While China has blamed New Delhi for trying to provoke Beijing by orchestrating Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama’s controversial visit to Arunachal Pradesh, India has rubbished the allegation.
“The Dalai Lama went to southern Tibet at this critical moment probably because of pressure from India. By doing so, he can please the country that has hosted [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Shashi Tharoor’
China says India has forgotten lessons of 1962 war
November 9th, 2009 |
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Govt to take steps to stop misuse of business visas: Tharoor
November 1st, 2009 |
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The government will take steps to stop misuse of business visas during employment process in the country, Union minister Shashi Tharoor said on Saturday.
According to the minister of state for external affairs, business visas were not to substitute employment visas.
With reference to China, Tharoor said there might be fears that business visas issued to [...]
India will not be intimidated by these criminal killers: Tharoor
October 9th, 2009 |
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In the third episode of ‘Twitternama’, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said that India will not be intimidated by suicide bomb attacks like the one that rocked the Indian Embassy in Kabul on Thursday.
“India will not be intimidated by these criminal killers. We will take all steps necessary to protect Indian lives [...]
Shashi Tharoor says NPT is discriminatory
September 25th, 2009 |
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Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has said that India will not adhere to any treaty such as the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and will not sign it as long as it is discriminatory.
He said this on the occasion of the release of the book ”Shadows Across The Playing Field – 60 Years [...]
India offers Liberia two million dollars grant-in-aid
September 19th, 2009 |
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India and Liberia issued a Joint Statement on Friday under which both countries have agreed to take their bilateral relations to the next level.
Visiting Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor offered extensive assistance in the form of lines of credit on concessional terms.
In addition, India also offered development assistance to Liberia to [...]
Manmohan Singh terms Tharoor’’s Twitter comments as `just a jokeâ€
September 19th, 2009 |
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The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Friday, played down the comments made by Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on the social network site Twitter, saying it was just a joke and should be looked at in a light hearted manner.
“(Tharoor’’s) comment was just a joke,” said the Prime Minister on the [...]
AIYF activists burn Tharoor’’s effigy in Kerala criticising his latest tweet
September 18th, 2009 |
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In reaction to Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor’s remark about the government’’s austerity drive on a social networking site, activists from the All India Youth Federation (AIYF), the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (CPI), burnt his effigy in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday.
Media had quoted Tharoor as saying on Twitter that [...]
US taking Musharraf’’s expose on aid use against India seriously
September 15th, 2009 |
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The United States has said that it is taking revelations by former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf that aid provided by America for the war against terrorism was diverted during his tenure to strengthen defences against India seriously.
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters here on Monday that Washington takes all such allegations seriously and there [...]
Mukherjee asks Krishna, Tharoor to shift to official residences from hotels
September 8th, 2009 |
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Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday asked External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and his deputy Shashi Tharoor to vacate their five-star hotel suites.
Krishna and Tharoor have been staying in five-star hotels in national capital for the past three months in the absence of official accommodation.
While Krishna was staying at ITC Maurya, Tharoor was [...]
Tharoor’s statement inconsistent with diplomatic norms: Pakistan
July 25th, 2009 |
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Pakistan on Friday taking serious notice of the remarks made Indian External Affairs Minister of State Shashi Tharoor regarding the joint statement issued following meeting between the prime ministers of two countries in Sharm El-Sheikh said, such statements are inconsistent with diplomatic norms.
The Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit while commenting on Tharoor’s remarks about Pakistan, [...]
Australian Immigration Minister assures quality education to Indian students
July 22nd, 2009 |
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Australian Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Chris Evans on Tuesday assured quality education to Indian students, following apprehensions over slump in migration after the racial attacks Down Under.
Evens, who is currently on a visit to India said this while speaking to media after meeting with Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor in New [...]
India looking very attentively at Pak action: Tharoor
July 18th, 2009 |
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The Indian Government on Saturday said that it is looking very attentively at the follow-up action undertaken by Pakistan vis-Ã -vis the 26/11 probe.
Minister of State for External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor, told a private television channel that : “We are keenly watching the Pakistani action on 26/11. We have received and are studying the documents- the [...]