A media briefing was organised by the Inter University Students' Union to inform the media regarding the matter pertaining to the incident of the ban imposed on the Sabragamuwa Student Union and student suppression.

''Now they are showing the country and society that they are trying to uphold the discipline and the name in universities by banning student unions. But this is wrong. Because the government has no interest in protecting the name of the universities.''

A United Nations resolution criticizing Sri Lanka's actions during the final months of its civil war against the Tamil Tiger rebels is threatening the stability of India's already shaky coalition government.

A key ethnic Tamil political party withdrew from the government Tuesday over its unmet demands that India amend the U.N. resolution to declare that Sri Lanka committed genocide against its minority Tamil population. The party, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, has also demanded the U.N. Human Rights Council resolution inc

The DMK is not bringing down its pressure on the central government by raising a demand for a resolution in parliament declaring that there was genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka, a party leader said Tuesday.

"Our demand is that the Indian government should declare that there was genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka and war crimes were committed against them," DMK's spokesperson T.K.S. Elangovan told IANS.

The DMK party led by M. Karunanidhi pulled out of the Congress-led UPA coalition on Tuesday in protest against the government's position on a US-backed United Nations resolution on war crimes allgedly carried out during the Sri Lanka's civil war, reuters news agency said.

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) is based in Tamil Nadu, and has often pressured the government to do more to protect Sri Lanka's minority Tamil population.

The DMK has 18 seats in the Lok Sabha as part of Prime Minister Manmohan Sin

DMK chief M. Karunanidhi Tuesday quit the Congress-led UPA and its government expressing dismay on India's stand over Sri Lanka at the United National Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

"Continuing in this government will be an injustice to the Sri Lankan Tamils," the former Tamil Nadu chief minister told the media.

Karunanidhi said the UPA government had not only refused to consider the DMK's views on the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC but had quietly watered down the resolution

The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has bought time from its ally DMK, which is threatening to leave the alliance, by promising to adopt a resolution in Parliament supporting two important amendments to the U.S.-sponsored draft resolution against Sri Lanka in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

This was the outcome of the reconciliation talks, lasting over two-and-a-half-hours, on Monday between DMK leader M. Karunanidhi and Congress emissaries, Union Ministers P. Chidambaram, A.K. Antony

Union ministers P Chidambaram, AK Antony and Ghulam Nabi Azad calling on DMK chief M Karunanidhi at his residence in Chennai. UNI photo
The tension between the DMK and the ruling UPA over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue seemed to be cooling off on Monday evening. 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
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