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November 24 
United Front decides against dissolution of Lok SabhaThe UF core committee shot down the Left parties's demand for dissolution of the Lok Sabha on the ground that it could pave the way for a split in the Congress and faciliate the BJP's gameplan to form an alternate government by engineering defections. Diana Hayden is Miss World! The confident Hyderabad native quoted the Irish poet William Butler Yeats on 'dreams begin with responsibility' when she introduced herself in the semifinal round. On winning the title, the five feet-eight inch Anglo-Indian made a sign of the cross and said the title "meant the world'' to her. EC ready for mid-term poll any time: Gill Highly placed Election Commission sources on Sunday said if the 11th Lok Sabha was dissolved, the election process should be completed by March 15 and the new House constituted before March 31 so that there was sufficient time for a government to be formed. BJP wants mid-term poll The party prefers a mid-term poll instead of giving any other alliance a chance in the wake of the crisis triggered by the Jain Commission report at the Centre. UF, Congress playing 'childish games' with nation: BJP BJP general secretary Venkaiah Naidu said the UF and the Congress have given ''themselves time to invent yet another immoral formula to remain in unearned power''. Police identifies two culprits in Hyderabad blast In a major breakthrough, sleuths investigating the November 19 bomb blast in Hyderabad, which claimed 24 lives, has identified the owner of the car used in it as Gangula Suryanarayana Reddy. DMK will not back BJP govt: Karunanidhi The Tamil Nadu chief minister said he was neither surprised nor sorry over the TMC's silence in the present situation. Other UF constituents had expressed support to the DMK openly. Patriot Games 'The Congress,' says Saisuresh Sivaswamy, 'should ponder over then home minister S B Chavan's statement to Parliament that disclosing all the relevant records to the Jain Commission would tarnish the image of one family. Which is the family Chavan was referring to?' Solar observatory slips out of Kalpana Chawla's hands Columbia spends precious time trying to retrieve Spartan. Spacewalk planned to get it back. Why is Sonia extra-special? 'Should the nation accept without demur the phenomenon of this lady being invested with a status equal to that of the head of State or the head of government?' asks Ashok Mitra. 'Courtesy the SPG, she has emerged as one of the nation's eminence grise.' The New Apocalypse 'The most conspicuous outward manifestation of social and cultural decadence in India is the popular and lowest expression of Americanism. This is also inducing many enterprising Indians to emigrate and settle in the United States.' Nirad C Chaudhuri, who turns 100 on Sunday, at his provocative best. 
Andhra Pradesh: Mohan Babu was target of blast: aide Andhra Pradesh: State cries for funds, but does not utilise them: bank officials Assam: Tata executives interrogated Tamil Nadu: Freedom fighter N Sadasivam dead Tamil Nadu: The revolutionary who turned non-violent November 22 
UF's tough stand sends Congress scurrying for cover
Instead of calling the shots, the Congress is now at the receiving end of a volley of threats fired by the United Front. It is desperately trying to convince the UF about the grave repercussions -- bringing the BJP to power -- that its tough pro-DMK stand would have. UF letter ready; Gujral authorised to send it to Kesri The prime minister's colleagues are advising him to follow the script of his JD predecessors V P Singh and H D Deve Gowda: to seek a confidence vote and force a discussion on the Jain Commission report in Parliament. ''If there is a no-confidence motion, Gujral will tear the Congress apart,'' a senior JD leader told Rediff On The NeT. 'We have to face a choice between nationalism and anti-nationalism' Congress vice-president Jitendra Prasada's appeal to the United Front leadership. Mamata moves no-trust motion against Gujral The Congress MP said she will press for her no-confidence motion when the Lok Sabha assembles on Monday. Arafat offers to negotiate between India, Pak Wasn't it he who, in 1972, brought Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to the negotiation table? Framing of charges in Babri case postponed again Only five of the 49 accused turn up at the hearing. If masjid was built on mandir site, it should be handed over to Hindus The Babri Masjid Movement Coordination Committee on Friday supported the Mecca grand Imam's suggestion that Muslims should give up their demand for reconstructing the disputed mosque if it was proved to have been built after demolishing a temple. Nayanar shoots down Hopkins varsity's health plans Apparently, the CPI-M politburo instructed the Kerala chief minister 'to tread cautiously', as it believed Carl E Taylor, the principal author of the project, to have CIA links. HC refuses to dispose of litigation against Kesri The court refuses to let Congress president off charges that he has amassed wealth disproportionate to his known source of income
Andhra Pradesh: Congress halts assembly over Mohan Babu's security Assam: ULFA operating from Bangladesh, Bhutan Bengal: Speaker admits no-confidence motion Gujarat: Parikh puts off cabinet expansion J&K: Police open fire to disperse APHC activists Maharashtra: 'Only those disloyal to state will criticise Thackeray' Punjab: Badal to streamline education system November 21 
Only a miracle can save Gujral
But the Congress Working Committee's decision, allowing party president Sitaram Kesri to take an 'appropriate' decision on the UF government following its refusal to dump the DMK, has blessed the beleaguered alliance with a respite. 'How can Congress support Rajiv's killers?' Congress Parliamentary Party secretary and Karad MP Prithviraj Chavan sums up the party's mood. Action Taken Report short on action The government, in its Action Taken Report on the Jain Commission interim report, claimed most of the panel's conclusions have already been probed by the Verma Commission, or pertain to the conspiracy aspect, details of which only the final report would cover. We are not going to own up responsibilty for a crime which we had not committed: Karunanidhi The Tamil Nadu chief minister says the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam had maintained contacts with Sri Lankan militant groups including the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam at the instance of successive central governments and would fight the political conspiracy to malign the party by taking the issue to the people. As time runs out, the Jain Commission is trying to get hold of missing files Promilla Kalhan on the Rajiv Gandhi assassination probe. Jain Commission fallout: Political equations get even more complex in Tamil Nadu While the TMC waits for a solution to evolve on its ties with the DMK, the Opposition AIADMK is hoping for a break in the ruling alliance, to try and make electoral capital. Tamil Congressmen sling mud at each other over Jain report What do we have here but a pack of Congressmen who, ignored by the high command, are busy digging deep into the ground and coming up with hands full of raw, slushy dirt? Prime suspect in car bomb blast surrenders Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu maintains that the target of the car bomb attack was not Rajya Sabha member and actor Mohan Babu. It appears, he said, to be a ''deep-rooted conspiracy to kill'' Penukonda legislator Paritala Ravi. Kalpana Chawla becomes first Indian woman in space "This is a great moment for India," deputy chief of Indian mission tells scientist. CBI forced me to turn approver: JMM leader The agency, however, was against Shailendra Mahato implicating several politicians in the MPs bribery case, a Delhi court was told. CBI submits 'proof' in St Kitts case The agency produced telephone bills before the Delhi high court to prove that Rao was in constant touch with tantrik Chandra Swami when the St Kitts conspiracy was brewing. Pak supreme court restrains president from signing bill Chief justice tries to stop premier's attempt to slice the long arm of the law November 20 
23 die in car bomb attack in Hyderabad
Rajya Sabha member and actor Mohan Babu survived a bomb blast which killed 23 people in the posh Jubilee Hill area of Hyderabad. Thirtyfive others were seriously injured. Controversy is his middle name Migrating to Madras from his native Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh thirty years ago, he landed a job in Madras -- as the physical instructor in a school. But his joy was shortlived. He was sacked, and the power of the arclights beckoned him. A profile of controversial actor-politician Mohan Babu. Militant Congress MPs may seal Gujral's fate Congressmen are in no mood to relent, and Kesri may be forced to withdraw support to the UF government. Party spokesman V N Gadgil says the decision may be taken even before the Jain Commission report is tabled in Parliament on Thursday. UF softening stand on DMK West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu says there is a possibility of the DMK supporting the Gujral government from outside. Search for missing students continues The police put up nets across the Yamuna; divers search high and low for children's bodies. 'We were branded as a party which played, but could never score a goal. Now we have proved everybody wrong' Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, in an exclusive interview. Albright leaves after hurried visit The prime minister discusses cross-border terrorism and a permanent seat for India in the Security Council with the US secretary of state. Sharief chargesheeted in contempt case The Pak premier storms out of court after supreme court hauls him over the coals for claiming the chief justice overstepped authority. 1997 Indira Gandhi prize for Jimmy Carter President gives 1996 award to Medicins Sans Frontieres. November 19 
28 kids killed as school bus plunges into river
The bus, packed with 120 children, was running at a high speed when it skid and fell into the Yamuna. About 20 children are still missing. 'We don't know where to go, what to do. Whether our kids are alive or dead.' Seven hours after the bus carrying the children fell into the Yamuna river, many parents at the Bara Hindu hospital do not know if their children are wandering the streets or fighting for life. Or are dead. JPC to bail out Gujral The prime minister has 'convinced' Sitaram Kesri that constituting a Joint Parliamentary Committee is the best way out of the controversy over the Jain Commission report. Why does acid attack accused want to languish in jail? Though the CBI wants to let him off the hook in the controversial Chandralekha acid attack case, Surla is keen on staying in jail. Is that the reason why he made an attempt on the special court judge's life? In Goa, defections are par for the course Union Law Minister Ramakant Khalap, an old hand at engineering switches in political affiliations in Goa, is now in the odd position of having to demand a stop to the "menace of defections". Albright flies into Pakistan, 24 hours behind schedule Delayed trying to resolve a crisis after the Iraqi refusal to allow American inspectors to visit its nuclear installations, the US secretary of state visits a country where four of her countrymen were killed last week. Pak amends law to save PM In a dramatic move, the Pakistani government amended the country's contempt of court law in a bid to save Nawaz Sharief, who is facing the charge in the supreme court. 'Don't force POK residents to be Pakis' The man who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane to Lahore from Srinagar in 1971 and set it afire has demanded that residents of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir be freed from a forced obligation to swear by accession to Pakistan. 875 cops killed in one year While the highest number of 88 police personnel were killed in the Naxalite-prone Andhra Pradesh followed by terrorism-hit Punjab (80) and Uttar Pradesh (75), Haryana recorded the lowest figure -- only one policeman was killed. 'I feel I have been here long enough' Had her life not been cut short by assassins one autumn morning, Indira Gandhi would have turned 80 today. Cultural czarina Pupul Jayakar, her friend of long standing, remembers her encounters with the woman people loved and hated in equal measure in that fortnight before her death.
Maharashtra:Only 'might is right' November 18 
Reprieve for Gujral
Congress president Sitaram Kesri is playing it safe. He is willing to ditch the United Front right away if Sonia Gandhi promises to campaign for the party in the general election. Alternatively, his decision on the fate of the Gujral goverment will be based on consensus in the party. 'The leaked report does not feature my testimony before Jain panel, but another court' Did the DMK government of 1989-91 ask the police not to arrest the fleeing accused in the Padmanabha killing case? Former Tamil Nadu home secretary R Nagarajan throws light on the alleged DMK-LTTE 'nexus' in an exclusive interview. Basu flays UF for ignoring poll promises ''Despite our efforts to bring to their notice the non-implementation of the programmes time and again, no action has been taken either by the prime minister or by the finance minister, causing great concern to us,'' says the West Bengal chief minister. Jain panel report 'surprises' Chidambaram ''I cannot invent oral evidence just to please someone,'' the minister says. Mayawati moves court to expel 12 BSP MLAs The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister wants the rebels sacked under the anti-defection law. Albright's visit to India 'uncertain' The US secretary of state is meeting leaders of Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to resolve the stand-off over the UN inspection of nuclear installations in Iraq. Contempt case against Sharief adjourned Hundreds of policemen with shields and steel-tipped batons battled thousands of Nawaz Sharief's supporters outside the supreme court where the prime minister faced the most serious challenge yet to his leadership. Untouchability is a fact of life under Marxist rule in West Bengal Fifty years of Independence and 20 years of Communist rule haven't delivered the sudras of Rohini from the curse of untouchability. Hindu apartheid, in its most virulent form, can still be seen in this big and bounteous village of West Bengal.
Assam:Pressure on Mahanta to react to alleged CBI probe on him Andhra Pradesh:7 cops killed as Naxals blast landmine Assam:AGP blames Congress for state's woes Archives
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