Knowledge of JMM-Congress deal led to Soren secy's murder: CBI
Knowledge of the alleged deal between Congress and JMM to save the Narasimha Rao government during July 1993 no-confidence motion and an act of sodomy led to the murder of Shashi Nath Jha, the then secretary to JMM MP Shibu Soren, CBI has claimed.

India bans Russian polio vaccine; ties may suffer
The Health Ministry's decision to stop using the Russian-made Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) for its polio eradication programme is likely to derail the friendly relations with Russia and cause a setback to the 11-year-old science cooperation agreement between the two countries.

UGC, DD clash over educational telecast
A war of words has broken out between Doordarshan and the University Grants Commission (UGC) over the former's educational telecast. While UGC feels its programmes are being kicked around on the National Network, Doordarshan says it is not honour-bound to air shoddy stuff.

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