New Delhi, Feb 10 : Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who is undergoing treatment for a chest infection at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), is reported to be showing signs of improvement.

Dr. Sampath Kumar, the head of the Cardiac-Thoracic Vascular Sciences, said that Vajpayee is all right and making progress.

Kumar said the performance of Vajpayee''s lungs is improving and the oxygenation level is better. He also assured that his heart, kidney, liver and blood pressure are stable.

New Delhi, Feb 10 : Union Minister for Human Resource Development Arjun Singh will chair the 55th meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) here today.

M. A. A. Fatmi, Minister of State for School Education and Literacy and D. Purandeshwari, Minister of State for Higher Education (both Vice-Chairperson of CABE), Central Ministers of related Ministries and select Ministers in charge of Education from various States/ UTs will attend the meeting.

New Delhi - At least 11 policemen were killed Monday when suspected Maoist rebels attacked them in India's eastern state of Bihar, a news report said.

Armed Maoists attacked a police team visiting a village in the Nawada district, some 175 kilometres south of state capital Patna, the IANS news agency reported.

"Eleven policemen, including the officer in charge of Kauakol police station, Rameshwar Ram, were killed by the Maoists," an official at the police headquarters in Patna told the IANS.

Ram was invited as a chief guest at a religious function in the village.

New Delhi, Feb. 9 : RJD chief and Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav on Monday accused the BJP of raking up the Ayodhya issue whenever election are around the corner.

"BJP rakes up the temple issue whenever election comes but the country has recognized it now. They have nothing to do with Ram or Krishna. They are actually humiliating the name of Ram for the sake of the chair. They should seek public apology for it," Lalu told reporters here.

"Our Hindu brothers did not like these things and had hence dethroned BJP earlier," Lalu added.

New Delhi, Feb 9 : Union Minister for Human Resource Development Arjun Singh will chair the 55th meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) here tomorrow.

M. A. A. Fatmi, Minister of State for School Education and Literacy and D. Purandeshwari, Minister of State for Higher Education (both Vice-Chairperson of CABE), Central Ministers of related Ministries and select Ministers in charge of Education from various States/ UTs will attend the meeting.