Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's six-day visit to China commencing on Sunday will be especially significant for improving trade between the two countries, Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Jaitley has said.\n\n\n\n
The Union Environment Ministry had on April 22 issued a notification, stating that all constructions in the coastal areas exceeding five crore rupees be cleared by the ministry.
It said it looked forward to the consolidation of the ties through the ongoing composite dialogue 'in an atmosphere free from the menace of terrorism and violence'.
His name for the post was proposed by outgoing BJP chief Venkaiah Naidu and seconded by the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Jaswant Singh.
Former PMs, ambassadors and high commissioners, including from Pakistan, are in the list of high profile invitees for the inaugural function of the 350th anniversary fete of the Taj Mahal.
PM to deliver keynote address at Petrotech '03
The Jammu and Kashmir chief minister also reminded the prime minister of the promise made during his Independence Day speech at the Red Fort this year of holding talks with to resolve the Kashmir issue.
He has written a letter to the Pakistan PM in this regard.
The national capital has already been placed under a multi-layered security blanket.
'We are looking at a solution that will maintain the dignity of the Government of India, the government of Pakistan and the people of Jammu and Kashmir,' says Hurriyat Chairman Moulvi Ansari.
'Who knows what will happen tomorrow,' the Rashtriya Kranti Party leader told reporters.
Unexpected discovery of huge coal reserves beneath NTPC's Karanpura plant site has led to a stand-off between the coal and power ministries.
Top leaders of the alliance met at Vajpayee's residence in the morning and decided to extend the boycott to the entire session.
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.
Vajpayee will visit the museum into which burglars broke into at Rabindra Bhawan, Vice-Chancellor Sujit Basu said in Kolkata.
Besides revealing this closely guarded secret, Sharief also admitted that Pakistan was defeated in Kargil.
Khurana said his problem was only with the younger leaders.
The cassette showed Vajpayee saying that he was not aware what was going to happen the next day, December 6, 1992.
The opposition is agitated over the CBI dropping the conspiracy charge against Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and some other BJP leaders in the Babri Masjid demolition case.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has said economic reforms are on course and his government "will take some bold steps in future".
The meeting is part of the Bharatiya Janata Party's preparations for the coming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, New Delhi and Chattisgarh.
The first of the three-part report submitted to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee by Justice S N Phukan immediately came under attack from the opposition which questioned the basis on which the judge had given a clean chit to Fernandes.
