Current crisis has shaken global economic order: Tharoor

October 13th, 2009 UNITED NATIONS - Noting that developing countries had been most affected by the global economic crisis, India has urged rich nations to honour their pledges and keep up the stimulus and other efforts to spur their economies. On its part "India remains firmly committed to realising the vision set out in Cairo 15 years ago and to fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015," Shashi Tharoor, minister of state for external affairs, told the UN General Assembly Monday.

October 7th, 2009 TORONTO - Canada's Jim Flaherty has been named the finance minister of the year by Euromoney magazine. The honour comes after the World Economic Forum rated Canada's performance as the best among G8 economies in the current global crisis.

September 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has apologized for his recent comment that he was prepared to travel in the "cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows". "It's a silly expression but means no disrespect to economy travellers, only to airlines for herding us in like cattle.

September 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - After being asked to leave a five-star hotel, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor used the social networking tool Twitter to give his reaction, pointing out that he was spending his "own savings". "I wld be ashamed if I was spending the people's money.

July 28th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said Tuesday that a delegation from Barcelona would soon arrive here for talks on making the Spanish city and the Kerala capital twin cities. Tharoor told reporters here that he has already discussed the proposal with the mayor of Barcelona, who has agreed to send two separate delegations to begin exploratory talks with the mayor of Thiruvananthapuram.

July 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor will lead the Indian delegation to the ministerial meeting of the Community of Democracies (CoD) next week. Tharoor will lead the Indian delegation at the ministerial meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-12, the external affairs ministry said in a statement.

June 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - On his first official foreign tour after assuming office, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Tuesday met with senior ministers of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during his day-long visit to Dubai. Tharoor arrived in Dubai Tuesday on way to Yemen, where he will represent India at the council of ministers meeting of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation.

June 13th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - A massive crowd of Congress activists turned up at the airport here Saturday to greet Congress MP Shashi Tharoor as he arrived on his first visit to Kerala after assuming charge as minister of state for external affairs. Tharoor, a former UN undersecretary general, was literally mobbed as he emerged from the airport terminal.

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI -Shashi Tharoor, the former UN undersecretary general, will be sworn as a minister in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's council of ministers Thursday. Sources close to Tharoor said he got a call from the Prime Minister's Office asking him to be present for the swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

May 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former diplomat and first-time MP Shashi Tharoor Monday said that he has stopped writing columns in newspaper and periodicals as he wants to concentrate on the problems of his constituency. "I have stopped all the columns," Tharoor told reporters here.

May 16th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Former UN undersecretary general and Congress party's Shashi Tharoor won the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat by over 80,000 votes, making his debut in Indian politics. Tharoor got an early lead right as counting began and maintained it throughout.

April 17th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Former United Nations undersecretary general and Congress candidate from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor was Friday cooling off in a houseboat after the intense campaign for the April 16 poll to Kerala's 20 Lok Sabha constituencies. Tharoor, who is due to appear in a Kochi court Saturday in a complaint of dishonouring the national anthem, is travelling on the houseboat in the Vembanad Lake from Alappuzha to Kochi.

April 16th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Shashi Tharoor, the Congress candidate for Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat, cast his vote here Thursday morning. But his visit to the polling booth generated controversy with police forced to take action after opposition workers protested against him attracting media attention.

March 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Shashi Tharoor has been appearing on TV talk shows taking questions ranging from what he wrote about Congress president Sonia Gandhi in a book to his plans for the Thiruvananthapuram constituency. In one talk show, Tharoor, who has lived in the US for the most part of his life, was asked if he is a 'US agent'.

March 20th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Former UN under-secretary general Shashi Tharoor was Thursday named the Congress candidate for the key Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat, and he said he would 'take this as a challenge'. 'First of all, I take this as a challenge and now since there are only four weeks left, I have to work hard.