In the Kunda triple murder case, SP leader, Raja Bhaiya receives a notice from the CBI. The CBI has ordered the leader to surrender in front of the authorities for questioning. Slain DSP Zia-ul-Haq's wife has named Raja Bhaiya in her FIR.
DMK withdraws its support from the UPA government over the Sri Lankan issue, but in a statement, DMK has said that the party would give the government time till March 25th. If the government agrees to its demands, it will return to the coalition. In a statemen...
The DMK withdraws its support from the central government over the Sri Lankan issue. This news comes in as a huge shock for the UPA government as DMK has 18 seats in the Lok Sabha. The resignation means that the UPA government is now in a delicate condition at...
Karunanidhi withdraws support from the UPA government over the Sri Lankan issue. But according to sources, the DMK government will support the UPA from outside at the centre. Five of the DMK ministers in the UPA government will submit their resignations by the...
DMK supremo M Karunanidhi announces at a press conference that his party is pulling out of the United Progressive Alliance. The DMK chief says that the Centre has failed to accept their demands on the resolution against Sri Lanka.
Karunanidhi threatens to pull out from the government at the Centre over the Sri Lanka issue. The Congress government had sent three of its leaders to speak to Karunanidhi but the talks fell through as his demands were huge. If Karunanidhi's demands are not me...
Congress president Sonia Gandhi says that government of India stands for human rights issue in Sri Lanka. She said this while addressing the CPP meeting in New Delhi. Taking a tough stand on India's foreign policy, she said no country should take India for gra...
In a significantly watered down version of a resolution on Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes, the United States has now called for an internal probe and not international inquiry into the reports. In the third amended draft of the UN resolution against Sri Lank...
The Congress has given DMK chief M Karunanidhi a timely peace offering. India has deferred the defence secretary level talks with Sri Lanka. This decision was unveiled in midst of Karunanidhi-Congress meet. Sources say that the meeting is scheduled for the mon...
The DMK is contemplating to extend only outside support to the UPA. The party wants the government to move amendments to US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka. Sources claim that DMK chief M Karunanidhi will be consulting his son Stalin before taking a final de...
Congress sends top leaders like P Chidambaram, AK Antony, and Ghulam Nabi Azad to meet DMK leader Karunanidhi to pacify him and convince him to not quit the coalition. The leader had earlier threatened to do so if India did not vote against Sri Lanka at the UN...
The three-member team appointed by the UPA government to diffuse the crisis with DMK and Karunanidhi has reached Chennai and will meet DMK supremo Karunanidhi later today. The team comprises of Ghulam Nabi Azad, AK Anthony and P Chidambaram. The DMK has reject...
DMK chief Karunanidhi threatens to quit the UPA government following the Sri Lanka issue. The Congress party has sent its three main politicians, P Chidambaram, AK Antony and Ghulam Nabi Azad to Chennai to update the DMK leader on the issue. DMK forms an integ...
BJP leader Kirti Azad refutes claims that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, while addressing the JDU supporters at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan, was hinting at a possible alliance with the UPA ahead of the genereal elections.
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi reaches Deoria for a day long visit. According to sources, Rahul will meet Parveen Azad, the widow of Deputy Superintendent of Police Zia ul-Haque, who was murdered a week ago. Sources say that Rahul assured swift action ag...
The CBI team has reached Kunda in Uttar Pradesh, to investigate the murder of DSP Zia-ul-Haq in Ballipur Village. The place from where the bodies were found have been marked off for the CBI team. The CBI and police are yet to recover Zia-ul-Haq's service revol...
A team from the CBI has reached Kunda district in Uttar Pradesh to begin their investigation into the murder of DSP Zia-ul-Haq. The CBI said that it needs to collect enough evidence to arrest Raja Bhaiya. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said that C...
The CBI team will arrive in Kunda today to investigate the murder of DSP Zia-ul-Haq. According to sources, CBI might arrest Raja Bhaiya, the prime accused in the case and question him. The DSP's widow Praveen Azad had alleged foul play in her husband's death a...
The CBI team will reach Kunda for further investigations into the murder of DSP Zia-ul-Haq. The CBI will be accompanied by the local police authorities as well. The CBI will question the doctors who conducted the autopsy on the DSP, as his wife had raised ques...
Prime accused in the DSP Zia-ul-Haq murder case, Raja Bhaiya will be presented in front of the CBI and questioned regarding his role in the murder and the various FIRs registered against him by DSP's widow.
The Union Budget 2013 has met with a slew of mixed responses, while the Congress leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad, Rashid Alvi, Ashwani Kumar and Kapil Sibal were full of praises for the way Chidambaram handled the situation and produced a very balanced budget. H...
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid backs Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and says that any speculation in the Hyderabad blasts won't help in the investigation. He says that the Home Ministry will receive the information first.
Condemning the bomb blasts, Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has described the Hyderabad blasts as an attack on India's unity and integrity. He claimed that Congress ensured stringent punishment to terrorists whether they were from outside the country or inside...
Hyderabad's Dilsukhnagar was rocked by two blasts in locations just 100 meters apart. The blast occurred at around 7 pm. Union minister and once Andhra Pradesh Congress incharge, Ghulam Nabi Azad, pleads for maintaining peace.
British Prime Minister David Cameron took to playing cricket at the play ground in Mumbai. The PM who is on his India tour took time out for playing cricket. But he was bowled out by a player named Sachin.
The Congress government, which seems to be keen on resolving the Telangana crisis, has invited PCC President Botsa Satyanarayana and AP Governor Narasimhan to Delhi to talk about the issue and also find out about other issues plaguing Andhra Pradesh.
As the Union minister for health and AICC incharge for the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, Ghulam Nabi Azad had more than he could handle. Or so it seems. Azad has asked the party's new vice-president Rahul Gandhi to relieve him of twin charg...
Coming to the support of RSS ideologue MG Vaidya who claimed that former BJP chief Nitin Gadkari was ousted at the last minute owing to the anti-Gadkari fraction in BJP, senior BJP leader Kirti Azad has said that the Congress wanted Gadkari out and managed to ...
Byreddy Rajasekhara Reddy asks the Centre not to call the current crop of leaders from the Rayalaseema region for the further consultations that Ghulam Nabi Azad had said were needed on the issue of Telangana. Azad, on Sunday said that further consultations we...
Jana Reddy has sought the appointment of Governor ESL Narasimhan to apprise him of the situation following the passing of the deadline over the decision on Telangana. Jana's statement supporting Ghulam Nabi Azad over the need for further consultations has rais...
Protests erupt across Andhra Pradesh, as the Central government fails to reach a decision on carving a separate Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh. The government postpones the final word on the contentious issue, even after Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shind...
Telangana Congress MPs have got active after the statement made by Ghulam Nabi Azad on a purported delay in the decision on the issue of Telangana. They have written a letter to Sonia Gandhi saying that they would be put in a difficult position if the decision...
Agitations have erupted against AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad's statement on Telangana, where he said there could be a delay in taking a decision on the issue of Telanagana. At a public meeting in Warangal, speakers like Kodandaram, Gadar, Nagam Jana...
Telangana Congress inisters are in a fix. Just as they were able to console their constituents and pro-Telangana protesters, came the statement of the AICC incharge of Andhra Pradesh Congress affairs Ghulam Nabi Azad that the decision may be delayed well beyon...
Ghulam Nabi Azad's statement that there could be a delay of a day or two in the announcement of a decision on Telangana has raised a fresh political storm. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde was expected to make the announcement by January 28. The TRS has been ...
TRS MLA KT Rama Rao has said the efforts of the Telangana Congress MLAs to make their High Command see things their way has failed totally, and that the High Command has succumbed to power and money of the Seemandhra MLAs. He was referring to the non-committal...
Under the aegis of Samaikyandhra student JAC, students organise a protest rally at Tirupati. A unity committee was formed consisting of various groups to keep up the pressure on the Centre.
Stunned by Ghulam Nabi Azad's statement that the decision on Telangana may not come before January 28, Congress Seemandhra leaders have decided to stay put in Delhi and re-start lobbying for the sake of keeping the State united. And they have got lucky today: ...
The bandh called by the Samaikyandhra parties and groups on Wednesday saw a moderate response. Educational institutions and business establishment observed voluntary closure. KCR's effigy was burnt in Kadapa. In Vijayawada, students formed a human chain. In Ti...
It's back to protests over the issue of Telangana. Over the last few weeks the wait had been for the Centre to make its decision on Telangana by the end of a month - a deadline given by Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. But now with confusing signals emanatin...
Ghulam Nabi Azad has set a cat among the pigeons. Just when the talk was that Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde would take a decision on Telangana by January 28, AICC in-charge of Andhra Pradesh Congress affairs, Azad, created a late night flutter yesterday by ...
It is a sensational statement from Ghulam Nabi Azad. Emerging out of an important AICC meeting today in Delhi, Azad, who is the Andhra Pradesh incharge of party affairs, said the Centre's decision on the Telangana issue may not come before January 28. This is ...
Congress MP Renuka Chowdary says the Centre taking a bit more extra time on the issue of Telangana is all right because a decision of this nature requires patience and maturity. She was being asked her reaction to the statement made by AICC in-charge of Andhra...
It is a sensational statement from Ghulam Nabi Azad. Emerging out of an important AICC meeting today in Delhi, Azad, who is the Andhra Pradesh in-charge of party affairs, said the Centre's decision on the Telangana issue may not come before January 28. This is...
Congress' Seemandhra leaders met Andhra Pradesh Congress party affairs in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad. The leaders informed that Azad listened to them carefully and asked them to keep strengthen the party and also work to see that Congress wins the elections in 20...
If Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan's daughter Aaradhya was the most sought after baby by the press in 2012, this year it is Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao's son Azad Rao Khan, whose birth through a surrogate mother in mid-2012 was announced to the press...
Government's decision to grant visa to Javed Miandad to watch the third and final ODI between India and Pakistan has stirred up a controversy. The home ministry's decision has been criticised and questioned. Political leaders have been asking why were Miandad'...
The Andhra Pradesh Congress' 'megha madhanam sadassu' at Hyderbad's LB stadium saw a galaxy of leaders deliver heavy-duty speeches. Ghulam Nabi Azad said the Congress was sure to win a third term in the State. CM Kiran Kumar Reddy's speech was punctuated by di...
Former selector Mohinder Amarnath's comment that MS Dhoni was shielded by BCCI has attracted the wrath of the cricketing body which has slammed Amarnath's opportunism and accused him of breach of trust for going public with the details of matters discussed in ...
Congress is worried about preparing itself for the December 28 meet, the date set for the all-party meeting on Telangana. This is a date that other political parties are keeping an eye out for. The all-party meeting called by the Centre would hopefully clear t...
Congress calls for an all-party meeting on Monday to discuss and possibly end the logjam in the Parliament over the voting over FDI in retail. BJP's adamant stance for a vote on the issue caused the first three days of the winter session of Parliament to be ad...
After meeting with Congress leader and health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, it seems M Karunanidhi might have softened his stand on FDI in retail. Sources say that the party will not participate in voting if the issue does come for a vote in parliament as demande...
Congress calls for an all-party meeting on Monday to discuss and possibly end the logjam in Parliament over the voting over FDI in retail. While the BJP turned down Congress's overtures of dinner diplomacy last week, Congress ally DMK doesn't want to be seen a...
Congress ministers and leaders like Murli Deora, S Jaipal Reddy, Mani Shankar Aiyyar and Veerappa Moily duck media's questions on the allegations made by Arvind Kejriwal on Reliance Industries and KG basin gas at his third expose on corruption.
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad says the BJP should do its own soul searching. 'They raised fingers and targetted Congress, but they should have conducted their own soul searching,' says Mr Azad.
It is a statement on Telangana that is shocking for protagonists of Telangana. The Andhra Pradesh Congress incharge Ghulam Nabi Azad said that it was easier to divide the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar than the idea of dividing Andhra Prades...
Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad says since the number of graduates and trained medical personnel in streams of medicine other than allopathic has become large, the emphasis now would be on the quality of education. Hence the emphasis on not increasing t...
Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad meets a special team of health representatives from each southern State and decides on the action plan to reduce the spread of dengue fever. He asked the school authorities to allow children to wear full length sleeves as...
While BSP's Mayawati still has not said anything that confirms the party's support to the UPA, the Congress thinks otherwise. Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad says that it is a well-established fact that FDI will help farmers, and that there is no real reason ...
The committee appointed by the corporate affairs ministry has began its raid at the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) headquarters in Delhi following the allegations of financial irregularities raised by the BJP MP and former cricketer Kirti Azad. ...
KCR says his Delhi tour was a success, as he was able to meet more than three Congress leaders. He was holed up in Delhi for many days, and there was speculation that the discussions were at an advanced stage. But Congress says KCR is a friend, and that it is ...
British national Jaswant Singh Azad, allegedly responsible for funding pro-Khalistan terrorists groups, has been arrested by the Punjab police. The police claims that Azad's modus operandi was to motivate sleeper cells and train them to carry out terrorist act...
Congress Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad met TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao at his residence in New Delhi, for more than an hour. It is believed that Azad has told KCR that talks on Telangana stopped because of the sudden withdrawal of Trinamool Congress from the...
The delegation of sarpanch leaders from Jammu and Kashmir meet the Delhi Policy Group after their meeting with AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi. They may meet the Panchayati Raj Minister Kishore Chandra Dev and former J&K Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. Th...
Congress, it appears, is planning to keep the Railway Ministry, left vacant following the exit of TMC from the government. Congress leaders who stand to chance to get the coveted Railway Ministry include Jairam Ramesh, Ghulam Nabi Azad and CP Joshi.
Andhra Pradesh Governor Narasimhan's Delhi trip is rising a lot of eyes, while the governor met Congress President Sonia Gandhi to discuss the Telangana issue and the repercussions of the Telangana rally. He also met Gulam Nabi Azad to discuss the political co...
The Telanagana issue hots up, with TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao meeting Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi. KCR also has a meeting earlier with Congress general secretary Vayalar Ravi.
The prices of almost every essential item of daily consumption is bound to shoot up. Vegetables, fruits, cereals and other commodities are going to be costlier because transporters have also decided to go a strike. They want a rollback of diesel prices as most...
Leading Congress' counter-attack over coal scam, Union Minister and AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that the Congress led government established a Screening Committee for coal block allocation because of the discrepancies rampant in the alloca...
Azad Moopen, Chairman of DM Healthcare, a leading healthcare conglomerate in India and West Asia, has announced that the company will invest over Rs 2,150 crore in the state. Further on he has said that Emerging Kerala is essential to bring in new investors to...
When the Congress general secretary in-charge of Andhra Pradesh affairs lands in Hyderabad, leaders of all shades and sizes troop to register their grouses with this emissary from the High Command. Ghulam Nabi Azad was in Hyderabad. It is now learnt that at le...
The anniversary of Acharya Vonoba Bhave was observed at Bhudan Pochampalli, the village where the first 'bhudan' was done. Attending the function were Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, and several local Congress leaders. A slew...
On his visit to Hyderabad Congress general secretary in-charge of Andhra Pradesh, Ghulam Nabi Aazad, says the BJP was wrong in holding up the Parliament to ransom over the Coalgate allegations. He says the Parliament was the best forum to remove any misgivings...
Top Congress leaders shower full praise on YS Rajasekhara Reddy at the unveiling of a book on his padyatra at an event in Delhi. But state Congress leaders say it is not right for many state ministers to go to Delhi for the event that was organised by KVP Rama...
Was Dawood Ibrahim behind the mob violence on August 11 at Mumbai's Azad Maidan during the meeting called by the Raza Academy? Intelligence reports say criminal gangs were instrumental in helping stoke the violence. These revelations were made through telephon...
That KVP Ramachandra Rao is still insisting on the Congress retaining YSR's photos and presence across the party programmes has been shown time and again, something that has angered many senior Congressmen like V Hanumantha Rao. Now KVP is organising a event a...
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has accused his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar of indulging in cheap politics. Chavan was agitated after Nitish slammed the Maharashtra police for arresting a man from Bihar in connection with the Azad Maidan riots...
Udhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray indulge in hate politics. Udhav says they will not support Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as a prime ministerial candidate if he continues to support anti-national elements; the CBI has filed FIRs against five companies and...
Following MNS chief Raj Thackeray's remark that branded Biharis in Mumbai as infiltrators, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray says if the Mumbai police need Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's permission before arresting a Bihari youth involved in the Azad Maida...
The government does not seem to have any plan to give in to the demands of the Opposition as the party has prepared a list of leaders who will be leading party's counter-offensive attack. P Chidambaram, Salman Khurshid, Anand Sharma, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Jyotirad...
Following MNS chief Raj Thackeray's speech against Biharis in Mumbai, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray wants Biharis in Mumbai to be issued permits. He also slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for interfering in the Azad Maidan violence case where one Bi...
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde gives out a very meek statement reprimanding Raj Thackeray for threatening the media. Shinde says that people are free to travel anywhere in the country and that Raj Thackeray's threat was not in good taste. Thackeray had earl...
Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, on his party mouthpiece, Saamna, supports nephew Raj Thackeray and slams Nitish Kumar. He says that no one should advocate the cause of Abdul Qadir Ansari, a perpetrator of the Azad Maidan violence. Ansari was arrested in Bihar...
PM Manmohan Singh will meet Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari at the NAM summit. While the 26/11 attack is on the agenda, the prime minister will not confront Zardari about the recent cyber attack which caused mass panic among Northeast Indians. At least 28 ...
BJP MP Kirti Azad meets UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi over the impasse in the Parliament. This meet took place just hours after Sushma Swaraj, Leader of Opposition, met Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar. These frantic meetings take place in the backdrop of a Parlia...
The BJP General Secretaries meeting is underway in LK Advani's office as the party plans their next course of action. BJP leader Sushma Swaraj and Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar are still discussing the escalating disagreement between BJP and Congress in the Pa...
Congress President Sonia Gandhi met senior BJP MP Kirti Azad. The meeting was a bid to end the deadlock in Parliament over the CAG report on coal blocks. Sonia has been meeting with other leaders too.
The India Against Corruption's demonstration at Jantar Mantar is in full swing. BJP MP Kirti Azad dismisses the IAC protest saying they don't know what they are doing. Activist Kumar Vishwas wants to continue the protest until the Coalgate scam is resolved. Th...
Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil may be replaced in the reshuffle next month by Rural Development Minister Jayant Patil or the Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. RR Patil's management of the Home Minister portfolio has been heavily criticised. Recently, MNS ...
Satyapal Singh, the new police commissioner of Mumbai, explains what a crucial time it is for him to have taken charge of. He says that he will focus on regaining people's confidence in Mumbai police.
Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil clarifies that former police commissioner Arup Patnaik has not been shunted but 'promoted'. He says that Arup Patnaik did a great job at controlling the violence at the Azad Maidan and that he had been chosen on the basis of ...
Arup Patnaik has been replaced by Satya Pal Singh, Addnl DG (Law and Order) as the police commissioner of Mumbai. He has been promoted to DG post. Patnaik was blamed for not ensuring adequate force when a mob went berserk, attacked police and media at Azad Mai...
Mumbai police commissioner Arup Patnaik has now been removed from his position as the city's top cop. He has been replaced by Satyapal Singh. The Home Department had proposed the appointment of Satyapal Singh as the new police commissioner; a move that was the...
Celebrated Mumbai police commissioner Arup Patnaik is shunted out after receiving criticism for the Azad Maidan violence. Senior IPS officer Satyapal Singh has been appointed as the new commissioner while Patnaik has been promoted as the DG and MD of Maharasht...
Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi, who was attacked by Raj Thackeray for allegedly getting elected with the help of illegal Bangladeshis in his constituency, has offered Rs 2 crore if Raj proves his charges on Bangaldeshis in his constituency. He also defended t...
The fate of Mumbai police commissioner Arup Patnaik now lies in the hands of Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. Facing flak for the violence that ensued on August 11, Arup Patnaik seems to have been made the scapegoat of a political upheaval. The Ho...
Newshour | MNS chief Raj Thackeray's defiant show of strength by organizing a rally from Girgaum Chowpatty to Azad Maidan has proved that he is a force to reckon with. His protest and the cause for the protest raises many questions that beg immediate answers. ...