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Politics Business Expressions General Sports Leisure States 16 February 1998   More explosions in Coimbatore, toll 54 Violent echoes of Saturday's serial bomb blasts rocked Coimbatore on February 15 as two more explosions claimed at least seven lives spreading further panic in Coimbatore city which mourned its dead with an uneasy calm all through the day. In all, 54 people have been killed and nearly 200 injured in the blasts since Saturday evening.   Bloodbath continues in N-E, 16 killed The North Eastern states continued to be awash with the blood spilled in pre-election violence as militants struck again leaving as many as 16 dead a day ahead of the elections. The dead include seven CRPF jawans who were ambushed in Manipur and six ultras who were killed in an encounter with the Army in Assam. Karunanidhi visits victims, ends up in tears Chief Minister M Karunanidhi who went round the sites of blasts has called on the injured at the Government Hospital and literally ended up in tears when the crowds appealed to him to provide succour to them. The Chief Minister was accompanied by TMC chief G K Moopanar, Chief Secretary K A Nambiar, Home Secretary Poornalingam and other senior police officers. UN team begins search of Iraqi sites Aunited Nations' team today commenced survey of eight presidential sites in Iraq, even as the United States and its allies continued to seek international support for their plans to launch a military strike on Baghdad for its continued defiance of the UN resolution.   Clinton faces legal jeopardy in sex scandal, may be impeached President Clinton faces "legal jeopardy" and could be impeached due to the testimony he gave under oath in the Paula Jones case denying he had spent time alone with Monica Lewinsky or had sexual relations with her. A former secret service officer Lewis Fox, who told a radio station that Clinton was alone with Lewinsky for 40 minutes when he was on duty outside the Oval Office, will now testify before the grand jury to confirm it. Undersea cable to uplink Mumbai with global centres The SE-ME-WE-3, a cable connecting South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe being built at Marine Drive, Mumbai is part of an international effort to bridge continents. The 38,000 kilometre-long fibre optic undersea cable is slated to be the longest of its kind in the world. The colossal international project costs over 1.3 billion US dollars and involves 50 countries.     Quicktakes   Plan to lift water table runs dry   ACB crackdown on retired Public Health Dept official   Lasers to aid heart patients   Trawlers pose threat to sea turtles and fishermen   Liquor worth Rs 10 lakh seized   Doctors' lobby against renomination   Providential escape for 22 bus passengers as driver loses control   Once hotbed of politics, college campuses now prefer academics   Kashmir's winter of distress   Bhindranwale's village celebrates democracy   Putting prison days behind, Kalpnath talks development   Plastic surgeons prey on Peru's Indian poor   Mumbai Beat   10-yr-old dies in resort pool   Cop pays, 8 years late   Mumbai Notes   EC order on transfers may affect poll work, police fear