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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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

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…

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.

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:

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.