Tharoor in Dubai to promote ties with UAE

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 NEW DELHI - India will not be intimidated by the criminal killers who perpetrated the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul and will take all steps to protect Indians, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor affirmed Thursday. "India will not be intimidated by these criminal killers.

October 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Sunday goes to Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on a five-day trip that is expected to reinvigorate India's economic and political ties with the energy-rich Gulf countries that are home to a large Indian diaspora. In Bahrain, he will hold talks with Foreign Minister Majid Bin Muhsin Al Alawi on a range of bilateral and regional issues.

September 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The current financial crisis has shaken the global economic order, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said here Thursday. In a way, the current crisis has questioned the very assumptions underlying the global economic order as we have known it since the end of the Second World War, Tharoor said at an RIS-Japan Economic Foundation Symposium.

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.

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.