AIZAWL, March 21?A 24-year-old Mizo girl returned home after her family accorded her ?a decent burial? at Vairengte bordering Cachar district of Assam, reports PTI. A decomposed body of a girl was found at an empty house at Ramnagar near Silchar in Cachar district on March 10 which was ?identified? as that of Chhandami of Saipum hamlet under Vairengte police station by her uncle, police sources said today. As Chhandami was of same height and sported the same hair style with an identical scar on her abdomen, her uncle was sure that the decomposed body was that of his niece missing for some days...

AGARTALA, March 14?An alarming increase of Thalassaemia and cancer has been noticed in Tripura. According to official data, while from 1998 to 2001 during the two years, 3618 cancer patients have been detected throughout the State, the number of Thalassaemia patients at present stands at 109. Health Minister Keshab Majumdar has informed the Tripura Assembly that the State Government provides all necessary medical facilities including blood to the Thalassaemia patients. Arrangements were being made for blood storage in subdivisional hospitals. ?Major Thalassaemia patients need blood...

GUWAHATI, March 21 ? Conservation of the Asian elephant in Assam has failed for all purpose and it is imperative that immediate short-term alongwith long-term measures are initiated to reduce man-elephant conflict, leading NGOs working in the environmental field claim. "As sub-optimal habitat is unable to meet the demands made on it by a herd of elephants who seek sustenance elsewhere and come into conflict with man. The degradation is largely man-made and the elephant has disappeared from areas where forests have been destroyed for human needs", the director of the organisation "Nature's...

GUWAHATI, March 21 ? Coordination and sharing of information with the police forces of the neighbouring States have been intensified following reports of frequent movement of the ultras through these States, said the Director General of Assam Police, Sri H K Deka. Talking to The Assam Tribune, Sri Deka revealed that conferences of the DGs and IGPs of the North-Eastern States are being need for sharing of information about movement of militants, while, district level coordination is also on among the police forces of the bordering districts. The DGP revealed that it is still not known...

GUWAHATI, March 21 ? The State Government offices all over the State including the State Secretariat, the nerve centre of the administration, was paralysed in the second half for the fifth day today because of the ceasework by employees. The agitating employees led by Sadou Asam Karmachari Parishad (SAKP) paralysed work at the State Secretariat here despite deployment of a large number of CRPF personnel in and around the capital complex today. The State employees have been agitating for non-payment of salaries for the month of February by the cash-strapped Tarun Gogoi Government till date. The...