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December 1
BJP stakes its claim to power
BJP president Lal Kishinchand Advani said the party and its allies had asked
President K R Narayanan to give them ''more time for realignment of
forces to take place."
Mulayam's refusal puts Kesri in a spot
Two days of hectic parleys to prop up a Congress-led coalition has led party president Sitaram Kesri to a realistic conclusion: he will not become the country's next prime minister.
President summons Congress, United Front leaders on Monday
The Election Commission says it is getting ready for an election. The Commission will publish the revised electoral rolls on January 5, 1998 as per schedule.
Under the rules, the Commission can notify an election as early as January 6, 1998. It will take another 26 days to conduct the poll, an Commission official told Rediff On The NeT.
OTHER BREAKING NEWS:
20 killed in J&K
10 killed in police firing in Coimbatore
2 killed, 62 injured in twin Delhi blasts
November 30
Congress gropes for numbers
Sitaram Kesri got into action early on Saturday when he deputed party vice-president Jitendra Prasada to strike a deal with the BSP. While Ghulam Nabi Azad met with JD president Sharad Yadav, Madhavrao Scindia tackled Mulayam Singh Yadav. Pranab Mukherjee negotiated with TMC leaders.
UF will fight polls together
The 13-party United Front says its constituents will fight the next general election as a combine with a common manifesto. Making it clear that the constituents were united, Front leaders accused the Congress of day-dreaming about breaking up the coalition.
President seeks legal views on future course of action
K R Narayanan also had a two-hour meeting with Lok Sabha Speaker Purno A Sangma.
BJP not to stake its claim
The party declared that it will not stake its claim to form a government at the Centre, but asserted that the BJP and its allies had ''the maximum capacity to provide a stable and viable government to the country''.
Gujral's anti-dissolution stand stems from UF's designs
The ruling alliance seems keen on installing another non-BJP, non-Congress government at the Centre.
Gujral's resignation will not affect LS session
Sources in the Lok Sabha secretariat said the session still
stands reconvened, though the agenda before the House will change as
the no-confidence motion against the Gujral government has become
infructuous.
The anguish of an outgoing PM
Saturday morning, Prime Minister I K Gujral's anguish
at the Congress emerged in the form of an Urdu couplet.
The Man in Dark Glasses
Though Karunanidhi and the DMK may deny their LTTE connection till they are blue in the face, the fact that they used the LTTE and Tamil movement as a political
weapon is something they just cannot deny.
Crisis deepens in Pakistan
President accuses the government of orchestrating an assault on the supreme court, orders army to protect the chief justice and demands a misconduct hearing against a rebellious supreme court judge.
SGPC angry over Jain reference to Sikhs as separatist
A resolution states that the allegation is mischievous since Sikhs had always been loyal to the country.
India, Pak affirm continued commitment to talks
Bilateral relations won't be affected by any one issue, ministers assure each other.
ISI forcing Afghan labourers into jihad in Kashmir
The recent arrest of eight impoverished Afghans, forced to
become mercenaries by the ISI, clearly indicates that Pakistan is fighting a losing
battle in enforcing a proxy war on India.
Shah Rukh not stolen from village, rules judge
Strictures passed against official who issued fake birth certificate to woman who claimed the actor was her son missing since childhood.
EMS attacks literary content of Arundhati Roy's novel
The Marxist leader says the novel represents bourgeois literature that diverts attention from day-to-day problems using deviant sexuality as a tool.
Party launched by sailor who struck Rajiv with rifle butt demands war reparation from India
The ultra nationalist Bhumiputra party said the Jain Commission, which probed the Rajiv Gandhi assassination, had confirmed New Delhi's involvement with Tamil militants.
Lankan govt pulled up for human rights violations
Hundreds of ethnic Tamils without trial for as long as five years, claims TULF leader.
Prabhakaran vows to continue struggle
''We are confident we will get rid of the Sinhala army from occupied areas,'' the LTTE supremo said in a belligerent speech.
Andhra Pradesh: Row over bending rules to benefit CM's wife
Andhra Pradesh: Ruling party MLAs protest against home minister
Assam: CRPF team ambushed, oil pipeline hit during ULFA blockade
Delhi: Police swoop on striking Blueline operators
Gujarat: Dawood henchman Abdul Latifshot dead
Tripura: IGP escapes attempt on life
November 29
Congress withdraws support, PM resigns!
The Congress has also staked its claim to form a government. Front leaders informed the President on Friday night that they will not support the BJP or the Congress in its bid for power.
Operation Chanakya begins
The BJP and the Congress commenced their political games to break up the United Front coalition and get to the magic figure -- 273 -- in the Lok Sabha.
All eyes on the President
"Though the BJP is the single largest party, it was unable to prove its majority in the House last year,'' says legal expert Kamini Jaiswal. ''So, if both the BJP and the Congress stake their claim to form the government, the President can invite the latter."
BJP to finalise strategy on Saturday
Party president Lal Kishinchand Advani disclosed this after a meeting at former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's home.
Fallen govt better than a shaky one, say businessmen
''A mid-term poll would be the best answer to the current political impasse.''
Lok Sabha to reconvene on Tuesday
Speaker Purno A Sangma disclosed this on Friday morning, after meeting Congress and United Front leaders.
UF will drop DMK if proved guilty: Gujral's letter to Kesri
The prime minister said certain ''sweeping generalisations'' in the Jain Commission's interim report regarding the DMK should not be endorsed by any political formation.
'It was not easy for the Congress to take a decision like this...'
Congress chief Sitaram Kesri's letter to the President, withdrawing support to the United Front government.
Uncertainty still plagues 11th Lok Sabha
The political uncertainty, which prevailed after the 1996 general
election, finally resulted in the exit of Inder Kumar Gujral, the third prime minister
in the 11th Lok Sabha.
Tamil Nadu speaker to move court against Jain report
To get the 'defamatory' remarks against the Tamil people expunged. And to punish Justice M C Jain for his 'contempt of Parliament'.
'The goat we reared butted our heart'
How do ordinary Tamils react to the Jain Commission's indictment of the Tamil community? A Ganesh Nadar spent an afternoon in the Tamil countryside to find out.
'No country can throttle us'
Reusable missiles, remotely piloted vehicles will be part of India's arsenal, says Abdul Kalam who proposes to make India a developed nation by 2005.
400-page chargesheet filed in Gulshan Kumar murder case
Cops accuse 26 people, including music director Nadeem Akhtar, Tips Cassettes owner Ramesh Taurani, Abu Salem and gangster Dawood Ibrahim's brother Anees Ibrahim Kaskar.
Delhi: Bus strike continues, but situation eases
Delhi: HC scraps eight more of Capt Sharma's 'discretionary' allotments
Gujarat: Parikh calls for special tribunal to handle inter-state disputes
Karnataka: 34 killed in bus accident
Kerala: SC refuses to let Nayanar reinvestigate ISRO case
Maharashtra: 28 killed in Loha
road accident
•Peanuts and pure love won't bring scientists back to India
Mother India, love you they do. But, Mother India, pay them well, won't you?
November 28
CWC to meet this afternoon on withdrawal of support
The Congress Working Committee is meeting at 1215 hours to take a decision on withdrawal of support to the United Front government.
Last night, Prime Minister I K Gujral's letter declining to drop the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ministers was delivered to Congress president Sitaram Kesri.
Gujral-Kesri meet raises hopes
Soon after meeting the Congress chief at Parliament House, Gujral said he hopes to find a solution to the political crisis as early as possible. He, however, told a women's meeting that he would be in office only for a few more days.
Humbled Congress awaiting miracle to bail it out
A CWC member close to Sitaram Kesri confessed that the party's dilemma is ''honourably whittling down the demand for the DMK's ouster''.
Vajpayee urges Speaker to reconvene Lok Sabha
The BJP's memorandum to Purno A Sangma said a farce has been played through an apparently endless exchange of letters, leading nowhere. ''Apprehensions are that this is not a consequence simply of an absence of common meeting ground but rather of an objectionable design to play out this shabby drama, and buy time.''
Delhi high court against giving clean chit to Kesri
The judges took strong exception to the Union home ministry's decision to ''close'' the four-year-old foreign donations case against the Congress chief.
Calamity Congress or no, Gujral gets his pet project cleared
The prime minister's dream of an international airport in Amritsar, which had been firmly grounded by the Planning Commission, is now about to take flight.
Pak political crisis deepens
Peshawar supreme court upholds Quetta suspension of chief justice.
Pallone threatens to declare Pak 'terrorist state'
The Democratic congressman will introduce a legislation to this effect in the US House of Representatives if Islamabad fails to stop Pakistan-based terrorist groups's activities in Jammu and Kashmir.
Birds smuggled abroad for sport
WWF reports suggest birds going out by air with the collusion of airport staff, and by train, hidden in betel leaves.
Handbook on Indian wildlife laws out
Book in seven sections provides ready reckoner on the legal option in cases of violation without lapsing into jargon.
Andhra Pradesh: Row over car bomb blast in assembly
Delhi: Bus strike continues
Gujarat: Congress forces Parikh
to put off ministry expansion
Manipur: Rishang Keishing seeks Kesri's aid to quash revolt
Tamil Nadu: Rebels return to AIADMK fold
West Bengal: CM reiterates allegation against Pranab Mukherjee
November 27
Crisis continues as Kesri sends another letter
Congress sources said the party president's letter has repeated the demand that the DMK ministers be dropped from the United Front government.
The New Force
Shortly after the Speaker adjourned the Lok Sabha on Monday, 75 first-term MPs gathered quickly in room number 1 of the Parliament annexe. With their numbers having increased to 140 two days later, their collective show of strength has hardly gone unnoticed.
Ministers missing; work badly affected
Most central ministers, barring exceptions like Finance Minister P Chidambaram, have not been attending office regularly due to the Congress-United Front deadlock.
Bharat Ratna conferred on Dr Abdul Kalam
Pioneer of Indian missile technology honoured.
Maran borrows from Jain report to bounce Congress charges
Had intelligence agencies bothered to decode two crucial messages they had intercepted on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam wireless, Rajiv Gandhi's assassination could have been averted.
DMK may dump TMC, join hands with PMK
DMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi says his party executive and general council will meet soon to decide on the future of the DMK-TMC alliance.
Centre gives clean chit to Kesri in foreign donations case
Interestingly, the investigation agencies cleared Kesri of involement in another case six days ago: bribing legislators during his election to the Rajya Sabha in 1988 and 1994 and amassing assets disproportionate to his known source of income.
US smells threat from India, Pak nuke programmes
The Bill Clinton administration has listed India and Pakistan among 25 nations whose nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programmes may pose a threat to the United States. Defence Secretary William S Cohen says the threat is ''neither far-fetched nor far-off''.
'The Bofors case was transferred from me for political reasons'
Former CBI joint director K Madhavan, who became a national hero with his investigation of the Bofors and securities scam cases, continues his interview with Shobha Warrier.
India tops world HIV chart
India's three million to five million infected people places it right at top of the world chart, says a recent UN report.
When a woman turned a man, and married...
Till October 14, Deepak was Deepika. Now he is husband to Anu, his youthhood sweetheart.
Andhra Pradesh: State creates history by passing same bill twice
Delhi: Bus strike worsens
Gujarat:Ministry expansion on Thursday
Kerala:EMS sued
Madhya Pradesh:High court notice to MP govt
Punjab: Centre formally waives Rs 85 billion aid
UP: State steps up war against cop-criminal nexus
UP: HC asks for report on Mayawati's 'bungling' in 4 months
•Undertrial runs off with policeman
It happened in Kapurthala, Punjab.
November 26
Uncertainty reigns!
The Congress did not take a decision on withdrawal of support to the United Front government for the second successive day. Top Front leaders, however, held discussions with Congress president Sitaram Kesri, Sharad Pawar and other senior leaders on Tuesday, to find a way out of the crisis.
President to consult all parties before making any move
K R Narayanan today assured an Opposition delegation that he will consult all parties before taking a decision on the present political crisis.
'The Commission report is nothing but sensationalism'
K Madhavan, the former CBI joint director, blasts the Jain Commission's interim report, in an exclusive interview..
RS adjourned for fifth day
The Congress continues to paralyse proceedings, insisting the DMK should be dropped from the UF ministry.
Jain report will blow up in Kesri's face: EMS
A mid-term poll is inevitable, says the Marxist veteran.
Bangalore gives English the boot
It's war, all out and no-holds-barred. Against English, that 'detestable language of the West'.
India initiates extradition agreement with UAE
India and the United Arab Emirates have initiated an
extradition agreement which will create a legal framework to bring absconding criminals to justice.
Pak thick with rumours that Sharief may go
President Farooq Leghari and army chief Lieutenant General Jehangir Karamat reportedly want the prime minister to quit.
Fishermen's leader rejects American award
Father Thomas Kocherry says if he accepts the $ 150,000 fellowship it could compromise the fishworkers's fight against pollution.
British MP supports India's claim for permanent UN membership
Keith Vaz, a British MP of Goan origin, says India should be given permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council.
Solarz calls for radical change in US's Kashmir policy
Washington should declare that Jammu and Kashmir is an ''integral part of India and that it will remain so'', the former Democratic congressman said.
BSP gets recognition as national party
The party can use its election symbol 'elephant' all over the country except in Assam, Pondicherry and Sikkim.
Delhi: Supreme Court order affects bus service
Punjab: Human rights bodies to document police excesses
Punjab: Eight killed as train hits tractor
Tamil Nadu: Veerappan puts three new demands
Uttar Pradesh: 749 cops with criminal links identified
•Woman slaps ACP
And smashes his Gypsy's windshield.
November 25
Gujral sends Kesri letter; uncertainty continues
"The country is moving inexorably towards a mid-term poll," one senior
Cabinet minister said on Monday night. "The prime minister's letter is
a polite 'no', keeping the door ajar for people who are interested in
reasonableness."
LS adjourned sine die
In an unprecedented move, an anguished Speaker Purno A Sangma abruptly adjourned the Lok Sabha sine die after Congress and DMK MPs continued to disrupt the House over the Jain Commission's interim report on Rajiv Gandhi's assassination.
'How can a minority party hold Parliament to ransom?'
Constitutional experts and legal lumaries are divided over Speaker Purno A Sangma's decision to adjourn the Lok Sabha sine die, following uproarious scenes over the Justice Milap Chand Jain Commission report.
Narayanan asks first time MPs to lobby for UF continuance
The President is understood to have told a delegation of first-time parliamentarians that they should impress upon their respective leaders the dangers of dissolving the Lok Sabha.
Mulayam back at wooing game
Amar Singh, the defence minister's current blue-eyed boy, has been entrusted with the task of wooing UP's upper caste Thakurs.
Target Jammu
Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence is pushing in sophisticated
weapons into the Jammu region in a bid to spread militancy to fresh
areas, says a report submitted in the Rajya Sabha.
IAF pilots's allowances improved
Flying allowance of Indian Air Force fighter pilots, and pay and
allowances of majors and equivalent rank, which were shrouded
in controversy in the wake of the Fifth Pay Commission award,
have been further improved.
Trishul successfully test fired
India's most sophisticated short-range surface-to-air missile was successfully test fired from the Interim Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea, about 15 km from Balasore in Orissa.
'Table anti-Sikh riots report in Parliament'
The Shiromani Akali Dal has demanded that the Justice Ranganath Misra report on the November 1984 riots alongwith an action taken report should be tabled in Parliament.
Big fall in number of TADA cases: detenue
The number of cases pending under the
Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act has come
down to 8,194 from last year's 13,345.
Diana Hayden's title gets mired in controversy
But the winner of the Miss World beauty pageant has dismissed suggestions that her business ties to one of the judges and pageant sponsors represented a conflict of
interest.
Andhra Pradesh: Congress walkout over shifting of govt office to actor's building
Haryana: Police detain war hero illegally
JK: Four killed in the valley
Rajasthan: Rajput Sabha chief removal illegal: court
Tamil Nadu: No let-down in hunt for Veerappan
•Buddhist monks take Hindu sages out for tea
For the delegates and local people who had gathered at the newly-built Balaji mandir in Modipuram, Meerut, it was
an amusing sight to witness a cultural exchange where a group
of Hindu sanyasins were guests at a Japanese tea ceremony.
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