Tharoor Twitter Row

Congress communications in-charge Jairam Ramesh responds to tweet by BJP IT Cell chief Amit Malviya that juxtaposed Rahul Gandhi's 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' with Mr Tharoor's alleged "dismembering" of the country.

"Everything I tweet is my personal opinion", Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Thursday, a day after his Twitter post on Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra's Goddess Kali remark on Goddess Kali was termed as "personal opinion" by his party.

A photograph of the tribute ceremony to former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh has triggered a controversy on social media.

The Shashi Tharoor-led Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT seeks evidence on matters related to citizens' rights in digital space. It has summoned senior officials of the IT and I&B ministries. Issues related to Twitter may come up in the meeting.

Amid the ongoing "toolkit" row, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said the parliamentary panel on information and technology had written to the IT ministry over its communication with Twitter on the ''manipulated media" issue and received a reply on it.

A political row over a US media reportthat said Facebook's content policies favoured the ruling BJP has led to three MPs sparring on Twitter.

A war of words has broken out on Twitter between Union Minister of State V Muraleedharan and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor over the disbursal of Rs 1 crore in MP-LADS funds towards either research into coronavirus test kits or their purchase.

Union minister Anantkumar Hegde -- known for his hugely controversial comments -- today weighed in on the row over Shashi Tharoor's dig at Yogi Adityanath. His target was Rahul Gandhi, who had been dragged into the Twitter war by Union minister Smriti Irani. While Ms Irani had accused the Congress chief of "strategically" wearing a janeu, Mr Hegde ...

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor clarified today that he had not intended to equate Kanhaiya Kumar, the student recently arrested on charges of sedition at Jawaharlal Nehru University or JNU, with freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.

Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar has asserted that she had no role in the marital discord between union minister Shashi Tharoor and his wife, Sunanda Pushkar, who was found dead in a five-star hotel on Friday evening.

A day after Congress MP from Thiruvanathapuram, Shashi Tharoor, issued a joint public statement with his wife Sunanda P Tharoor on his embarrassing Twitter fiasco, the Opposition-backed newspapers in Kerala carried the drama as their front page stories.

Sunanda P Tharoor told NDTV that her husband is "a happily married man." She added, "I don't have the intention at the moment to leave him."

Cattlegate, Shashi Tharoor's famous Twitter controversy, may finally have been laid to rest.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had a meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday.

Congress communications in-charge Jairam Ramesh responds to tweet by BJP IT Cell chief Amit Malviya that juxtaposed Rahul Gandhi's 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' with Mr Tharoor's alleged "dismembering" of the country.

"Everything I tweet is my personal opinion", Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Thursday, a day after his Twitter post on Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra's Goddess Kali remark on Goddess Kali was termed as "personal opinion" by his party.

A photograph of the tribute ceremony to former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh has triggered a controversy on social media.

The Shashi Tharoor-led Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT seeks evidence on matters related to citizens' rights in digital space. It has summoned senior officials of the IT and I&B ministries. Issues related to Twitter may come up in the meeting.

Amid the ongoing "toolkit" row, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said the parliamentary panel on information and technology had written to the IT ministry over its communication with Twitter on the ''manipulated media" issue and received a reply on it.

A political row over a US media reportthat said Facebook's content policies favoured the ruling BJP has led to three MPs sparring on Twitter.

A war of words has broken out on Twitter between Union Minister of State V Muraleedharan and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor over the disbursal of Rs 1 crore in MP-LADS funds towards either research into coronavirus test kits or their purchase.

Union minister Anantkumar Hegde -- known for his hugely controversial comments -- today weighed in on the row over Shashi Tharoor's dig at Yogi Adityanath. His target was Rahul Gandhi, who had been dragged into the Twitter war by Union minister Smriti Irani. While Ms Irani had accused the Congress chief of "strategically" wearing a janeu, Mr Hegde ...

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor clarified today that he had not intended to equate Kanhaiya Kumar, the student recently arrested on charges of sedition at Jawaharlal Nehru University or JNU, with freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.

Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar has asserted that she had no role in the marital discord between union minister Shashi Tharoor and his wife, Sunanda Pushkar, who was found dead in a five-star hotel on Friday evening.

A day after Congress MP from Thiruvanathapuram, Shashi Tharoor, issued a joint public statement with his wife Sunanda P Tharoor on his embarrassing Twitter fiasco, the Opposition-backed newspapers in Kerala carried the drama as their front page stories.

Sunanda P Tharoor told NDTV that her husband is "a happily married man." She added, "I don't have the intention at the moment to leave him."

Cattlegate, Shashi Tharoor's famous Twitter controversy, may finally have been laid to rest.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had a meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday.