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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New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has to make up his mind whether or not he wants to write his autobiography, his daughter Daman Singh has said. “My father has a mind of his
New Delhi: Slamming Pakistan, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today came to the defence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he had said nothing wrong about proxy war emanating from Pakistan.“I do not think what
New Delhi: The message from the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting is that its revival has to begin in Parliament and the party has to “stand up for the right thing”, MP Shashi Tharoor said today.
New Delhi: A number of BJP leaders, including Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Home Minister Rajnath Singh, today attended a lunch hosted by party leader Shahnawaz Hussain to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr.Other Union Ministers like M Venkaiah
New Delhi: Are the fringes pulling at the centre from many directions? Is the NDA government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi facing its first major political challenge, not from a depleted opposition, but from its
New Delhi: Former Union Minister and MP Shashi Tharoor's wife's mysterious death has once again come into the limelight after a shocking revelation of the severed ties between the couple and Tharoor's alleged affair with
New Delhi: It won't be “business as usual” in the Congress after the severe drubbing in the elections and party president Sonia Gandhi would soon fix accountability and take decisions on revamping the party, former
New Delhi: Uproar was witnessed today in the Lok Sabha as several parties got together to demand a resolution to condemn Israeli raids in Gaza Strip but the government did not oblige.Members of Congress, Trinamool
New Delhi: Opposition parties Thursday criticised the union budget, saying it did not reflect the aspirations of the common man.Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented his maiden budget Thursday."The budget does not reflect the aspiration of
New Delhi: AIIMS Forensic Department head Sudhir Gupta, who is in the centre of a controversy over the autopsy report of Sunanda Pushkar, today said his duty was to pursue the truth in the case.Gupta
New Delhi: Breaking his silence, former Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today rubbished claims of the head of AIIMS' forensic medicine department that he was pressured to manipulate the autopsy report of Sunanda Pushkar and
New Delhi: The mysterious case of Sunanda Pushkar's death grew murkier with senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and noted lawyer Subramanian Swamy dragging in Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra.He claimed that the murder
New Delhi: A day after the AIIMS administration denied doctor Sudhir Gupta's allegation that he was pressurised to change Sunanda Pushkar's autopsy report, he Thursday said the report was based on the principles and ethics
New Delhi: The AIIMS administration Wednesday categorically denied doctor Sudhir Gupta's allgeation that he was pressurised to amend the post-mortem report of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor."The AIIMS administration has come to
Thiruvananthapuram: Former union minister Shashi Tharoor Wednesday requested the authorities to conduct a "thorough investigation" into the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar and to conclude the inquiry "rapidly and transparently".Tharoor's statement came as the
New Delhi: The government today sought a detailed report from the AIIMS on the reported allegation by a senior forensic doctor that he was pressurised to manipulate the report of the autopsy of Sunanda Pushkar,
New Delhi: The government today sought a detailed report from the AIIMS on the reported allegation by a senior forensic doctor that he was pressurised to manipulate the report of the autopsy of Sunanda Pushkar,
New Delhi: The mystery over Sunanda Pushkar's death has got a dramatic new twist. While the case remains hazy with no clear indication as to how former Union minister Shashi Tharoor's wife died in a
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's image as a decisive leader, of a "man on a white stallion", may have clicked with the masses fed up with the perceived indecisiveness of the UPA, but Congress
New Delhi: Under attack from within, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday wrote to the party explaining his controversial praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and making it clear that he stood committed to the
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