RJD leader and former MLA Rajendra Prasad Yadav was on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Bihar court in connection with a murder case in G

India and the United States will hold a Joint Commission meeting on Science and Technology in Washington this week.

The two-day meeting would be co-chaired by John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Prithviraj Chavan, Minister of State for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences. Holdren and Chavan would lead their respective country's delegations.