New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will visit Srinagar on Saturday to inaugurate 'Umeed', a Rs 900 crore programme dedicated to skill development for women. The Congress leader will be accompanied by Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh.
Rahul will also travel to Doda, Kishtwar and Bhaderwah along with Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to meet the recent earthquake victims.
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01:42 PM, Jun 15, 2013
New Delhi: Consensus seems to be eluding Congress over the issue of Telangana with Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Tuesday refusing to set any deadline for deciding the statehood issue. His statement came close on the heels of claims made by Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress General Secretary looking after party's affairs in Andhra Pradesh, that the issue will be resolved within this month. "This entire matter is under process...We...
11:30 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: The central government has given more than Rs 500 crore to various states for bringing AYUSH (ayurveda, yoga, unani, siddha and homeopathy) forms of medicine into the mainstream. During 2009-13, Rs 553 crore was given to states and union territories for mainstreaming AYUSH under the National Rural Health Mission (NHRM). This resulted in the establishment of new AYUSH facilities in 803 primary health centres, 113 community health centres,...
05:09 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Kolkata: In an apparent dig at the reported rift between BJP leaders LK Advani and Narendra Modi, senior Congress leader and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday said it is for BJP to solve it as his party is not behind it. "There is a rift in the leadership in one party and that rift has to be settled by BJP itself. Fortunately, Congress is not the cause...
08:00 PM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi/Hyderabad: The Congress on Sunday said it will take a decision on the Telangana issue in June 2013. Congress general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad told reporters that the party would hold some more consultations before taking the decision. Azad, who is incharge of the party affairs in Andhra Pradesh, advised party leaders from Telangana to wait for the decision. Referring to two MPs and some others who quit the...
04:16 AM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: Concerned over the unchecked sale of abortion pills, Women and Child Development minister Krishna Tirath is planning to write to Health ministry seeking measures to regulate the sale of such medicines. Official sources said that Tirath, who is on a visit abroad, would soon be sending Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad a letter apprising him of her views on the matter. "There had been certain complaints related to...
01:58 AM, Jun 01, 2013
New Delhi: The government on Thursday approved the reconstitution of Medical Council of India (MCI) with former Director General Health Services RK Srivastava replacing KK Talwar as Chairman of the Council's Board of Governors. "The formal notification in respect of the MCI reconstitution would be issued tomorrow by the Health Ministry," a top Ministry official told PTI. The new seven-member board to run the apex medical regulator, approved by Health...
11:24 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: India and China on Wednesday decided to strengthen bilateral cooperation, specially in the fields of maternal and child health, infectious diseases and other emerging health challenges, officials said in Delhi. The discussions were held between union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad with his Chinese counterpart Li Bin on the sidelines of the world health assembly in Geneva. Both sides favoured a closer cooperation in specific areas like maternal...
04:36 AM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: India and Switzerland will soon sign a pact to give further impetus to cooperation in the field of healthcare. Health & Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and his Swiss counterpart Alain Berset held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of World Health Assembly at Geneva and discussed various issues of cooperation. Azad said in the continuum of strong Indo-Swiss bilateral cooperation, an MoU between the two countries...
01:11 AM, May 22, 2013
Bhopal: A private medical college is under scrutiny for selling seats. The Health Ministry and Medical Council of India have cracked down on the People's Medical College in Madhya Pradesh. The college had illegally admitted over 240 students between 2009 and 2012, openly flouting MCI norms. What's more is that in 2012, it had refused to admit students under merit quota, after which the state government had moved court. The...
01:18 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: After complaints about safety of bottled water sold in the national capital, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has written to the food regulator to check the bottling plants supplying such drinking water in Delhi and their water sources. The minister has also written to the Food Safety and Standards Association (FSSA) to check the chemical contents in the water bottles sold in and around Delhi and whether they...
03:56 AM, May 11, 2013
Jammu: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday said, India promptly responded after the attack on a Pakistani prisoner in a Jammu jail, while Pakistan took no action after the attack on Sarabjit Singh. "It (attack on the Pakistani prisoner by another inmate in Jammu) should be condemned in same way (that of Sarabjit Singh)," Azad told reporters in Gulabgarh area of Kishtwar district during his day-long tour to...
09:15 PM, May 04, 2013
Bangalore: Lashing out at the BJP government in Karnataka for ushering in the "anti-climax" for the state, Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday said that in comparison the Congress government led by SM Krishna, had taken the state to a position of "climax" in terms of development. "During 1999-2004 when there was a Congress government headed by SM Krishna, the focus of the globe was on Karnataka, the type...
02:00 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Bangalore: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday described the attack on Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was in a jail in Pakistan, as "most unfortunate" and said there was no democracy or humanity in Pakistan. "It is very unfortunate. We have an example here. A Pakistani militant who was in jail and because of whom so many people died in a Mumbai hotel, till he was hanged, not...
08:25 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: CNN-IBN on Friday submitted a CD containing the sting operation on how medical colleges in three states are selling post-graduate seats for crores of rupees to the Medical Council of India (MCI). India's top doctors have demanded the government steps in and acts immediately to check the shocking contempt of law displayed by administrators of some private medical and dental colleges. Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad had taken...
04:54 PM, Apr 05, 2013
A CNN-IBN sting operation exposed how medical seats are being sold in black to the highest bidder by private medical colleges in three states. ...
11:52 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Only 21.76 per cent of Indian doctors trained abroad have qualified to practice in the country, parliament was informed on Tuesday. A total of 14,476 doctors who completed their medical degrees abroad appeared for the screening test during the year 2012 out of which 3,150 candidates or 21.76 per cent qualified the test, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply. ...
03:55 AM, Mar 20, 2013
India has made substantial progress in building health infrastructure but the progress achieved has not been uniform across the country, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Tuesday. ...
01:06 AM, Mar 06, 2013
The Dental Council of India is holding its general body meeting in the national capital on Saturday amidst allegations of large scale corruption. The meeting comes weeks after Chairman of Tamil Nadu Dental Council Dr Gunaseelan was sacked for accepting bribes from private dental colleges. ...
10:41 AM, Feb 23, 2013
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy met Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad in the capital on Monday to discuss the Telangana row. These talks come after the Centre went back on its promise last month to grant statehood to Telangana. ...
10:33 AM, Feb 04, 2013
