The editorial termed the decline in Sikhs and Buddhists numbers in religious data of Census as "worrisome" and said whenever indigenous faiths have declined separatist tendencies increase and called for concrete policy measures to correct it.
Her comments come days after Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sought "serious" and "sincere" talks with his Indian counterpart for the resolution of the "burning" issues, including Kashmir.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi was on Sunday greeted by a host of dignitaries, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on her 62nd birthday.
In the wake of recent terror attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul, the two countries on Tuesday put up a united face and resolved to jointly fight the "enemies of peace".
'There was trust, but perhaps there was also this apprehension that given the supreme post of prime minister, Sonia Gandhi felt her authority may be a challenged.'
Disney Star India, bought at a valuation of $15 billion, could be on the block for roughly one-third that amount.
Goldman Sachs' controversial note on corporate governance in Oil and Natural Gas Corp that evoked a strong reaction from the company, is not the first instance of the US investment bank having a run-in with the state-owned firm.
Singh issued a statement on Monday, listing those who attended the dinner, and stressed that the election was not discussed during the meeting.
As many as 13 Congress and three Janata Dal-Secular MLAs had resigned from the Karnataka Assembly in 2019 thus bringing down the 14-month-old coalition government of the Congress and the JD-S led by H D Kumaraswamy.
The minister emphasises the need for greater urbanisation of rural India to curb the rising migration from villages to metropolitan cities.
Earlier, only Azad was scheduled to meet Sonia Gandhi.
"We have always rejected Savarkar's ideology and political philosophy....his was a divisive ideology. We are consistent and firm in its rejection. We don't need to revise our opinion," Congress spokesman Anand Sharma said.
A "constructive dialogue" on the tri-nation gas pipeline from Myanmar to India through Bangladesh was progressing with "considerable satisfaction", visiting Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Monday.
Why blame the petroleum minister for not hiking oil prices when no one else is arguing for market prices?
The ambit of the G-23 grouping increased this time as some more leaders -- Patiala MP Preneet Kaur, former Gujarat chief minister Shankar Singh Vaghela, former union minister Mani Shankar Aiyar and former Haryana speaker Kuldeep Sharma -- joined them.
India's Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar participated in the anniversary celebrations of London winning its bid to host 2012 Olympics
After taking over the ministerial reins, Gill said successfully staging of the 2010 Games is his priority. 'Now that we have been entrusted with the responsibility of hosting the Commonwealth Games, we have to make sure that it proves a big success,' Gill said.
Jiya's style and dimpled smile can charm the birds out of the trees.
'If governance ensured we were poor during the socialist period, it now ensures that we do not get rich.'
500 posts for coaches at various training institutes run by the Sports Authority of India are lying vacant.
The pipelines will be from Iran to India through Pakistan, from Turkmenistan to India through Afghanistan and Pakistan, and from Myanmar to India through Bangladesh, Mani Shankar Aiyar said.
Arjun Menon looks at some Tamil films from the last decade that tick all the right boxes, and lists where you can watch them.
A sessions court has acquitted four persons, including a Shiv Sena member, in an attack case on the India Today office in South Mumbai two years ago.
The government will end Gas Authority of India's monopoly over laying natural gas pipelines by allowing private sector firms in gas transportation business, Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Thursday.
Except for Anant Patel, the rest 16 MLAs of Congress were present in the House on Monday.
Mukherjee will travel to Pakistan on January 13 to invite President Pervez Musharraf for the SAARC summit to be held here in early April and hold 'substantive talks' with Kasuri.
The Kazakhstan government has assured India that it will consider allowing ONGC Videsh Ltd to acquire a share in the assets of Canadian oil company Petrokazakhstan, a top government official said.
It is of course true that a lot of low-income people can indeed afford mobile phones today, as handsets cost no more than Rs 700.
In the wake of opposition from the law ministry and the Department of Public Enterprises, the petroleum ministry
Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar has blamed bureaucrats in his ministry for the fiasco over appointment of additional government directors on ONGC board, saying legal opinion should have been taken instead of doing 'guess-work'.
The government is considering allowing private firms to sell subsidised domestic cooking gas LPG, the Lok Sabha was informed on Thursday.
State owned refiner Indian Oil Corporation has proposed merger of its subsidiaries Indian Oil Blending Ltd, IBP Co Ltd, Bongaigaon Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd and Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd with itself, Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said
India's petroleum minister has that the proposed $7.4 billion gas pipeline from Iran through Pakistan was a risky proposition and could face financial problems.
Mukesh was most emotionally bonded to this tune, so all we will do is look at his songs engaging with this raag in films. In his fascinating book, Windows To The Soul: And Other Essays on Music, Manek Premchand reveals something we don't much know about the legendary singer, who was born 100 years ago on July 22.
India on Wednesday said 'it was unfazed' by the United States' opposition to the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline, adding it will continue to pursue gas imports from Iran to meet its energy requirements.
