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Starting: Thu 03 Sep 1998 - 13:40:55 EDT
Ending: Wed 30 Sep 1998 - 14:39:09 EDT
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- A. C. Ram
- A. K. Dhar
- A.K. Dar
- Ashis Chakrabarti
- Ashish Kumar Sen
- Rs 1.71 cr spent on incomplete ICHR project The Asian Age
- August 10, 1998
>>>One of the historians assigned a research volume in the prominent
Towards Freedom project, undertaken by the Indian Council of
Historical Research, has left his study mid-way. Professor Gyan
Pande's disassociation with the project has provided one in a
flurry of blows to the research which has dragged its feet for
...
- ICHR deputy chief accused of copying research Asian Age
- August 12, 1998
>>>The Indian Council of Historical Research will reopen an
investigation against one of the council's deputy-directors
charged with plagiarising research work by a prominent historian.
The work was allegedly submitted to the Rajasthan University by
the official for which he was awarded a Ph.D.
- Dina Nath Mishra
- The United States strikes back 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
...
- Congress groping in the dark The Observer
- September 24, 1998
>>>The way the Congress has categorically opposed the central
government's recommendation of President's rule in Bihar suggests
that it has learnt nothing and forgotten even more after its muchhyped Panchmarhi conclave. The situation in Bihar is for
everybody to see. Not only has the law and order situation become
e
...
- Dr. Ranjit Kanwar
- Editorial
- Talking Turkey The Times of India
- September 30, 1998
>>>Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's speech to the Asia Society
in New York on Monday is perhaps the most important speech on
foreign policy he has delivered since assuming office. It
contained the message he would have personally delivered to US
President Bill Clinton had he met him. In the Indian tradition
...
- Express News Service
- Farid Hossain
- Gopal Bhargava, New Delhi
- Undue interference (letter) The Observer
- September 22, 1998
>>>In an interesting paper "Do not allow meddling with Vaishno Devi
Shrine", Mr Jagmohan, member of Parliament, has rightly pointed
out that a few vested interests of Jammu and Katra are out to
ruin the great edifice of reform which was creatively conceived
and built ht the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Complex. It had won the
...
- Gwynne Dyer
- The slow decline of terror News Times
- September 1998
>>>On Sunday, 24 Ukrainian coal-miners were killed by an
underground explosion in the village of Beloye.
Their deaths were as horrible, the grief of their relatives as
real as in Omagh the previous day. when 28 people were killed by
...
- Hindu Vivek Kendra
- Hyderabad Bureau
- India Abroad News Service
- K Govindan Kutty
- K. K. Singh
- When Nehru opposed division of Bihar The Times of India
- September 20, 1998
>>>Opposition to the division of Bihar and creation of a separate
Jharkhand state, comprising mineral-rich Chotanagpur and Santhal
Parganas of south Bihar, is not new for maintaining the
historical, economical, cultural and linguistic heritage of the
state since the days of Mauryan empire when Bihar was the capital
...
- K. Srinivas Reddy, Hyderabad
- PWG: widening cracks The Hindu
- September 6, 1998
>>>As the CPI-MI, People's War Group (PWG) incorrectly assessed the
revolutionary potential of the masses in Andhra Pradesh and begun
adopting incompatible guerilla warfare tactics and strategies in
its protracted armed struggle to achieve the New Democratic
Revolution? The overemphasis on militarisation without a proper
...
- Kaveree Bamzai
- Govt patronage doesn help: Historians Indian Express
- August 11, 1998
>>>ITS budget this year is a paltry Rs 2.24 crore, aptly described
by Jawaharlal Nehru University historian Harbans Mukhia as
"peanuts". It has Rs 30 lakh worth of bills pending. The Fifth
Pay Commission award has yet to be implemented. Its budding
doesn't seem to have had a lick of paint since its inception in
...
- Krishan Dutt
- Al-Muhajiroun declares jihad against India Organiser
- September 13, 1998
>>>Militant Islamic fundamentalism manifested itself in its crude
form in London when Al-Muhajiroun, a UK-based organisation held a
demonstration in Trafalgar Square. Prior to the rally, thousands
of leaflets with Shri A.B. Vajpayee's photographs and slogans :
"Wanted for crimes against the Muslim people" were seen on lamp
...
- M V Kamath
- Reverse view 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
...
- How much do the public need to know? The Free Press Journal
- August 29, 1998
>>>On July 12, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee inaugurated a
conference of the National Union of Journalists which, strangely
enough, was very inadequately reported in the national newspapers
which, one might add, is par for the course. But Vajpayee's
address caught the attention of a distinguished political and
...
- M. V. Kamath
- Justice Srikrishna is ore to be pitied The Free Press Journal
- September 3, 1998
>>>The Srikrishna Commission was appointed to inquire into the riots
in Mumbai during December 1992 and January 1993. Its work was by
no means smooth. At one stage its terms of reference were
expanded. At another stage the Commission itself was disbanded
and was only revived at the instance of the Prime Minister. For
...
- M.K.Shukla
- M.V. Kamath
- BJP's progress report The Daily
- September 15, 1998
>>>For 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
...
- ISI-supported terrorism The Daily
- September 8, 1998
>>>For over ten years ISI-supported terrorists from across the
border have been indulging in murder and mayhem in Jammu &
Kashmir and lately in Himachal Pradesh as well. Earlier the same
gangsters were supporting the misguided Khalistanis in East
Punjab to cause unbearable damage in the countryside. It is no
...
- BJP's progress report The Daily
- September 15, 1998
>>>For 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
...
- Leadership to blame for nation's ills The Free Press Journal
- September 10, 1998
>>>Some time ago the Leslie Sawhney Programme organised a seminar
dedicated to the fragrant memory of J. R. D. Tata and the theme
chosen discussion was: The Indian Dream of 1947 - What went
wrong? Why? The chairman of the Programme, the distinguished
lawyer and businessman, Nani Palkhivala inaugurated the seminar
...
- Man Mohan
- Meenakshi Jain
- N M Ghatate
- P M Kamath
- Say o to US Mid-Day
- September 4, 1998
>>>United States President Bill Clinton carried a lot of ideas on
his visit to Moscow. One such idea, which he publicly offered
Russian President Boris Yeltsin, was to ask him to stop all
military cooperation with India. Reason: India is in the vicinity
of Russian borders. With their newly acquired nuclear weapons, a
...
- P P Bala Chandran
- Threat to civilisation The Observer
- September 25, 1998
>>>Defence minister George Fernandes may have had his reasons for
identifying China as India's enemy number one. In any case, the
statement need not appear as too specious or unrealistic to
anybody who has been a keen observer of the subcontinent's
geopolitics. However, it has lost its relevance in the changed
...
- Political Bureau
- Posted By Krishnakant Udavant
- Silent pogrom of Hindu in Bangladesh Organiser
- September 13, 1998
>>>Do we have to recollect that a leader of Bangladesh parliamentary
delegation in UK openly alleged at a press conference in London
that a good number of 'VIPs' in India were purchased by
subsequent Bangladeshi regimes, ranging from dictator Zia-UrRehman to Sheikh Hasina Wajid, in exchange of Hilisha fish,
,
...
- Press Trust of India
- Prithvi Raj Singh
- How to create nations ... without invasions? Indian Post
- September 25, 1998
>>>Introduction: The power-hungry politicians, due to their block
votes, play the game knowingly the dangers ahead. But, when the
demands are criticized, rejected or met in part, then the Friday
prayers become a routine place where the Mullah wakens them to
a reality and calls it slam is in danger here. The next step
...
- Pushpa Iyegnar
- R Rangaraj
- Raja Menon
- Lessons for India The Hindustan Times
- September 15, 1998
>>>The dramatic US strike on the chemicals factory in Khartoum and
the terrorist training camp in Khost, has raised a clamour in
India of why not we? Thomas Pickering's statement that similar
action by India will not be appreciated is the centre piece of
the controversy, with most commentators taking the familiar
...
- Rakesh Sinha
- Rasheed Kidwai
- Tainted Congmen on Sonia list The Telegraph
- September 3, 1998
>>>Graft-crusader Sonia Gandhi has invited a number of seam-tainted
party leaders to the Panchmarhi conclave. As they join several
Congress MPs, low-level functionaries and ticket-seekers for
Assembly polls heading towards the hill resort, the "brainstorming session" starting Friday looks all set to become a
a
...
- Rizwan Salim
- Need for cultural pride - Revival The Hindustan Times
- September 20, 1998
>>>India's social problem--rampant corruption to exploding
population--can disappear and the nation can become great almost
overnight if most Indians, especially the people on top in every
domain of activity, are made to undergo just one mental
transformation: Acquiring intense cultural pride. Yes, vigorous
...
- Sandhya Jain
- Shyamal Sarkar and Sumit Sen
- Uneasy lies the head The Statesman
- September 12, 1998
>>>In the changed scenario in West Bengal where polarised electoral
politics has taken a beating with the emergence of the Trinamul
Congress and the BJP, the Leftists have reason to be uneasy.
More than Mamata Banerjee's fledgling part the Marxist-led
conglomerate is wary of the BJP, leaning as it does on the
...
- Special Correspondent
- People want educated Mps, MLAs The Hindu
- August 21, 1998
>>>The Election Commission's proposal to fix matriculation as the
minimum qualification for candidates contesting elections has
found an echo among the people who, as per the findings of an
opinion poll, have endorsed the need for such an electoral
reform. Of the 9,562 persons interviewed from all sections of
...
- Stephen Engelberg
- Subhamoy Chatterjee
- Sujit Chakraborty
- Adherence to CTBT only as N power: PM The Observer
- September 24, 1998
>>>Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday said that India
would sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) only after
some of India's "conditions" were fulfilled and after another
round of talks between the interlocutors of India and the US
Jaswant Singh and Strobe Talbott.
- T V Parasuram
- T.V.R. Shenoy
- Tamal Sengupta
- TVR Shenoy
- Saffron spreads South Rediff on the Net
- September 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 to lay aside the tools of their trade. I
...
- UCAN
- Virendra Kapoor
- Virendra Parekh
- Sinking in political quagmires The Observer
- September 12, 1998
>>>So, the Congress is willing to shoulder its constitutional
obligation to form an alternative government, if and when the
present one falls on its own. It has kept the door open for
coalition with like minded parties in the intervening period, but
cherishes the hope of coming to power on its own in the not-too-
...
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