Congress slams Tharoor ’s remark on austerity drive

September 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor met Congress President Sonia Gandhi here today and is reported to have discussed his "cattle class" comment on the social network site Twitter. Tharoor is also scheduled to meet the Prime Minister, Dr.

September 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Friday, played down the comments made by Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on the social network site Twitter, saying it was just a joke and should be looked at in a light hearted manner.

June 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - "Minister Twitter - that is how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of Foreign Trade Sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi greeted Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on a Dubai stopover last week. In Dubai my old friend Sheikha Lubna, UAE foreign trade minister, hosted a friendly lunch at which she greeted me as 'Minister Twitter'! he tweeted June 24.

June 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The ministry of external affairs is all a-Twitter. Not because Indian diplomats have become net savvy, but one of the new ministers of state is a frequent user of this social networking web tool.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The excitement of the Indian elections has transferred online to one of its most popular social messaging sites - Twitter - where it emerged as the top topic posted Saturday. The Twitter tag '#indiavotes09' was the number one topic on the trends list of Twitter search, demonstrating once again the strength of Indians using these new technology tools.

June 15th, 2009 NEW YORK - After jokingly comparing America's First Lady Michelle Obama to an escaped gorilla on Facebook, a prominent South Carolina Republican was forced to kill his Facebook page, and apologize. Commenting on a report posted to Facebook about a gorilla escape at a zoo in Columbia, longtime GOP activist Rusty DePass wrote: I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors - probably harmless." South Carolina political blogger and a former gubernatorial spokesman, Will Folks, busted DePass's remark, which later forced the Republican to apologize.

January 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A parliamentarian had raised the issue of irregularities in Satyam Computer Services way back in 2001 but then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had ignored the matter, the Congress party said Tuesday.

May 7th, 2009 BANGALORE - Undaunted by US President Barack Obama's Bangalore-Buffalo remark and proposal to extend tax benefits to those creating job opportunities to Americans, experts in the Indian IT industry said the comments had nothing to do with outsourcing or with India. It is an instance of Obama's views being misinterpreted, said Som Mittal, President of Nasscom, while speaking to media persons here on Wednesday.

April 20th, 2005 Report from the 4th World Congress on Prevention of Diabetes and its Complications, organised by the World Health Organization and others.

January 16th, 2009 L.K. Advani's website proclaims that he puts the nation first, the party second and 'self last'. For the present, however, the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate is probably concerned more about himself than about the first two.

July 7th, 2007 Waterlogged streets and flooded homes everywhere in Kolkata thanks to inept Kolkata Municipal Corporation and heavy rains last few days. Personally we haven't suffered.

January 20th, 2009 GUWAHATI - The three-day All India Police Science Congress, which ended here Wednesday, has favoured outsourcing non-core tasks to private agencies and separating law and order from investigations in the metros. 'Now the police have to serve the summons issued by courts to the accused.

October 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - The head of an Indian trade group fears proposals in US Congress to limit visas for foreign high-tech workers would be a "business killer" for India's burgeoning information technology industry and would not reduce US unemployment. Som Mittal, president of India's National Association of Software and Service Cos.

July 21st, 2009 Roll Call to buy Congressional QuarterlyWASHINGTON — The owner of Roll Call is buying Congressional Quarterly in a deal that will bring two well-known publications covering Capitol Hill and Washington politics under the same corporate umbrella. Terms of the deal, announced Tuesday, were not disclosed.

April 17th, 2009 The use of internet for campaigning, being tested in India in the ongoing general elections, will emerge as a powerful medium when the world's largest democracy is ready for the next polls in 2009, concludes a leading tech publication.'Cyber campaigning may come of age in 2009 elections if politicians see marginal gains by using Internet and mobile technologies,' says Ibrahim Ahmad, group editor of Dataquest, which has done a report in its e-governance magazine. 'Their faith in e-governance could go up significantly.' The magazine says parties are now moving to the next stage - from static websites to interactive net strategies by building online communities and social networking sites to actively use technology to reach out to the electorate.