Chennai

A Central Industrial Security Force constable shot himself with his service rifle on duty at Madurai airport in southern Tamil Nadu on Sunday.

Expressing 'surprise' over India supporting a 'weak' and 'diluted' US resolution against Sri Lanka at UNHRC, former UPA ally DMK today said New Delhi had by its action 'totally disappointed' the entire Tamil diaspora.

Amid uproar over CBI raids against his son MK Stalin, DMK chief M Karunanidhi today gave a guarded reaction on whether the action was political vendetta and said he can believe the central ministers statements that the raids happened without the knowledge of UPA government.

The CBI early today raided the residence of MK Stalin, son of DMK chief M Karunanidhi, triggering a political storm.

The CBI today carried out raids at the residence of DMK chief M Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin, two days after the party pulled out of UPA, triggering a political controversy and the Prime Minister saying that its timing was unfortunate.

Sri Lankan navy personnel continued their attacks on Tamil fishermen, thrashing 12 of them with iron rods and swords on Wednesday. Four of them had to be hospitalised, sources said.

The government today denied that it had diluted the US-sponsored resolution denouncing Sri Lanka over rights abuses at the UNHRC in Geneva and promised to push for a "strong" resolution.
Speaker calls all-party meet to end parliament logjam

DMK chief M Karunanidhi threw the UPA govt into disarray yesterday by pulling support for the ruling coalition over its 'unwillingness' to take on Sri Lanka over alleged war crimes against Tamils. Shekhar Iyer and KV Lakshmana report. Beginning of the end for UPA? | What Karunanidhi wants | The new arithmetic

Students continued ground-level protests against Sri Lanka for the eighth consecutive day on Monday even as a Buddhist monk from the island nation was beaten up at the central railway station in Chennai and a youngster attempted self-immolation in Madurai. HT reports.

Although talks between the two UPA partners ended inconclusively, DMK chief M Karunanidhi seemed to have come up with a compromise formula to save the alliance without risking his pro-Tamil image. HT reports.
Alliance politics

With key partner DMK threatening to snap ties with the government, India is veering towards voting in favour of a US-backed resolution against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva next week.

DMK chief M Karunanidhi today warned that his party will pull out from UPA-II if it failed to move amendments to the US-sponsored resolution on the Sri Lankan Tamil issue at the UNHRC.

Seeking to reach out to ally DMK which has threatened to pull out of UPA government on Sri Lankan Tamils issue, finance minister P Chidambaram has said India should support the US resolution against Lanka in UNHRC if it called for an independent and reliable probe into the alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka in 2009.

Notwithstanding the indefinite closure of arts and science colleges, groups of students continued their protests at several places in Tamil Nadu for the sixth day to press the Centre to support the US sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka in the UNHRC.