India will not be intimidated by these criminal killers: TharoorOctober 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In the third episode of 'Twitternama', Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said that India will not be intimidated by suicide bomb attacks like the one that rocked the Indian Embassy in Kabul on Thursday. "India will not be intimidated by these criminal killers.
India will not sign 'discriminatory' NPT: TharoorSeptember 25th, 2009 JAIPUR - Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has said that India will not adhere to any treaty such as the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and will not sign it as long as it is discriminatory. Tharoor was reacting to a call by US President Barack Obama, who while chairing a historic meeting of the UN Security Council on Thursday appealed the nuclear weapon states to scrap their deadly arsenal.
Tharoor says US should monitor Pak aid in wake of Musharraf's admissionSeptember 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Monday said he was not surprised by former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's admission that the military aid the U.S. gave to Pakistan was used to strengthen defences against India rather than fighting the war on terror on Pakistan's borders with Afghanistan.
I am spending my own savings: Tharoor tweetsSeptember 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.
Pakistan is epicentre of terror in the region: S.M. KrishnaSeptember 5th, 2009 BANGALORE - External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna attacked Pakistan on Saturday by calling it epicentre of terror in this region, and said it's for Islamabad to decide what kind of ties it wants with India.
Tharoor non-committal on Indians in Sri Lanka jailsAugust 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliyaar, an influential leader of Kerala Muslims, Wednesday said that Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor was non-committal on the possibility of bringing back about 40 Indians in Sri Lankan prisons.
Sonia backs PM on India-Pakistan statementJuly 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Strongly backing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's declaration that there was no dilution of the national consensus on countering terrorism emanating from Pakistan, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Thursday said India's foreign policy with respect to its neighbour had not changed. No one should be in any doubt on our party's position vis--vis Pakistan.
Want dialogue? Then contain terror, PM tells GilaniJuly 16th, 2009 Sharm-el-SHEIKH - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made it clear to his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani Thursday that there can be no further bilateral dialogue unless Islamabad contains terrorist activities directed from Pakistani soil. "We were quiet clear that if acts of terrorism continue to be perpetrated, there is no question of any dialogue, let alone composite dialogue," Manmohan Singh told reporters here after three hours of talks with Gilani on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit.
Talks with India unavoidable, says PakistanJune 25th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan seriously believes that composite dialogue is in the interest of both India and Pakistan, foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit said here Thursday. "Talks are unavoidable for durable peace and prosperity in the region," Basit said at a weekly press briefing.
No talks till Pakistan acts against terror: IndiaJune 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India reiterated Thursday the subcontinental dialogue process could not resume unless Pakistan acts credibly against terror directed against this country. There is no change in our position.
Shashi Tharoor to be sworn in as ministerMay 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.
Tharoor to stop writing newspaper columnsMay 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.
Shashi Tharoor wins Thiruvananthapuram seatMay 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.
Tharoor cools off in backwaters after pollApril 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.
Tharoor faces questions, one too manyMarch 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'.
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