AIZAWL, Dec 19 – R Lalrinawma of the ruling Congress was today elected unopposed as the Deputy Speaker of the Mizoram Assembly.Speaker Hiphei said that only one nomination was received for the election and announced that Lalrinawma was the new Deputy...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
R Lalrinawma elected Deputy Speaker of Mizoram
Aizawl: R Lalrinawma of the ruling Congress was on Wednesday elected unopposed as the Deputy Speaker of the Mizoram Assembly.Speaker Hiphei said that only one nomination was received for the election and announced that Lalrinawma was the new deputy speaker.House...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Mizoram EC moves to hold by-polls after heads of Mizoram's 3 tribal districts become MLAs
With the respective heads of the Chakma, Lai and Mara tribal Autonomous District Councils (ADCs) in Mizoram having become MLAs in the just-concluded Assembly polls, the State Election Commission has begun proceedings to hold by-elections for the three...
Mizoram GSDP growth at 11 per cent during 11 Plan
Aizawl, Dec 17 (PTI) Mizoram Governor Vakkom
Purushthaman today said that the state registered GSDP growth
at 11 per cent during 11 Plan period against the national
growth rate of 7.8 per cent. In his customary address in the state assembly,
Purushothaman...
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Congressman Hiphei to be elected as Speaker in Mizoram Assembly
Former speaker and veteran Congressman Hiphei is likely to be the next Speaker of the Mizoram Assembly for which election would be held on Monday.Hiphei filed his nominations for the election this afternoon, Sources in the assembly secretariat said.He...
Kidnappers issue new threat if Rs 5 crores ransom demand not met by Christmas
Militants who kidnapped three men at the India-Bangadesh border in Mizoram last month have said they "will not be responsible for whatever happens to the hostages" if their ransom demand of Rs 5 crores is not paid before Christmas. The suspected...
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Sixth Mizoram Assembly Dissolved
The sixth Mizoram Assembly was today dissolved by the state Governor Vakkom Purushothaman, an official statement said today.The statement said that the state governor dissolved the current Assembly yesterday in accordance with the powers given to him...
Sixth Mizoram Assembly dissolved by state Governor Vakkom Purushothaman
Aizawl: The sixth Mizoram Assembly was on Thursday dissolved by the state Governor Vakkom Purushothaman, an official statement said.The statement said that the state governor dissolved the current Assembly yesterday in accordance with the powers given...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Some solace
The landslide victory in the north-eastern state of Mizoram is cold comfort for the Congress which has suffered massive and demoralising defeats in elections to state Assemblies in other parts of the country. The party, under chief minister Lal Thanhawla,...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Repoll underway in one Mizoram polling station
Aizawl, Dec 11:
Polling is underway at Tialdawngilung polling station
in Lawngtlai West constituency of Mizoram, where repoll had been ordered
by the Election Commission.
Repoll was ordered due
to a defective electronic voting machine...
Mizoram election result 2013: 'Nobody made me a leader, my hard work paid off'
AIZAWL: Congress might have taken a bad hit in the four other states that went to polls recently but his party colleagues' decimation did not shake four-time Mizoram chief minister Lal Thanhawla's confidence even for once. The grand old man of Mizoram...
Women outstrip men in Mizoram, yet no woman in assembly
Aizawl : No woman candidate was elected to the state assembly in
Mizoram, but it is the only state in India where women voters have
outnumbered men, officials said here Tuesday.
There has been no woman legislator in Mizoram for the whole of the past...
Mizoram election result 2013: NLUP was Congress's biggest victory weapon, feels MNF
AIZAWL: The Mizo National Front (MNF), once a rebel outfit which became a political party with the signing of the historic Mizo Accord, has always caught the imagination of the people here. It was Rajiv Gandhi who brought them into the mainstream when...
Monday, December 9, 2013
Mizoram elections: Congress to elect party chief tomorrow
The Congress Legislature Party would hold a meeting on
Wednesdayto formally elect party chief Lal Thanhawla as the CLP leader,
paving the way for his becoming the chief minister for the second
consecutive term.
Mr. Thanhawla was likely to...
Mizoram is still seen as an exotic and faraway place
Sanjib Kr BaruahThis time around, five states had a go at the hustings. Mizoram was the fifth, on November 25.While the prospects of the many political parties and candidates in Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan, were dissected by TV...
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Two polling officials suspended in Mizoram
Aizawl, Dec 6 (PTI) Two polling officials who were on
duty at the Republic Veng - I polling booth during the
election to the 40-member Mizoram Assembly on November 25,
were suspended today for dereliction of duty. The suspension orders were issued following...
Rs 5cr ransom call for Deep
The kidnappers of Deep Mandal, a telecom professional from north Calcutta who went missing on November 23 from Mizoram’s Mamit district along with two Mizo drivers, have demanded a ransom of Rs 5 crore.Mizoram police on Thursday confirmed that the 25-year-old...
‘Invisible’ children growing up in relief camps
Rimjhim JainKornojoy Molshoi was an infant when his parents fled Mizoram in 1997 for a relief camp in neighbouring Tripura. Though they expected to return in a few weeks, Kornojoy is now 16 and has only experienced life in Naisingpara relief camp.“It...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Prime suspect in drug smuggling case held in Mizoram
Aizawl: Alleged mastermind in the massive smuggling of pseudo-ephedrine from India to Myanmar, Tlangchungnunga has been arrested at the Lengpui Airport by the Mizoram Police.While no drug was seized from his possession, a number of documents, including...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Huge cache of arms and ammunition seized in Mizoram
A huge cache of arms and ammunition including 39 grenades, 14 assault
rifles and a Light Machine Gun has been seized in Mizoram by a joint
operation mounted by the Serchhip district police and 14th Assam Rifles.
Two persons have been arrested and...
Monday, December 2, 2013
Huge cache of arms seized in Mizoram
AIZAWL: In a joint operation, the Mizoram Police and the Assam Rifles, have seized a huge cache of arms from a truck in Serchhip district, police said on Tuesday.Two suspected arm smugglers were arrested in this connection last evening, the police said.The...
Sunday, December 1, 2013
10 percent devices malfunctioned in Mizoram polls
Ten percent of the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines, which verify to a voter that his or her vote was cast as wished, malfunctioned in the Nov 25 polls in Mizoram, an official said here Monday."In all 21 VVPAT machines of 212 placed...
In party mouthpiece, church praise for Mizoram minister
A Mizoram minister had got a "testimonial letter" from his local church that details his work in and for the congregation. What has put him under the scanner is that it was published, in toto, in his party's local mouthpiece during campaigning.Home Minister...
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