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Limited Terms, Decentralisation: Key takeaways from Shashi Tharoor’s manifesto
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5 min read30 Sep 2022Shashi Tharoor after verdict on wife Sunanda Pushkar's case: Full statement here
Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in the national capital on the night of 17 January 2014
1 min read18 Aug 2021Shashi Tharoor hopes to see discussions on Pegasus in IT panel
The Pegasus issue clearly falls under the purview of the IT committee and so it is only expected that its members will ask questions about it when these topics arise, Tharoor said
4 min read8 Aug 2021'Terrific CoWIN': How Congress leader Shashi Tharoor showers praise on Modi govt
This is not the first time that Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has praised Modi govt's efforts
1 min read8 Aug 2021'Utterly misplaced,' Shashi Tharoor decries BJP states' population control bills
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor exclaimed the bigger challenge for India in the next 20 years will be to prepare for an ageing population, not a growing population
3 min read17 Jul 2021Any attempt to be 'BJP Lite' will turn us into 'Congress Zero': Tharoor
'Congress is not BJP in any shape or form, and we should not attempt to be a lighter version of something we are not. Nor are we trying to, in my view,' says the Congress leader
7 min read1 Nov 2020'Is IMF's relocation from Washington to Beijing imminent?' asks Shashi Tharoor
Citing the IMF data, the Congress leader further said that China will be the only major economy to grow this year while the US would shrink by 4.3 per cent.
1 min read20 Oct 2020Here's why Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is all praise for Nitin Gadkari
On Tuesday, Nitin Gadkari inaugurated a 27-kilometre highway project from Kazhakoottam to Mukkola, built at a cost of ₹1,121 crore Shashi Tharoor said Thiruvananthapuram-Mukkola stretch of National Highway 66 is one of his 'proudest projects'
1 min read14 Oct 2020'Neither managed Covid well nor kept economy afloat': Tharoor hits out at Centre
'We have the worst of both worlds. GDP for the first time in 41 years will actually shrink, our employment crisis has become even worse than before,' says the Congress MP in Lok Sabha
1 min read20 Sep 2020IT panel modifies agenda for crucial meet amid pressure from NDA
A revised notice drops the words ‘UT of Jammu and Kashmir’ with respect to the discussion on suspension of telecom and internet services, which had been criticized by BJP members in the panel
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