Photos
The bridge across
The linking road bridge of North Cachar Hills and Cachar districts is totally damaged at the border area of the two district of Assam. Several rebels groups DHD (Black Widow), DHD, NSCN (IM), NSCN (K) are active in the hilly district. Thirty persons including 12 security personnel have been killed by the Black Widow outfit in the NC Hills this year alone.
Fluless
A Karbi woman try carrying her domestic pig at a remote village in Karbi Anglong district, Assam on May 6, 2009. The swine flu epidemic spread deeper into the United States, Europe and Latin America — and in Canada, back to pigs. The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported 787 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection with 17 countries having officially reported presence of the disease.
Flu or no flu
A Karbi woman giving foods to her domestic pigs at a remote village in Karbi Anglong district, Assam on May 6, 2009. The swine flu epidemic spread deeper into the United States, Europe and Latin America — and in Canada, back to pigs. The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported 787 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection with 17 countries having officially reported presence of the disease.
After the blast
Security force personnel and railway officials examine the damaged railway track after suspected militants triggered off a blast on the railway tracks at Nilalong, about five km from Karbi Anglong district headquarters Diphu, on May 2, 2009 around 10.45 pm. The blast damaged the engine of a train and injured its driver, police said. The engine of the BG Express, travelling from Jorhat to Guwahati, was partially damaged in the blast and the driver of the train injured. The injured man has been admitted to a nearby hospital. No passenger suffered injuries, police said. Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) and Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel) insurgents have been targetting railway tracks and security personnel in the Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills for the past one month.
Track blast
Security force personnel and railway officials examine the damaged railway track after suspected militants triggered off a blast on the railway tracks at Nilalong, about five km from Karbi Anglong district headquarters Diphu, on May 2, 2009 around 10.45 pm. The blast damaged the engine of a train and injured its driver, police said. The engine of the BG Express, travelling from Jorhat to Guwahati, was partially damaged in the blast and the driver of the train injured. The injured man has been admitted to a nearby hospital. No passenger suffered injuries, police said. Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) and Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel) insurgents have been targetting railway tracks and security personnel in the Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills for the past one month.
Notice
The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments.
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh
Notice
The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments.
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh