Shashi Tharoor was elected as the Minister of State for External Affairs in May 2009 and in the same year he had won the elections from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala.

Tharoor has been caught in another controversy where the Comptroller and Auditor General found that he had been hired by the CWG OC, as a consultant between September 2008 and January 2009.

He has taken $30,000 as a consultancy fee from the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee and now he is claiming that the payment was much less than what he gets from delivering a single speech.

The renowned political figure of India, Shashi Tharoor has a long Bollywood connection. Tharoor wrote a tell-all novel on Bollywood, which is titled `Show Business'. It was written by him almost 18 years back, when he was a practicing author. Tharoor planned to expose a lot of secrets of the industry.

Now, the latest buzz is that Tharoor's 17-year-old son stepson Shiv, from his third wife Sunanda Pushkar, has Bollywood dreams. Shiv's father Sujith Menon died in a road accident. He was an entrepreneur in Kerala.

Be it the Ex-Minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor who had to left his post because of the allegations made against him in the IPL controversy or the IPL’s commissioner Lalit Modi himself who has been facing tough time as far as the matter of keeping his position intact in the much-popular cricket tournament is concerned. But experts are of a view that it hasn’t really made an impact on the revenue generating capacity of the cricket tournament.

The External Affairs Minister Mr. Shashi Tharoor may be in news for all wrong reasons, but he has managed to get an appreciation from the AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi.

When the entire Congress working committee has stood against Tharoor, Rahul Gandhi seems to be standing with the Thiruvananthapuram MP. He has said that Mr. Tharoor is still a possible asset for the party as well as for the country.

After the pressure mounted on the head of Ex-Minister of State for external affairs, Shashi Tharoor and he was forced to resign from his post it has been learnt that an ex-captain of the Indian team contact various industrial houses on behalf of Shashi Tharoor for buying stake in the Kochi team.

The hunt first started with Rahul Bajaj's brother to seek Bajaj Group foray into the IPL venture but it didn't make the cut. The second on the list was the MD of Hero Honda Motors, Pawan Munjal.

Embattled Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Sunday night stepped down, the Prime Minister's Office said, ending a weeklong political drama surrounding a controversial IPL financial deal involving his Dubai-based friend Sunanda Pushkar.

"Shashi Tharoor... has submitted his resignation to the prime minister, stepping down from the union council of ministers. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has forwarded the resignation to President Pratibha Patil with the recommendation that it may be accepted," a statement from the PMO said.

Patil also accepted the resignation.

The latest development in the IPL drama points that Sunanda Pushkar will surrender her stake in the controversial Kochi IPL team. According to a news-channel report, Pushkar is under pressure of the high class drama that has been going on these days and might be soon  asked to surrender the stake.

If she will surrender her stake, it will provide a huge let off to the external affaires minister Shashi Tharoor.

As the Minister of State Shashi Tharoor is still trying to make a way out of its controversy over the Kochi team with Lalit Modi, sources say that the spat between the two may cost Tharoor his Ministership.

In fact, as the Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and defence minister AK Antony, who were appointed by Sonia Gandhi to investigate this matter have found Tharoor's explanation unsatisfactory, sources say that he may be asked to file his papers soon.

As the IPL commissioner Lalit Modi and The Minister of State Shashi tharoor are getting into another round of heated allegations regarding the ownership issues of various franchises, advertisers are of a view that the controversy is rather moving into better for the brand IPL in the Indian market.

Sam Balsara, chairman and MD of Madison World recently said that the controversy is only helping the brand IPL rather than putting a dent on its brand equity.

Kochi, Mar 21 : Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Sunday denied his involvement in bidding for Kochi based Indian Premier League (IPL) team, but accepted that he did facilitate and encourage the undertaking.

"Kochi making it through IPL is of national significance. I think all the associates of IPL will certainly give Kerala a sort of dynamism and energy, which I am sure, will inspire people. I am very happy about this," said Tharoor.

Shashi Tharoor has been in many controversies over various comments he made online or in person since he was appointed as a minister by the congress party.

Mr Tharoor met Congress general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi mainly to clarify his latest 'interlocutor' comment. He has invited Saudi Arabia to play the interlocutor in the India-Pakistan relations.

The minister has reportedly said in the capital that Saudi Arabia would be invited as a valuable interlocutor, however he later explained on twitter that interlocutor and mediator are different things.

New Delhi, Jan 9 :Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor was once again in a bit of a spot Saturday, this time with his observatiions on India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Tharoor said Friday that while Nehru's foreign policy had taken India to a new level in the international arena, he agreed with criticism that it ammounted to a "moralistic running commentary on other countries' behaviour". Tharoor spoke after British MP Bhikhu Parekh delivered a lecture during which he said Nehru's policies presented India in a light of "moral self-righteousness".

Tharoor has penned a highly-readable biography of Nehru.

New Delhi, Dec 31 : Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has described his meeting with External Affairs Minister S M Krishna as excellent.

Tharoor posted his comments on the social networking Twitter on Thursday.

"Sorry abt(about) silence ydy (yesterday).1stday (first day) back, full schedule. Excellent mtg (meeting) w (with) EAM Krishna on wide range of fp (foreign policy) issues,” Tharoor stated.

On Wednesday, Krishna said to have publicly ticked off Tharoor for questioning the new visa rules through Twitter.

New Delhi, Dec 30 - Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Wednesday met his senior, External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna, to clear the air over his questioning of the country's new visa norms in social networking site Twitter.

After meeting Tharoor, Krishna told mediapersons: "Whenever new policy comes in effect, there are bound to be repercussions. Broad policy has been decided and we will do what needs to be done in this regard."

Krishna added that the meeting was arranged at Tharoor's request.

New Delhi, Dec 29 : A day after he was publicly reproached by his senior colleague S M Krishna, Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday commented on Twitter that he had missed brouhaha on the issue.

Tharoor, however refused to add anything to his earlier comments.

New Delhi, Dec 29 - Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor, who was pulled up for his remarks questioning the country's visa regulations on social networking site Twitter, Tuesday said he had nothing to add after the statement by his senior minister but said he would discuss the issue with him.

"(I) Was travelling out of range & (and) missed brouhaha," Tharoor, who is currently on a holiday in Rajasthan, posted on his Twitter account Tuesday.

External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna on Monday rebuked his junior minister, Shashi Tharoor, for publicly airing his differences on government policy.

Trying to soften Tharoor’s “liberality vs security debate” on twitter, a social networking site, Krishna said the government will go by the home ministry’s guidelines and stressed differences over issues should not be discussed in public.

The Home Ministry had issued a directive on November 4 that foreign nationals with long-term multi-entry tourist visa must have mandatory two-month gap between two visits. The new rule was introduced after disclosures that 26/11 suspect David Headley had visited India on a tourist visa.

New Delhi, Dec 28 : External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has responded strongly to the comments made by Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on twitter, a social networking site with respect to India’s new visa rules.

SM Krishna on Monday said the government would act according to the guidelines set by the Home Ministry for visa regulations.

“Policy matters should not be discussed in the public domain,” he added.

New Delhi, Dec 22 : India will not resume the composite dialogue with Pakistan until Islamabad prosecutes the conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and dismantles the infrastructure of terrorism on its territory, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said here Tuesday.

New Delhi, Dec 22 : Reacting to the comments made by Pakistan''s High Commissioner in India, Shahid Malik, that India is not fulfilling its commitments to de-link the composite talks from action on terrorism, Minster of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said the onus is on Pakistan to make the ground for a suitable dialogue.