Toronto: India offers huge scope for Canadian firms to participate in its $ 1 trillion infrastructure development plan, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said. "India expects 50 per cent of this investment to come from the private sector. These developments create major opportunities for both Canadian and Indian companies," Tharoor said while addressing the Canada-India Business Council (C-IBC) Diwali gala dinner attended by scores of corporates from two countries in...
09:16 AM, Oct 08, 2011
New Delhi: Firing a salvo at Anna Hazare, former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor has said how can a person "who never stood for elections" claim to be the voice of the people. Asserting that laws can be made only by Parliament, Tharoor, who is a first time MP from Kerala, said, "We cannot have a small group of unelected people imposing their will on Parliament because in the long term...
05:02 PM, Sep 01, 2011
New Delhi: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has got more than a million followers on Twitter a little over a year-and-half after joining the micro-blogging site. "Celebrating the million mark by watching Bambi with my daughter. Feeling the warmth...thanx all. Love u," Shah Rukh posted on his page Monday. The actor, who hooked on to Twitter in Jan 2010, amassed over 10,000 followers within the first 24 hours of joining...
04:45 PM, Jul 11, 2011
New Delhi: Bollywood is coming alive in fine print. A spate of innovative books is not only documenting Indian moviedom for posterity but also throwing meaningful light on the evolution of mainstream cinema. "I think for the first time there is a whole range of books now that reflects the incredible range of Bollywood itself," Udayan Mitra, publishing director at Penguin India, told IANS. "Readership of film books has grown....
11:34 AM, Jul 07, 2011
Thiruvanathapuram: A billion dollar controversy has surrounded Kerala's Padmnabhaswamy temple as to who owns the treasure trove found at the temple and how much is it worth. The world will have to wait longer for the answers. The Supreme Court has gagged the committee appointed to take stock after one of the members spoke to the press. The Supreme Court said that it has barred members of the committee from...
09:22 PM, Jul 06, 2011
New Delhi: The Shunglu Committee has found irregularities in the appointment of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor as an international consultant to advise Commonwealth Games Organising Committee about host of activities related to the sporting event. The Committee has found that "prices were dictated" at Tharoor's term for his engagement with the Games organising body. "In the case of catering consultant Ajay Grover and in case of another consultant Shashi Tharoor,...
11:57 AM, Jun 19, 2011
Kolkata: Former Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday said he got a hostile reception from the country's mainstream media for his tweets on several issues. Tharoor, the most active political personality on Twitter in the country, said, "I had gone for Twitter since time was limited to me. But there is a danger in Twitter because of the 140-character limit within which one has to express...
10:24 PM, Apr 20, 2011
New Delhi: After smashing most of the records on the field, India's cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar has scored a hit off the field too. This time on Twitter. Tendulkar surpassed former Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor's following on the social networking site on Thursday with 983,174 followers. And the number is growing. Tharoor currently has a following of 980,263 people. Twitter has become a buzz word of...
07:05 PM, Apr 14, 2011
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is confident of overthrowing the incumbent government in Kerala. ...
03:05 PM, Apr 13, 2011
Shashi Tharoor, Shiela Dixit, Veerappa Moily, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Murli Deora and Narendra Modi share a few words after India won the ICC World Cup on Saturday night, leaving the entire nation feeling proud. ...
10:40 PM, Apr 03, 2011
In the last five years, twitter has been witness to history in the making. ...
08:50 AM, Mar 17, 2011
New Delhi: One of the best contemporary retelling of an Indian classical epic, 'The Great Indian Novel', a transcreation of Ved Vyasa's Mahabharata by writer-politician Shashi Tharoor, has completed 21 years since it was published. The writer celebrated the 21st birthday of his book by reading from it at the ongoing Arclight Literature Festival at the Alliance Francaise in the capital Saturday. The three-day festival began Friday. The seminal book,...
07:24 PM, Mar 08, 2011
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It is a yearly norm. I lock myself up with rented movies, adequate music and superfluous food to avoid the hurly-burly of Valentine's Day. Not ...
02:48 PM, Feb 16, 2011
New Delhi: Former junior foreign minister Shashi Tharoor on Sunday slammed media reports that claimed that the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CWG OC) had paid him Rs 13.5 lakh for attending the OC office for twelve days. The reports cited the Comptroller and Auditor General as revealing that the OC hired Tharoor to use his services to help ensure the successful staging of the Games. The reports also claimed Tharoor...
10:29 AM, Feb 13, 2011
After a gap of 19 years India has got elected to a non-permanent UN Security Council seat. Former Under Secretary General of United Nations Shashi Tharoor speaks on the importance of such an event. ...
10:18 PM, Oct 12, 2010
Thiruvananthapuram: Former Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said his wife Sunanda Pushkar had no connection with the Kochi IPL team after she returned her stakes in the Rendezvous Sports World-led consortium a few months ago. Tharoor told reporters here that his wife had returned all the shares she had with the consortium. "She was in the promotional group initially. But after a controversy broke...
11:41 PM, Oct 03, 2010
The newly-wed couple was seen seeking blessings at the Shri Banke Bihari Temple and later at the Iskcon temple. ...
11:02 AM, Sep 13, 2010
Palakkad (Ker): Former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor on Sunday tied the knot with Dubai-based entrepreneur Sunanda Pushkar in a typical Malayali wedding ceremony in his ancestral home at Elavanchery village near here. 54-year-old Tharoor, a former UN Under Secretary General and now a Lok Sabha MP, tied the 'thali', symbolising the marital bond as per the Hindu custom, amid playing of 'Nadaswaram' and beating of drums at the auspicious moment...
08:41 AM, Aug 22, 2010
