Wife of Indian minister found dead in hotel room after Twitter row


  • World
  • Saturday, 18 Jan 2014

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - - The wife of an Indian government minister was found dead in a New Delhi hotel room on Friday, police said, days after she was involved in a row with a Pakistani woman journalist over Twitter.

It was not immediately clear how Sunanda Puskhar Tharoor, wife of junior human resource development minister Shashi Tharoor, had died, Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said.

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