Sixteen MPs who quit Government sit with the opposition

TESO asked to drop Eelam

A conference of the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO), scheduled to be held in Chennai on Sunday, has run into rough weather, with the Centre asking the organisers to drop the word ?Eelam? from the title of the meeting. ?The Ministry has no objection, from a political angle, to the proposed international conference with foreign participants, with the proviso that ?Eelam? may be dropped from the title of the conference, and subject to the clearance of the Ministry of Home Affairs and ot

11 Aug, 2012

MR tells India to relook at dealings with neighbours

In the strongest reaction yet to India’s contentious support to a US sponsored resolution at the UNHRC against Sri Lanka earlier this year, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has broken his silence by calling upon the Indian government to have a relook at its dealings with its neighbours. In a freewheeling interaction with TOI at his Temple Trees residence in Colombo, his first full-length interview since India’s vote for the resolution in March, Rajapaksa suggested that India could be abdicating its

11 Aug, 2012

Delhi residents complain against Perumal

The Delhi High Court directed the Centre to respond to the plea of some residents, who alleged that the security guards of former Chief Minister Annamalai Varadaraja Perumal of Sri Lankan state Jafna, who is in exile in India, is creating a nuisance for citizens and have encroached a park in the area. A bench comprising Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw issued notices to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Delhi Government and the MCD to file replies to the petition fil

10 Aug, 2012