Debut on the world stage
July witnessed this government's first foray into high-level multilateral diplomacy. Atal Behari Vajpayee participated in the SAARC summit and Jaswant Singh was in Manila for the post-ministerial conference of the ASEAN security forum (ARF).

No winner in this
Neither the ruling coalition nor the Opposition has come out with flying colours on the issue of election to the post of deputy speaker of the Lok Sabha. It is the fear of defeat that has forced the BJP and the Congress to agree to a last-minute deferment of the poll.

Message from Chamba
Fragile. This in sum describes the situation now prevailing in the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir. But the canker of murderous militant assault on ordinary, unsuspecting people is spreading beyond the boundaries of that state.

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