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NEW DELHI: US Congressman Brad Sherman on Thursday made a pointed advise to a Pakistani delegation, led by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, that the country should "do all it can" to eliminate terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad from the region and ensure protection of religious minorities in the country.In a social media post on X, Sherman said that he emphasised to the Pakistani delegation the importance of combatting terrorism and, in particular, the group Jaish-e-Mohammed, who murdered Daniel Pearl in 2 ...Read More >
Ottawa/New Delhi, June 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Silencing doubters, the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proved once again that its diplomatic outreach extends far beyond the wildest dreams of opposition leaders at home or those running propaganda machines at full throttle from across the border. Just as the All-Party Parliamentary Delegation led by Shashi Tharoor was wrapping up its highly-successful visit to the United States - during which it also had an "excellent meeting" with ...Read More >
'I Didn't Plant It...': Shashi Tharoor's Hilarious Response To Son Asking Question In US Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, responding to a question from his son during a public interaction, addressed whether any country had asked the Indian delegation for evidence linking Pakistan to the Pahalgam attack. Tharoor said no foreign government raised doubts or requested proof, though some media did. He stated that India would not have acted without solid evidence. Tharoor pointed to a 37-year history of t ...Read More >
Pakistan's former Foreign Minister and Chairman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, recently faced public embarrassment at a United Nations press briefing after he was fact-checked by a reporter for making unsubstantial claims that Muslims were being 'demonised' in India. Bilawal Bhutto, part of Islamabad's diplomatic team at the UN, made the remarks during a press conference to clarify Pakistan's stance on Kashmir. Pahalgam attack was politicised to demonise Indian Mu ...Read More >
New norms to avoid another Bengaluru stampede, said Home Minister G Parameshwara. Bengaluru: Karnataka government will formulate a new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for mega events, meetings and celebrations aimed at preventing any untoward incidents, state Home Minister G Parameshwara said on Thursday. The initiative comes in the wake of the stampede near the Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium here on Wednesday that claimed 11 lives. Speaking to reporters, Mr Parameshwara said that the govern ...Read More >
New Delhi: After Shashi Tharoor, who recently hit back at those who politically criticised his conduct as a delegate of the Indian outreach mission, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Monday asked "is it difficult to be patriotic?" in a passionate disapproval of the partisan criticism from the domestic political gallery of his spirited support of India's Operation Sindoor against Pakistan-sponsored terrorism and his defence of the state of affairs in J&K after the abrogation of Article 37 ...Read More >
The delegations will brief PM Modi about their discussions with world leaders, sources said. New Delhi: The all-party delegations sent across the world to explain Operation Sindoor are on way home and the first delegation led by Jay Panda, lands in Delhi tomorrow. Sources said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet the members of all the delegations once they return. The meeting could be held on June 9 or 10, sources said. The delegations, sources added, will brief PM Modi about the discussio ...Read More >
Srinagar, June 5: Indian Railways will commence regular operations of two new Vande Bharat Express trains between Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra and Srinagar from June 7, following their official inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi tomorrow, June 6. The trains will offer passengers a fast, reliable, and modern travel option, running six days a week in both directions, officials said on Thursday. Prime Minister Modi is expected to flag off the two specially designed Vande Bharat trains ru ...Read More >
Washington, Jun 5 (PTI) Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, leading a multi-party delegation to the US, was Thursday asked a question by his journalist son whether government interlocutors sought evidence of Pakistan's culpability in the Pahalgam attack to which he replied India would not have conducted Operation Sindoor without convincing evidence. "That shouldn't be allowed. This is my son," Tharoor said laughing, during an interaction at the Council on Foreign Relations when his son Ishaan Tharoor, ...Read More >
Washington/New Delhi, June 5 (UN) The All-Party Parliamentary Delegation led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor briefed the leadership of the House Congressional Caucus on India, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, media and the Indian diaspora on the cross-border terrorism faced by India. The Congressmen, including Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Rich McCormick, expressed unequivocal and bipartisan condemnation for the terror attack in Pahalgam, a statement by the Indian Embassy in the US said. The All-P ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) As the Opposition demands a special session of Parliament over 'Operation Sindoor' the recent cross-border operation by the Indian armed forces that targeted terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir following the Pahalgam terror attack, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has supported the move, calling it crucial for national preparedness. However, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) have strongly criticised the ...Read More >
New Delhi, May 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) While India's global outreach on Operation Sindoor successfully turns the world's attention and concern towards Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, back home, this has led to 'serious differences' within the Congress party. Shashi Tharoor and Udit Raj, both tall leaders of the Congress party, are engaged in a bitter face-off over the former's praise for the Modi government's firm retaliation to Pakistan in response to April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, and insinuation ...Read More >
New Delhi, May 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Congress leader Udit Raj on Thursday stepped up the attack on party MP Shashi Tharoor, currently leading India's diplomatic outreach on 'Operation Sindoor', to the US and other neighbouring nations, and demanded that he must admit his mistake and express regret for projecting the grand old party in bad light on foreign soil. He stated that the Thiruvananthapuram MP has not only ignored and undermined the Congress party's historic achievements in India's war ag ...Read More >
New Delhi, May 29 (UNI) Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who is under attack from leaders within his own party for projecting India's case as part of global outreach on Operation Sindoor, on Thursday took a dig at his critics saying "I have better things to do.'' "I don't really have time for this...critics and trolls are welcome to distort my views and words as they see fit. I genuinely have better things to do. Goodnight,'' Tharoor tweeted before he left Panama for Colombia to educate them ab ...Read More >
New Delhi, May 20 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked Congress leader Shashi Tharoor to respond to a defamation plea filed by BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar against him. Justice Ravinder Dudeja said the "matter required consideration" while issuing notice to Tharoor on a revision petition against the magisterial court's order dismissing Chandrasekhar's criminal defamation case on February 4. "Issue notice to the respondent. Let the trial court record in digital form with bookmarking b ...Read More >
New Delhi, May 19 (PTI) The Congress on Monday dismissed as an "absolute lie" Union Minister Kiren Rijiju's reported assertion that that the government did not ask for names for the all-party diplomatic delegations going abroad, and said it was "cheap politics" to not get the names it selected cleared with the opposition party. Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said the same PM who had abused the Congress publicly i ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday summoned Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in response to a defamation lawsuit filed by BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar. Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav scheduled the next hearing for April 28. The court instructed that the complaint be treated as a formal suit and directed summons to be issued to Tharoor. The matter will be listed before the joint registrar on the scheduled date. In his suit, Chandrasekhar accused Tharoor of making false and damaging ...Read More >
"Let the plaint be registered as a suit. Issue summons to the defendant (Tharoor). List before the joint registrar on April 28," said the court. In his suit, Chandrasekhar claimed Tharoor made false and defamatory statements at various public fora in April, 2024 that severely damaged his professional and personal reputation. Chandrasekhar has sought to restrain Tharoor from making any defamatory statements. While seeking a public apology, he sought Rs 10 crore in damages from Tharoor for alle ...Read More >
Lok Sabha MPs and AICC general secretaries Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and K C Venugopal were at the AIIMS at the time of his passing. P P Madhavan, a long-time aide of the Gandhi family and personal secretary to Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, died Monday after suffering a heart attack. He was 73. Lok Sabha MPs and AICC general secretaries Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and K C Venugopal were at the AIIMS at the time of his passing. He will be cremated at his native place of Thrissur ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday hit out at the government, saying voting at the introduction stage of two bills on simultaneous elections in the Lok Sabha showed the BJP did not have the two-third majority required to pass a constitutional amendment. Two bills that lay down the mechanism to hold simultaneous elections were introduced in the Lok Sabha after a fiery debate on Tuesday. Opposition parties dubbed the draft laws -- a Constitution amendment bill and an o ...Read More >
INDIA bloc MPs, donning black jackets with slogans like "Modi Adani Ek Hai", protested at Parliament demanding a joint probe into the Adani issue. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra accused PM Modi of evading discussion on the "Adani mega scam" while defending Adani's alleged corruption. Rahul Gandhi asserted that Modi won't investigate Adani as it would be like investigating himself.Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Thursday said the country's people want the "Adani mega scam" to be discussed in Parliam ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday suggested that Congress MP Shashi Tharoor should consider sitting on a dharna to push for land acquisition for the Nemom railway terminal project in Thiruvananthapuram. Vaishnaw's comment came in response to Tharoor's concerns about delays and inadequate funding for the project, which aims to ease congestion on the railway line leading to Thiruvananthapuram Central. During the Question Hour, Tharoor, who represents Thiruvananthapuram, e ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 4 (ANI): BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde and NCP chief Ajit Pawar on Wednesday met Governor CP Radhakrishnan to stake claim to form the Mahayuti government. BJP's Central Observers for the state, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Vijay Rupani were also present at the meet. Also Read | Stock Market Today: Indian Stock Market Ends in Green, All Eyes on RBI's MPC Decision on Repo Rate. Fadnavis is scheduled to take oath as th ...Read More >
New Delhi, December 4: Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday shared an "extraordinary experience" at his home when a monkey ran towards him, hugged him and after being treated to a couple of bananas, rest his head on the Congress MP's chest and dozed off. Tharoor put out pictures from this unusual encounter on X and went on to narrate the incident that left many users of the platform bemused. "Had an extraordinary experience today. While I was sitting in the garden, reading my morning newspapers, a monke ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 4 (PTI) Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday shared an "extraordinary experience" at his home when a monkey ran towards him, hugged him and after being treated to a couple of bananas, rest his head on the Congress MP's chest and dozed off. Tharoor put out pictures from this unusual encounter on X and went on to narrate the incident that left many users of the platform bemused. "Had an extraordinary experience today. While I was sitting in the garden, reading my morning newspapers, a monk ...Read More >
Lalit Modi, the founder of the Indian Premier League (IPL), claims he left India in 2010 due to death threats from underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, not because of legal troubles. In a candid podcast interview, Modi detailed his anti-corruption stance in cricket, assassination attempts, and his dramatic escape. He also addressed controversies involving Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, asserting his readiness to return to India since no legal cases exist against him. Mod ...Read More >
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