Colombo Commonwealth Meet

• Salman Khurshid regrets Prime Minister could not attend Commonwealth meet

  External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today expressed regret that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could not visit Jaffna.

• British Prime Minister David Cameron's motorcade stopped by Tamil protestors in Jaffna

  British Prime Minister David Cameron's motorcade was stopped today by Tamil protestors in Sri Lanka's Jaffna, a district which bore the main brunt of the country's ethnic conflict in 2009. 40,000 Tamil civilians were allegedly killed in the final days of the ethnic violence. At Jaffna's Kannagi camp for about 500 people yet to be resettled after t...

• Prime Minister has respect for sentiments of Tamilians, says minister Vasan

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by deciding to skip the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka has respected the sentiments of people of Tamil Nadu, Shipping Minister G K Vasan has said.

• Colombo summit challenges Commonwealth values

  As the CHOGM or Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting gets underway today in the Sri Lankan capital, this question poses a major challenge to several world leaders in attendance.

• Would like to meet Modi in near future, says UK premier David Cameron

  Cameron, on a short visit to India ahead of the Commonwealth meeting in Colombo, also met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and held consultations with him.

• Salman Khurshid arrives in Sri Lanka for Commonwealth Summit

  Notwithstanding the demand of political parties in Tamil Nadu for complete boycott, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid arrived in Colombo today on a five-day visit to represent India at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) Summit.

• British Foreign Secretary in Colombo for Commonwealth meet

  British Foreign Secretary William Hague arrived in Colombo today ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) starting on Friday.

• Torture claims cast shadow over Sri Lanka's Commonwealth summit

  Allegations of abuses against ethnic minority Tamils in Sri Lanka four years after the army won a civil war against separatist rebels have put pressure on the government as it prepares to host a Commonwealth summit.

• Tamil Nadu reiterates demand for India's total boycott of Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka

  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today moved a resolution in a special session of the state assembly demanding India's "complete boycott" of the Commonwealth meet in Colombo.

• Sri Lanka Tamils protest land grab ahead of Commonwealth meet

  British Prime Minister David Cameron has said he will attend CHOGM but pledged to push for an international investigation.

• Tamil Nadu Assembly to meet tomorrow under anti-Commonwealth meet cloud

  An official release from the Assembly Secretariat said the session would begin at 6 pm but did not mention any agenda.

• Australian Prime Minister won't join Commonwealth summit boycott

  Australia's prime minister has rejected calls that he should join his Indian and Canadian counterparts in boycotting a British Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka this week over concerns about the island nation's human rights record.

• Australian, New Zealand legislators leave Sri Lanka following detention ahead of Commonwealth summit

  In a joint statement, they said human rights abuses in Sri Lanka are so serious that the CHOGM meeting should be scrapped.

• PM Manmohan Singh's absence not a setback for Colombo summit: Sri Lanka

  Sri Lanka today said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's decision not to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) summit in Colombo was not a setback and it understood the domestic political compulsions behind the move.

• Sri Lanka has not fulfilled its commitments towards Lankan Tamils: Union minister V Narayanasamy

  "Sri Lankan forces have not withdrawn from the Tamil-dominated areas," the 66-year-old minister told NDTV today.