Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Ex-Mizoram police chief, colleague held for funds misuse

Aizawl, Dec 23 A former director general of Mizoram police and his colleague were arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on charges of misappropriation of funds meant for modernisation of the state police, officials said here Wednesday. The duo...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Former Mizo DGP arrested in graft case

Aizawl, Dec 22 (PTI) M Tumsanga, former Director General of Police of Mizoram, was arrested by Anti-Corruption Bureau on the charge of misappropriation of crores of rupees meant for modernisation of the state police during the year 2000, police said...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

Gorkhas in Mizoram support Gorkhaland

Aizawl, Dec 21 Members of the Gorkha community in Mizoram Monday staged a day-long sit-in here in support of a separate Gorkhaland state to be carved out of West Bengal. ‘The demonstration was organised to express our solidarity with the Gorkha Janamukti...
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Friday, December 18, 2009

New Highway from Mizoram to Myanmar Border Sanctioned

The High Powered Committee (HPC) of Government of India set up for the projects of North East has sanctioned a new highway from Mizoram to Myanmar border . The Committee headed by Shri Brahm Dutt, Secretary, Road Transport & Highways in its meeting...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Fate of Mizoram tribal refugees uncertain

Agartala/Aizawl, Dec 16 (IANS) The much-awaited process of repatriation of 35,000 Reang tribal refugees from Tripura to Mizoram hangs in the balance despite pressure from the Centre, the Tripura government and rights bodies on the Mizoram government...
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Monday, December 14, 2009

Viewing porn on rise in Mizoram

Aizawl, Dec 14 : Viewing pornographic pictures and other 'bad pictures' among high school and college students is increasing in Mizoram if the results of ‘Survey on Sex and Sexuality’ by the Aizawl-based Shalom, an organisation working for the reduction...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

14-year rape sentence for Mizo Girl Rape Accused

ANANYA SENGUPTA Ajit Singh Katiyar New Delhi, Dec. 11: The lone arrested accused in the 2005 gang-rape of a...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Tripura unhappy with Mizoram govt on refugee issue

Agartala, Dec 10 : The Tripura government has lambasted its Mizoram counterpart's 'lackadaisical attitude' towards repatriation of Bru (Reang) refugees from Tripura camps. Talking to mediapersons here today, Rural Development Minister Jitendra Choudhury...
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Mizo tribes demand for government intervention to stop attacks

Aizwal Dec 10 : The decade old conflict between the Mizos and the Bru (Reang) tribes took violent turn in November with the burning of 500 houses belonging to Reangs. This incident was followed by the gunning down of a Mizo youth. Now displaced Mizo...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Many Burmese infected with HIV in Mizoram

7 December 2009: A sizeable section of Burmese living in Mizoram state, northeast India are infected with the HIV virus, according to a report of the Voluntary Public Health Education Network (VPHEN) Chin people are the ones who are mostly infected...
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Dhaula Kuan rape case verdict today

New Delhi, Dec 8 : A city court has deferred the verdict in the Dhaula Kuan rape case to Tuesday, December 8. Additional Sessions Judge N K Gupta deferred pronouncement of the verdict in the case in which a Delhi University student was allegedly abducted...
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Monday, December 7, 2009

79-year-old woman raped by youth

Aizawl, Dec 7 : A youth was arrested for allegedly raping an aged woman at Champhai town on Mizoram-Myanmar border, the police said here today. The victim, a 79-year-old woman who is hearing impaired was allegedly raped by a 23-year-old man at Champhai...
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Thursday, December 3, 2009

Violence against women on rise in Mizoram : Activists

Aizawl: Violence against woman has been on the rise in Mizoram, where 40 cases of minor rape had been recorded by the police during this year, despite the fair sex holding high position in Mizo society, social activists said. Referring to the police...
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