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TRS chief meets PM on Telengana issue

New Delhi, May 22 (UNI) Union Labour Minister and Telangana Rashtriya Samti chief K Chandrashekhara Rao today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in an effort to elicit a promise on creation of Telangana.

The meeting comes in the wake of the recent meeting of the Group of Ministers headed by Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, which remained 'inconclusive,' with one of the members declaring that further meetings are needed to reach a consensus.

Mr Rao did not disclose what transpired in the 10-minute-long meeting in the Prime Minister's chambers in the Parliament House.

The position of TRS has become very precarious as the UPA coalition has not made in progress on creation of a separate Telengana state, even in its two years in office after winning both the Parliament and Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh promising to award statehood to the region. The TRS has walked out of the Andhra Pradesh Government, while continuing to be part of the UPA at the Centre. Mr Rao and Minister of State for Rural Development A Narendra are the two TRS ministers in the Manmohan Singh Cabinet.

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Indian men stunned,eves thrash brazil in Chess Olympiad

Turin, May 22 (UNI) Viswanathan Anand's absence and the surprising decision of not fielding K Sasikiran proved fatal as Indian men's team, seeded second in the event, was handed a stunning 1-3 defeat by minnows Morocco in the 37th Chess Olympiad here. Their female counteraparts, however, started emphatically with a 3-0 thrashing of Brazil. Among the men, national champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly and P Harikrishna were held to draw, while fellow Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda and.....

Egypt court sentences 8 to jail over theatre fire

CAIRO, May 22 (Reuters) An Egyptian court sentenced eight government employees, including the head of a cultural body, to 10 years in jail each today for negligence over a theatre fire last year that killed 46 people, a judicial official said. The official said that Mostafa Elwy, head of the authority for cultural centres who was among those convicted, was also a member of the ruling National Democratic Party's policies committee. The rest also worked.....

Britain confirms meeting of world powers on Iran

LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) Senior officials from the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany will meet in London on Wednesday to discuss the next steps on Iran's disputed nuclear programme, a British official confirmed today. The meeting of political directors was postponed last week to allow the European Union trio more time to prepare a package of incentives aimed at getting Tehran to freeze a uranium enrichment programme the West says could.....
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