Hyderabad: The leaders of pro-Telangana employees of Andhra Pradesh government, who have been in the forefront of separate statehood agitation, on Sunday met Union Minister and Congress general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad here. "We have come here to urge him to table the bill for formation of separate Telangana during the Budget session of Parliament," K Swamy Goud, a union leader, told reporters after the meeting. According to Gaud, Azad...
02:13 PM, Jan 22, 2012
HYDERABAD: Six Telangana ministers who conferred with AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad at the Lake View Guest House here on Thursday sought an early and favourable decision on Telangana. The ministers K Jana Reddy, Basavaraju Saraiah, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, P Sabita Indra Reddy, J Gita Reddy and Sunita Lakshma Reddy explained to Azad the delay in taking a decision on Telangana was damaging the party's base in the region. They...
10:07 AM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday said left-wing extremism can be defeated by better implementation of rural development programmes and called for harnessing mineral resources in tribal areas in a way that does not destroy the land or take away livelihoods. Addressing a convention on "Empowerment of Tribal Women in India" organised by All India Mahila Congress here, Sonia called upon the workers of the party's women wing...
02:53 AM, Dec 17, 2011
New Delhi: Health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has sought a multi-ministry approach to tackle the encephalitis disease that has killed hundreds of children over the last few months in Uttar Pradesh. Five other ministries have also been asked to pool in efforts to salvage the situation. During a meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM), Azad reportedly emphasized on the need for various ministries to help in the rehabilitation work....
06:12 AM, Nov 22, 2011
New Delhi: The nation on Saturday remembered former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 94th birth anniversary with President Pratibha Patil and Vice President Hamid Ansari among prominent personalities who paid rich tributes to the leader. The leaders offered floral tributes at her memorial Shakti Sthal on the banks of Yamuna. Besides Patil and Ansari, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, Union Ministers Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kamal...
09:53 AM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: Congress' Andhra in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad will be in Hyderabad on Friday to hold consultation on the Telangana issue. This, comes days after Congress MLA KV Reddy put an end his nine-day fast after Azad's assurance. The Congress high command, after much deliberation, hinted on announcing a decision on Telangana after November 10. As Congress high command continues to grapple with the Telangana issue, chief of the party's...
10:07 AM, Nov 11, 2011
Jammu: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday said the issue of withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act from Jammu and Kashmir should not be politicized and any decision on it should be left to the Chief Minister and the Union Home Minister. "It is a very sensitive issue and I would request all political parties of Jammu and Kashmir and outside J&K that let us leave this...
07:18 PM, Nov 10, 2011
New Delhi: The fight against encephalitis has now taken a political turn. The Centre has formed a Group of Ministers (GoM) to tackle the crisis, but the Mayawati government is insisting on a Rs 300 crore aid instead. Under heavy criticism for first ignoring this medical emergency and then putting the blame on the Uttar Pradesh government, the Centre finally decided to act. The government set up a GoM headed...
08:38 AM, Nov 07, 2011
Lucknow: Criticised for not doing enough to tackle the killer Encephalitis, the Centre has now formed a GoM to look into the matter. The move comes weeks after after CNN-IBN relentlessly reported on the death of over 500 children in eastern Uttar Pradesh over 90 days. The encephalitis virus that starts weakening as winter sets in seems to be as strong as ever. Under heavy criticism for first ignoring this...
07:07 PM, Nov 06, 2011
New Delhi: The government has constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) to tackle the Japanese encephalitis outbreak in the country. The government has acted after CNN-IBN relentlessly reported on the epidemic, which has claimed the lives of over 500 children in two months. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh had rushed to Gorakhpur last month after watching the reports. Azad at that time said that...
08:59 AM, Nov 06, 2011
New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said that a decision on the Telangana issue would take place after the Eid-ul-Zuha festival. According to the home minister, Congress in-charge of Andhra Pradesh, Ghulam Nabi Azad, had conveyed to different groups in the state that no movement was possible during the festival season. Azad's report on Telangana following his talks with Congress MLAs and MPs is already with the...
06:02 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday discussed the issue of Telangana issue and electoral reforms in a meeting of Congress Core Group in New Delhi. Sources said the meeting, that lasted for one and half hours, deliberated at length over the Telangana imbroglio, over which almost all parties in Andhra Pradesh are sharply divided on regional lines. This is the first meeting of...
09:29 PM, Oct 28, 2011
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday gave a clean chit to the BC Roy Children's Hospital in Kolkata where the crib death toll has risen to 13 in three days, saying there is nothing wrong with the health care institution. The Minister, however, said the Centre has sought a report on the death of children at the referral hospital, the largest in West Bengal. "We took...
09:48 PM, Oct 27, 2011
New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry did not act on early warnings over encephalitis. 500 lives could have been saved had the ministry acted on the warnings. CNN-IBN has learned that the ministry also sat on a field report from National Disaster Management Authority on encephalitis. Sources say officials from the National Disaster Management Authority met Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on September 15 and asked him to visit Gorakhpur...
01:28 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Hyderabad: Telangana supporters on Sunday continued rallies and other protests in support of the separate statehood demand. Leaders of pro-Telangana employees of the state electricity department observed a fast in Hyderabad, while several leaders from BJP and TRS expressed solidarity with them. Meanwhile, responding to the appeal made in Delhi by Union Minister and in-charge of Congress affairs in Andhra Pradesh, Ghulam Nabi Azad, the leaders of the staff unions...
11:48 PM, Oct 23, 2011
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