New Delhi, July 22 : The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government will face the trust vote in the Lok Sabha today.

Ahead of trust vote, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh reiterated that his UPA Government would win the trust vote.

“I am confident that the government will win the trust vote,” he told media persons late last evening after attending the first day of the two-day trust motion.

Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that the Congress-led alliance had the support of 276 MPs, clearly crossing the majority mark.

New Delhi/Lucknow/Mumbai/Patna, July 21 : There has been a mixed response to the ongoing debate in Parliament on the vote of confidence sought by the UPA Government and the India-US civilian nuclear cooperation deal.

The debate on the vote of confidence in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh''s government began on Monday and its fate will be decided on Tuesday.

In Lucknow, the young brigade felt that the nuclear deal would benefit all sections of society.

The Karnataka government has decided to set up a 2000 MW thermal power plant in Chhattisgarh. The state chief minister B S Yeddyurappa said that it would be set up in Janjgir district. The state government will acquire 2000 acres of land for the proposed project at Goghna. Chhattisgarh’s Chief Minister Raman Singh has already given nod to power project.

The project site is well connected to rail and road link. The water is also available from Mahanadi River for power plant. Thus the site is technically fit for the set up of plant.

New Delhi  - India and Pakistan launched a fifth round of peace talks Monday, focusing on the dispute over the Himalayan region of Kashmir and cross-border terrorism, officials said.

The talks which were originally scheduled to last two days in New Delhi, were shortened to a day due to political uncertainty in India as the ruling United Progressive Alliance faces a parliamentary confidence vote on Tuesday.

New Delhi, Jul 21 : Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon on Monday warned that the over four-year-old peace process between New Delhi and Islamabad is under stress in the wake of the July 7 suicide bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul.

Accusing "elements" in Pakistan for that incident, Menon said that conveyed the Indian Government’s strong objections on the recent terror attacks and ceasefire violations to his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir, and demanded that these concerns of New Delhi be addressed.

New Delhi - A crucial two-day session of the Indian parliament to take up a vote of confidence in the United Progressive Alliance government began Monday with the prime minister expressing confidence that his coalition will prevail. 

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was forced to call the trust vote after his communist partners withdrew parliamentary support from the Congres-party led alliance, in protest against a civilian nuclear deal with the United States which they said compromised on India's strategic sovereignty. 

The debate is scheduled to continue until Tuesday evening when the floor vote will be called.