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Shashitharoor

Shashi Tharoor

DOB: March 9, 1956

Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He is a former career international diplomat. He is a member of Indian National congress and at present serves as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs and All India Professionals Congress. Tharoor was a former Minister of State in the Government of India for External Affairs during the period of 2009-2010. Tharror as a writer have authored eighteen best selling works including fiction and non fiction both and he is also author of hundreds of columns and articles in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post etc.Tharoor was appointed as Director of Communications Executive Assistant to Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 1996. Tharoor became Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information (UNDPI) on 1 June 2002. Tharoor was in controversy when her wife Sunanda was found dead in room number 345 of the Leela Palace hotel in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.

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Sunanda murder case: Shashi Tharoor spent three nights with Mehr Tarar in Dubai?

India | Jan 12, 2015, 01:38 PM IST

New Delhi: In Sunanda Pushkar murder case, the noose seems to be further tightening around her husband and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor with some media reports claiming that Tharoor allegedly spent three nights with Pakistani

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Tharoor meets Ahmad Patel; brief discussion on Sunanda case

Politics | Jan 12, 2015, 08:57 AM IST

New Delhi: Congress MP Sashi Tharoor today met Ahmad Patel, political secretary to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, during which the issue of Delhi Police filing a murder case in his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death was

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Tharoor in Delhi; Police says no plans as of now to quiz him

India | Jan 11, 2015, 11:42 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor today returned to the national capital, saying it is his duty to cooperate in the investigation into the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar even as Delhi Police said

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Sunanda case: Shashi Tharoor returns to Delhi as probe picks up

India | Jan 11, 2015, 08:47 PM IST

New Delhi: As the probe into the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar picks up momentum, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor today returned to the capital and asserted it was his duty to cooperate in the investigation.“It

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Sunanda murder case: Tharoor admits having a tiff prior to her death

India | Jan 11, 2015, 12:04 PM IST

New Delhi: In a statement to the Delhi Police, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor admitted that his wife Sunanda and he did indeed have a tiff before her death owing to a misunderstanding.  But that was

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No plan to question Tharoor any time soon: Delhi Police

India | Jan 11, 2015, 09:18 AM IST

New Delhi: The Delhi Police Saturday said they do not plan to call Congress leader Shashi Tharoor for questioning in his wife Sunanda Pushkar's murder case any time soon as they first wanted to examine

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Sunanda murder: Inventory of articles not given to board, says report

India | Jan 11, 2015, 06:50 AM IST

New Delhi: The AIIMS board, which had conducted the postmortem of Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's wife, were not provided "the inventory of the articles found at the crime scene", the

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'I have nothing more to add': Shashi Tharoor

Politics | Jan 10, 2015, 09:25 PM IST

Kochi: A day after he expressed concern over the way the police was probing the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today said he did not have anything more to

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IPL behind Sunanda Pushkar's murder?

India | Jan 10, 2015, 01:39 PM IST

New Delhi: Delhi Police has identified the mysterious ‘Sunil sahab', who reportedly met Sunanda Pushkar two days before her death as Sunil Trakru.During interrogation, Narain, the domestic help of MP Shashi Tharoor had made the

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Sunanda Pushkar murder: Shashi Tharoor seeks professional probe into wife's death

Politics | Jan 09, 2015, 06:15 PM IST

Thrissur (Kerala): Congress MP Shashi Tharoor Friday sought a “professional” investigation into his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death without “political” pressure and a “pre-determined” mind.“I have lost my wife and have not been allowed to mourn

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Sunanda Pushkar murder: Read the entire text of Delhi Police FIR

India | Jan 09, 2015, 05:35 PM IST

New Delhi: FIR filed by Delhi Police in the Sunanda Pushkar murder case has revealed it all. Injuries found on her body were caused by “blunt force” but were not the main reason behind her

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"You are finished" Sunanda threatened Tharoor before her death, domestic help reveals

India | Jan 09, 2015, 01:33 PM IST

New Delhi: Former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's domestic help Narain has made some sensational disclosures to police in Sunanda Pushkar murder case, according to some media reports.Narain has revealed that one ‘Sunil sahab' visited Sunanda

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Sunanda murder case: Circumstantial evidence indicates Sunanda poisoned by alprazolam: FIR

India | Jan 09, 2015, 03:04 PM IST

New Delhi: Circumstantial evidence points to "alprazolam poisoning" as the reason for Sunanda Pushkar's death and injuries to her were caused by "blunt force" but did not cause death while her body also bore injection

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Sunanda case: No legal notice served to Tharoor, says Bassi

India | Jan 08, 2015, 02:58 PM IST

New Delhi: Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi today clarified that they have not issued any legal notice to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in connection with the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.“We have not

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Shashi Tharoor keeps off media, under treatment in health centre

Politics | Jan 08, 2015, 01:26 PM IST

Guruvayur (Ker): Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who has been undergoing treatment at an ayurvedic resort near the temple town of Guruvayur in Kerala, continues to keep the media away over the Delhi police registering a

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Delhi Police ask Shashi Tharoor to join Sunanda Pushkar murder probe

India | Jan 08, 2015, 09:08 AM IST

New Delhi: Delhi Police has asked former Union minister Shashi Tharoor to join the murder probe of his wife Sunanda Pushkar at the earliest. Though it has not been officially confirmed yet, reports suggest that

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Sunanda Pushkar case: Delhi Police issues notice to Tharoor to join probe

India | Jan 08, 2015, 03:50 PM IST

New Delhi: Delhi Police has served a notice to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor asking him to join investigation into the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.Sources said that Tharoor, who is in Kerala, has

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Sunanda case: Pak journo Tarar ready to answer any question

India | Jan 07, 2015, 11:42 PM IST

Islamabad: Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar, who was at the centre of a controversy involving former union minister Shashi Tharoor, today said that she was ready to answer any question on the issue.“If they want to

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No instructions given by the Centre in Sunanda case: MoS Home

India | Jan 07, 2015, 09:05 PM IST

New Delhi: Delhi Police was carrying out an independent probe in the Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar death case and that there was no “instruction” given to the investigators by the Centre, Minister

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Sunanda Pushkar death: 5 questions that Delhi Police needs to answer

India | Jan 07, 2015, 09:07 PM IST

New Delhi: Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi surprised everybody yesterday when he disclosed that Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, was actually murdered.Bassi made this disclosure nearly a year after Sunanda Pushkar

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