"The Congress party supports the just demand of the people of Andhra Pradesh for special category status and speedy completion of the Polavaram project. It's time for all parties to unite on this issue and support this call for justice," he said.
The Supreme Court today sought response from the Centre on a plea against a Delhi High Court order by which it had rejected a petition challenging validity of Article 370 of the Constitution giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir
Patna: The JD(U) today attacked the BJP as its government at the Centre has ruled out granting special category status to Bihar and provided only a special package instead."Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his election
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United (JD-U) will rake up the issue of centre's denial of special status to the state as one of the top agendas to counter BJP in the upcoming state
New Delhi: Government today ruled out granting special category status to Bihar for increased central assistance, though there was a proposal to provide the state a special package."There is no proposal as of now to
Hyderabad: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to to ensure that Special Status is granted to the State of Andhra Pradesh.In a letter to the prime minister yesterday,
Patna: With Union minister Ramvilas Paswan saying that special status to Bihar would be accorded only after NDA comes to power in the state, Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today charged the Centre with being
Patna: Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today said he has urged the Narendra Modi government to accord special status to Bihar to enable the state to contribute to national growth.“During my meeting with the Prime
New Delhi/Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital, and demanded special category status for his state.KCR, as the chief minister is popularly known, sought
New Delhi: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here and demanded special category status for his state as well as other assistance from the Centre but remained evasive on allying
Patna: Seeking to make political capital out of the special status demand for Bihar ahead of Lok Sabha elections, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today held a five-hour-long ‘Satyagraha' and urged the people to fight to
Patna: Terming as “betrayal” the UPA government's decision to grant special category status to Seemandhra while ignoring a similar demand of Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today gave a call for a statewide bandh on
Patna: Over two dozen MPs from Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) will stage a dharna in parliament Tuesday demanding grant of special status to the state, JD-U state president Vashisht Narain Singh Monday said."JD-U MPs
Bangalore: Karnataka Governor H.R. Bhardwaj late Tuesday notified special status to the Hyderabad-Karnataka region in the state conferred under Article 371J of the Constitution.The seven districts of the state, part of the erstwhile Hyderabad state
Patna: Lauding Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for changing perception about Bihar, industry body Assocham today backed the demand for grant of special status for industrial development of the state.The Nitish Kumar government has worked hard
Ranchi: Jharkhand Friday expressed disappointment with union Planning Minister Rajeev Shukla's statement in the Rajya Sabha a day ago that there was no move to grant special status to the state.Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren
Patna, May 17: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar defended today his repeated demand for special status to the state saying it (the status) will boost private investment in a big way to accelerate its industrial
Patna, Nov 4: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Sunday demanded a special status for Bihar and other such states that lag behind the national averages for human development and economic growth."The central government should accord a
Patna, Sep 24: LJP chief Ramvilas Paswan on Monday said Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's demand for special category status to Bihar was aimed at mobilising mass support to strengthen his case for being projected as
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