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April 2002 - India Special Weapons News

  • INDIA / POLITICS Voice of America 26 April 1999 -- INDIA FACES ITS THIRD NATIONAL ELECTION IN THREE YEARS AFTER THE COUNTRY'S CARETAKER CABINET RECOMMENDED FRESH ELECTIONS ON MONDAY. THE DECISION WAS CONVEYED TO INDIA'S PRESIDENT WHO MUST NOW OFFICIALLY DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT AND CALL NEW ELECTIONS.
  • INDIA POLITICS Voice of America 23 April 1999 -- INDIA'S CONGRESS PARTY HAS BEEN GIVEN ONE MORE CHANCE TO FORM A GOVERNMENT. EARLY FRIDAY THE CONGRESS PARTY APPEARED TO HAVE FAILED TO GET THE NECESSARY VOTES FOR A MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT.
  • INDIA POLITICS USIA 21 APRIL 1999 -- JUST FOUR DAYS AFTER A VOTE OF NO-CONFIDENCE AGAINST ITS POLITICAL OPPONENTS, INDIA'S CONGRESS PARTY SEEMS TO BE HAVING INCREASING DIFFICULTY FORMING A NEW GOVERNMENT.
  • INDIA'S GOVERNMENT FALLS AS ITS MISSILES FLY Voice of America 20 April 1999 -- INDIA'S HINDU NATIONALIST BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY, THE B-J-P, FAILED TO MAINTAIN ITS MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT. THE RESULTING UNCERTAINTY HAS PLUNGED THE WORLD'S MOST POPULOUS DEMOCRACY INTO POLITICAL TURMOIL. AFTER NUCLEAR-CAPABLE MISSILE TESTS DURING THE PAST TEN DAYS BY BOTH INDIA AND PAKISTAN, SOME OBSERVERS SEE THE SUBCONTINENT AS A GROWING WORRY.
  • INDIA/POLITICS Voice of America 20 April 1999 -- HECTIC POLITICAL MANEUVERING CONTINUES AMONG INDIA'S OPPOSITION GROUPS, AS THEY COMPETE TO FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT TO REPLACE THE HINDU-NATIONALIST LED COALITION THAT LOST A CONFIDENCE VOTE THREE-DAYS AGO.
  • India/Pakistan Sanctions Clarification Bureau of Export Administration U. S. Department of Commerce 20 April 1999 The Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) is clarifying the restrictions on exports and reexports to Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) in India. BXA has determined that all operations and units of BEL located in Bangalore, Ghaziabad, and Hyderabad are considered to be part of BEL.
  • INDIA POLITICSUSIA 19 APRIL 1999 -- INDIA'S WARRING POLITICAL PARTIES MOMENTARILY PUT ASIDE THEIR DIFFERENCES ON MONDAY AND AGREED TO ADOPT A BUDGET. THE BUDGET AGREEMENT HAS HELPED TO EASE FEARS OF POLITICAL INSTABILITY FOLLOWING SATURDAY'S VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE AGAINST PRIME MINISTER ATAL BEHARI VAJPAYEE.
  • INDIA / POLITICS Voice of America 17 April 1999 -- INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER RESIGNED ON SATURDAY AFTER LOSING A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN PARLIAMENT BY ONE VOTE. THERE WERE 269 VOTES IN FAVOR OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S MOTION OF CONFIDENCE AND 270 AGAINST.
  • INDIA POLITICS Voice of America 16 April 1999 -- THE OUTCOME FOR A SCHEDULED VOTE OF CONFIDENCE SET FOR SATURDAY IS STILL TOO CLOSE TO CALL.
  • INDIA MISSILE Voice of America 16 April 1999 -- INDIA ON FRIDAY SUCCESSFULLY TESTED A SHORT-RANGE MISSILE. FRIDAY'S ACTION IS JUST THE LATEST MISSILE TEST THIS WEEK IN SOUTH ASIA.
  • INDIA / POLITICS Voice of America 15 April 1999 -- DEBATE BEGAN IN INDIA'S PARLIAMENT THURSDAY OVER THE FATE OF PRIME MINISTER ATAL BEHARI VAJPAYEE'S 15-MONTH COALITION GOVERNMENT. INDIA'S PRESIDENT ASKED THE PRIME MINISTER TO SEEK A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE AFTER A KEY COALITION PARTNER WITHDREW FROM THE GOVERNMENT, WEDNESDAY.
  • PAK MISSILE / INDIA REACT Voice of America 14 April 1999 -- INDIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER JASWANT SINGH SAYS INDIA WAS GIVEN PRIOR NOTICE BY PAKISTAN OF PLANS TO TEST FIRE THE GHAURI-TWO MISSILE ON WEDNESDAY.
  • INDIA POLITICS Voice of America 14 April 1999 -- INDIA'S COALITION GOVERNMENT IS TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE FOLLOWING THE ANNOUNCEMENT A KEY COALITION PARTNER IS OFFICIALLY WITHDRAWING ITS SUPPORT.
  • INDIA/POLITICS Voice of America 13 April 1999 -- IN INDIA, POLITICAL PARTIES ARE PLOTTING STRATEGIES AFTER AN ALLY OF THE HINDU-NATIONALIST GOVERNMENT DECLARED IT WILL LEAVE THE RULING COALITION.
  • INDIA MISSILE Voice of America 11 April 1999 -- FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FIVE-YEARS, INDIA HAS TEST-FIRED ITS AGNI MEDIUM-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE. THE TEST FIRING OF AN UPGRADED VERSION OF THE MISSILE WENT AHEAD IN DEFIANCE OF INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE
  • INDIA / MISSILE Voice of America 11 April 1999 -- INDIA HAS TEST-FIRED AN UPGRADED VERSION OF ITS AGNI BALLISTIC MISSILE. SUNDAY'S TEST WAS THE FIRST FIRING OF THE MISSILE IN FIVE YEARS AND COMES IN DEFIANCE OF INTERNATIONAL APPEALS.
  • Agni-II missile test fired April 11 (UNI): India today successfully launched its second intermediate range ballistic missile, Agni-II, from Inner Wheeler island, a part of the Balasore missile testing range, in Orissa. As per the Lahore agreement, India informed Pakistan about the test-firing.
  • Agni-II missile successfully test fired India Express Sunday, April 11, 1999 -- India today successfully test-fired "Agni-II" ballistic missile with a strike range of 2000-km, exactly 11 months after the Pokhran-II nuclear blasts in May last propelling the country to a select club of nations possessing such weapons. "It was a perfect text-book launch" at 9.47 am from Wheeler island test range in Orissa's Balasore district.
  • INDIA/SATELLITE Voice of America 03 April 1999 -- INDIA HAS ENTERED THE GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES MARKET WITH THE LAUNCH OF A NEW SATELLITE FROM FRENCH GUYANA.
  • INDIA / CODEL Voice of America 01 April 1999 -- A BIPARTISAN GROUP OF TEN MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS IS IN INDIA THIS WEEK. THEY EXPECT A FURTHER EASING OF SANCTIONS ON INDIA WHICH WERE IMPOSED FOLLOWING LAST YEAR'S NUCLEAR TESTS.



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