Tharoor said the population debate is "utterly misplaced" and half a century out-of-date as a large majority of Indian states have achieved replacement levels of fertility.
Twitter briefly blocked IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Parliamentary IT panel chairman Shashi Tharoor from accessing their account over alleged violation of copyright laws.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor sought discharge in the case, saying there was no evidence against him to prove the offence punishable under either section 498A or 306 of IPC.
The court sought responses from Centre and others on the petitions filed by Tharoor, Sardesai and journalists Mrinal Pande, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath, Vinod K Jose and Anant Nath.
Journalists Mrinal Pande, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath and Anant Nath also approached the top court Tuesday against FIRs over their tweets on violence during farmers' tractor rally.
The opposition party also alleged that the BJP, both at the Centre and in states, is hell-bent on 'brutally and blatantly silencing' every contrarian or dissenting voice 'by hook or by crook'.
The complainant accused these people of posting false and misleading tweets from their accounts during the farmers' protest on January 26 in the national capital.
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor talks to Shekhar Gupta about the difference between civic nationalism and the Hindutva idea of the nation, where the...
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