New Delhi: Advocates of national integration waived entertainment tax for ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ while the “abettors of disintegration and disharmony” waive it for ‘The Kashmir Files’, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday. He stressed that tax incentives reflect the direction in which the government wants society to go. ‘The Kashmir Files’, which has found […]
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and member of G-23 group Ghulam Nabi Azad met party interim president Sonia Gandhi at her residence on Friday. Earlier, G-23 leaders, who have been calling for sweeping reforms in the grand old party, met on Wednesday to discuss the party’s debacle in the recently concluded Assembly elections in five […]
Bengaluru (Karnataka): Stating that Congress is a perennial party and is deeply rooted in the minds of people, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Friday said that that the Congressmen should change their attitude in order to bring it back to power in the country. The statement from Moily came after the dissident leaders […]
New Delhi: A day after the High Commissioner of Singapore to India, Simon Wong was called by the Ministry of External Affairs over the remarks by the Prime Minister of Singapore during a parliamentary debate, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday slammed the move of the Centre and said that it should have handled the […]
New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor renowned for his expansive vocabulary and penchant for “unheard” words like ‘floccinaucinihilipilification,’ which has led even the well-read make a run for their dictionaries, was on Thursday called out for spelling errors in a Twitter post. Union Minister Dr Ramdas Athawale pounced at the chance to school the Thiruvananthapuram […]
Sangareddy: Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said it was time that Opposition parties came together on to a common platform to take on the ruling BJP in the 2024 elections. Responding to a question during an interaction with GITAM University students at Rudram, the Congress leader said, “Modi government has several failures […]
New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday slammed the Centre over the Nagaland ambush issue and said that there should have been a discussion in the House but Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister had walked out without taking questions. Speaking to ANI, Tharoor said, “We should have had a discussion. Home Minister […]
Hyderabad: Even as the State government was taking up different tribal welfare programmes, the Centre sanctioned 17 Van Dhan Vikas Kendra Clusters (VDVKCs), which are set up in tribal dominated districts, during the last three years. The Van Dhan Vikas Karyakram is aimed at livelihood generation for tribals by harnessing the wealth of forest by […]
New Delhi: The Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology has recommended that the Union government should not shutdown the Internet services in every case, saying that the ‘Internet is indispensable in everyday lives of citizens of the country’. In its 26th report tabled in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday on ‘the suspension of telecom […]
New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor offered an apology after he posted his picture on the first day of the winter session of Parliament. Tharoor posted a selfie with six women MPs, including Trinamool’s Nusrat Jahan and Mimi Chakraborty, Congress’ Preneet Kaur and Jothiman Sennimalai, NCP’s Supriya Sule and DMK’s Thamizhachi Thangapandian and wrote: “Who […]
