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Karan Singh holds a unique position in Jammu and Kashmir. His father and Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, Hari Singh, signed the Instrument of Accession with India in 1947.

The U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's statement last Sunday in the Indian capital about the Kashmir dispute and the need for international observers to make the elections in the troubled state more credible caused a lot of embarrassment to the Indian government.

Though he went to university in India and the United States through the conservative Eighties, Sandeep Pandey thinks and speaks like a person from the Sixties or Seventies.

A Question of Answers: The courage of the quiet man

The chief whip of the Congress party in the Lok Sabha, Priyaranjan Das Munshi, is one of the more energetic members of the party in parliament, who keeps the members together and takes on the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on every issue ranging from disinvestment to secularism.

The Bofors gun deal, which had sullied for ever the "Mr Clean" image of the late Rajiv Gandhi in 1986, and brought down his government in the 1989 general election, is caught in a legal labyrinth.

After the initial euphoria of the landslide victory in the Gujarat assembly elections earlier this month, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to be sobering up. There is a sort of a victory hang-over, and party leaders are realising ever so slowly that there are some dangerous aspects to the electoral triumph in the western Indian state.

She went to school in picturesque Dalhousie, studied geography at college in Chandigarh, a creation of Le Corbusier, the famous French architect.

The resignation of Justice K. Venkataswami, who was heading the Tehelka probe, is being seen here as an attempt to sabotage the Tehelka probe.

Indian lawmakers expressed anger in Parliament yesterday over the shocking roadside rape of a medical college student in New Delhi last week.

More than 25 years have passed since Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency in June 1975, a fortnight after the Allahabad High Court set aside her election to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament.

The two-day Congress chief ministers' conclave in Mt Abu in Rajasthan, which ended on Saturday, followed by the press conference of party president Sonia Gandhi, caused more than a ripple in the media.