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India’s Modi to face no-confidence vote over Manipur violence

The BJP has clear majority in lower house of parliament, so the vote is unlikely to affect the government’s stability.

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Twilight phase of monarchy in Travancore was a period of both conflict and development: Shashi Tharoor

The king and the dewan had done some extraordinary things which continued to benefit generations of people in Thiruvananthapuram for many years, notes Shashi Tharoor

The Hindu

Role of afforestation in disaster mitigation stressed

Discussions and debates on forests and environment should not be a knee-jerk reaction to natural calamities, said Shashi Tharoor, MP. Afforestation has to be taken up urgently as a disaster mitigation strategy, he added.

The Hindu

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Congress shares Nehru’s photo performing yoga, doing a headstand

With the Congress remembering India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s contribution to popularising yoga, senior party leader Shashi Tharoor on June 21 said, “We should also acknowledge all those who revived and popularised yoga, including our government”, for internationalising the International Day of Yoga through the United Nations.

The Hindu

Protect education from narrow-minded tendencies: Tharoor

He was delivering a keynote address on the ‘Future of higher education in India’ during a lecture series organised as part of the Kerala University Researchers’ Festival that is under way on the Karyavattom campus on Tuesday.

The Hindu

Wrestlers’ issue will cause great deal of damage to BJP: Shashi Tharoor

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has hit out at the government on the wrestlers’ issue, saying the BJP is going to do itself a “great deal of damage” as it has taken a stand which is “morally unacceptable” to the nation.

The Hindu

Let us embrace this symbol from past to affirm values of our present: Tharoor on Sengol

Amid the raging Sengol row, Shashi Tharoor said the positions taken by the government and the Opposition on the issue are reconcilable, as he called for embracing this symbol from the past to affirm the values of our present.

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Shashi Tharoor slams BJP over Manipur situation, calls for imposition of President's rule

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said the voters of Manipur are feeling "grossly betrayed" just a year after putting the BJP in power and called for the imposition of President's rule in the state that has witnessed violent clashes. Read further on Dynamite News:

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HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 2023 preview: The event looking to overhaul the UK’s ‘suspicion of philosophy’

Louis Chilton looks ahead to the 2023 philosophy and music event in Hay-on-Wye, and speaks to the festival’s founder Hilary Lawson

The Independent UK

Karnataka polls: Sonia, Rahul, Kharge, Shettar in Congress' list of 40 star campaigners

Congress heavyweights, including the party's national president Mallikarjun Kharge, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, state chief DK Shivakumar, LoP Siddaramaiah, Shashi Tharoor former BJP leader and deputy chief minister Jagadish Shettar, among others, featured in the party's list of star campaigners for the May 10 Assembly…

Dynamite News

An elegant retelling of an extraordinary life: Revisiting Shashi Tharoor’s book on Ambedkar

The life, struggle and work of Dr BR Ambedkar has of late engaged wide-ranging scholarly reflections as well as biographies. In the last few weeks alone, for instance, such exercises have ranged from an account of expansive breadth to the specific focus of an academic study.

Newslaundry

"Cong a respectable alternative to misgovernance in Bengaluru": Shashi Tharoor

Hitting out at Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP government in Karnataka, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said people of the poll-bound southern state have endured misgovernance in the last four years. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Indian opposition leader's speeches in Britain cause ructions at home

For the past fortnight, India's ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and the Congress, the main opposition, have been engaging in a war of words in parliament over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's remarks on Indian democracy during a recent visit to London.

Radio France Internationale

"It is damaging to Indian democracy": Shashi Tharoor on move to disqualify Rahul Gandhi

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday wondered whether it was good for the democracy of this country when a principal opposition leader is not allowed to raise his voice in Parliament. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Reactions to India’s Rahul Gandhi losing parliament seat

Opposition leaders condemn Gandhi’s disqualification and accuse PM Narendra Modi’s government of ‘killing democracy’.

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Several Congress leaders slam disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as Lok Sabha MP

Many congress leaders have reacted sharply over Rahul Gandhi's disqualification as Lok Sabha MP. Must read further on Dynamite News:

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Parliament Budget Session: Meeting of leaders from like-minded opposition parties underway

A meeting of leaders from like-minded opposition parties is underway at the office of LoP Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge in Parliament to chalk out the strategy for the floor of the House on Monday, All India Congress Committee (AICC) informed. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Shashi Tharoor: Rahul Gandhi never demanded foreign forces to save our democracy

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said that the Wayanad MP never demanded foreign forces to save our democracy. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Shashi Tharoor: "Rahul Gandhi hasn't said anything that requires an apology"

As the BJP continues to demand an apology from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his remarks in London on democracy in India, party MP Shashi Tharoor said that Gandhi has not said anything that requires an apology. Read further on Dynamite News:

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The global leadership India needs

India, like China, takes enormous pride in its civilisation's scale and antiquity -- and rightly so. But such pride can also lead to a complacent and sometimes dangerous insularity. Since gaining independence from the British Empire 75 years ago, India has mostly looked inward, focusing on improving the welfare of…

Newslaundry

‘Unsurprising’: What the papers say about Mallikarjun Kharge’s election as Congress president

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge won the party’s presidential election on Wednesday. He was up against party MP Shashi Tharoor. The party’s election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry announced that Kharge had received 7,897 of the 9,385 polled votes and Tharoor 1,072.

The Guardian - UK

India’s Congress party appoints first non-Gandhi president in 24 years

Mallikarjun Kharge, a Gandhi loyalist, aims to lead fightback against Narendra Modi’s BJP

Al Jazeera

Mallikarjun Kharge elected president of India’s Congress party

Mallikarjun Kharge, 80, defeats Shashi Tharoor to become the first Dalit Congress president.

The Independent UK

India's opposition Congress party elects new president

India’s main opposition Congress party has elected Mallikarjun Kharge as its new president in a contest in which the Nehru-Gandhi family, which has led the party for more than two decades, did not compete

Reuters

India's Congress elects first non-Gandhi chief in 24 years

India's opposition Congress party declared veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge its new chief on Wednesday, the first person from outside the influential Nehru-Gandhi family to hold the beleaguered party's presidency in 24 years.

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