Joshi forced to drop saffron agenda
Minister for Human Resource Development Murli Manohar Joshi had to accept defeat yesterday when angry protests from state education ministers (one, of whom embarrassingly, was from the BJP ally, Akali Dal) forced him to drop the Hindutva plank for the national education conference.

Anoushka shuttles between music and `other life'
The morning her debut CD was hitting the stores this past Tuesday, Anoushka Shankar actually went to school. No launch party, no back-to-back interviews, no hoopla for this 17-year old daughter of sitar maestro Ravi Shankar.

PM tells Jethmalani to close glasnost file
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has asked Union Urban Affairs Minister Ram Jethmalani to shelve his unilateral decision to make files in his ministry open to public scrutiny. The Prime Minister, in a letter to Jethmalani on Wednesday, has asked the Minister to defer his decision to introduce glasnost in his ministry till it is regularised for all government organisations.

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