HEADLINES

• Team Anna wants best possible anit-graft law
• PM on a two day visit to Tamil Nadu.

NATIONAL NEWS

• Marathi – Hindi theatre legend Satyadev Dubey passes away

• Saranda initiatives to fight left wing extremism
  • The centre has asked the Jharkand government to show urgency on the development matters in the sharanda forest area
  • The initiative include providing basic amenities for 7000 families
  • Allocation of land for 24 more CRPF camps
  • To set up a separate saranda development authority
  • Initiative to fill vacancies of forest guards

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• Call for probe in to Sri lankan civil war
  • Brussels based International Crisis Group(ICG) has criticised Sri Lanka's Lessons Learnt and Rehabilitation Commission (LLRC) for failing to provide the thorough and independent investigation of alleged violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws

• Darfur rebel leader killed
  • Sudan's army killed Khalil Ibrahim a key rebel leader from Darfur region; He headed the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), once the most heavily armed movement.
  • Government has signed the Doha document for peace with the liberation and justice movement, an alliance of rebel factions. JEM and others did not join this pact.

• “The man who knew infinity” - Biography of Mathematician ramanujam written by Robert Kanigel

EDITORIALS, OPINIONS AND COLUMNS

• A editorial on US research on H5N! Influenza and its effects
• Editorial on the instability in Pakistan