New Delhi: The university system was not producing "well-educated" graduates to meet needs of Indian companies, giving an opportunity to firms to enter the sector in the "guise" of training, Minister of State for Higher Education Shashi Tharoor on Monday said. He also said that the national education policy in the past has been out of step with the times. "The major problem remains that our national education policy in...
03:22 PM, Nov 05, 2012
Minister of State for HRD Shashi Tharoor ha said that a number of pending legislations pertaining to HRD ministry will be passed during the upcoming Winter Session of Parliament despite possible opposition from some Congress MPs. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, he said a lot of persuasion will be required to convince Parliamentarians rather than pushing for enactment of the legislations. He also ruled out the possibility of...
10:37 PM, Nov 04, 2012
New Delhi: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Sunday dared Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor to name the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders who regretted the remark Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi made against the minister's wife Sunanda Pushkar. In an interview to Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN show Devil's Advocate, Tharoor has claimed that many BJP ministers reached out to him "saying they regretted the deplorable conduct"...
10:40 AM, Nov 04, 2012
New Delhi: Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor claims that many Bharatiya Janata Party leaders had reached out to him to regret the comment made by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi against his wife Sunanda Pushkar. "A very very large number of BJP people, including some former ministers, reached out to me saying they regretted the deplorable conduct of one of their own," the newly-elected minister told...
07:59 AM, Nov 04, 2012
New Delhi: Taking potshots yet again at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Saturday questioned his silence on his "marital status" and in a tweet, asked his supporters, "Would all Modi fans educate us on this?" A day ago, Digvijaya Singh had demanded that the Gujarat Chief Minister reveal the whereabouts of his 'wife'. Singh asked Modi why he was silent about his wife Yashoda...
11:10 AM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: Minister of State (MoS) for Human Resources Development (HRD) Shashi Tharoor on Friday rued that the quality of higher education in the country was "extremely uneven" and prescribed specialised training by institutions to its recruits as one of the solutions to bridge the gap. Speaking at the 2nd convocation of the Max Institute of Medical Excellence in New Delhi, the new MoS for HRD said there was a...
07:43 PM, Nov 02, 2012
New Delhi: Taking charge as Minister of State for HRD, Shashi Tharoor today emphasised on universalisation of education with focus on quality, even as he made a strong case for an IIT in his home state of Kerala. Asserting that the Ministry would witness a "good team spirit" among the three new ministers, he said the big issue according to him would be "making education relevant for all along with...
02:59 PM, Nov 02, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's controversial statement calling Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar a Rs 50 crore girlfriend has led to a bitter war of words. Now Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has targeted Narendra Modi's marital status and demanded that the Gujarat Chief Minister reveal the whereabouts of his 'wife'. Singh asked Modi why he is silent about his wife Yashoda and why he is...
01:19 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of Minister of State for Human Resources Development (HRD) Shashi Tharoor, has hit back at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for calling her Rs 50 crore girlfriend of the Congress leader. Speaking to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, Pushkar called the remarks of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader a below-the-belt attack, and asserted that she did not expect this from a Chief Minister. Below is...
08:33 AM, Nov 01, 2012
New Delhi: New Human Resource Development Minister MM Pallam Raju on Wednesday came out in defence of his ministerial colleague Shashi Tharoor, terming as unfair the BJP's taunt that the minister of state for HRD should be made minister of "love affairs". Raju was reacting to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's comment that a "love affairs ministry" should be created for Tharoor. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi,...
03:23 AM, Nov 01, 2012
Sunanda Pushkar called the remarks of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader a below-the-belt attack, and asserted that she did not expect this from a Chief Minister. ...
11:58 PM, Oct 31, 2012
New Delhi: Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of Minister of State for Human Resources Development (HRD) Shashi Tharoor, has hit back at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for calling her Rs 50 crore girlfriend of the Congress leader. Speaking to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, Pushkar called the remarks of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader a below-the-belt attack, and asserted that she did not expect this from a Chief Minister....
10:20 PM, Oct 31, 2012
New Delhi: Berating Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks against her, Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, on Wednesday asked him to show respect to women and not "stoop" to such level. Sunanda said she was not expecting an apology from the Gujarat Chief Minister who had over the last 10 years chosen not to express regret for the 2002 post-Godhra riots. "I have nothing to...
06:56 PM, Oct 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has once again taken a dig at Minister of State for HRD Shashi Tharoor calling him a 'love guru'. "For an international love guru like him, a ministry of Love Affairs should be created," BJP spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said. This comes a day after Tharoor responded to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's 'Rs 50 crore girlfriend' comment on his wife Sunanda Pushkar....
01:38 PM, Oct 31, 2012
New Delhi: Hours after he went after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for attacking Sunanda Pushkar, Minister of State for Human Resources Development (HRD), Shashi Tharoor, said he has never shied away from acknowledging his wife in public or private. Tharoor was responding to a Twitter user's accusation that he had admitted in Parliament that he had "nothing to do with the person" (Pushkar) with 'sweat equity' worth Rs 70...
12:39 PM, Oct 31, 2012
New Delhi: Just hours after Minister of State for HRD Shashi Tharoor hit back at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for calling his wife Sunanda Pushkar a Rs 50-crore girlfriend, the Congress took the issue further by demanding an apology from Modi. All India Congress Committee Secretary Sudhakar Reddy also said that Modi should have resigned by now. "He should resign have by this time. Narendra Modi insulted Manmohan Singh...
07:51 AM, Oct 31, 2012
Newly appointed MOS HRD Shashi Tharoor made a comeback on twitter- taking on the man the Congress loves to hate. ...
11:39 PM, Oct 30, 2012
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09:58 PM, Oct 30, 2012
MoS for HRD Shashi Tharoor has hit back at Narendra Modi on Twitter saying, "My wife is worth a lot more than your imaginary 50 crores. She is priceless. But you need2be able2love some1 2understand that (sic)." ...
03:46 PM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: When it comes to using social media tools like Facebook and Twitter to his advantage, very few can match newly-appointed Minister of State for Human Resources Development (HRD) Shashi Tharoor's battle skills. Tharoor hit back at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday in his own inimitable style for calling his wife Sunanda Pushkar "a 50 crore girlfriend". Modi was alluding to the cricket controversy in 2010 involving...
03:13 PM, Oct 30, 2012
