Shashi Tharoor, the union minister for state for human resource development, is joining a Google+ Hangout on Thursday May 9. Shashi Tharoor is one of the more technology savvy union ministers. In the Google+ Hangout Tharoor will address questions on challenges in higher education such as faculty shortage and low number of accredited institutions.
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07:26 PM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: Got a question on the future on higher education in India? You can ask Shashi Tharoor, the union minister for state for human resource development, in a Google+ Hangout on Thursday May 9 at 7PM. Shashi Tharoor is one of the more technology savvy union ministers. In the Google+ Hangout Tharoor will address questions on challenges in higher education such as faculty shortage and low number of accredited...
06:15 PM, May 08, 2013
Washington: Aspiring for a permanent seat at the powerful UN Security Council, India has renewed its call for reforming and expanding the 15-membered highest decision making body of the United Nations, to make it more reflective of the 21st century realities. "Now that we have renovated the Chamber, it is time to renovate the institution," Union Minister for Human Resources Development Shashi Tharoor said during a ceremony to mark the...
11:45 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Strongly favouring the learning of English to succeed in the modern world, Union Minister of State for HRD Shashi Tharoor has said denial of opportunity to children to study the language would destroy their future. ...
05:19 PM, Mar 31, 2013
A local court on Wednesday declined to permit withdrawal of the complaint in the national anthem case filed against Union Minister Shashi Tharoor for the time being. The petitioner Joy Kaitharath had last week submitted that he did not want to continue with the case. The case was registered against Tharoor, Minister of State for HRD, on the basis of a private complaint by Kaitharath of Ernakulam in the Additional...
06:28 PM, Mar 27, 2013
A local court on Friday posted to March 27 hearing of the National Anthem case against Minister of state for HRD Shashi Tharoor. The petitioner Joy Kaitharath made a submission in the court that he did not want to continue with the case. ...
10:03 PM, Mar 22, 2013
CBSE has proposed to introduce an 'open book examination' system in class 9 and 10 from 2014 wherein students will be informed of relevant chapters on which questions will be based. As per the concept, while students will not be allowed to carry textbooks inside the examination hall, they will be apprised in advance about the chapters and paragraphs from which analytical questions would be asked in the test, officials...
10:30 PM, Mar 13, 2013
A group of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) women's wing workers disrupted a function of Delhi Chief Ministrer Sheila Dikshit at Delhi's Talkatora Stadium on Friday and did not allow Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor to enter the programme venue. ...
02:21 PM, Mar 08, 2013
On the occasion of International Women's Day, Minister of State for Human Resources Development and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that education of girls is the best way to bring about progress for women. "If you educate a boy, you educate a person. If you educate a girl, you educate a family, transform a community, you change society," Tharoor said. ...
07:54 AM, Mar 08, 2013
A common question format for mathematics and science will be introduced in class XI from the coming 2013-14 academic session to bridge the gap among different boards. This means that the boards can fix a specific number of objective type, analytical or subjective type questions, though the content can vary from one board to another. ...
08:35 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Striking a different note from Congress, Union Minister Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday disapproved of Wharton cancelling invite to Narendra Modi, saying the institution had a duty to hear the Gujarat Chief Minister after inviting him. Tharoor, however, caveated his response by saying that he was not speaking on behalf of his party or the government but expressing his "personal view" when pointed out that Congress leaders have been saying otherwise...
11:21 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Union Minister Shashi Tharoor has reportedly defended police action against 111 people for posting and sharing 'defamatory' remarks against Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien in the Suryanelli gangrape case. The Cyber cell of the Kerala Police had filed cases against the Internet users, based on a complaint filed by Kerala Mahila Congress leader Bindu Krishna, who alleged that many of the comments also targeted her. ...
08:14 AM, Feb 26, 2013
Union Minister Shashi Tharoor on Sunday suggested if the party is voted to power, its president or the vice-president will be the natural choice for the post. "Everybody knows who is the president and vice president of our party and if people vote for our party, then naturally one among them would become Prime Minister of the country," he said without specifying any name. ...
04:43 PM, Feb 24, 2013
Book lovers in the national capital can head to Pragati Maidan as the New Delhi World Book Fair begins on Monday. The fair will be inaugurated by Union Minister Shashi Tharoor and is on for the next senven days. ...
06:54 AM, Feb 04, 2013
Are we becoming an intolerant society and is the Indian state defensive freedom of speech weak and equivocal? Those are the two issues Karan Thapar raised with the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor in his show Devil's Advocate. ...
08:46 PM, Feb 03, 2013
nion Minister Shashi Tharoor has expressed anger over the controversy about Kamal Haasan's 'Vishwaroopam', Salman Rushdie and Ashish Nandy. While speaking to Karan Thapar on this week's Devil's Advocate, Tharoor said that people are going out of their way to clamp down on cultural freedom in the name of religion. ...
07:27 AM, Feb 03, 2013
Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor said he was worried that segments of society claimed the "right to be offended" and pointed out that the expression of heretical views was often necessary for an "evolution of culture". ...
12:53 PM, Feb 02, 2013
Stressing that India-Pakistan peace was in the long-term national interest, union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor on Friday hoped the "dumbing down" of temperature by Islamabad over the past few days would enable a return to peace after the tension along the LoC. ...
12:57 AM, Feb 02, 2013
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11:38 AM, Jan 29, 2013
Even as senior Congress leaders on Friday sought to dismiss rumours about the possibility of Rahul Gandhi being made the party's Prime Ministerial candidate, Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor sparked fresh debate on Saturday with a statement. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Tharoor said, "We will be in very capable hands if Rahul Gandhi takes over." ...
10:00 AM, Jan 19, 2013
