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TopicShashi Tharoor

Topic: Shashi Tharoor

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.

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‘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.

Shashi Tharoor is hot property for everyone but Rahul Gandhi

Shashi Tharoor’s equation with Kerala BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar is a strained one. He also isn’t known for hurling personal barbs at his opponents, which BJP expects out of turncoats.

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Maharashtra’s language war reaches West Bengal. Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is the first victim

While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.