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. 

New Delhi, July 21 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today moved a one-line motion on vote of confidence in Parliament.

Dr. Singh began the trust vote saying that every single decision we have taken is in the best interest of the nation.

We are here after a tenure of four years. And the credit goes to all leaders of the UPA,” he said.

During his brief speech, Dr. Singh said, "I had offered to all parties that we will come to Parliament before we go to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) for implementing the nuclear deal.”

New Delhi, July 21 : The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) today claimed that the government has the support of more than 291 MPs to win tomorrow''s trust vote in te Lok Sabha. 

Saying that the government will win the trust vote, RJD chief Lalu Prasad said, "Our number is continuously growing. It has now exceeded the 291 mark. There is going to be a great victory for us." 

"Our trust vote is the trust of the country. The people are in favour of nuclear power," he told media persons outside Parliament.

Defending the Indo-US nuclear deal, he said that in today''s world people were getting land registered on the moon, and India, which was isolated earlier, can now get the recognition it needed. 

New Delhi, July 21 : Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee today chaired an all-party meeting ahead of the special session of the Lok Sabha to decide on the confidence motion. 

The Speaker had called the meeting of the floor leaders of parties to discuss issues related to the trust vote being sought by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in the wake of the Left withdrawing support to the UPA on the nuclear deal issue.

New Delhi, July 21, The Kashmiri American Council or Kashmir Center (KAC) and the Association of Humanitarian Lawyers will hold the Ninth International Kashmir Peace Conference on August 1 on Capitol Hill in Washington.

According to a KAC press release, a number of delegates from India, Pakistan and other parts of the world, including Justice Rajinder Sachar, Former Chief Justice, Delhi High Court, Kuldip Nayyar, a veteran journalist Pandit Jatinder Bakhshi, Ola Lanka, Vice President, Norwegian Parliament, Farzana Raja, Sherry Rehman, Major General (retired) Jamshaid Ayaz Khan all from Islamabad and also ambassadors of few countries will take part in the two-day conference.

New Delhi, July 21: