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India emerges as Asia's bright star - Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - AOL News
- September 25, 1998
>>> BUFFALO, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 1998--Amidst the gloom and
anxiety in Asian markets, India, long considered a laggard, is emerging as one
of the area's fastest-growing economies and brightest stars.
The country, which has been left relatively untouched by the current
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Vajpayee describes India and US as natural allies - K.P. Nayar
- The Telegraph
- September 29, 1998
>>> New York, Sept. 28
In a landmark speech which took think tanks,
intellectuals and policymakers in America by
surprise, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee
today described India and the US as "natural
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Vajpayee's oratory enthrals NRIs - Dileep Padgaonkar
- Times of India
- September 29, 1998
>>>NEW YORK: Five days ago, Atal Behari Vajpayee had
arrived in this city looking glum, weary and a
shade too melancholic. He wore much the same
expression during the greater part of his stay.
To some of his interlocutors, he seemed to be
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Advani calls for a debate on use of Art 356
Atal spoke & it was sheer magic - Narayan D Keshavan
- The Pioneer
- September 29, 1998
>>> IT WAS vintage Vajpayee, and the largest ever Indian
American gathering to hear a politician speak in more two
decades in this city loved every bit of it.
Fired up by the enthusiasm of the nearly 2,500-strong,
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Bhandari drives across Patna with head held high - Ashis Chakrabarti
- Indian Express
- September 24, 1998
>>> PATNA, SEPT 23: Only a boundary wall separates
the two warring camps in Bihar -- the office
premises of the BJP and the ruling Rashtriya
Janata Dal on Birchand Patel Marg here. The
scene at the two offices symbolise the
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Saffron spreads South - TVR Shenoy
- Rediff on the Net
- Septemebr 23, 1998
>>> South Indians consider Vijayadashmi the most auspicious
day to start children on the road to education. But the
custom of vidyarambham isn't confined to the young.
Adults too rededicate themselves to their work on
Vijayadashami after the festival gives a welcome reason
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India's historians at each other's throats
Situation improving in Valley: Advani - Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - The Pioneer
- Spetember 20, 1998
>>> UNION HOME Minister LK Advani on Sunday expressed
confidence that the BJP-led Government would ruthlessly
crush the Pak-sponsored cross border terrorism in Jammu and
Kashmir and restore total normalacy there in `a reasonable
period' of time.
The United States strikes back - Dina Nath Mishra
- The Observer
- September 17, 1998
>>>Gradually, a degree of realisation about Islamic terrorism is
growing in the western mind, particularly the US administration,
specially after the blasts in US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
which killed more than 200 people. Not that the US was unaware
of the large scale killings in various parts of the world by
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BJP's progress report - M.V. Kamath
- The Daily
- September 15, 1998
>>>=46or a party which has been under siege for a hundred and fifty
days, the Bharatiya Janata Party has done extraordinary well and
is entitled to deep respect and the thanks of a grateful public.
Its very first act -- to sanction nuclear tests - was a
courageous one for which the nation cannot be sufficiently
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Advani snubs Left on liberation day
Govt determined to bust ISI: Advani
Chennai rally lifts BJP govt's spirits - P R Ramesh
- Economic Times
- September 17, 1998
>>> The size of rally was impressive even from the standards of
a city which has a proven record of hosting such mega
events. And if the prime minister, having been under strain
for long, was looking for something to lift his spirits, he
got that in plenty.
France recognises India as nuclear weapon state - UNI
- Rediff on the Net
- September 17, 1998
>>> France recognises India as a nuclear weapon state after
the nuclear tests conducted last May, Laurent Fabius,
speaker of the French national assembly and a former
prime minister of that country, said in New Delhi today.
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Keep off Vananchal, BJP warns Laloo - UNI
- Rediff on the Net
- September 16, 1998
>>> The Bharatiya Janata Party today warned Rashtriya Janata
Dal president and former Bihar chief minister Laloo
Prasad Yadav that he would be ''digging his own grave''
if he tried to whip up passions and create a
law-and-order problem in the state on the Vananchal
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Reverse view - M V Kamath
- Mid-Day
- September 10, 1998
>>>Ever since the demolition of the Babri Masjid, I have often wondered how
the Islamic world would have reacted had. some imaginary Hindu monarch
invaded Saudi Arabia, conquered it and, in an excess of religious zeal,
built a mandir for Shiva in Mecca. How long would that temple have been
allowed to remain intact? 14 hours? 24 years? 240 years?
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BJP prepares for Delhi assembly elections
A happy result, and something to look forward tp - Arun Shourie
- India Connect
- September 9, 1998
>>> How fulsome they have been in commending each other -- the patrons and
subalterns!
First the significance of Arif Qandhari's Tarikh-i-Akbari : it confirms what
we know from Abul Fazl's Akbar Nama, says the eminent historian, it
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Govt plan to help Kashmiri migrant's return
`Noise over ICHR is made by Marxists whose vested interests have been hurt': MM - Sanjiv Sinha
- Indian Express
- September 13, 1998
>>> Union Human Resource Development Minister
Murli Manohar Joshi is no stranger to
controversies. After the `purge' in the India
Council for Historical Research (ICHR), he
returned to news with his alleged differences
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BJP plan to lift its stock in MP - N D Sharma
- Indian Express
- September 13, 1998
>>> BHOPAL, Sept 12: The Union Government's
decision to set up a railway zone at Bilaspur
has come as a much-needed shot in the arm for
the BJP in this Congress-ruled State. Madhya
Pradesh BJP general secretary Meghraj Jain
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Vajpayee slams Oppn for trying to dislodge govt
Return of the tourists to Kashmir - T V R Shenoy
- Rediff on the Net
- September 11, 1998
>>> Had you visited Srinagar at the height of summer last
year, you might have found hoteliers begging you to take
up a room. Don't make that mistake today -- most hotels
are booked through the end of October as are the city's
legendary house-boats.
Austerity to mark BJP's Jhinjoli camp
Advani raps Pak, praises Myanmar, Bangla
Isn't Atal Right? Heed his warning on Islamic extremism in South Asia. - Tavleen Singh
- India Today
- September 14, 1998
>>> There are weeks when despite our overwhelming political and
economic problems we need to thank God for his small
blessings. This past week has been one such. With Pakistan
turning Islamic fundamentalist overnight, with old ally
Russia disintegrating before our eyes and with it becoming
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Uma Bharati prepares plans for character building in youth
Annan incurs BJP's wrath over Kashmir
No threat to BJP government: Jayalalitha
BJP lauds 'achievement' of Vajpayee at NAM - Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - Deccan Herald
- September 5, 1998
>>> NEW DELHI
The BJP today lauded the performance of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee
at the just concluded NAM conference in Durban in an apparent effort to
pre-empt domestic criticism of the embarrassment to the country due to the
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Study backs govt's deportation policy - Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - Economic Times
- September 5, 1998
>>> UNION home ministry seems all set to continue with its
controversial plans to detect alleged illegal immigrants
from Bangladesh. The ministry, armed with a Survey which
claims that an ``overwhelming majority justified the
deportation exercise of the government'', has begun
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The myths about Vajpayee - TVR Shenoy
- Rediff on the Net
- Sept. 3, 1998
>>> The Atal Bihari Vajpayee ministry reaches the six-month
mark in a fortnight. And it has been vilified for almost
each of those 180 days by an aggressively "secular"
media. Three myths -- "false impressions" in
Clinton-speak -- have dominated reports on the Vajpayee
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Terrorism and a tale of two elites - Romesh Diwan
- (no publication) - September 3, 1998
>>> The US navy attacked six terrorist training camps in Afghanistan by 50
Tomahawk cruise missiles with about 50,000 pounds of explosives, and also a
drug factory in Khartoum, Sudan in retaliation to the attacks of its
embassies in Dar - e - slam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. It inflicted heavy
causalities and reduced strong buildings to rubble. There are three
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Significant change in DMK stance: BJP - Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - The Pioneer
- September 4, 1998
>>> BJP vice-president Jana Krishnamurthy on Thursday felt that
there was a significant change in the DMK's attitude to his
party and declared that the BJP was ready to accept
unconditional support from anyone who was willing to accept
Mr Vajpayee's leadership as also the national agenda drawn
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Govt plans more sops for NRIs - PTI
- Indian Express
- September 4, 1998
>>> NEW DELHI, Sept 3: Buoyed by the success of
Resurgent India Bonds, the government is
considering treating non-resident Indians
(NRIs) on par with Indian nationals to attrac
more investments for economic development.
Govt to counter anti-India propaganda via Internet - Bharti Jain
- Economic Times
- September 2, 1998
>>> NEW DELHI 1 SEPTEMBER
WITH websites of terrorist and secessionist organisations
mushrooming on the Internet, the Union home ministry has
drawn up a special scheme to counter the `misinformation
and anti-India propaganda' being downloaded through these
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Friends of Bin Laden - Swapan Dasgupta
- India Today
- September 7, 1998
>>> If Sherlock Holmes was puzzled by the dog that didn't bark,
Indians have reason to be mystified about the protestors
who didn't protest. In normal circumstances, Washington's
retaliatory strikes against terrorist camps in Afghanistan
and an alleged chemical weapons factory in Sudan would have
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Devices to further the circular - Arun Shourie
- India Connect
- Sept. 1, 1998
>>>As we have seen, the explicit part of the Circular issued by the West Bengal
Government in 1989 in effect was that there must be no negative reference to
Islamic rule in India. Although these were the very things which
contemporary Islamic writers celebrated, there must be absolutely no
reference to the destruction of the temples by Muslim rulers, to the
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