LIVE | All-party meet on Sri Lanka resolution tonight

India wants a strong and credible probe into human rights violations against Tamils in Lanka, says Chidambaram

05.40 pm | The government will meet with the leaders of all political parties on Wednesday night to discuss the draft of a resolution on Sri Lanka that it wants Parliament to adopt.
 
Reports say the draft is likely to call for an independent probe into alleged war crimes against Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamils.


05.15 pm | Sri Lanka rejects US draft resolution, seeks vote at UNHRC

Sri Lanka says resolution is counterproductive to its reconciliation process

Lanka says it's in India's interest to ensure stable settlement of Tamils issue


03.30 pm | EC announces dates for Karnataka polls


03.15 pm | Media reports say the UNHRC vote on Sri Lanka is likely to take place as early as Thursday in Geneva.

 

02.25 pm | Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav says he is not angry over Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma’s remarks 

 

SP demands Beni Prasad Verma’s apology in Parliament for his comments on Mulayam Singh

 

SP parliamentary party meeting tomorrow at 9.30 am 

01. 40 pm | Union steel minister said he regrets his remarks on Mulayam Singh Yadav, who is the chief ally of the government and head of the Samajwadi Party. 

“I regret my words if they have hurt anyone sentiments,” said Beni Prasad Verma, who spoke to reporters outside Parliament.

On Monday, Verma landed in a controversy after his remark that Mulayam Singh Yadav had terrorist links

01.15 PM | Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma meets the Prime Minister over his verbal war with SP boss Mulayam Singh Yadav

Congress President Sonia Gandhi meets SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, tells him the Congress does not share Beni's views

Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj batted for Mulayam, demanded that Beni be sacked for his remarks


12.40 pm | Three DMK ministers SS Palanimanickam, J Jagathrakshakan and Gandhiselvan met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and submitted their resignation letters a day after the party announced its split from the United Progressive Alliance.

 

D Napoleon and MK Alagiri have also submitted their resignations.


12.30 pm | Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath met Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swara and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley

11.50 am | A day after formally withdrawing support to the Congress-led UPA government, the DMK ministers will submit their resignations to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday

 

A five-member DMK delegation headed by T R Baalu handed over a letter by party supremo M Karunanidhi to President Pranab Mukherjee last night at 10.30 p.m at Rashtrapati Bhavan withdrawing support of its 18 Lok Sabha MPs to the UPA government.

BJP says they have no plan to bring in no confidence motion

'SP  will support congress for now'
 
11.45 am | Samajwadi Party (SP) says the Congress is arrogant and it does not care about allies

SP leadership feels it is better to go poll this year.

Manmohan Singh being controlled by others, says SP

 
11.40 am | Indian govr not helping tamils in any way, alleges DMK


11.30 am | Congress predisent Sonia Gandhi claims that the government can pass food and land bills, reports CNN-IBN.

Sonia Gandhi has called for an independent probe into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka
 

11.15 am | UPA successfully running coalition, doors open: PC:  Chidambaram insists that the government's image has not suffered because of the DMK pullout. "We have been successfully running a coalition government  and we are unaware why the DMK changed its stance between March 18 and March 19. But our doors are still open," he said. 

 

10.50 am | The ruling UPA coalition has majority to pass reform bills in Parliament, the finance minister has said, a day after a key political ally withdrew support in protest against the government's position on a UN resolution on Sri Lanka.

 

"I am sure on the merits of reform bills, political parties will support the government," P. Chidambaram said at a press conference.

 

He declined to comment on the possibility of early elections.

 

10. 45 am |  Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath has said the government was "not a lame duck", a day after the DMK withdrew from the ruling UPA coalition in protest against New Delhi's position on a UN resolution on Sri Lanka.

 

"We are not a lame duck government, we are absolutely stable," Nath said at a press conference.

 

"No political party has come out and challenged the majority of this government."