Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said he disapproves of the CBI raids on DMK leader and Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin as it is bound to be misunderstood. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Chidambaram said, "I strongly disapprove of the action by the CBI. It will be misunderstood. I have spoken to the minister concerned." ...
09:36 AM, Mar 21, 2013
After being passed in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, the anti-rape bill will now be taken up in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. The Bill was passed in the Lower House after much drama with major amendments being negated. Two amendments, seeking life term for trafficking of children and life imprisonment for acid attack, were defeated. ...
08:51 AM, Mar 21, 2013
The UPA-II regime continues to be on life support as it is now completely dependent on outside support after the DMK pulled out. The UPA-II, after DMK's withdrawal, is now banking upon the man who has always helped the government survive in crisis, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, who is once again holding the aces. Mulayam with his 21 MPs is the oxygen supply that the UPA needs. ...
08:20 AM, Mar 21, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting raids at the residence of DMK leader MK Stalin in connection with a case involving illegal import of foreign cars worth Rs 20 crore. The raids come two days after the DMK pulled out of UPA government. ...
08:11 AM, Mar 21, 2013
The UPA-II regime continues to be on life support as it is now completely dependent on outside support after the DMK pulled out and the all-party meet on Wednesday failed to reach a consensus. While the UPA-II's fate hangs in balance, all eyes are on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) vote on Sri Lankan war crimes, that will take place in Geneva on Thursday at 2:30 pm (IST). ...
07:55 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday accepted the resignations of five DMK ministers and forwarded them to President Pranab Mukherjee. ...
03:06 AM, Mar 21, 2013
A day after the DMK pulled out of the UPA, the government scrambled to bring a consensus on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue but all efforts were in vain as the all-party meeting ended in complete disagreement. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 20, 2013
DMK chief M Karunanidhi withdrawing support to the central coalition some one year before Lok Sabha elections was the second such action in the past decade. He pulled out his 18-member party out of Congress-led UPA on Tuesday and five DMK representatives in the Council of Ministers submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday. ...
11:53 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The government's attempt to reach a consensus on the Sri Lankan resolution failed on Wednesday as party after political party opposed a country-specific resolution. ...
11:34 PM, Mar 20, 2013
A day after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) pulled out of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), the government on Wednesday scrambled to bring a consensus on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue but all efforts were in vain as the all-party meeting called by Speaker Meira Kumar ended in complete disagreement. ...
11:29 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The DMK's split from the UPA seems complete. The government's dependence on the two warring giants of Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party, now increases ever more. A cornered Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday reached out to SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav over the tiff he had with UPA Cabinet minister Beni Prasad Verma the previous day. Beni Prasad Verma had accused Mulayam of harbouring links with...
10:11 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The Centre is working on amendments to the US resolution on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka and is also pushing for a resolution to be passed by the Lok Sabha. The all-party meeting called by Speaker Meira Kumar, however, failed to reach any consensus. ...
09:49 PM, Mar 20, 2013
RK Radhakrishnan, Head of programmes at The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the Lankan Tamils' issues and their resonance in India. ...
06:14 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Five Union ministers of the DMK, including party patriarch M Karunanidhi's son, MK Alagiri, submitted their resignations to the PM on Wednesday. The resignations by the ministers comes a day after the DMK withdrew support from the UPA government over its alleged "unwillingness" to push for a stronger resolution on Sri Lanka at the UN. ...
06:13 PM, Mar 20, 2013
While DMK has pulled out of the UPA government, even Samajwadi Party which has been extending outside support to the ruling coalition has been playing hardball. The UPA government has been claiming that it is stable and there is no threat of elections taking place before the Lok Sabha terms ends. ...
05:35 PM, Mar 20, 2013
arliament was disrupted again on Wednesday as the Samajwadi Pary sought the resignation of Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma, while DMK and AIADMK membres raised the Sri Lankan issue. Both houses were first adjourned till noon amid ruckus, with members from Samajwadi Party (SP), DMK and AIADMK targeting the government. ...
05:35 PM, Mar 20, 2013
CPM leader Sitaram Yechury said it is not right to order an independent nation's probe into the affairs of Sri Lanka. "No independent country can interfere in the affairs of another sovereign nation. Just last week we condemned Pakistan Assembly's resolution on Afzal Guru's hanging," he said. ...
03:58 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Undeterred by adverse political developments, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said there will be no let up in the government's efforts to continue with the economic reforms and he will go ahead with his meetings with foreign investors to persuade them to invest in India. ...
02:50 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Even as Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath claimed that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government was not lame duck after the DMK pulled out from the ruling coalition, it is becoming increasingly clear that while the government may survive, it may not be able to transact important legislative business in Parliament as parties extending outside support to it are not going to be easy to bring on board on every...
02:11 PM, Mar 20, 2013
In the backdrop of the DMK withdrawing support to the UPA, the BJP on Wednesday said it has no plans to bring a no-confidence motion in Parliament against the government. ...
01:10 PM, Mar 20, 2013
