Tharoor says Sino-India relations go beyond the boundary issue

September 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.

September 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - 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. He said this on the occasion of the release of the book 'Shadows Across The Playing Field - 60 Years of India-Pakistan Cricket' authored by him and Shaharyar Khan of Pakistan here on Thursday.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ahead of External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna's visit to Australia, India has said it was concerned about attacks on Indian students but does want the issue to "infect" growing relations between the two countries.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has said that the racial attacks on Indian students in Australia would not harm the relations between the two countries. "We believe we are on the same side on many issues.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The India-Pakistan joint statement issued in Egypt was a "diplomatic paper" not a legal document, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said Thursday, reiterating that what mattered was "not the perception of words on paper" but the conduct of Islamabad in preventing future acts of terror. It is a diplomatic paper that is released to the press -- different from legal papers.

June 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor today said that India is in constant touch with Australia in the wake of attacks on Indian students there. Talking to reporters outside Parliament, Tharoor said that the issue has been taken up at the highest levels and Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh had a telephonic conversation with his Australian counterpart conveying India's serious concern over the issue.

May 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Just days after the chief of the Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major, described China as the bigger threat to India than Pakistan, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jeichi today congratulated new External Affairs Minister S M Krishna for assuming charge of the Foreign office. Jeichi in a statement said "The Chinese side attaches great significance to the friendly relations of cooperation with India.

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 21st, 2009 THIRUVANTHAPURAM - Former UN Under Secretary General Shashi Tharoor and Congress party candidate from Thiruvanthapuram in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election has said that his priority will be the development of his constituency. "I am not looking at anything beyond a victory in the district, the constituency of Thiruvananthapuram that is the focus...

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon has said India and China are attempting to find a solution to the vexed boundary dispute "While we attempt to resolve our differences such as those on the boundary, we will not allow those differences to prevent engagement in other fields. Neither side has attempted to change the status quo on the border while we seek a boundary settlement," Menon said at a book release function here last evening.

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.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and China are exploring dates to hold the next round of talks to resolve their decades-old boundary dispute, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said here Thursday while calling for more economic interaction between the two sides. 'We are looking at new dates for boundary talks.