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TopicShashi Tharoor

Topic: Shashi Tharoor

UDF wins 4 of 7 assembly seats in Tharoor’s Thiruvananthapuram stronghold

The Congress’s presence in Thiruvananthapuram, where Shashi Tharoor is the local MP, has been dwindling over the years. But it has marked a comeback this election.

From rebel to star campaigner: How Shashi Tharoor found his way back in Congress

After months of mixed signals, public divergence & praising opponents, Tharoor has realigned with Congress leadership—attacking Centre in Parliament & campaigning for UDF in Kerala.

Tharoor slams Modi govt over delimitation in LS— ‘we risk creating a tyranny of demographic majority’

A handful of large poor states can theoretically determine the fate of the entire country, leaving others 'feeling like bystanders in their own country,' the Congress MP says.

Time for India to rise as third force for peace in West Asia conflict, says Shashi Tharoor

In a interview with ThePrint, the Thiruvananthapuram MP also spoke about the UDF's prospects in Kerala, and key issues in the coming assembly polls.

Made co-chair of Congress’s Kerala poll campaign committee, Tharoor likely to miss maiden meeting

Shashi Tharoor might not be present at the meeting due to an injury in his leg, the 10-member election panel’s chair, Ramesh Chennithala, told reporters Friday.

‘Pre-committed purchase pact & 2-minister ping-pong’: Tharoor’s scathing jibe at India-US trade deal

Thiruvananthapuram MP, who backed the Centre on Op Sindoor, took a swipe at ministers Piyush Goyal & Jaishankar for evading questions on India’s purported pledge to US on Russian oil.

The great pre-poll ‘patch-up’: What happened at Tharoor’s meeting with Rahul & Kharge

Tharoor’s absence from a meeting of Congress high command & its Kerala leadership had deepened concerns within party that its ties with Thiruvananthapuram MP were nearing breaking point.

Tharoor declares he never wavered from commitment to Congress. ‘Who said I deviated from party line?’

Shashi Tharoor was addressing the media in Wayanad after the Congress’s two-day brainstorming camp in Wayanad ahead of the 2026 Kerala assembly polls.

RSS didn’t always honour the Constitution. It’s a new phenomenon: Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor was in conversation with Vir Sanghvi at The Park, where The Oxford Bookstore announced the longlist of contenders for its 11th Book Cover Prize.

Priyanka leads, Tharoor weighs in strongly as Oppn hits out at Centre over ‘retrograde’ G RAM G Bill

Oppn benches in Lok Sabha erupted in protest as Rural Development Minister Shivraj Chouhan sought to introduce the new Bill, which seeks to replace MGNREGA.

On Camera

NEET paper leak came from a hole that wasn’t plugged in 2024. NTA is ignoring its problems

The students who paid Rs 5 lakh for a leaked paper and the students who paid Rs 5 lakh for legitimate coaching did not sit the same exam. That is the real scandal.

Petrol, diesel prices hiked by Rs 3 per litre as Centre moves to ease OMC losses

The hike comes amid soaring global energy costs, with government citing mounting under-recoveries and fiscal pressure on state-run oil firms

Drones no longer enablers, they’re replacing manned aircraft roles—CISC Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit

Speaking at IAF think-tank seminar, Air Marshal Dixit was backed by Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh, who said unmanned aerial systems are no longer just the eyes in the sky but ‘claws in the sky’.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.