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Mallikarjun Kharge with Rahul Gandhi during Bharat Jodo Yatra
Mallikarjun Kharge defeats Shashi Tharoor to become Congress President

While Kharge garnered 7897 votes, his contender Shashi Tharoor got about 1000 votes and 416 votes got rejected.

  • Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Senior party leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor are in the fray for the top post
Kharge vs Tharoor: Over 400 Odisha Congress leaders to participate in secret ballot to elect party chief

The voting would take place at the AICC headquarters in Delhi and at 67 polling booths across the country in an electoral contest that is taking place for the sixth time in the party's 137-year history.

  • Monday, 17 October 2022
Nothing On Record To Show Shashi Tharoor Provoked Sunanda Pushkar To Commit Suicide: Court
Nothing On Record To Show Shashi Tharoor Provoked Sunanda Pushkar To Commit Suicide: Court

The court observed that Pushkar might have felt distressed or mentally disturbed with the alleged extra-marital relation of the accused, but mental disturbance does not constitute the offence of abetment.

  • Thursday, 19 August 2021
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and his late wife Sunanda Pushkar
Delhi Court Discharges Shashi Tharoor In Sunanda Pushkar Death Case

Pushkar was found dead on the evening of January 17, 2014. Initially, Delhi police investigated the same as a murder and charged Tharoor under Sections 306 (abetment of suicide) and 498A (cruelty by husband).

  • Wednesday, 18 August 2021
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Sunanda death case transferred to Crime Branch

New Delhi: In a significant development, the probe into the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, was today transfered to the elite Crime Branch of Delhi Police, reflecting the complexities in the high-profile case. The probe has been handed over to Crime Branch two days after a sub-divisional magistrate directed […]

  • Monday, 21 June 2021
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Tharoor wants probe into freak temple accident

Thiruvananthapuram: Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor, aiming for a hat-trick of wins, on Tuesday sought a probe into a freak accident at a temple near here which led him to have to eight stitches on his head. “My mother, who is 86 years old, said she has never ever heard of the ‘tulabharam’ […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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Sunanda case: Arguments against Tharoor to start on Aug 20

New Delhi: A Delhi court will on August 20 begin arguments on the charges in the death of Sunanda Pushkar in which her husband and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is an accused. The arguments would commence before Special CBI Judge Arun Bhardwaj. The court allowed the application moved by the prosecution to share contents of […]

  • Wednesday, 28 April 2021
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Tharoor Accepts Modi's Language Challenge

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s language challenge and tweeted the word “bahuvachanam”, which means pluralism in Malayalam. Tharoor’s tweet came shortly after Modi, while speaking via video conference, said on Friday that “we can simply start with publishing one word in 10-12 different languages spoken across […]

  • Monday, 26 April 2021
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