Tharoor was speaking at the curtain raiser of the ninth edition of the Jaipur Lit fest held at the Taj Mahal hotel here on Thursday night.
Soon after the house met at noon after two brief adjournments, Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad said V.K. Singh should not only be removed from the ministry, but also from parliament.
"It was a clash between pro-cow volunteers and police. It was not any communal clash," R.S. Sangwan, deputy director of public relations (National Capital Region), Haryana, told IANS.
Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare the unprecedented crisis a national disaster.
The government has built 62.38 lakh toilets in 2015-16 as part of Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin), parliament was informed on Wednesday.
The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says home sales on the Multiple Listing Service in Metro Vancouver totalled 3,524 last month.