IMPHAL, May 5— Proscribed Kanglei Yawal Kanna Lup (Kykl) has decided to ban all forms of bandhs and general strike from May 15 onwards, in Manipur. The outfit also warned the teachers community in the state not to take up any ceasework strike in the days to come. The outfit in a four-page statement signed by secretary of publicity and research Lanngamba Mangang stated that from May 15 no organisation or groups of people will be allowed to impose bandh and general strikes in the state.

Besides, employees of the education department and the teachers community in the state have been warned not...

Calcutta, May 5: Calcutta police on Monday said that they would charge all four tea companies headquartered in Calcutta with business interests in Assam with indulging in “anti-national activities” for funding the Bodo militant outfit.

The police have also learnt that these companies had been funding the NDFB rebels not only for the last two years, as initial interrogation had revealed, but at least for the last seven to eight years.

Without naming the four tea companies, Calcutta detective department chief Soumen Mitra said, “We are collecting evidence against these tea firms and we shall...

GUWAHATI, May 4 — The State government has identified five thrust areas during the 10th Five Year Plan for accelerated growth of the State. Three thrust areas include – infrastructure including roads, power and communication, agriculture and allied services including dairy, pisciculture, irrigation, services including information technology, tourism and health care, human resource development including education; skill development and management and industrial development with emphasis on trade and commerce, agro industry, handloom and handicrafts etc.

During his recent discussion with the...

IMPHAL, May 3: The indigenous Manipuri pony, though small in size, is known for its swiftness, sturdiness and tolerance in the game of polo. But it is on the verge of extinction in Manipur – the birth place of this game (polo). Efforts to develop and preserve the local breed of ponies at the Regional Pony Development Farm at Tingkai Khunou in Manipur’s Bishnupur district suffered a fatal fate, Manipur Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Minister told the Assembly recently. Of the 70 pony breed species introduced initially at the farm under an ambitious project in 1988, a staggering 54 ponies have...

SHILLONG, May 4 — Mortality rate of children below the age of five years in Meghalaya has been put at a startling 122, much above of the national figure of 94.9, during 1994-98 when the second National Family Health Survey (NFHS-2) was conducted throughout the country, reports PTI. Meghalaya was placed only second to undivided Uttar Pradesh, which accounted for 122.5 deaths to children below the age of five per 1000 births. The mortality rate of the same age group of children in Meghalaya during 1988-92, when the first such survey was undertaken, was put at 86.9.

The data of the survey, which...