- L.K. Advani, 74, is alleged by a Pakistani newspaper, The News, to have been involved in a September 1947 plot to murder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah died on September 11, 1948, after an illness.
- Yukio Hatoyama, president of the Democratic Party of Japan and leader of Opposition in the Diet, visited India on January 10-11 and laid wreaths at the building of the National Assembly of J&K at Srinagar and at Parliament House, New Delhi, as a mark of respect for those who died in terrorist attacks on October 1 and December 13 respectively.
- Harish Khare, of The Hindu, wrote an editorial page article in his paper of January 23, 2002, titled "The General and the Minister" with a sub-head: "The fraudulent deshbhakts who preside over New Delhi ought to be slowed down in their heedless quest for making India into a garrison state," whatever that meant!