Jaswant Singh

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The consistent stand of India, whether it was that of the BJP-led NDA or the Congress-led UPA, was that there are no “good Taliban” or “bad Taliban”, and that the Taliban as Islamic terrorists were all bad. Representational Image. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India’s real problem on Taliban is its Pak links

India’s first real brush with the Taliban came during the December 1999 Indian Airlines IC-814 hijacking

24 Aug 2021 4:19 AM

Jaswant Singh was new to diplomacy on the world stage but he proved more than equal to the task. PTI Photo

Anand K. Sahay | Jaswant Singh, a gentleman politician and an astute strategist

Contemplating the life he lived after he is gone, it is hard to see him in any role other than that of a politician at an exalted level

02 Oct 2020 5:32 PM

Jaswant Singh, who passed on Sept 27, 2020. (PTI file photo)

Former union minister Jaswant Singh dies

A former Army officer, Jaswant Singh had been ailing for a long time

27 Sep 2020 12:03 PM

The number of total candidates announced by the party for the Lok Sabha polls has reached 293. (Photo: Twitter/ANI)

2019 LS polls: Ashok Gehlot, Jaswant Singh's sons in Cong's latest list

The party's latest list has 19 candidates for Rajasthan and six each for Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.

29 Mar 2019 8:39 AM

'The Congress could not find any candidate and he (Manvendra Singh) was to be given ticket from somewhere and therefore, he was sent here (Jhalrapatan),' Raje said. (Photo: File)

Cong fielded Manvendra against me as it couldn't find any other candidate: Raje

Raje remark came a few hours after Cong released its second list, fielding Manvendra Singh against her from Jhalrapatan constituency.

17 Nov 2018 5:35 PM

The second list was released by the Congress general secretary and in-charge of Rajasthan Mukul Wasnik. (Photo: PTI | Representational)

Congress releases 2nd list for Raj, Manvendra Singh to take on Vasundhara Raje

Manvendra Singh, a former BJP MLA from Sheo, in September quit the saffron party to join the Congress ahead of the assembly election.

17 Nov 2018 5:26 PM

In the Indian narrative of the 26 ministers of defence till date, only Jaswant Singh could claim any functional and emotional affinity with the military. (Representational image)

India’s run with raksha mantri post

Sadly since Independence, India’s tryst with this sensitive post has been increasingly time serving, patronising or political.

24 Oct 2018 2:33 AM

Though, Singh did not comment on his future course of action. It is speculated that he might join the Congress after a meeting with Rahul Gandhi. (Photo: File)

Ahead of Rajasthan polls, Jaswant Singh, son Manvendra quit BJP

The ties between Jaswant Singh’s family and Vasundhara Raje strained during her first tenure as CM.

22 Sep 2018 7:11 PM

Democracy survives: When ‘loss’ isn’t ‘defeat’

Today India is deeply polarised, fractured and an increasingly fragmented polity with an ongoing “consolidation of the fragmented”.

17 Aug 2017 12:35 AM

The perception about bad loans has continued to be so — the loot.

Long-term lenders a must for India’s industrial growth

The bad loans in the Indian banking system have risen by nearly 6.5 times to Rs 6.15 lakh crore.

04 Aug 2017 3:50 AM

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