After Badal threat to Rajasthan, BJP and Akalis begin water diplomacy

Thursday 8 March '07

Worried that the issue of sharing river water with Punjab would hit BJP-ruled Rajasthan and give ammunition to the Congress to attack the state government...

UP: BJP gears up to play Hindu card

Wednesday 7 March '07

Against the backdrop of what is says are repeated instances of ‘minority appeasement’ by the UPA and its partners

Beginning of the end for UPA: BJP

Wednesday 28 February '07

After an exceptional performance in the Punjab polls that showed the party had won back its urban vote base and had made best use of the Centre’s failure to tackle inflation

Advani cites Nehru, MEA clarifies

Tuesday 27 February '07

Leader of the Opposition LK Advani today gave a new dimension to the arrest of Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi when he claimed that contrary to the UPA’s assertions there was indeed an extradition treaty between India and Argentina.

BJP all for Central rule, to keep eye on Cong for now

Saturday 17 February '07

Boosted by internal assessments that the party’s electoral prospects had improved considerably in Uttar Pradesh

Cong willing, parties ready to go after Mulayam

Friday 16 February '07

The Supreme Court verdict on the disqualification of defected BSP MLAs has once again raised demands from within the Congress to dismiss the Mulayam Singh Yadav government.

To put ‘divided house’ together, Atal comes to Rajnath’s rescue

Friday 2 February '07

In the first public comment by a top party leader on the controversy surrounding the new BJP team, former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee stepped in

RSS reaches out to Jaitley

Thursday 1 February '07

RSS has sent a clear signal to BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley that they would like him to be closely involved in the party’s Uttarakhand campaign apart from Punjab, the state he is in charge of.

RSS raps BJP leaders for party infighting

Wednesday 31 January '07

Weeks before the Assembly polls in which the BJP hopes to make significant gains, the RSS has made a stinging criticism of factionalism and infighting in the party

Modi out of BJP board, Jaitley loses job as party spokesman

Tuesday 30 January '07

Seeking to end speculation but giving rise to more talk almost immediately, BJP president Rajnath Singh today announced his new team

Kabul Calling

Sunday 28 January '07

Afghanistan is up against a resurgent Taliban and an almost non-existent economy—factors that could pitch it back to its chaos-filled past, finds Ananda Majumdar.

Indians alerted about Taliban resurgence: stay away from Afghan south

Thursday 25 January '07

With the resurgence of the Taliban along the Durand Line that separates Pakistan and Afghanistan, Indians here are being told to stay away from southern Afghanistan which has become a danger zone.

...conveys fears over security of Indians in Afghanistan

Wednesday 24 January '07

New Delhi has conveyed to Kabul its concerns over the security of Indians in Afghanistan, but has left it to the Karzai government to decide how the matter should be tackled even as it took some steps to get better control of the issue.

Pak should give road access to Kabul: Pranab

Wednesday 24 January '07

Keen to establish a role for itself in Afghanistan’s future, New Delhi has once again raised the question of a transit route through Pakistan

Kabul at odds with Pak, India keen to play good neighbour

Tuesday 23 January '07

At a time when relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan appeared strained following Sunday night’s attack...

Saffron candidate list cleaned up

Saturday 20 January '07

Staying on course with the declared aim of picking the right candidate in elections and anxious to pursue an aggressive poll campaign

Happy b’day, let’s be friends: BJP to Maya

Tuesday 16 January '07

Saffron party’s gift to Dalit leader whose party’s symbol is the elephant, a Ganesha idol to remove obstacles

FOCUS UP, the testing ground

Monday 1 January '07

The Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Uttaranchal in 2007 will provide a testing ground for the BJP’s preparations for the 2009 general elections.

Atal, Advani lay ground rules for UP poll campaign

Monday 25 December '06

Amidst plans for the all-important Uttar Pradesh polls and the party’s stated strategy to use the election as the springboard for the next Lok Sabha polls, the BJP’s two guiding stars or ‘margdarshaks’

‘Give us 10 yrs to undo appeasement’

Sunday 24 December '06

At BJP national council meet, party chief Rajnath slams UPA approach to minorities, stresses Ayodhya, aggressive Hindutva

It’s back to our brand of Hindutva: BJP

Saturday 23 December '06

The BJP is heading towards a consensus that for the Uttar Pradesh elections there is no need for a change of script...

PM tells Left: I will explain in the House

Wednesday 13 December '06

Hours after External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Lok Sabha that concerns over the nuclear Bill had been noted and these would be addressed in the final agreement

All commitments will be met, repeats Rice, but Left says concerns remain

Monday 11 December '06

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today made it clear that the United States would fulfill all commitments made to India in the July 18 and March 2 joint statements...

In clear signal to investors, Buddha, team plan US trips

Monday 4 December '06

Sidestepping political and ideological differences, American and Indian diplomats as well as Left bigwigs are preparing the ground for what will be a pathbreaking first official visit by Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

Mulford, Left reach out to each other; plan meet

Wednesday 29 November '06

Keen to bridge the gap with each other, US embassy officials and the CPI(M) are finally trying to find a date for a meeting between US Ambassador David Mulford and the CPI(M) leadership in the Capital.