India should stop its 'chants of cross-border terrorism' and come to the negotiating table, the foreign office said.
Unexpected discovery of huge coal reserves beneath NTPC's Karanpura plant site has led to a stand-off between the coal and power ministries.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Saturday launched an 'initiative' for adding 50,000 mw of hydroelectric power in 16 states.
Three motorcycle-borne men joined Atal Bihari Vajpayee's motorcade when he was returning to his Race Course Road residence after an appointment with his dentist in Khan Market.
US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said the US will like to see relations between India and Pakistan improve.
"As many as 40 million new and high-value jobs can be created by enriching our professional resource base and strengthening our recent gains in the knowledge economy," he said.
'India will not find us wanting... it can start tomorrow, it can be in Islamabad, it can be in Delhi,' Foreign ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan said.
Bottlenecks persisted on the Iranian proposal for a gas pipeline to India through Pakistan.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said there was a need to restore the small investors' confidence to channelise more savings into the capital market.
In a major initiative to provide telecom services to rural people using Wireless in Local Loop technology, the Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, on Tuesday, launched 'Grameen Sanchar Sewak' project.
Referring to Modi's reported remarks that then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee did not let the value of the rupee fall, he said the exchange of the rupee was 39.49 to a dollar in March 1998 when the National Democratic Alliance government was first formed.
It is a measure of the overwhelming presence of the leadership of the original duo, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani, in the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party that the party has had some difficulty in making the transition from the Vajpayee-Advani era. But in choosing Sushma Swaraj for the post of the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Arun Jaitley in the Rajya Sabha, the BJP has put its best foot forward.
Senior analyst B Raman assesses Brajesh Mishra's role as India's first National Security Advisor, his part in the 1998 nuclear tests, the Kargil conflict and more.
BJP leader L K Advani wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week recommending that the award be given to Vajpayee. The demand was followed by similar requests from several other political parties, who also pitched in with names of their leaders. Apparently in a fix after these developments, the BJP has lately refrained from talking about the issue.
Both Advani and Vajpayee are refusing to compromise on their respective stands.
Khurana said his problem was only with the younger leaders.
Defending the walkout of its members from the Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday alleged that the "brazen" manner in which the Congress leaders behaved showed the government had a "game plan" to scuttle the panel's probe into the 2G spectrum scam.
Dilli Gupshup: The return of the V K Singh saga led one Union minister to blame Defence Minister A K Antony for the mess.
"It was an excellent display of team spirit and togetherness by all members of the Indian cricket team," Vajpayee said in a letter to skipper Sourav Ganguly.
Karnataka deputy chief minister Yediyruppa and other senior leaders from Karnataka are also expected to meet the party high command in New Delhi to discuss the issue.
The VHP has backed its Hindutva partner RSS in criticising forme PM A B Vajpayee and BJP chief L K Advani.
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