Indian prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee (born 1926), served briefly as India's head of state in 1996. Two year later he reclaimed that leadership role when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) mustered enough support in parliament to lead a coalition...

Atal Behari VajpayeePrime Minister (pronounced "AH-tahl beh-HAH-ree vaj-PAY-ee") "Nations achieve greatness when their people learn to dream lofty dreams and to strive hard— and make sacrifices, when necessary—to...

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Hindi: अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी, IPA: [əʈəl bɪhaːɾiː ʋaːdʒpeiː]) (born December 25, 1924) was the Prime Minister of India, briefly in 1996, and again from March 19, 1998 until May 19, 2004. He...

I congratulate the Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) for three praiseworthy features of this summit. First, the Delhi Summit seeks to amplify the voice of developing countries in the worldwide debate on this important subject. Second, the main theme of the summit is...

This is not the election the Congress party had in mind. Back in April, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his Bharatiya Janata Party looked vulnerable. Both were under attack from their unruly allies. The Congress party maneuvered the fall of the BJP-led...

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:Nov. 15Detroit Free Press, on state bottle deposit laws:Michigan water that leaves the state in bottles gets a fair amount of debate. Unfortunately, the bottles themselves do not. For a state that led the...

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:Nov. 15Detroit Free Press, on state bottle deposit laws:Michigan water that leaves the state in bottles gets a fair amount of debate. Unfortunately, the bottles themselves do not. For a state that led the...