A special IAF plane carrying Vajpayee landed at the Amausi airport in Lucknow at 1850 IST.
All buildings flanking the 8km parade route in Delhi have been taken over by security personnel to prevent terrorists from using them to launch rockets or missiles.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said on Friday that outsourcing to India was a 'win-win situation' for India and the sourcing countries, and that the fears of job losses in those countries were baseless.
The event is considered to be the first major challenge for the British after they had become the dominant power in the Indian sub-continent.
Vajpayee and his party colleagues Rajnath Singh, Jaswant Singh, Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie and former national security advisor Brajesh Mishra were apprised about the draft agreement on Thursday morning
The envoy will have an 'informal confidential exchange' of views with National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee's protg Lalji Tandon was on Friday declared as Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate for the Lok Sabha polls from the Lucknow constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's statement in Hyderabad asking for a vote-on-account led to unnecessary speculation, she said.
'I am shocked to see not even a dozen MPs turning up for this historic event.'
'We want New Delhi and Islamabad to include Kashmiris in the talks while addressing the Kashmir issue,' Hurriyat chairman Mohammad Abbas Ansari said.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Friday in his Independence Day speech announced that mobile telephony in the border state of Jammu and Kashmir will commence from next week.
The Indian music industry has sought help from Prime Minister Vajpayee to eradicate the fast-growing remix culture, which it calls musical terrorism.
"It is a good news and talks between two countries should start," Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan told Voice of America radio.
The two leaders first held one-on-one talks in which the prime minister's principal secretary, Brajesh Mishra, was also participated.
Planning Commission is understood to have apprised Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee about the adverse impact that the reduction in budgetary support in the coming fiscal will have on the economy.
Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani said that the Parliament House complex is a much safer place since last year's attack.
Vajpayee said this after Heptullah, a veteran Congress leader, heaped praises on him on the sidelines of a book release function.
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'The prime minister was gracious enough to offer me one or two other ministries. I declined it,' the former law minister said.
India's tactical and operational response demonstrated its ability to prosecute tri-service operations, even without a formal tri-service doctrine or the higher command structure needed to coordinate it, points out Ajai Shukla.
If India had a road regulator in the late nineties, the capacity-building model based on public-private partnerships would not have been in tatters.
Vajpayee gave this assurance when agitated women members of the Upper House confronted him soon after Question Hour.
Though no major accord is likely to be signed between the government and the insurgent outfit, the high-level parleys are expected to pave the way for the launch of a political process involving the NSCN (I-M).
Shukla is understood to have discussed with Vajpayee the possibility of poll adjustments with the Bharatiya Janata Party in Chhattisgarh.
Vajpayee on Friday laid the foundation stone for expansion of the Srinagar airport terminal.
Cautioning developed countries against imposing non-tariff barriers, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said popular support for economic liberalisation will collapse if the developmental concerns of the poorer countries are not addressed.
Under the Special Protection Group Act, the prime minister and his immediate family members get the SPG cover while the former premiers are provided with the cover of this elite force for one year after they step down.
Reports said Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was likely to meet President A P J Abdul Kalam and recommend that the LS be dissolved a day after a short session of the lower House of Parliament end on Feb 5.
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