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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is planning to contest party president polls: Report

Elections for the post of Congress president is scheduled on October 17 and the results will be declared on October 19.

FIR against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra for Kali remarks, party says will caution her

At a forum in Kolkata, Moitra said Tuesday that Goddess Kali to her was ‘meat-eating, alcohol-accepting’; in solidarity, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said religion should be left to individuals to practice.

Surprise guest list at Congress G-23 ‘dinner meet’ — Tharoor, Aiyar, Preneet Kaur, Vaghela

G-23 leaders meet for 2nd time in week at Ghulam Nabi Azad’s house after poll results declared. Former CMs Prithviraj Chavan, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, also spotted.

Internet suspension rules ‘grossly misused’, caused huge economic loss, says Parliament panel

In a report tabled Wednesday, Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT admonished the govt for what it described as vagueness of the rules and lack of safeguards.

‘Done in good humour,’ says Shashi Tharoor as photo with ‘attractive’ women MPs gets him trolled

On the first day of Parliament's winter session, Shashi Tharoor posted a photo with women MPs, saying 'Who says the Lok Sabha isn’t an attractive place to work?' 

Make paid news electoral offence, create legal options to counter fake news: IT panel to govt

The standing committee on IT has unanimously adopted its report on Ethical Standards in Media. The report will be tabled in the winter session of the Parliament.

‘Hold Tharoor in highest regard’ says Telangana Congress chief, day after calling him a donkey

Revanth Reddy apologised to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor after facing flak for his ‘donkey’ remark. Tharoor had praised Telangana CM KCR’s son and IT minister KT Rama Rao.

Hindutva founders did little for azadi. Hijacking history in ICHR poster is what BJP can do

Excising Nehru from India’s freedom struggle is rationally impossible; omitting him from an ICHR poster is the best they can do.

Non-BJP Hindu writers are correcting Nehruvian history. With little space for modern Muslims

Recent books by authors like Shashi Tharoor and Pavan Varma invoke Hindu subjugation by Muslims to construct a ‘real’ history of India.

Tharoor can’t be compelled to face ‘rigmaroles of trial’, court says as it cites lack of evidence

The court says there was 'nothing on record' to prove that Tharoor had acted to 'irritate or annoy Pushkar' till she reacted and took the step of killing herself.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.