Land of Jewels (Sana Leibak)

Imphal, June 19 : That medical science has gone a long way in ameliorating the suffering on mankind besides bringing a smile on the face of many has been proven in many cases and Manipur today has a couple who can be inlcuded in the list of those blessed by medical science. Yumnam Jakendra and his wife Niengboi Haokip were a heart broken couple after their first born daughter Y Mangalleima was killed in a militant ambush at Assam's Karbi Anglong district five years ago. What fate had cruelly robbed them, medical science has stepped in to apply the needed balm, courtesy a bonny test tube twin girls, the first test tube baby in the State, that too twins. Not surprisingly today they fit the bill of the happiest couple in the world. Not only have the twins come as a blessing for their parents, but it is also a testimony of the expertise of the team of doctors behind the babies. The two babies were born through the Invitro Fertilization Technology on Thursday at Suba Hospital and Assist...

Army foils another Rajdhani blast: Dibrugarh, Dec. 25: A group of Adivasi militants that arrived in Tinsukia on Tuesday morning to carry out another blast on the Rajdhani Express was arrested by the army from a tea garden. Akash Tirkey alias Daniel Ekka, an area commander, Dhoni Oraon, Chandan Bhumij, Thomas Kerketta and Samanan Tanti alias Raju Tanti -- all members of the Adivasi National Liberation Army -- reached Dimapur by train on Monday night. They got off at Naharkatia station, walked the whole night and reached the tea estate near Tinsukia town on Tuesday morning. Three .38 revolvers, 30 rounds of ammunition, an improvised explosive device and some letterheads of the outfit were found on them. Troops of 2 Bihar Regiment, who arrested the five, later handed them over to the police. “The group was instructed by a senior leader of the outfit, Prem Kawar, who is the district commander in Karbi Anglong, to carry out another blast on the Rajdhani Express, for which they were carryi...

ISI threat looms large in Asom, NE: Gogoi New Delhi: The plans of ninety per cent of the operations conducted in Asom by terrorists were hatched in the neighbouring countries, said Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi at the Chief Ministers’ conference on internal security at New Delhi on Thursday. “One of the most serious problems that Asom is faced with is the aid that various anti-national groups of the State receive from some inimical forces from across the porous international borders. Almost all such groups have training camps and safe havens in some of the neighbouring countries,” Gogoi said, and added that the threat from Islamic fundamentalists and agencies of Pakistan were being controlled from across the border. “The North-east has become a hub of espionage activities for agencies such as the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan,” Gogoi said. Gogoi said the State Government has adopted a four-pronged strategy -— counter-intelligence and counter-insurgency operations, encourag...