Tharoor to lead Indian team at Lisbon meet

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 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.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Amid calls for his resignation over his "cattle class" remarks, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Tuesday met Congress president Sonia Gandhi after returning from his trip to Africa. Tharoor, who is in charge of Africa and West Asia in the external affairs ministry, met Gandhi in the morning and shared impressions of his visit to Liberia and Ghana.

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.

August 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.

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.

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 18th, 2009 KOCHI - Shashi Tharoor, the former UN under secretary general and Congress candidate for the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat, Saturday secured bail from a court here in a case charging him with showing disrespect to the national anthem. A complaint, filed before additional chief judicial magistrate Cherian K.

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.

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 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.