Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 2 (ANI): Ahead of party president elections, Senior Congress leader and former Rajya Sabha member V Hanumanth Rao on Thursday stressed that the party chief should be from the Gandhi family.

New Delhi Mar 24 PTI Congress president Sonia Gandhi has convened a meeting of party general secretaries and state in-charges on March 26 to discuss organisational elections the partys membership drive and the current political situation besides planning agitational programmesCongress general secretary organisation K C Venugopal will chair the meeting at the party headquarters and all general secretaries and state in-charges states have been asked to attendSonia Gandhi who is likely to attend the meeting will review the progress of membership drive so far as well as the partys future agitational programmesThe meeting comes in the wake of the partys humiliating defeat in the recent assembly elections in five statesIt also comes in the backdrop of Sonia Gandhi meeting some of the leaders of the G-23 grouping which has been critical of the party leadership and have been demanding an organisational overhaul for a long timeGandhi has held consultations and deliberations with some of the G23 leaders including Ghulam Nabi Azad Anand Sharma Manish Tewari and Vivek TankhaA meeting of AICC general secretaries in-charges is being scheduled to be held on Saturday March 26 2022 at 1100 AM at AICC Office 24 Akbar Road New Delhi The agenda for the meeting is special membership drive and organisational elections besides planning agitational programmes a note circulated by Venugopal said PTI SKC ZMN ZMN

New Delhi [India], March 21 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday received the Padma Bhushan award in the field of Public Affairs.

Kupwara (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], February 5 (ANI): An Economics graduate from North Kashmir's Kupwara district, who quit his job two years back in search of an innovative source of income that could make him financially sound, has now become an owner to a mushroom cultivation farm.

Kabul [Afghanistan], January 7 (ANI): Residents of Kabul have complained of "unfair distribution" of humanitarian aid, saying that it was not provided to vulnerable people who needed it, local media reported on Friday.

Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], January 6 (ANI): The strength of Special Security Group (SSG) protecting the four former Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir-- Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti, Farooq Abdullah, Ghulam Nabi Azad-- will be reduced, as per an order by Jammu and Kashmir government.