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Congress’s all out attack on Centre over Manipur violence, Shashi Tharoor favours lifting internet ban

NEW DELHI: Even as senior Congress leaders have been demanding some comments from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the ongoing violence in Manipur since May 3, party MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday spoke in favour of lifting the ban on internet in the strife-torn northeastern state.

The Times of India

Twilight phase of monarchy in Travancore was a period of both conflict and development: Shashi Tharoor

The king and the dewan had done some extraordinary things which continued to benefit generations of people in Thiruvananthapuram for many years, notes Shashi Tharoor

The Hindu

Role of afforestation in disaster mitigation stressed

Discussions and debates on forests and environment should not be a knee-jerk reaction to natural calamities, said Shashi Tharoor, MP. Afforestation has to be taken up urgently as a disaster mitigation strategy, he added.

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Shashi Tharoor, Manisha Pande, and Swapan Dasgupta launch Abhishek Choudhary's book 'Vajpayee' in Delhi

First-time author Abhishek Choudhary recently released his debut biography of former Indian prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, titled 'Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right 1924-1977'.

The Times of India

Congress shares Nehru’s photo performing yoga, doing a headstand

With the Congress remembering India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s contribution to popularising yoga, senior party leader Shashi Tharoor on June 21 said, “We should also acknowledge all those who revived and popularised yoga, including our government”, for internationalising the International Day of Yoga through the United Nations.

The Hindu

Protect education from narrow-minded tendencies: Tharoor

He was delivering a keynote address on the ‘Future of higher education in India’ during a lecture series organised as part of the Kerala University Researchers’ Festival that is under way on the Karyavattom campus on Tuesday.

The Hindu

Wrestlers’ issue will cause great deal of damage to BJP: Shashi Tharoor

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has hit out at the government on the wrestlers’ issue, saying the BJP is going to do itself a “great deal of damage” as it has taken a stand which is “morally unacceptable” to the nation.

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Let us embrace this symbol from past to affirm values of our present: Tharoor on Sengol

Amid the raging Sengol row, Shashi Tharoor said the positions taken by the government and the Opposition on the issue are reconcilable, as he called for embracing this symbol from the past to affirm the values of our present.

The Hindu

Shashi Tharoor slams BJP over Manipur situation, calls for imposition of President's rule

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said the voters of Manipur are feeling "grossly betrayed" just a year after putting the BJP in power and called for the imposition of President's rule in the state that has witnessed violent clashes. Read further on Dynamite News:

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HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 2023 preview: The event looking to overhaul the UK’s ‘suspicion of philosophy’

Louis Chilton looks ahead to the 2023 philosophy and music event in Hay-on-Wye, and speaks to the festival’s founder Hilary Lawson

The Independent UK

Karnataka polls: Sonia, Rahul, Kharge, Shettar in Congress' list of 40 star campaigners

Congress heavyweights, including the party's national president Mallikarjun Kharge, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, state chief DK Shivakumar, LoP Siddaramaiah, Shashi Tharoor former BJP leader and deputy chief minister Jagadish Shettar, among others, featured in the party's list of star campaigners for the May 10 Assembly…

Dynamite News

An elegant retelling of an extraordinary life: Revisiting Shashi Tharoor’s book on Ambedkar

The life, struggle and work of Dr BR Ambedkar has of late engaged wide-ranging scholarly reflections as well as biographies. In the last few weeks alone, for instance, such exercises have ranged from an account of expansive breadth to the specific focus of an academic study.

Newslaundry

"Cong a respectable alternative to misgovernance in Bengaluru": Shashi Tharoor

Hitting out at Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP government in Karnataka, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said people of the poll-bound southern state have endured misgovernance in the last four years. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Indian opposition leader's speeches in Britain cause ructions at home

For the past fortnight, India's ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and the Congress, the main opposition, have been engaging in a war of words in parliament over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's remarks on Indian democracy during a recent visit to London.

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"It is damaging to Indian democracy": Shashi Tharoor on move to disqualify Rahul Gandhi

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday wondered whether it was good for the democracy of this country when a principal opposition leader is not allowed to raise his voice in Parliament. Read further on Dynamite News:

Al Jazeera

Reactions to India’s Rahul Gandhi losing parliament seat

Opposition leaders condemn Gandhi’s disqualification and accuse PM Narendra Modi’s government of ‘killing democracy’.

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Several Congress leaders slam disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as Lok Sabha MP

Many congress leaders have reacted sharply over Rahul Gandhi's disqualification as Lok Sabha MP. Must read further on Dynamite News:

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Parliament Budget Session: Meeting of leaders from like-minded opposition parties underway

A meeting of leaders from like-minded opposition parties is underway at the office of LoP Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge in Parliament to chalk out the strategy for the floor of the House on Monday, All India Congress Committee (AICC) informed. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Shashi Tharoor: Rahul Gandhi never demanded foreign forces to save our democracy

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said that the Wayanad MP never demanded foreign forces to save our democracy. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Times of India

Author Patrick French passes away

Author Patrick French, who is best known for writing the biographies of Sir Vidia Naipaul and Francis Younghusband, died on March 16, 2023 in London. He was 57 years old and was suffering from cancer.

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Shashi Tharoor: "Rahul Gandhi hasn't said anything that requires an apology"

As the BJP continues to demand an apology from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his remarks in London on democracy in India, party MP Shashi Tharoor said that Gandhi has not said anything that requires an apology. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Times of India

Viral video: Man carries Oxford dictionary to Shashi Tharoor's event in Nagaland; netizens can't stop laughing

Senior Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor is known for using long-winded, difficult-to-pronounce and rarely-used English words. While many are impressed, there are those who feel overwhelmed and intimidated. Some even feel the need to look up definitions in the dictionary. Like this man from Nagaland, who recently went for…

The Times of India

How opposition leaders praised Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget 2023

NEW DELHI: While leaders of the ruling BJP-led NDA are gloating over the budget presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday, some opposition leaders unexpectedly have also praised it.

The Times of India

Prakash Jha and Ratan Jain to make film on Sunanda Pushkar book - Exclusive

Venus Films and Prakash Jha have come together to make a film on the late businesswoman and Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar. The film is based on a best seller titled Extraordinary Life and Death of Sunanda Pushkar written by Sunanda Mehta.

The Times of India

How Rishi Sunak as UK PM triggered row over minorities in India

NEW DELHI: Rishi Sunak taking over as the prime minister of the United Kingdom has triggered a debate on the status of minorities and people of foreign origin far away in India. Leaders of opposition parties have alleged domination of majoritarianism in the country.

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