Sri Lanka has been in the line of fire over alleged human rights violations against Lankan Tamils for almost four years now. Allegations of war crimes and human rights abuses have swirled and eddied around the Sri Lankan Army since the killing of LTTE supremo Prabhakaran, but the photographs of his teenage son Balachandran gave it an ugly disturbing edge. ...
02:08 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Sri Lanka will reject the final draft of a US-sponsored resolution submitted at the UNHRC which seeks to "discredit" and "single out" the country over alleged human rights violations, External Affairs Minister GL Peiris has said. ...
01:20 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
Uproar over issues relating to Sri Lankan Tamils and Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma's remarks against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav led to the adjournment of Parliament for an hour on Wednesday. ...
11:59 AM, Mar 20, 2013
With renewed attention on crimes against women in India after the gangrape of a Swiss woman in Madhya Pradesh, foreign nationals living in or visiting India feel the country is as unsafe as any other. Sexual abuse is a global phenomenon; many woman visitors say they have never felt especially unsafe here. ...
11:30 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Agitating against continuing war crimes against Tamils in Sri Lanka, students on Wednesday staged a protest at Chennai's Marina Beach. The students are holding the protest in a peaceful manner and carried placards on the Marina beach. ...
11:20 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The DMK is in no mood to reconsider its decision of withdrawing support to the government. "There is no question of reconsidering when the resolution is to be passed day after tomorrow as there are just two days left now. In no ways is India helping the Tamils," DMK leader TKS Elangovan said. With the DMK out, the government is depending on Mulayam and Mayawati and significantly, the Samajwadi Party ...
11:14 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said that the government intends to amend the resolution on Sri Lankan war crimes, but was still holding talks with other parties to come to a conclusion. "The position of the party is that we intend to amend the resolution. The opinion among other parties so far is divided. We will continue to speak to other parties to come to a consensus," Chidambaram said....
10:56 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The DMK has ruled out any compromise saying it is ending the nine-year alliance with the Congress with a heavy heart over the UN resolution on Sri Lanka. "There is no question of reconsidering when the resolution is to be passed day after tomorrow as there are just two days left now. In no ways is India helping the Tamils," DMK leader TKS Elangovan said. ...
09:12 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The UPA government is still working on a resolution on the Sri Lankan Tamil issue in a desperate last ditch effort to get the DMK back on board. But a breakthrough looks unlikely at the moment. The UPA government is likely to move amendments to the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC. But moving the amendments is no easy task and will involve hectic lobbying. ...
07:58 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday denounced Sri Lanka for the "unspeakable atrocities" on Tamils, taking an unusual hard line against Colombo for the first time. ...
03:15 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The DMK, the second largest constituent of the ruling coalition, the UPA, has officially withdrawn support from it. A delegation of DMK leaders, led by TR Baalu, handed over the letter of withdrawal of support from the UPA to President Pranab Mukherjee at 10.30 pm on Tuesday. The UPA is in minority in Parliament now. The coalition government will be more than ever at the mercy of powerful but fickle...
10:58 PM, Mar 19, 2013
The DMK withdrew support from the UPA on Tuesday over the Sri Lankan war crimes issue. ...
10:09 PM, Mar 19, 2013
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the second biggest constituent of the ruling government, severed ties with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) on Tuesday, but the move posed no immediate threat to the minority government, which said it is "stable and will continue to stay in power". The M Karunanidhi-led DMK, which, for days had been threatening to pull out from the UPA in protest against government not taking up its...
09:08 PM, Mar 19, 2013
The historic anti-rape Bill was finally passed in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The Bill fixes the age of consent for sex at 18 and the first offence of stalking is bailable. The Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha by Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Tuesday. ...
07:52 PM, Mar 19, 2013
The DMK on Tuesday pulled out from the UPA government over the Sri Lankan war crimes issue. It said its ministers will resign soon. ...
07:37 PM, Mar 19, 2013
The DMK has pulled out of the UPA alliance over the Sri Lankan war crimes issue. Its five ministers at the Centre will resign. The letter is yet to be sent to President. ...
05:55 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Even though the DMK has pulled out of the Congress-led UPA over the US-sponsored war crimes resolution on Sri Lanka, the party is still adamant that its three demands on the issue be incorporated into the resolution. The M Karunanidhi-led party insists that the terms "genocide" and "war crimes" should be included in the US-backed resolution. ...
04:02 PM, Mar 19, 2013
The DMK which has 18 MPs in the Lok Sabha has withdrawn support to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government over the US-sponsored resolution on alleged war crimes by the Sri Lankan forces. Announcing the decision to pull out of the UPA, DMK chief M Karunanidhi said that the five ministers in the Union Ministry would put in their papers by Wednesday and give the letter of withdrawing support to...
03:11 PM, Mar 19, 2013
SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav said that the DMK has still not withdrawn support from the UPA as they haven't notified the President. ...
02:50 PM, Mar 19, 2013
