Meira Kumar lays foundation stone for a hospital in Bihar

July 5th, 2009 BHOPAL - An orientation programme for state legislators turned out to be a 'sleepy affair' in Bhopal. The two-day orientation programme was aimed to make the legislators aware of the nuances of lawmaking.

June 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar paid floral tribute at the memorials of various prominent leaders here on Saturday. Starting with Rajghat, the memorial to the Father of India, Mahatma Gandhi, she also paid a visit to the memorials of her father, Jagjivan Ram and Indira Gandhi.

June 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Congress leader Meira Kumar took oath as the first woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha today. Kumar hails from the Dalit community and is better known as the daughter of former Deputy Prime Minister Babu Jagjivan Ram.

June 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - After being unanimously chosen as Speaker of Lok Sabha, Meira Kumar reiterated on Wednesday that she would be impartial in executing her tasks as the presiding officer of the lower house of the parliament. "It would be my endeavour that I am completely impartial in my conduct and I will give opportunity to all the members to express their views.

June 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Congress leader Meira Kumar will be elected unanimously the first woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha today. Kumar is the consensus candidate of the ruling UPA and the opposition BJP.

June 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Congress leader Meira Kumar filed her nomination for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker on Tuesday. Kumar was nominated for the post by the UPA Government on Monday.

May 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Water Resource Minister and Congress leader Meira Kumar called on Congress party President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday afternoon. The meet, which was held at 10, Janpath, Sonia Gandhi's residence, gave strength to speculations about her getting a nomination of Congress Party for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker.

May 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress leader Meira Kumar, popular known as the daughter of the former Deputy Prime Minister and prominent Dalit leader, Babu Jagjivan Ram and freedom fighter, Indrani Devi, hails from Bihar. Born in Patna in 1945, Meira Kumar has been law graduate and holds a Masters in English literature.

May 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - MPs from Bihar and Jharkhand fear under-representation in the union cabinet as the Congress has won just three seats in the two states that together send 54 MPs to the Lok Sabha. The two Congress seats in Bihar, where the party contested on its own, were won by veteran Dalit leader Meira Kumar in Sasaram and first-timer Mohammad Asrarul Haque in Kishangarh.

May 18th, 2009 LEH - Air Chief Marshal F. H. Major on Monday laid the foundation stone of the Officers' Mess during his visit to the highest operational airbase of the world in Leh.

May 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Responding to the demand of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar that he will support that coalition which gives 'Special Status' to his state, the Congress has asked Kumar to clarify what he means by 'Special Status'. "Mr. Nitish Kumar needs to tell us what he means by 'Special Status' for Bihar.

March 6th, 2009 PATNA - Academy Award winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire' charmed the audiences world-wide and the latest to be floored by the rags-to-riches story is Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. 'Inspiring', 'a must watch film' is how Kumar described the film Thursday after he watched it in a theatre here.

February 28th, 2009 SURAT - Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel Friday laid the foundation of a new terminal at Surat airport, the eighth such terminal project in the country since Feb 20. The new domestic terminal, a glass and steel structure, will have a floor area of 8,474 square metres and offer modern passenger friendly facilities like central heating and air conditioning system, Patel said.

February 24th, 2009 MANDI - Union Labour and Employment Minister Oscar Fernandes Monday laid the foundation stone of the proposed Rs.10 billion Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Medical College and Hospital here. 'The 500-bed ESIC Medical College and Hospital will be completed by 2010-2011,' Fernandes said.

February 10th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh will lay the foundation stone of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Orissa Thursday, an official said. Arjun Singh was to lay the foundation stone Wednesday but the programme was rescheduled, an official of the industry department told IANS.