It will help give approval with retrospective effect: Karunanidhi

CHENNAI: The decision of the Cabinet to make changes in the Land Reforms Act has been taken to enable the government to give approval, with retrospective effect and ex-post facto permission, to charitable trusts for purchase of land to establish educational institutions and hospitals, according to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi.

The continuing unrest over the Amarnath land transfer seems to have driven the Jammu and Kashmir administration to panic. On August 3 Jammu administration blacked out two local tv news channels and sealed the offices of two Hindi dailies for allegedly whipping up communal passions. Chief secretary S S Kapur said action was taken against the media houses which defied the official advisory.

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Dumka: Hundreds of people took to the streets today under the banner of Jharkhand Ulgulan Manch in protest against the arrest of a person spearheading a movement opposing the proposed power plant in the area.

The arrest of Hopna Baski, the village head of Amgachhi, agitated residents to such an extent that they squatted on a daylong dharna in the court compound today demanding Baski's immediate release. The members of Jharkhand Ulgulan Manch handed a memorandum to the officials.

Reshma and Raja are just two more casualties of the current tumult in Jammu and Kashmir, but they are unlikely to make too many headlines given that they were mere animals. However, the fact that they were victims of the