Srinagar: With over 360 infants dying in the GB Pant hospital in Srinagar since January, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday directed immediate recruitment of doctors and nurses there on an ad hoc basis till full-time arrangements were made. "There is no need to wait for Public Service Commission to fill up the posts. I have directed the authorities concerned (state health and medical education department) to conduct...
04:49 AM, May 21, 2012
Srinagar: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday said the high number of infant death at GB Panth children Hospital in Srinagar was "a matter of shame". "It is unfortunate and a matter of shame that such things happen in a state capital. One could understand if it had happened in some remote area," Azad told reporters in Srinagar. Over 360 infants have died at GB Pant hospital, the...
08:20 PM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has ordered a probe after CNN-IBN reported that officials close to former Medical Council of India chairman Ketan Desai were being allowed a back door entry into the Council. "A committee has been formed under the chairmanship of the Director General of ICMR. The committee will submit its report within two months," Azad said. The Board of Directors, which was given the task...
11:07 AM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Newspaper advertisements of the film 'Jannat 2' showing actor Emraan Hashmi smoking a cigarette violated anti-tobacco laws, an NGO said Thursday pointing to the violation. In a letter to the health ministry and the information and broadcasting ministry, HRIDAY (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth) pointed to 'blatant violations of the rules' in the print advertisements. "These ads, showing Hashmi smoking, have been published in supplements of leading...
04:17 PM, May 04, 2012
Devsar: Ruling out change of guard in the chief ministerial office, Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said the National Conference would head the coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir for the rest of its tenure to ensure stability. "We do not want change every two years or every three years. We do not want transfers and appointments done every day," Azad said, addressing a rally at Devsar in...
03:23 AM, May 03, 2012
Srinagar: Union Health Minister and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said the political scenario of the country indicates coalition governments are going to be the order of the day in the future. Addressing a Congress rally in Devsar town of south Kashmir's Anantnag district, Azad said: "The political scenario in the country seems to favour coalition governments in the future. Single party rule now...
01:03 AM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre will respond as soon as possible on the demand for separate Telangana state, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Monday. Addressing his monthly press conference, he appealed to MPs from Telangana including his partymen to allow Parliament to function while their demand can be discussed. "We will respond as soon as possible," he said in reply to a question about Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj...
04:00 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Hyderabad: Congress General Secretary, in charge of Andhra Pradesh affairs, Ghulam Nabi Azad will visit Hyderabad on Sunday to try and set things right in the troubled party in the state. Azad, who is coming here for the inauguration of a five-star hotel built by party MP T Subbarami Reddy, is expected to chair a meeting of the party's state co-ordination committee after a gap of four months to iron...
10:02 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said the new Malaria drug is efficacius and safe as its a synthetic moelcue there will be no problem in production too. ...
10:04 AM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: As many as 57 people have died, mostly in Maharashtra, of swine flu in the country till April 18 this year, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad agreed that swine flu or H1N1 has re-surfaced in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. In Maharashtra, 20 people died of the virus from January to April 18 this year, he said. The...
06:02 AM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi could be planning a major revamp shifting ministers out of the Cabinet for party work. Sources say Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, Law & Justice and Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vyalar Ravi want to leave the ministry. All the four ministers have written to Sonia Gandhi, according to sources. The...
09:00 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vyalar Ravi on Tuesday denied that that he had written a letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi expressing his desire to resign from the Union Cabinet. "There is no truth in the story. I have not met the Congress president. I am happy with the job I have. Party made me the minister. I have not written any letter," he said. He also made...
06:29 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Senior journalists discuss how a reshuffle may affect the Congress and the UPA government. ...
06:26 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress is set for a major reshuffle with several senior ministers writing to party President Sonia Gandhi saying they want to be relieved of their portfolios and work for the party. The ministers include Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, Law & Justice and Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vyalar Ravi. Even though Ramesh and...
04:53 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress has concluded intra-party discussions on the separate Telangana issue but is yet to take a final decision, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Monday. "We have concluded our discussions with leaders of our party at all levels -- MPs, legislators, senior party leaders belonging to all the three regions," Azad, who is also Congress General Secretary in-charge of party affairs in Andhra Pradesh, told reporters....
06:30 PM, Apr 23, 2012
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