Chennai, Sept 13: DMK government in Tamil Nadu has announced the plans to provide reservation of 3.5 per cent each to Muslims and Christians candidates in jobs and educational institutes in the state.

An ordinance in this regard will soon be promulgated, and it would come into effect from September 15 this year, which will be DMK founder and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C N Annadurai's 99th birth anniversary.

Chief Minister, M Karunanidhi made this announcement in a press conference in Chennai today.

New Delhi: After nation-wide protests by the BJP and other Hindu groups over the Congress government’s affidavit in the Sethu Samundram case, the Union Law Minister Hans Raj Bharadwaj today said that a new affidavit will be filed in the Supreme Court very soon. The present government’s affidavit stated that there isn’t any historical existence of Lord Rama.