Giving details of a joint declaration signed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said the two sides agreed to maintain peace and tranquility on the LAC.
Urging South Asian nations to put aside mistrust and dispel unwarranted suspicions, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Friday said he envisaged mutual security cooperation, open borders and even a single currency in the region in the long run.
He will be visiting Pakistan to attend the SAARC Summit in January 2004.
Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Friday said India needs 'determination and will' for faster technological development to cope with the changes taking place at the international level.
The RSS publication appeared to be rejecting notions that the BJP chief carried out changes out of personal preferences.
A retired Indian Army General has blamed India's "timid" response to the Pakistani military ingress in Kargil in 1999 for the series of terrorist strikes beginning with the attack on Parliament in 2001.
Congress had sacrificed its two leaders Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi for it while the Vajpayee government had "compromised with terrorism", Madhya Pradesh chief minister said.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday asked Bharatiya Janata Party workers to strive hard to achieve a victory in the forthcoming assembly elections in five states and in the parliamentary election in 2004.
The Congress is strongly opposed to deploying Indian troops in Iraq except under UN auspices.
He will travel the 8km stretch from Katra to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh on February 7 to dedicate to the nation a bridge on Saryu River.
The prime minister's statement in the Lok Sabha on his J&K visit.
He said the CBI would go into all aspects of the bribery allegations.
This is the first time parliamentarians are caught on camera accepting bribes to raise questions.
There is a need to strengthen the organisation, Vajpayee said referring to the BJPs poor show in the Himachal election.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Tuesday admitted that eight per cent growth was difficult due to drought but was not impossible if the challenges were faced in unity, shunning political differences.\n\n
The Uttar Pradesh government, which had made budgetary allocation of crores of rupees for installation of statues of Chief Minister Mayawati and her mentor Kanshi Ram in the state, has said it is a wrong notion that only statues of dead persons can be installed.
Vajpayee said the 'energy' generated after the Gujarat elections should be used in a balanced manner to help protect the values in life.
'We need to enhance revenues and address the problem of untargeted, runaway subsidies,' Vajpayee said while inaugurating the National Development Council meeting.
But partymen should not be overconfident and must work towards the BJPs success in the coming assembly polls, party spokesman V K Malhotra quoted Vajpayee as saying.
The Commission has not given any time frame for the President's office to give the letters.
The former Prime Minister said India needed to talk bluntly with Pakistan in this regard.
BJP President and Leader of Opposition L K Advani on Tuesday conceded that the National Democratic Alliance's boycott of the Budget session of Parliament had created a 'wrong perception' in the public.
Vajpayee had resigned just 13 days after being in power due to lack of numbers.
The BJP has decided to set up a three-member team to interact with Chief Minister Mayawati every fortnight.
The 16-day yatra began from Hubli in Karnataka and travelled nearly 3,500 km through seven states and one Union territory.
Known to be close and loyal to Bharatiya Janata Party veteran and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, senior BJP leader and four time MP Lal Muni Choubey on Monday announced that he would contest as an independent from Buxar.
They have asked for information to be provided before November 23.
Railway Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday ordered an inquiry into the killing of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's grandnephew, who was thrown out of a running train near Kosikalan in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district on Sunday.
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