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.
Aizawl, May 14 -Big applause and shouts of dismay were heard in every locality of Mizoram’s state capital and other places on Sunday night to watch a pulsating English Premier League final match even as the rest of the country was hooked to the Indian Premier League cricket extravaganza.
Aizawl, May 12 (PTI) The Mizoram election department is gearing up for the 40-member state assembly polls likely to be held later this year, state’s Chief Electoral Officer Lalmalsawma said here today.
Kohima, May 9: The Nagaland government has appealed to its employees, ministers and legislators to extend help to Mizoram, struck by famine following bamboo flowering.
AIZAWL, May 8 2008 (PTI): Despite prohibition in force since 1997, there have been 938 drug-related deaths in Mizoram with social workers feeling that the law has done more harm than good.
