Congress leader Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor praises PM Modi for G20 Summit

Shashi Tharoor on G-20 Summit: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor praised India's G-20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant for creating a consensus on the 'Delhi Declaration', saying that this 'G '20 was a glorious moment for India'. Tagging Kant's comments regarding building consensus on the paragraph on Russia-Ukraine in one of his interviews, Tharoor wrote on the social media platform 'X', 'Well done Amitabh Kant. It seems that the Indian Forest Service lost an excellent diplomat when you selected the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).

Sep 11, 2023, 15:34 PM IST

Shashi Tharoor joins Paneer Butter Masala meme fest on Twitter after new GST rates come into effect

The netizens couldn’t keep calm after the new GST rates came into effect and flooded Twitter with a series of memes, some in the form of a modern-day maths problem as to what the overall GST of the dish will be. 

Jul 21, 2022, 08:36 AM IST

Shashi Tharoor calls PM Modi 'man of tremendous vigour and dynamism', credits BJP's victory in UP polls to him

"Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a man of tremendous vigour and dynamism and has done some things which are very impressive, especially politically. We did not expect him to win with such great margins but he did," said Tharoor. 

Mar 14, 2022, 10:48 AM IST

Sunanda Pushkar death case: Shashi Tharoor cleared of all charges by Delhi court

Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in the city on the night of January 17, 2014.  Tharoor was charged under Sections 498A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) and 306 of the Indian Penal Code by the Delhi Police, but was not arrested in the case. 

Aug 18, 2021, 11:42 AM IST

Day of disappointment for Congress in Kerala, says Shashi Tharoor

 The Congress put up a dismal show in all the states/UT where Assembly elections were held barring in Tamil Nadu, where the DMK-Congress alliance is poised to return to power after a gap of 10 years.

May 02, 2021, 19:21 PM IST

Sumitra Mahajan reacts to fake reports of her death, says 'what was urgency in announcing without confirmation'

Congress leader Sashi Tharoor had tweeted condolences but later deleted his tweet after Mahajan’s niece and BJP leaders revealed that she was still alive and healthy.

Apr 23, 2021, 11:02 AM IST

No Question Hour in Monsoon session of Parliament; Opposition flays move

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor tweeted, "Questioning the government is the oxygen of parliamentary democracy. This Govt seeks to reduce Parliament to a notice-board and uses its crushing majority as a rubber-stamp for whatever it wants to pass. The one mechanism to promote accountability has now been done away with." 

Sep 02, 2020, 19:04 PM IST

Lord Ram not the 'property' of BJP, says Congress Shashi Tharoor

Seeking to clear the air on what he said were "widespread misrepresentations" he had heard during the course of the day, Tharoor put out a series of tweets to spell out his party's stand on the Ram temple issue.

Aug 06, 2020, 02:10 AM IST

After Tharoor's 'Hindi, Hindu, Hindutva' tweet, BJP accuses Congress of insulting Hinduism

Following Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's 'Hindi, Hindu, Hindutva' tweet, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday warned Congress president Rahul Gandhi and accused the grand old party of insulting Hinduism as part of its 'designed conspiracy to demean' the culture of the country. Watch this video to know more.

Feb 01, 2019, 10:18 AM IST

Tharoor bowled over by Manushi's 'uncommonly gracious' reply to his tweet

Manushi Chhillar won the beauty crown for India after a gap of 16 years.

Nov 20, 2017, 23:52 PM IST

CFSL team to visit Sunanda's suite again: Leela Hotel to court

The information about the proposed visit of the CFSL team was disclosed to the court by the hotel management which has sought its de-sealing of the suite here Pushkar had died under mysterious circumstances.

Aug 19, 2017, 17:04 PM IST

Sunanda Pushkar case: Officer part of initial probe team to return

The SIT is preparing a report on the status of the probe and submit it to senior officers.

Nov 26, 2016, 15:35 PM IST

Sunanda case: Pakistan journalist Mehr Tarar questioned

 Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar, who was involved in a spat over Twitter with Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar hours before her death, has been questioned by Delhi Police in connection with the murder case.

Jul 18, 2016, 12:21 PM IST