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Starting: Tue 01 Sep 1998 - 21:38:35 EDT
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  • OFBJP honors Atalji at a Gala Reception in New York    OFBJP - September 28, 1998
  >>> Overseas Friends of BJP honored the Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee at a grand reception given by the NRI community in New York, which was organized by OFBJP and other community organizations. On the behalf of Overseas Friends of BJP, its national president Dr. Dinesh Agrawal welcomed the prime minister and stated, " for OFBJP, it is like dream coming true.
  • Terrorism and a tale of two elites    Romesh Diwan - 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 ...
• AOL News
  • India emerges as Asia's bright star    Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - 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 ...
• Deccan Herald
  • BJP lauds 'achievement' of Vajpayee at NAM    Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - 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 ...
• Economic Times
  • Advani calls for a debate on use of Art 356    Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - Septemebr 29, 1998
  >>> NEW DELHI HAVING been forced to retreat from its move to get rid of the Rabri Devi government in Bihar, the BJP seems to be slowly raising its ante over the `no' sounded by President K R Narayanan.
  • Govt determined to bust ISI: Advani    Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - Septemebr 18, 1998
  >>> 17 SEPTEMBER UNION home minister L K Advani warned that the government is determined to blast all ISI networks operating in the country, and sought people's co-operation. ...
  • Chennai rally lifts BJP govt's spirits    P R Ramesh - 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.
  • Vajpayee slams Oppn for trying to dislodge govt    Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - September 11, 1998
  >>> Lucknow 10 SEPTEMBER PRIME Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today charged the Opposition with being power-hungry but maintained there was no threat to his government and the people were satisfied with its performance.
  • Study backs govt's deportation policy    Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - 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 ...
  • Govt to counter anti-India propaganda via Internet    Bharti Jain - 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 ...
• Hindustan Times
  • Austerity to mark BJP's Jhinjoli camp    Arati Bhargava - Septemebr 10, 1998
  >>> The two-day special camp of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Delhi at Jhinjholi, beginning Sept. 12, will be marked by strict austerity and discipline, according to party sources. ...
• India Connect
  • A happy result, and something to look forward tp    Arun Shourie - 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 ...
  • Devices to further the circular    Arun Shourie - 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 ...
• India Today
  • Isn't Atal Right? Heed his warning on Islamic extremism in South Asia.    Tavleen Singh - 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 ...
  • Friends of Bin Laden    Swapan Dasgupta - 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 ...
• Indian Express
  • Bhandari drives across Patna with head held high    Ashis Chakrabarti - 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 ...
  • BJP prepares for Delhi assembly elections    Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - September 15, 1998
  >>> NEW DELHI, SEPT 14: Fighting rearguard action, the BJP has practically launched its campaign for the November Assembly elections in Delhi with party bosses finalising several steps to improve the image of the government.
  • `Noise over ICHR is made by Marxists whose vested interests have been hurt': MM    Sanjiv Sinha - 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 ...
  • BJP plan to lift its stock in MP    N D Sharma - 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 ...
  • Advani raps Pak, praises Myanmar, Bangla    PRESS TRUST OF INDIA - September 10, 1998
  >>> Addressing newsmen in Shillong and Guwahati at the end of his two-day visit to the North-East, Advani said, ``Myanmar and Bangladesh are helping us unlike Pakistan whose ISI is helping the insurgents of the ...
  • Govt plans more sops for NRIs    PTI - 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.
• Mid-Day
  • Reverse view    M V Kamath - 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? ...
• Rediff on the Net
  • Saffron spreads South    TVR Shenoy - 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 ...
  • France recognises India as nuclear weapon state    UNI - 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. ...
  • Keep off Vananchal, BJP warns Laloo    UNI - 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 ...
  • Return of the tourists to Kashmir    T V R Shenoy - 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.
  • Annan incurs BJP's wrath over Kashmir    Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - September 9, 1998
  >>> The Bharatiya Janata Party today objected to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statement equating Kashmir with other global problems. Talking to the media, BJP vice-president Krishan Lal ...
  • No threat to BJP government: Jayalalitha    George Iype and UNI - September 9, 1998
  >>> All India Anna DMK general secretary J Jayalalitha today declared that there was no threat to the Vajpayee government and it was not facing any crisis. Talking to newsmen after attending a function in Madras, ...
  • The myths about Vajpayee    TVR Shenoy - 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 ...
• Reuters
  • India's historians at each other's throats    John Chalmers - September 20, 1998
  >>> FEATURE-India's historians at each other's throats By John Chalmers ...
• The Daily
  • BJP's progress report    M.V. Kamath - 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 ...
• The Hindu
  • Govt plan to help Kashmiri migrant's return    Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - September 15, 1998
  >>> NEW DELHI, Sept. 14. The Union Home Minister, Mr L.K. Advani, has said the Centre has formulated a plan to help the return of the Kashmiri migrants. The Jammu and Kashmir Government and the refugees ...
• The Observer
  • The United States strikes back    Dina Nath Mishra - 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 ...
• The Pioneer
  • Atal spoke & it was sheer magic    Narayan D Keshavan - 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, ...
  • Situation improving in Valley: Advani    Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - 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.
  • Advani snubs Left on liberation day    Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - September 18, 1998
  >>> The golden jubilee of Hyderabad Liberation Day was celebrated here on Thursday with different political parties and organisations vying with each other in organising the celebrations. ...
  • Significant change in DMK stance: BJP    Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - 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 ...
• The Telegraph
  • Vajpayee describes India and US as natural allies    K.P. Nayar - 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 ...
  • Uma Bharati prepares plans for character building in youth    Monobina Gupta - September 8, 1998
  >>> New Delhi, Uma Bharti, minister of state in the human resources development ministry, is subtly pushing through an agenda that would delight RSS preachers and BJP hardliners. Her ...
• Times of India
  • Vajpayee's oratory enthrals NRIs    Dileep Padgaonkar - 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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