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.
Read MoreCongress MP Shashi Tharoor said India has valued relationship with Canada, and the same is expected from Ottawa.
Shashi Tharoor lauded the Modi government over the conduct of the G20 Summit and called the New Delhi Declaration that was adopted on the very first day of the mega event as a "diplomatic triumph for India".
The Congress party, in the latest rejig of its Working Committee has given a spot to Sachin Pilot, Manish Tewari, and Alka Lamba for the first time. Shashi Tharoor has also been included on the list of 39 members.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday released a list of 39 members of the Congress Working Committee (CWC). Tharoor, Pilot and Lamba had hit some headlines for which they were criticised by a section of Congress.
Shashi Tharoor issued a statement on Twitter after the announcement of the ODI World Cup 2023 schedule. Thiruvananthapuram is not allocated a match in the main draw of the tournament.
Congress thanked former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for ‘popularising’ Yoga, on the occasion of International Yoga Day. Party leader Shashi Tharoor noted that all those who played the role in popularising Yoga should be acknowledged including the Narendra Modi government.
Making his point, the Thiruvananthapuram MP also said that Congress cannot assume that because it worked in one state, it can work nationally.
"Imagine how one would feel. Those who know me personally, know I cannot attack anybody. I never raised my hand even to a child," Congress leader Tharoor told India TV Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Rajat Sharma.
Congress leader and Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor was responding to questions from India TV Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Rajat Sharma in Aap Ki Adalat.
The wrestlers found that, on one hand, while Delhi Police did not take time in filing FIR against them for trying to break the police barricade during their march to Parliament, the complainants had to go to Supreme Court which had to issue direction to Delhi Police to file FIRs against the MP.
The former Union minister's remarks came after the Law Commission proposed retaining the penal provision for the offence of sedition, saying repealing it altogether can have serious adverse ramifications for the country's security and integrity.
Watch Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in Aap Ki Adalat with Rajat Sharma on Saturday, June 3 at 10 pm.
Tharoor made the remark while citing a report which quoted an RTI reply to the state that more than 2.7 crore passengers could not travel by train in 2022-23 despite buying tickets because of being waitlisted.
The Kerala Story controversy: Adah Sharma is playing the lead role in the film and many political leaders have objected to the film, claiming that it spreads hate and should be banned.
Giving a tight slap to all the protestors, 18-year-old Tabassum Shaik scored a perfect 100 in Hindi, Psychology and Sociology.
Karnataka Polls 2023: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor took a jibe at BJP and said that the people of Karnataka are tired of 40 per cent commission and want 100 per cent commitment.
EAM S Jaishankar said that the West has had a "bad habit" for a long time, of commenting on others, and it thinks it has a "God-given right" to speak about the internal matters of other countries.
Lok Sabha Election 2023: Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday encouraged the smaller parties to play convenor of the Opposition alliance to wrest BJP in the 2024 polls.
Notably, his critical remarks came nearly two days after Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha Friday, a day after a court in Gujarat's Surat convicted him in a 2019 defamation case
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor contested the Congress presidential polls last October but lost to Mallikarjun Kharge.
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