External affairs minister Salman Khurshid, in a last-ditch attempt to appease key ally DMK, says that the government will ask for an independent probe into the alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka. The DMK has been threatening to pull out of the govern...
DMK supremo M Karunanidhi announces at a press conference that his party is pulling out of the United Progressive Alliance. The DMK chief says that the Centre has failed to accept their demands on the resolution against Sri Lanka.
A day after he was taken to task by the Congress over his offensive remarks against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayalam Singh Yadav, steel minister Beni Prasad Verma kept away from UPA's Cabinet meeting. This adds to UPA's woes which is already under pressure due ...
Congress president Sonia Gandhi says that government of India stands for human rights issue in Sri Lanka. She said this while addressing the CPP meeting in New Delhi. Taking a tough stand on India's foreign policy, she said no country should take India for gra...
In a significantly watered down version of a resolution on Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes, the United States has now called for an internal probe and not international inquiry into the reports. In the third amended draft of the UN resolution against Sri Lank...
India voted for a US-backed resolution urging Sri Lanka to probe rights abuses in the war on the Tamil Tigers, but quickly underlined that it did so only to enable Sri Lankan Tamils to get justice.
With the DMK serving an ultimatum to the Centre on the UN resolution issue and Mamata Banerjee rejecting the Railway Budget, the UPA government has a lot more reason to worry.
The state government should be intimated about VIP visits from Sri Lanka, states TN CM Jayalalitha in her second letter to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.