UPA, Left likely to hold talks today

A crucial meeting of the UPA and Left parties is likely to be held on Monday in a bid to find common ground over the objections of the coalition's outside supporters to the Indo-US nuclear deal, ahead of a debate on the issue in Parliament.
The meeting will come in the wake of a less strident posture adopted by the Left parties against the government on the matter as they said there would be no crisis for the government if it allayed apprehensions expressed on the draft 123 agreement in the context of the Henry Hyde Act.
The Core Group of the Congress discussed the situation after CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury briefed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the Central Committee's resolution which said it did not want the current crisis to affect the government, though it was "contingent upon the government not proceeding further with the agreeement".