This is the first meeting between the Hurriyat and an Indian prime minister.
Addressing a gathering after unveiling the statue of Maratha King Chhatrapati Shivaji near the international airport, Prime MInister Vajpayee said Dharavi has graduated from being a slum area to an economic hub housing small scale units.
The verbal duel between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the fledgling Karnataka Janata Party turned nasty on Monday with a key leader of the B S Yeddyurappa-led outfit making allegations against senior leader L K Advani's children.
His Pakistani counterpart Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali received him at the airport.
Vajpayee, however, said he was willing to discuss economic ties with Pakistan to his visit to Islamabad.
However, dialogue and terrorism do not go hand in hand, he told Russian journalists.
He warned that 'other alignments' will develop to seize the economic opportunities offered by closer integration.
Without singling out opponents, the 82-year-old National Democratic Alliance chairman said political parties in general have cut themselves off from the people.
Vajpayee said India will enter into a\n\ndialogue with Pakistan only after it sees sincerity in Islamabad's efforts to stop cross border terrorism.
In a letter to Chatterjee, Vajpayee endorsed the NDA's plans not to attend Lok Sabha for a day as a mark of protest against the speaker.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday announced an 'open skies' arrangement with the ten-member ASEAN to allow designated airlines from the regional grouping to run daily flights to India.\n\n\n\n
Former President A P J Abdul Kalam on Friday gave 'pass marks' to the over six-decade old Indian democracy awarding it 'five points on a scale of 10', while observing that its fundamental principle to empower citizens will stay forever.
Sushma Swaraj's bid to link the terror attack in Srinagar with the lunch hosted in Jaipur to Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf irked External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, who advised the Leader of Opposition to take tablets to improve her memory.
Musharraf, in his television interview, also sounded a warning of sorts to Sharif and told him to be 'economical' on revealing details.
Vajpayee, on the third day of his visit to Turkey, inaugurated the 'Rabindranath Tagore Avenue' and unveiled the Nobel laureate's bust at a ceremony in Ankara.
The Lok Sabha had a total of 21 sittings, spread over 113 hours.
Top Maharashtra politicians on Thursday called on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and sought Rs 6,000 crore assistance for an ambitious infrastructure development project for Mumbai.
Vajpayee, however, said the legislation to provide reservation to the economically backward among forward castes will be brought in the current session of Parliament, if other parties agreed to support it.
The funeral procession of the Mahant will start from Digambar Akhara and after taking a round of the town, the body\nwill be taken to Saryu river's banks, where it would be consigned to flames at the Tulsi Ghat around 1400 IST.
The party has also unveiled a 25-point 'Mission 2004 Action Plan' to reach out to minorities.
The visiting Pakistani business delegation on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to ease visa norms for the Pakistani businessmen so that trade between the two countries could flourish.
Vajpayee has also asked for the abolition of the NAC.
'Special police told me that if I speak according to their wishes they will not harm my family and also gave me false assurance that they will make my case weak so that after sometime I will get released...'
India should stop its 'chants of cross-border terrorism' and come to the negotiating table, the foreign office said.
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.
