Thursday, November 5, 1998
Problem of direction in Indo-Pak dialogue
As India and Pakistan get ready to discuss their longest war on Friday, for the seventh time in less than a decade, the inability to arrive at an understanding of the word "north'' looks set to once again arrest the dialogue. The genesis of the conflict lies in the phrase "northwards to the glaciers'' in the 1949 Karachi agreement that brought an end to the first Kashmir War.
Republicans face sharp rebuke
Black Americans and minorities voted in strength to protect President Clinton and the Democrats from the sex scandal-inspired dressing down in a midterm Congressional election that instead delivered a sharp rebuke to Republicans. Pundits and pollsters alike were stunned by the results in what many experts said was one of the most extraordinary elections in US history.
CM declares sops for farm sector
On the eve of the four-day Agro Advantage Maharashtra global investors convention -- the first ever in the state -- the cash-starved Sena-BJP government has declared an incentives package for the agriculture sector. The beneficiaries will include farmers, cooperative societies run by them and government and private agro-industrial units.
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