Dec 04, 2024, at 08:36 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has outrightly rejected West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's proposal to deploy United Nations peacekeepers in violence-hit Bangladesh, questioning the veteran politician's understanding of how such a force is sent on an assignment in a country.
Sep 27, 2024, at 06:49 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor will head the panel on external affairs and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi has been appointed as a member of the defence body in the newly formed Parliament's standing committees that were constituted on Thursday.
Shashi Tharoor comes out in support of Modi's lateral entry scheme despite Congress opposition
Aug 21, 2024, at 07:24 pm
While Rahul Gandhi opposed it, another Congress MP Shashi Tharoor came out in support of the Centre's lateral entry scheme and said it is an indispensable method for the government to acquire expertise.
Aug 12, 2024, at 04:09 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor backed the Indian government's decision to give refuge to former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled her country after resigning facing violent anti-quota protests in her backyard, media reports said.
Shashi Tharoor responds to trolls over his post calling landslide-hit Wayanad visit 'memorable'
Aug 04, 2024, at 05:33 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has responded to the social media backlash over his tweet describing a visit to landslide-hit Wayanad as "memorable".
Congress' Shashi Tharoor calls Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget 2024 'underwhelming'
Jul 23, 2024, at 07:38 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: In an initial reaction from the main opposition party, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor called Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget 2024 "underwhelming".
In a rare praise, Shashi Tharoor calls Delhi Lt Governor 'conscientious civil servant'
Jun 29, 2024, at 05:30 am
New Delhi/IBNS: In a rare shoutout to Lt Governor VK Saxena, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor praised the work to control water flooding as Delhi broke an 88-year-old rain record this morning in a much-needed respite from an unprecedented months-long heatwave.
Postpone June 23 exam amid controversies around NEET-UG: Shashi Tharoor
Jun 22, 2024, at 08:53 pm
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has urged the Indian government to postpone the NEET-PG exams that is scheduled to take place on June 23 amid the ongoing controversy around the alleged irregularities in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) examination.
Shashi Tharoor trails behind BJP's Rajeev Chandrashekhar in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram
Jun 04, 2024, at 04:52 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is trailing narrowly behind BJP's Rajeev Chandrasekhar by around 5,000 votes at 10.30 am in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat that he has won for the past three elections, as per early trends
BJP's Rajeev Chandrasekhar will defeat Shashi Tharoor in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram: Exit Poll
Jun 02, 2024, at 05:57 pm
Thiruvananthapuram/IBNS: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor may face a setback in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram seat with pollsters predicting a possible win for BJP candidate and central minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar against the INC heavyweight, according to Exit Poll prediction Saturday.
'Fascinating,' Shashi Tharoor says on Yogendra Yadav's Lok Sabha election prediction
Jun 01, 2024, at 04:42 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav's prediction for the 2024 Lok Sabha election which did not give a thumping third straight win for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP caught Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's attention Thursday.
May 30, 2024, at 05:51 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's former personal assistant was arrested at Delhi Airport in a gold smuggling case by the Delhi Customs on Wednesday, media reports said.
Apr 26, 2024, at 03:48 am
The Election Commission of India is all geared up for the second phase of the Lok Sabha polls on Friday in a high-stakes battle across 13 states and union territories with the campaign marked by sharp jibes by the leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and it's main opposition the Congress as well as other opposition parties.
Congress releases first list of 39 candidates for LS polls, Rahul Gandhi to contest from Wayanad
Mar 09, 2024, at 02:06 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Congress released its first list of 39 candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on Friday, with Rahul Gandhi contesting from Wayanad in Kerala.
'A beautiful soul': Shashi Tharoor remembers wife Sunanda on her 10th death anniversary
Jan 18, 2024, at 06:33 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Wednesday remembered his late wife Sunanda Pushkar on her tenth death anniversary.
Oct 31, 2023, at 08:00 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: In a fresh political faceoff with the Centre, several opposition leaders including Congress' Shashi Tharoor, Trinamool Congress' Mahua Moitra, Shiv Sena's Priyanka Chaturvedi claimed a "state-sponsored" hacking attempt citing a notification which they received on their Apple phones.
Shashi Tharoor suggests opposition bloc be called 'BHARAT' after row over India name change
Sep 07, 2023, at 05:56 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Wednesday took a swipe at the government over the speculated 'Bharat' name change row, saying the opposition bloc could call itself the "Alliance for Betterment, Harmony And Responsible Advancement for Tomorrow (BHARAT)" and then perhaps the ruling party might stop the "fatuous game of changing names".
'Rahul Gandhi shouldn't be declared PM candidate, INDIA should decide after polls': Shashi Tharoor
Sep 02, 2023, at 07:25 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has felt the INDIA alliance should decide on the Prime Minister only after the Lok Sabha elections, turning down the idea of pitching in his party colleague Rahul Gandhi as the candidate for the top post.
Shashi Tharoor gives a shoutout to PM Modi as Congress hails Jawaharlal Nehru for popularising yoga
Jun 22, 2023, at 03:03 am
New Delhi/IBNS: On the ninth International Yoga Day, as the Congress Wednesday thanked former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for "popularising yoga", senior party leader Shashi Tharoor replied in the affirmative but gave credit to the BJP-led government for popularising and internationalising the same.
Apr 29, 2023, at 03:23 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor Friday slammed the country's Olympics body chief PT Usha for criticising the wrestlers' public protest over alleged sexual misconduct by the wrestling body head.
Apr 04, 2023, at 02:15 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday urged External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to "cool a little bit" after the latter's remark about the West's "bad habit" of commenting on other countries.
'BJP will lose 50 seats in 2024 Lok Sabha elections': Congress leader Shashi Tharoor
Jan 15, 2023, at 04:51 am
Kozhikode (Kerala): Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Saturday said that the BJP wouldn’t be able to replicate its 2019 performance in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and it is ‘conceivable’ that the ruling party would lose at least 50 seats, media reported.
Dec 31, 2022, at 03:08 am
Kolkata/IBNS: The massive and often violent anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests could have "transformed" the country's political discourse, which is still deftly anchored by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), had there been no Covid-19 pandemic, feels Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.
Gandhi loyalist Mallikarjun Kharge new non-Gandhi Congress chief after rare presidential polls
Oct 20, 2022, at 04:29 am
For the first time in 24 years, the country's primary opposition party Congress found its non-Gandhi president in the form of 80-year-old Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka, Mallikarjun Kharge, who won the inner-party elections for the top post Wednesday.
Congress presidential poll results today
Oct 19, 2022, at 04:20 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress, the country's oldest and primary opposition party, will get its first non-Gandhi president after 24 years as the counting of the presidential polls will be held Wednesday.
Congress presidential polls between two non-Gandhis underway; Sonia, Rahul, Priyanka cast votes
Oct 17, 2022, at 06:10 pm
New Delhi/IBNS/UNI: The Congress presidential elections between two senior MPs outside the Gandhi family, Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor, are underway Monday as the country's oldest and prime opposition party is aiming to refurbish its organisation, eight years after being uprooted from power by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Oct 16, 2022, at 05:43 pm
Guwahati/IBNS: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who is running for the party's presidential post, has clarified his recent comments that some people in the party were assuming that there's an official candidate.
Differential treatment to candidates in Congress presidential polls, says Shashi Tharoor
Oct 14, 2022, at 01:04 am
New Delhi/UNI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said there were systematic flaws in the Congress presidential election process, even as he clarified he was not suggesting it was intentional.
'Let us deal with these elections first': Mallikarjun Kharge on 2024 PM candidate
Oct 13, 2022, at 04:59 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, who is a late entrant in the contest for the party's top post, Wednesday, tackled a question on the prime ministerial candidate for 2024 as he campaigned in Madhya Pradesh.
Congress leaders removed as parliamentary panel heads of home, IT
Oct 05, 2022, at 05:31 am
New Delhi/IBNS: For the first time in three decades, opposition parties have not been given any chairmanship of any of the four key parliamentary panels in the latest shuffle announced on Tuesday.