Monday, June 22, 1998
Pilot plays down schism in party
Money has been one of the very important factors that led to the defeat of Congress candidate Ram Pradhan in the Rajya Sabha polls on Thursday, according to the initial assessment of a three-member high-powered committee despatched by Sonia Gandhi to probe the scandal. Amid widespread cynicism that the enquiry would prove to be yet another futile exercise in a long list of similar probes that were buried quietly after the initial heat had subsided, the Sonia team seemed to mean business.
In the Clinton Cabinet, India has only one friend - Bill
In President Clinton's evanescent Cabinet, where changes are rung in by the month, India has virtually no friends or supporters. Except one. Among the three key principals, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appears daggers at New Delhi; Defence Secretary William Cohen has never warmed to South Asia; and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger is a trade lawyer whose worldview -- or lack of it -- is scoffed at by foreign policy wonks.
Double tragedy for brides as they face society of superstitions
Huddled in one corner of a room in the district police lines at Doda, Leela, is incoherent and shattered. Kilometres away at Prem Nagar, Dogda Devi wonders at the magnitude of the catastrophe that has struck her -- One, a one-night bride and other, a would-be. They have lost their life partners, who became victims of ruthless militants at Chapnari.
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