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Friday, August 15, 2025
TopicShashi Tharoor

Topic: Shashi Tharoor

A Smart Cities Mission, outsmarted, and a Trump in dove’s clothing

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Shashi Tharoor’s loyalty keeps colliding with Congress scepticism—while his global stature grows

The Congress party once championed Shashi Tharoor's bid for the highest seat in global diplomacy. Now it's glum over the Centre making him part of a delegation visiting world capitals on Operation Sindoor.

After Tharoor, Congress now has a Salman Khurshid problem as ex-minister lauds Article 370 abrogation

Khurshid was addressing a gathering of academia and think tanks in Indonesia as part of a multi-party delegation on Operation Sindoor.

Not a rabbit-duck illusion & blood red tape (terms and conditions apply)

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Zealots, trolls’: Tharoor fires back at critics of his surgical strikes remark, day after Congress meltdown

Though the Congress leader didn’t take names, it was clear who his remarks were aimed at. After all it was party colleagues close to high command who had taken shots at him.

India’s ‘1st surgical strike’ was under Modi—Shashi Tharoor’s remarks in Panama draw Congress fury

Pawan Khera makes it clear that party leadership had taken umbrage to remarks, shares a Manmohan Singh statement that Congress-led UPA govt too had carried out surgical strikes.

Shashi Tharoor-led party delegation meets Guyanese President Irfaan Ali, hail India-Guyana ties

President Ali also took a firm stand against terrorism and extremism, expressing his country's commitment to rejecting all forms of violence.

Tharoor-led all-party delegation lays out India’s anti-terror stance in NYC, pays tribute at 9/11 memorial

The delegation also held meetings with think tanks, academic institutions, and media. Discussions focused on India-US strategic ties and collaborative efforts to tackle terrorism.

On Camera

Nobel committee, note how Trump allowed Munir to make nuclear threat against India from US soil

So far, India has responded to his threats with a measured, diplomatic, strategic, and multi-dimensional approach. Now, it needs to react firmly.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

Be ‘atmanirbhar’ and go ‘swadeshi’: PM Modi’s clarion call to nation on 79th Independence Day

New Delhi: 'Atmanirbharta' and a call for 'swadeshi' were the mainstay of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s longest Independence Day address Friday, at a time...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.