The Congress Working Committee has taken the only decision it could in the circumstances in regard to the forthcoming municipal elections in Bombay. It could have heeded Mr. Y.B. Chavan’s opposition to the proposed electoral adjustment with the Congress (I) only at the risk of seeing the party badly mauled … Read More
Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee has struck the right note regarding his proposed visit to China. The trip would be in the nature of a probing mission and “it will not be realistic to expect too much from a single visit which will take place after so many years and after … Read More
In its response to the Camp David agreement on West Asia, the Saudi Arabian government has been more than fair to President Sadat. While the Saudi statement has said that the formula does not “make absolutely clear Israel’s intention to withdraw from all Arab territories it occupies, including Jerusalem,” the … Read More
On the face of it, it may appear unduly alarmist to take the view that the West is about to revert to the Pakistan policy which Sir Olaf Caroe had so forcefully and forthrightly expounded in the late ‘forties whereby he had left Mr Nehru in no doubt that Karachi … Read More
It must be a matter of some, indeed considerable, concern that Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee’s proposed visit to China continues to be discussed exclusively in terms of India’s relations with that country. For the communist takeover in Afghanistan and the upheaval in Iran are threatening to change dramatically the security … Read More
It must be a matter of some, indeed considerable, concern that Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee’s proposed visit to China continues to be discussed exclusively in terms of India’s relations with that country. For the communist takeover in Afghanistan and the upheaval in Iran are threatening to change dramatically the security … Read More
It is extraordinary but not surprising that one of the general secretaries of the ruling Janata Party should have sought and secured from the President, Mr Sanjiva Reddy, a categorical assurance that the latter does not intend to enter the political arena. Extraordinary because since the promulgation of the Constitution … Read More
