Tag: Shashi Tharoor

How Shashi Tharoor Reacted After Defeat In Congress President Election

Special arrangements have been made in party’s headquarters in Bhubaneswar, as Congress is all set to enter into an electoral contest today (Oct 17) to elect its first non-Gandhi president after 24 years.

On many senior Congress leaders not attending Tharoor's campaign ahead of the party's presidential polls, he said: "I did not mind this... I have got amazing support from the younger leaders of the party."

The Thiruvananthapuram MP casts spell ahead of upcoming Congress presidential polls

With the process for the Congress Presidential polls opening with the issuance of notification on September 22, it's likely that the main contest for the top party post will be between Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor.

Shashi Tharoor said if Congress has to come back, things should fall in place quickly and should get ready to face the elections and for that it should happen now.

Bhubaneswar/Mumbai: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has urged HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar to exempt CBSE Class 12 students from the economics paper re-test on “compassionate grounds”. In a letter to Javadekar, Tharoor said the class 12 students are already in the process of preparing for competitive examinations and are under considerable stress and anxiety, and […]

New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said that a Delhi Police official had attempted to implicate him and a domestic help in the murder of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.

Police may ask Union minister Shashi Tharoor and others to join the "probe" into the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar, a day after it was directed by a magistrate to investigate suicide and homicide angles in the high-profile case

Bengaluru: Quoting an unnamed RSS member, Congress Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor on Sunday likened Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a scorpion seated on a Shivling. The comment sparked a sharp reaction from the BJP, prompting the MP to give a detailed explanation hours later. “Modi is like a scorpion sitting on a Shivling. You cannot […]

New Delhi: The 2014 Sunanda Pushkar suicide case, in which Congress Lok Sabha member and her husband Shashi Tharoor has been charge-sheeted for abetment to suicide, has been transferred to a special fast-track court. Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmendra Singh transferred the case to the designated court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal, who is exclusively […]

New Delhi: Delhi Police on Monday filed charges in the death of Sunanda Pushkar and named her widower Shashi Tharoor, a Congress MP, as one of the accused. The charges were filed in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections of husband or his relative subjecting a woman to […]

Kolkata: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday termed as “frivolous” the criminal defamation complaint filed by the BJP against him in a Delhi court and alleged that it was an attempt to “throttle the freedom of expression”. Delhi BJP leader Rajeev Babbar filed the complaint against Tharoor’s alleged “scorpion” remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]

New Delhi: A Delhi court was today informed that the five-star hotel suite where Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in 2014 has been de-sealed. Metropolitan magistrate Dharmender Singh was told by the advocate appearing for the hotel that it has been given possession of the suite, after which the court […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today sought the response of the Arnab Goswami and his newly-launched news channel Republic TV on Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s defamation plea against them. In his plea, Tharoor has claimed damages and compensation of Rs 2 crore from the journalist and his channel for allegedly making defamatory remarks against […]