Thursday, June 28, 2012

SP Deshpande's transfer rakes up controversy anew

PANAJI: The controversy over transfers of Indian police service (IPS) officers from Goa has not ended. On Wednesday the Union home ministry issued a transfer order relieving special branch SP Atmaram Deshpande and transferring him to Mizoram.Home department...
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Oppn Mizo National Front to support Sangma

Aizawl, Jun 29 : Opposition Mizo National Front (MNF) in Mizoram will support Purno Agitok Sangma in the Presidential election on July 19, party sources said today.The Core Committee and Political Affairs Committee of the MNF took the decision last night.MNF...
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Monday, June 25, 2012

Mizoram co-operative society moving ahead

Aizawl, June 26 : Mizoram Co-operative Society minister J.H. Rothuama said co-operation, by its very name itself, indicates unity and working together. “When we work together, we can do such great things which are impossible for an individual and a single...
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Mizoram house budget session to begin from July 16

Aizawl, June 26 : Budget session of the Mizoram Assembly, to commence from July 16, would continue till August two, assembly Secretary Ngurthanzuala said here today. Making public the decision of today's meeting of the Business Advisory Committee, chaired...
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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Mizo govt rejects resignation

Silchar, June 23 : The Mizoram government has rejected its principal legal adviser P. Chakravarty’s resignation from his post.The media secretary, L.R. Sailo, confirmed over telephone this evening that the government had issued official instruction to...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Mizo govt official says he will not accept extension

Aizawl, Jun 21 :  Mizoram government's Principal Legal Adviser P Chakraborty, who was given re-employment for six months after retirement, today gave a written representation that he would not accept extension of his service. Chakraborty wrote...
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Monday, June 18, 2012

EC appoints officers for Presidential polls

Aizawl: Election Commission of India appointed Ngurthanzuala and Vanlalnghenga, secretary and additional secretary respectively of the Mizoram Assembly as assistant returning officers for the Presidential polls to be held on July 19.An official statement...
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Mizoram told to revise land acquisition rate

Worried by the high rate of land acquisition for border fencing in Mizoram fixed by the district collectors/deputy commissioners, the Ministry of Home Affairs has instructed the Mizoram government to revise the rate. Chief secretary Vanhela Pachuau convened...
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MPL boost to Mizoram football

Guwahati, June 15 : The Mizoram Football Association has struck a Rs 1.25-crore five-year deal with the state’s leading cable television channel Zonet Cable TV Pvt Ltd to launch the Mizoram Premier League.Undisputedly the biggest sponsorship deal in...
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Green Mizoram Day launched

Aizawl: Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla today launched the 'Green Mizoram Day 2012' by planting a tree sapling inside the headquarters of the 23 sector Assam Rifles at Khatla locality here.The state government proposed to plant more than 2.86 lakh tree...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Five prisoners escape from Aizawl jail

Altogether five convicts escaped from Aizawl central jail last night, jail authority today said. Jail authorities said five inmates, four convicted for life imprisonment for murder and one convicted for seven years imprisonment for rape, escaped from...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Centre push for road revamp

Silchar, Jun 12 : The Centre has asked the Congress government in Mizoram to lay its priority on road development and allot Rs 200 crore of the Rs 2,300 crore annual plan package, fixed in New Delhi last week for 2012-13 fiscal, for toning up the state’s...
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Centre okays Rs 435 crore for Mizoram flagship project

The Planning Commission has given its nod to allocate Rs 435 crore for the Mizoram's ambitious project New Land Use Policy, Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla said here today. Briefing the press after he arrived from New Delhi where he had the state plan size...
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Mother, son commit suicide

Aizawl, Jun 8 : A woman and her 18-year-old son allegedly committed suicide on consecutive days in Vairengte town of Mizoram, police said today. Ailing Thangpuii, belonging to Bru community, was missing since June four and was found hanging from...
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Mizoram Plan for 2012-13 Finalized

The Annual Plan for the year 2012-13 for the state of Mizoram was finalised here today at a meeting between Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister of Mizoram, PU Lalthanhawla. The plan size has been agreed at...
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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Hiccup of NLUP-Mizoram

Imphal, Jun 4 : The much hyped Mizoram's New Land Use Policy (NLUP) has got some hiccups as it gas given disappointments to large number of beneficiaries i one way or the other.The common complaints from the beneficiaries have been the issuing of unhealthy...
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Women hooked to tobacco in Mizoram

Aizawl, Jun 4 : A Disturbing 62 per cent of Mizo women are consuming tobacco in various forms, against the national average of only 2.9 percent. Meanwhile, 72.5 percent of the male population consumes tobacco.With 67.2 per cent of the total population...
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Mizoram's first 'monument'

The menhirs of Vangchhia to be protected by ASI SOBHANA K New Delhi, June 2: Mizoram is about to record a dot on Archaeological Survey of India’s (ASI) map of...
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