Aizawl, June 26 (IANS) Normal life was crippled in the northeastern state of Mizoram Thursday following a dawn-to-dusk shutdown called by the Young Mizo Association (YMA) against a recent high court order blocking arrests of non-domicile Indians not having valid permits to live in the state. “The bandh was total and successful across the state [...]
Aizawl: Mizoram government would move the Supreme Court, if required, challenging the interim order of the Gauhati High Court restricting the state government to arrest and deport non-tribals without valid Inner Line Permits (ILP), Chief Minister Zoramthanga said here today.
Aizawl, June 23: A delegation of Nagaland government will visit Mizoram next month to deliver relief material, including Rs 20 lakh, to the victims of the Mautam famine.
Raipur, June 22 (IANS) A group of Maoist insurgents Sunday injured two personnel of a Mizo battalion in the interiors of Chhattisgarh and made off with their AK-47 rifles, the police said. A group of at least 22 rebels carried out the surprise attack on Mizo security personnel posted at Gadiras village’s weekly market in [...]
Aizawl, June 15 (IANS) United Progress Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who visited famine-hit areas in Mizoram, has asked the state’s Mizo National Front (MNF) government not to misuse central funds meant to combat famine. “I have been told by villagers in remote areas that the central famine funds had never reached them,” Gandhi told [...]
Khonumthung News, May 31 - Well known singers, from Burma and Mizoram state, northeast India will perform a series of music concerts in three Southeast Asian countries - Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore to raise funds for famine stricken people in Chin state, northwestern Burma.
Aizawl, PTI : Mizoram has the highest occurrence of four types of cancer in the world and the cause is extensive consumption of tobacco, experts said.
Silchar, May 20: The Mizo National Front government is gearing up to establish the Northeast’s first special economic zone.
Aizawl, May 16 : Mizoram Pradesh Congress finally reunited with its splinter group Mizoram Congress party today. In spite of its ideological differences in the past, Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee can now declare that they celebrated its red-letter day.
Kolkata, May 17 (PTI) - The United States will provide an assistance of $50,000 to the Mizoram government to tide over the food crisis caused due to large-scale crop destruction by an infestation of rats during cyclical flowering of a special species of bamboo every 48 years.
