Shashi Tharoor (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday expressed concern over the victory of the Jamaat-e-Islami’s student wing in the Dhaka University (DU) student union polls, questioning whether India may soon have to deal with a Jamaat-led government in Bangladesh. “This may have registered as barely a blip on most Indian…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said that India has “nothing to say sorry about” as it has acted with “a great deal of maturity,” while criticising the US for unfairly singling out New Delhi and pointing out that “Europe is putting more billions of dollars into Russia’s kitty than we do.““I don’t…
Congress MP Manish Tewari (ANI) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Manish Tewari on Sunday said he has “no regrets” about being left out of the party’s list of speakers for the Operation Sindoor debate in Parliament, suggesting that the leadership may not have considered him the “ideal candidate” to represent its stance.“Congress has nearly 100 MPs,…
Shashi Tharoor and Ranil Wickremesinghe NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday voiced concern over the arrest of former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, describing the charges against him as “trivial” and urging Colombo to refrain from the”politics of vengeance.” “Concerned about the detention of former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on what, on…
Shashi Tharoor (File phot) NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday reiterated India’s stand that it was a call from Pakistan’s DGMO and not US President Donald Trump which led to the pause in India’s Operation Sindoor against Pakistan.Thaoor said it was India’s successful strikes on the intervening night of May 9-10 that…
NEW DELHI: A humorous moment of Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on a podcast brought Congress Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor again into the limelight. During a podcast interview, Chaturvedi was questioned about posting pictures with Prime Minister Modi and public reactions. She quipped, “I sometimes love irritating people, because they are…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday refused to comment on Rahul Gandhi’s endorsement of US President Donald Trump’s remark calling the Indian economy “dead.” Tharoor said the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha may have had his “own reasons” for saying so, but stressed that maintaining economic ties with the US is vital…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Saturday criticised the government’s global outreach following ‘Operation Sindoor‘, particularly taking aim at his party MP Shashi Tharoor, who was part of the all-party delegation that visited multiple countries. “None of the 33 countries that Tharoor and his team visited blamed Pakistan for the Pahalgam terror attack,”…
Manish Tewari (left), and Gaurav Gogoi NEW DELHI: Amid reports that Congress MPs who were part of the multi-party delegation for the government’s global outreach on Pakistan-sponsored terrorism may not be allowed to speak in the Lok Sabha debate on the Pahalgam attack and subsequent Operation Sindoor, Congress MP Manish Tewari on Tuesday posted a…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is unlikely to speak on the debate on Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor that gets underway in LS on Monday. “He has not asked the party to be fielded in the debate. The party too has not approached him either till now,” sources said. It is to be…
