- was the rape of four nuns in Jhabua, Madhya ...
• Bharti Jain
  • Congress plan to topple BJP govt a 'pipe dream': Advani   economic Times - March 25, 1999
  >>> SHIMLA 24 MARCH UNION home minister L K Advani has dismissed the Congress' reported moves to topple the BJP government in the current session as a ''pipe dream'' and invoked the threat of a mid-term ...
• Biswajeet Banerjee
  • RSS goes on the offensive, calls Hindus to fight back   The Times of India - Mar 13, 1999
  >>>LUCKNOW: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Friday gave a strident call to Hindus to fight back the conspiracy to malign and marginalise them. Adopting a resolution on the second day of the three-day meeting of its national executive, the RSS exhorted the Hindus to take a ...
• Editorial
  • A candle for BJP   Times of India - March 19, 1999
  >>> Like a candle in the wind, it is a tremulously swaying single flame that the BJP-led government has lit to mark its first year in office. This ...
  • 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 ...
• HT Correspondent
  • Cong unnerved by Govt's achievements: Vajpayee   Hindustan Times - March 18, 1999
  >>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today attributed the Congress's all-out offensive in Parliament to a panic reaction to the BJP-led Government's "series of achievements" over the last one year. ...
• 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 ...
• Kanchan Gupta
  • How to hate Hindus and incite Muslims: A Primer by Prof Tahir Mahmood   Rediff on the Net - March 29, 1999
  >>> I have before me a three-page note headlined Inducement by Law for Being a Hindu, authored and circulated by Professor Tahir Mahmood, chairman of the National Commission for Minorities. The content of this note is unadulterated verjuice and the purpose of the author is ...
  • Like Banquo's ghost, Bihar's dead will come to haunt our secular politicians   Rediff on the Net - March 22, 199
  >>> Yet another massacre has been reported from Bihar's Jehanabad district. The details are the same: The messengers of death descended on the cursed village in the dead of night, slaughtered men, women and children deep in sleep, and snuffed out 35 human lives. The only ...
  • Recall the Goa Inquisition to stop the Church from crying foul   Rediff on the Net - March 16, 1999
  >>> His Majesty the king has ordered that there shall be no Brahmins in his land and that they should be banished.' 'In the name of his Majesty I order that no Hindu can or shall perform marriagesŠ' ...
• Krishnan Guruswamy
  • Study: Fears Trigger Religious Attacks   Associated Press - 02-25-1999
  >>>NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Recent Hindu-Christians attacks in western India were triggered by fears about the area's changing religious demographics and fueled by exaggerated media reports, a research institute said Thursday. ...
• M. Gautham Machaiah
  • New millennium begins next week : RSS   Times of India - march 10, 1999
  >>> BANGALORE: If the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has its way, the country will not celebrate the dawn of the new millennium. In a terse directive, the RSS has ordered its ...
• Narain kataria
  • NRI Intellectuals conference denounces religious conversion in India   (no publication) - March 11, 1999
  >>> Large scale organized conversions of poor and illiterate, either by force, or fraud or allurement, engineered by missionaries and financially supported by Western nations under the guise of social service, with an Evangelical zeal, destroy indigenous civilizations and cultures, are ...
• News Agencies
  • Power-hungry Cong has become irrational: Advani   The Pioneer - March 21, 1999
  >>> Thiruvananthapuram Union Home Minister L K Advani on Saturday said that the Bihar Government "itself protects, promotes and patronises crime" and the Congress had taken a "confused" and ...
• 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, ...
• P R Bhattacharjee
  • RSS begins paper-work on conversions, WTO pact   Economic Times - March 12, 1999
  >>> LUCKNOW 1 MARCH THE meeting of the Rashtriya Swaemsevak Sangh's (RSS) Pratinidhi Sabha (its highest body) began here today with full praise of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and the ...
• Pioneer News Service
  • Sonia playing casteist politics, says Thakre   The Pioneer - March 26, 1999
  >>> Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Kushabhau Thakre has accused AICC chief Sonia Gandhi of adopting double standards. The BJP chief, who is here for a state unit camp, said the ...
• Pioneer News Service / Calcutta
  • Cong trying to forcibly capture power: Vajpayee   The Pioneer - march 21, 1999
  >>> In his harshest attack yet as Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Saturday accused the Congress of trying to capture power at the Centre through undemocratic means and of playing the role of a destructive opposition. ...
• Political Bureau
  • Joshi charges Basu with `opportunism'   Economic Times - March 2, 1999
  >>> ...
• Posted By Dinesh Agrawal
  • BJP asks Sonia to break 'dubious silence' on Bihar   India World - March 24, 1999
  >>> The BJP on Wednesday accused Congress president Sonia Gandhi of maintaining 'dubious' silence on the recent Jehanabad massacre in Bihar and said that the people had the right to know ...
  • Keep House in order, PM tells Congress   Economic Times - March 22, 1999
  >>> NEW DELHI 21 MARCH PRIME Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Sunday intensified attack on the Congress for obstructing the functioning of Parliament and said the party should behave like a party ...
  • 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 ...
  • BJP not a communal party: Arif Mohammed Khan   Organiser - March 21, 1999
  >>>Intellectuals, scholars and leaders of various political parties, assembled at a book release function in New Delhi, welcomed the recent Lahore bus trip of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and described it as a major milestone in ...
  • Amnesty charges militants with targeting Hindus in J & K   Indian Express - march 14, 1999
  >>> NEW DELHI: Amnesty International (AI), London-based human rights watch dog, has charged militants in Jammu and Kashmir with targeting the minority Hindu community in the state. In its report, ...
  • Gujarat minister blames Christian missionaries for trouble in state   The Times of India - Mar 12, 1999
  >>>GANDHINAGAR: Minister of state for home Haren Pandya came down heavily on the Christians on the floor of the state assembly on Thursday for provoking conversions, attacking the December 25 Hindu Jagran Manch rally at Ahwa and also for being the main reason behind the Bible-burning incident in Rajkot last year. "By blowing small incidents out of proportion, the opposition ...
  • Sonia's commitment to Dalits is a sham: PM   The Times of India - Mar 13, 1999
  >>>NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has questioned Congress president Sonia Gandhi's commitment to the cause of Dalits, and said her party opposed ratification of President's rule in Bihar merely to ``embarrass'' his government. ...
  • BJP to hold countrywide meetings from March 19   Indian Express - March 12, 1999
  >>> NEW DELHI: BJP will hold meetings across the country from March 19 to 26 to mark the first anniversary of the BJP-led coalition government at the Centre, party general secretary M. Venkaiah Naidu said ...
  • Friendship only if Pak stops J&K war: PM   The Pioneer - March 11, 1999
  >>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday made it clear to Islamabad that it would be very difficult to normalise Indo-Pak relations if it continued to wage a proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country.
  • 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.
  • Cong.(I), Left's hypocrisy exposed: Thakre   The Hindu - March 1, 1999
  >>> PUNE, Feb. 28. The ``hypocrisy'' of the Congress(I) and the Left parties had been exposed by the manner in which they opposed the motion for ratification of President's Rule in Bihar in the Lok ...
• 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, ...
  • 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 ...
• PTI
  • Congress part of a deep conspiracy in violence against Christians: BJP   Indian Express - March 25, 1999
  >>> BHUBANESWAR: The BJP today accused the ruling Congress in Orissa of being part of a deep-rooted conspiracy leading to a chain of recent attacks on Christians in the state. The Congress is squarely behind ...
  • Sonia's entry into politics foreign-inspired: RSS   Indian Express - March 13, 1999
  >>> LUCKNOW: The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) today alleged that "the sudden entry of Sonia Gandhi into active politics just ahead of the last general elections was guided by certain foreign powers which did ...
  • 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.
  • We will not lose any more territory, says PM   The Hindu - March 1, 1999
  >>> NEW DELHI, Feb. 28. The Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, today said that India and Pakistan would have to make efforts to ensure that the agreements signed between the two countries in Lahore ...
  • 500 CPI activists join BJP   Indian Enpress - March 1, 1999
  >>> PATNA: Around 500 CPI activists of Gaya district led by Krishna Deo Yadav today joined BJP after resigning from primary membership of their party, a BJP release said. The release by BJP state ...
• 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
  • BJP plans sound and light show at Siri Fort to celebrate first anniversary   The Hindustan Times - Mar 07, 1999
  >>>A night-long cricket match to be telecast on a new Doordarshan sports channel is among the events on the anvil to celebrate Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's completion of one year in office. Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Minister Pramod Mahajan is writing the main script.
• 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 ...
• 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
  • Jyoti Basu 's Arrogance born out of nothing in particular   India Today - March 15, 1999
  >>> There is nothing more infuriating than a smugness born of decadence. Jyoti Basu may be the longest serving chief minister and a fit candidate for a national award next Republic Day but he is increasingly coming to resemble the arrogant zamindar in Satyajit Ray's Jalsaghar. Like the ...
• Tara Shankar Sahay
  • BJP to shift blame on Congress for Rabri's return   Rediff on the Net - March 8, 1999
  >>> With Union Home Minister L K Advani announcing the Vajpayee government's decision to revoke President's rule in Bihar, the ruling coalition at the Centre is poised to squarely blame the Congress for the restoration of the Rashtriya Janata Dal government ...
• Tavleen Singh
  • The Congress should back Vajpayee's Pakistan Policy .   India Today - March 8, 1999
  >>> How typical of the Congress to put its trivial political interests above those of the country. This is one area in which the party has a long and impressive record. So before we have had time to savour or even fully understand the importance of the bus ride to Wagah, the party has dragged ...
• The Times of India News Service
  • Cong move to topple Govt will fail: BJP   Times of India - March 24, 1999
  >>> NEW DELHI: While accusing the Congress of being in a hurry to get back to power, the BJP on Tuesday discounted any possibility of its allies defecting to topple the Atal Behari Vajpayee government.
  • Hindu era enters 52nd century   Times of India - March 20, 1999
  >>> LUCKNOW: As the world awaits the 21st century, the Hindu era entered the 52nd century on Thursday. The Hindu era is the said to be the oldest ...
• TIO News Service
  • Christians attacked Hindus first: Orissa CM   Times of India - March 19, 1999
  >>> BHUBANESWAR: Orissa chief minister Giridhar Gomang on Thursday described the communal violence at Ranalai village in Gajapati district as a fallout of an attack on Hindus by Christians earlier in the day.
• UNI
  • Advani is happy with govt's performance   Rediff on the Net - March 18, 1999
  >>> Union Home Minister L K Advani is a happy man -- happy at the resilience and performance of the government at the Centre, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, in the first year of its existence. ...
  • Vajpayee releases stamp on Hedgewar   Rediff on the Net - March 18, 1999
  >>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today deplored the increasing tendency of intolerance in accepting divergent views and said one should have respect for the other person's views. ...
  • 'There is no alternative to our government': PM   Rediff on the Net - March 18, 1999
  >>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Thursday asserted that there was no alternative to the 18-party Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition at the Centre, even as he charged the Congress with playing a ''dangerous game'' to pin down his government at any ...
  • RSS body condemns 'false Christian propaganda'   Rediff on the Net - March 13, 1999
  >>> The Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha, the apex body of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, has strongly condemned the 'false propaganda' of Christian missionaries to malign Hindu organisations and termed as partisan the role of the media, particularly that of the ...
  • My govt has been effective both at home and abroad: Vajpayee   Rediff on the Net - March 13, 1999
  >>> ''My government has been effective both at home and abroad. It is just that foreign policy successes get more media coverage. Domestic successes do not,'' Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said in an interview to India Today.
  • BJP plans campaign against Congress stand on Bihar   Rediff on the Net - March 9, 1999
  >>> The Bharatiya Janata Party Tuesday said it would launch a nation-wide campaign against the Congress for ''hoisting misrule'' in Bihar by opposing the ratification of the President's rule. ...
  • Advani rules out referendum in Kashmir   Rediff on the Net - March 9, 1999
  >>> Union Home Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani told the Lok Sabha today that Jammu and Kashmir's integration with India is an "article of faith" for the government, which cannot, therefore, agree to any referendum on the status of the state.
• Virender Kapoor
  • A mixed year of Vajpayee government: fine initiatives marred by allies   Rediff on the Net - March 20, 1999
  >>> The Vajpayee government has completed one year in office. That, like it or not, is an achievement by itself. For, a year ago hardly anyone, barring the most optimistic of its supporters, gave it even a year. ...
• Virendra Kapoor
  • The Congress leadership is worried by the three Bs -- Bus, Bihar and the Budget   Rediff on the Net - March 20, 1999
  >>> The financial integrity of Vajpayee, Home Minister L K Advani and other senior ministers remains beyond reproach. This government has not fathered the bank-stock scam a la Narasimha Rao-Manmohan Singh which had left the State exchequer poorer by over Rs 100 ...
  • 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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