
Wednesday, December 9, 1998
SC to review verdict in JMM bribery case
The two-year old multi-crore Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) MPs bribery case took a new turn on Tuesday with the Supreme Court agreeing to review its earlier judgement holding that MPs who allegedly accepted bribe but voted in Parliament would be immune from prosecution.

India to bury Israeli devices on J&K border to check infiltration
The government is planning to buy Israeli magnetic devices that detect the presence of living beings and bury them along the international border in Jammu and Kashmir to check influx of militants, arms and smugglers.

Amartya Sen not a Nobel laureate, says PIL
Did Amartya Sen win Nobel Prize in economics for the year 1998? No, says a petition filed in the Supreme Court, adding that he won only the Bank of Sweden (Sveriges Riksbank) prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, which was instituted by the bank in 1968.

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