With investigators trying to unravel the identity of those behind the Pune blast, the government "may not yet" point finger at any foreign country for the terror attack till more evidence was gathered, Union minister Shashi Tharoor said on Monday.
Tharoor talked to Dr Singh over phone on Sunday morning and explained that the media had misinterpreted his comments, which he had made as chairman of a seminar at the Indian Council of World Affairs on Friday.
A day after his reported remarks at an academic seminar on international relations created a flutter in the Congress, Tharoor called a press conference in his office and said he was dismayed at the "inaccurate and tendentious reporting".
Sources close to the 54-year old Tharoor declined to comment on the reports, urging the media to respect his privacy. "He will announce whatever, when he has something to announce," the sources said. Media reports said Tharoor proposed to marry Sunanda, a girl from a Kashmiri family. Trained as a beautician, Sunanda runs a spa and has lived in Dubai.
Tharoor's appeal came in support of his party colleague and former MP Sandeep Dikshit's remarks that the the biggest challenge the party faces is the 'leadership question'.
India has a 'fundamentally healthy' relationship with China that goes beyond the boundary issue, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor stated on Tuesday."The relationship should not be seen only in the context of the problems, it should also be seen in the context of the opportunity," he said when asked about the India-China border talks last week. Tharoor said, "We are very pleased to say that, by and large, the relationship remains healthy."
The Congress dubbed the latest Twitter remark by Union Minister Shashi Tharoor as his "personal view". Tharoor had remarked on microblogsite 'Twitter' that people should work rather than enjoy a holiday on Mahatma Gandhi's birthday.
"I am going to be associating myself with being chairman of a company that is not yet incorporated, but that will be (decided) in the next week or ten days. It will invest in India, and particularly in Kerala, from where I come from," Tharoor said.
India's nominee for the United Nations secretary general's post Shashi Tharoor has rejected the contention that lack of political experience would be a hindrance in performing his duties as the world body's chief.
"It is appalling and he has done it with tactical support of Rahul Gandhi," she said.
Hitting back at Narendra Modi for his attack on his wife Sunanda Pushkar, Union Minister Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said she is "priceless" but the Gujarat chief minister needs to be able to love someone to understand that.
The Kerala high court on Wednesday declined Minister of State for HRD Shashi Tharoor's plea to quash a case against him for allegedly insulting the National anthem and directed him to approach the trial court for discharge.
Member of parliament from Thiruvananthapuram and former Union Minister of state for external affairs Dr Shashi Tharoor has said that getting an entry into the UN Security Council is a significant achievement for India.
The Congress on Monday distanced itself from the controversial comments of some of its leaders on the Pahalgam terror attack, saying that only the recent CWC resolution and the views expressed by AICC chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and authorised AICC office-bearers represent its position. The opposition party's assertion comes in the wake of remarks by leaders like Vijay Wadettiwar, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Shashi Tharoor, Tariq Hameed Karra and Saifuddin Soz that have triggered a row, with the BJP alleging that some from the opposition party were speaking "Pakistan's language".
Former Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor arrived in Thiruvananthapuram constituency for the first time after his resignation from the post.
As the results for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 were declared on Tuesday, here is how some of the big faces fared in the contest.
"Everyone will have to fall on the same page," was the External Affairs Minister S M Krishna's message on Wednesday to his junior Shashi Tharoor who publicly questioned the new visa rules.
Kerala government and other sport lovers of the state on Sunday welcomed the Board of Control for Cricket in India's decision to give approval to Kochi IPL team.
"The fact that they (Indians) waited until quite late in the process to announce Tharoor's candidature was unfortunate, and it was certainly seen as a spoiler to my own candidature," he told Lanka Monthly Digest in an interview.
Continuing to 'tweet' his opinion despite receiving flak, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor now feels people should work rather than enjoy a holiday on Mahatma Gandhi's birthday.
Tharoor has nearly 175,000 followers on Twitter. An account that he started when he launched his election campaign now may now cost him dear as voices urging him to log off Twitter keep getting louder by the day.
Kharge or somebody else, whoever becomes the chief, he will only be a face to show, Sushil Modi said.
A case has been filed under Section 153A and 295A of the Indian Penal Code and Section 2 of The Prevention Of Insults To National Honour Act, 1971.
Making a statement in the Lok Sabha, he said, "I have done nothing improper, unethical and much less illegal... I have requested the Prime Minister to investigate thoroughly the charges against me. It is important to me that my name is cleared."
Central security agencies have traced a local phone number from which the alleged death threat from Dawood Ibrahim gang was made to an aide of Minister of State External Affairs Shashi Tharoor. Official sources said on Wednesday the number used for sending the alleged threat SMS, received by the personal staff of Tharoor, belonged to Delhi circle and the hunt for the sender is on.
Speaking on the IPL controversy involving Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said that he had to ascertain all the facts after he returned to India on April 17, before taking any action in the matter.When he was asked if Tharoor would be sacked over the Kochi IPL team controversy, the PM said, "I have heard about these things. I don't have all the facts before me and when I go back, I will get all the facts."
With the public showdown between Lalit Modi and minister Shashi Tharoor over the Kochi franchise snowballing into a major controversy, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has decided to convene a meeting of the IPL Governing Council within 10 days to discuss and take a decision on the episode.
Although the leaders are not on same page on many matters related to the party, they have apparently come together to check Tharoor's larger political ambition in the state, they said.
The Bhartiya Janata Party on Tuesday stoutly protested at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urging Saudi Arabia to persuade Pakistan to stop supporting terrorism, dubbing it as a major departure in foreign policy tenet of never involving third parties in the bilateral issues.
The lawmakers lacked imagination, he said.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP has already been summoned as an accused on July 7 in the case.
'If the government says that the Balakot airstrike was effective and terrorists were killed then they should have shown some proofs'
Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi on Thursday clarified that they have not issued any legal notice to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in connection with the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.
People in Uttar Pradesh did not vote for Congress as they knew Rahul Gandhi would not stay there to become the chief minister, party leader and former Union minister Shashi Tharoor said on Wednesday.
"In the present case, it cannot be said that the accused had ever intended or acted in such a manner which under normal circumstances would drive the deceased to commit suicide," special judge Geetanjali Goel said in the detailed order that discharged Tharoor.
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor, in a statement in the Parliament on Friday, rejected the Opposition's demands for his resignation by asserting that the allegations against him on the Indian Premier League issue were 'baseless, ill-founded and ill-motivated'.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has held consultations with senior party leaders ahead of Opposition's plans to raise the controversy surrounding Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's alleged murky deals in the Indian Premier League in Parliament on Friday.
The Congress rejected as absurd the Bharatiya Janata Party's demand that Union Minister Shashi Tharoor be sacked over the IPL controversy and said it was up to the cricket board to decide on allegations of impropriety over his role in the Kochi IPL team.
The vexed boundary dispute will not affect the Sino-Indian ties, Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said on Saturday.
Former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor is back in the news over payment of money by the Organising Committee of the Commonwealth Games for consultancy services.
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