The government is preparing its own resolution on Sri Lanka that will be vetted by the DMK. "Draft is a work in progress. We don't have a final position. We are in the process of looking at all proposals," said External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid. ...
10:26 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 DMK caught the UPA on the wrong foot on Tuesday as it announced a pullout from the alliance over the Sri Lanka war crimes issue. ...
09:54 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Government has finalised its draft resolution on Sri Lankan Tamil issue that will be brought in Parliament after one more meeting, sources said on Tuesday. The resolution will be vetted by the DMK, which pulled out of the UPA government as a protest against government not taking up its concerns in the proposed UN resolution against Sri Lanka. ...
09:26 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 DMK has decided to stall Parliament to force the UPA Government to vote in favour of the US-sponsored resolution. ...
10:36 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Standing firm on its stand for a very strong resolution against Sri Lanka in the United Nation Human Rights Commission (UNHRC), the DMK has decided to stall both houses of Parliament on Tuesday to force the Congress-led UPA Government to vote in favour of the US-sponsored resolution. DMK leaders have given a notice for suspension of question hour in both houses of Parliament. ...
10:11 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Birthday boy Rangana Herath got rid of well set Mominul Haque for 37 and then dismissed Nasir Hossain to leave Bangladesh reeling. ...
09:23 AM, Mar 19, 2013
The DMK has demanded that the UPA government should take a very strong stand on the alleged war crimes resolution against Sri Lanka and threatened to pull out its ministers from the Union Cabinet if India did not vote in favour of the US-sponsored resolution. ...
09:04 AM, Mar 19, 2013
DMK, however, could consider extending outside support to the government after 3 top ministers failed to satisfy Karunanidhi on the resolution. ...
09:00 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Ahead of the vote on a resolution on alleged human rights violations by Sri Lanka in the United Nations Human Rights Council, the DMK has threatened to pull its ministers out of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Cabinet and could consider extending outside support to the government after three top ministers failed to satisfy M Karunanidhi with the wording of the resolution. ...
08:01 AM, Mar 19, 2013
There has been no breakthrough in talks between the Congress and the DMK over the Sri Lankan war crimes issue, sources said on Monday evening. Congress leaders P Chidambaram, AK Antony and Ghulam Nabi Azad had met M Karunanidhi at his residence in the evening to sort matters out after the latter threatened to pull out his ministers from the UPA Cabinet if his demands on the issue were not ...
11:55 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The Centre is in touch with Tamil Nadu government over an attack on a Buddhist monk at Chennai central station and the attackers have been identified. "With reference to an incident of an attack on Venerable Udhathalawinne Wangeesa Thero, a Buddhist monk, at the Chennai Central Station earlier today, the Government of India is touch with Tamil Nadu Govt. ...
11:13 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The talks between Congress leaders and DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Monday evening on the Sri Lankan issue failed to achieve a breakthrough. ...
10:35 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Sri Lankan opposition parties on Monday called for the formation of an all party committee to prevent an anti-Lanka resolution being passed at the UN human rights body. "We have to think of ways to escape this (resolution). We will tell the government to call an all party meeting and give a time frame to implement the LLRC recommendations," Ranil Wickremesinghe, the main opposition leader told reporters. ...
09:00 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Sri Lanka on Monday asked India to provide necessary security to Lankan people and property there following continued protests especially in Tamil Nadu. Karunathilake Amunugama, Lanka's Ministry of External Affairs' Secretary said Colombo has lodged a formal request with the Indian authorities in this connection. ...
08:48 PM, Mar 18, 2013
There has been no breakthrough in talks between the Congress and the DMK over the Sri Lankan war crimes issue, sources said on Monday evening. Congress leaders P Chidambaram, AK Antony and Ghulam Nabi Azad had met M Karunanidhi at his residence in the evening to sort matters out after the latter threatened to pull out his ministers from the UPA Cabinet if his demands on the issue were not...
08:16 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Sri Lankan envoy to India Prasada Kariyawasam called resolution against the island country unecessary, while speaking to CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar. He also said that those protesting against Sri Lanka in Tamil Nadu are taking the form of terrorism. ...
08:02 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Following backlash from DMK supremo M Karunanidhi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa over human rights violations against Tamils in Sri Lanka, India on Monday called off Defence Secretary-level talks with the island country, which were slated to begin on March 23. The Congress had also sent its leaders to placate Karunanidhi, who wants the words 'genocide' and 'Eelam' added to the US-sponsored resolution in UNHRC against Sri Lanka....
07:50 PM, Mar 18, 2013
