India will not be intimidated by Kabul attack: Tharoor

October 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor appears to be putting bad publicity over his "cattle class" tweets far behind. He has now become the only Indian minister to comment on the Kabul attack - thanks to Twitter, of course! "India will not be intimidated by these criminal killers" - Tharoor tweeted from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during an official visit there.

October 9th, 2009 ABU DHABI - Bilateral trade between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and India was worth $44.5 billion in 2008-2009, WAM news agency reported Friday, citing India's Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor. This accounts for about half of India's total trade in the Gulf region.

October 8th, 2009 KABUL/NEW DELHI - A Taliban suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives blew it up near the Indian embassy in Kabul Thursday morning, killing 12 people and injuring nearly 90 in the second such attack since July 2008. No Indian was killed.

October 8th, 2009 KABUL/NEW DELHI - At least 17 people were killed and 76 injured, some seriously, when a Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives near the Indian embassy in Kabul Thursday morning in the second such terror attack since July 2008. Barring three Indian paramilitary personnel who were injured, all the other casualties were Afghans.

October 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.

October 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Tuesday described the suicide bomb attack on the office of the World Food Programme in Islamabad as "tragic". The minister, who is visiting the United Arab Emirates, posted on Twitter: "Tragic, all the more so since those killed were working to help people in need." "My heart goes out to my ex-colleagues of UN WFP," said Tharoor, who left the UN as an under secretary general for communications and public information in 2007.

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 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.