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...
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Most peaceful elections ever in Mizoram
AIZAWL, Nov 29 – Mizoram had gone to the Assembly elections on November 25 without any untoward incident, save for a couple of EVM technical snags. The November 25 Mizoram poll was billed as the most ever peaceful Assembly elections in the history of...
32,429 officials cast votes through postal ballot
New Delhi, Nov 29 : A total of 32,429 government officials, who will be on election duty Dec 4, have cast their votes through postal ballots till Thursday evening, an election commission official said.Of the government officials, more than 25,220 civil...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Mizoram police nab murder suspect
AIZAWL, Nov 27 : Assistance from the
commercial sex workers helped Mizoram police to nab a criminal. “With
the help of some commercial sex workers here police are said to have
arrested a murder suspect, whose search had been on”, the news report...
104-yr old woman casts vote in Champhai
Aizawl: A 104-year-old woman became the oldest voter in the election to the 40-member Mizoram Assembly, for which polling was held on Monday.Kimchawngi exercised franchise in the North East Khawdungsei-II polling station for Lengteng constituency in...
Monday, November 25, 2013
Mizoram Assembly election: 64 per cent polling reported till 1 pm
Sixty-four per cent polling has been reported in Mizoram till 1 pm with no reports of any untoward incident.Polling to elect a new Assembly in Mizoram began at 7 am with the main contenders - ruling Congress and opposition Mizoram Democratic Alliance...
Myanmarese national arrested for carrying cash during election
AIZAWL: A Myanmarese businessman was on Monday arrested at the border village of Zokhawthar in Mizoram for carrying cash more than the permissible limit set by the Election Commission.The person was arrested as he was carrying Rs 18 lakh which is against...
Voting underway in Mizoram
People stand in queue outside a polling booth in Mizoram
Aizawl: Polling to elect...
Mizoram votes today, 36.63 pc votes recorded till 11 AM
Polling began for the 40-member Mizoram Assembly at 7 AM today with 36.63 per cent votes cast in the first four hours, state joint chief electoral officer H Lalengmawia said.Brisk polling was reported from many polling stations in Aizawl where long queues...
Sunday, November 24, 2013
MZP demands completion of Bru repatriation
Even as the Bru refugees who are now camped in Tripura have been allowed to cast their votes outside Mizoram in the ensuing assembly elections, Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), the largest students’ body in the State, has reiterated their fervent wishes afresh...
Man who sacrificed CM’s chair for Mizo peace
AIZAWL: At 71, Mizoram CM Lal Thanhawla is surprisingly energetic. At the close of a gruelling campaign, he has touched virtually every corner of his state. The party's star campaigner, much of his exertion was because every party candidate wanted him...
Audit trail system in polls today
Mizoram chief minister Lal Thanhawla of the Congress and all his 11
ministers are among 142 candidates who will be contesting for the
40-member Assembly election on Monday.
For the first time in the country, voter-verifiable paper audit trail
(VVPAT)...
Mizoram: Voting begins, close fight between Cong and combined oppn
Aizawl: Balloting began at 7 a.m. Monday for the 40-member Mizoram legislative assembly, an official said. Over 6.8 lakh voters are eligible to vote in the exercise to elect 40 members from among 142 candidates. Counting will be held Dec 9. A newly-designed...
Mizoram polls Today, VVPAT machines introduced for first time
Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla of the Congress and all his 11
ministers are among 142 candidates who will be contesting for the
40-member Assembly election on Monday.
For the first time in the
country, voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT)...
Countdown for the D Day as campaign ends in Mizoram
Aizawl : Finally the D Day has arrived in the north-eastern Indian state Mizoram for the polls with the campaigning drew to a close amid a hue and cry about armed gunmen being sighted in one of the sensitive constituencies, Chalfilh, which borders Manipur.Though,...
Mizoram polls: Chana sect voters free to vote anyone sans diktat
Aizawl: For long Mizoram political parties have tried to persuade members of the Chana’s sect led by Ziona to vote en bloc for them, but without success, in their village in the Tuikum assembly seat in Serchhip district. C Lalrinthanga, a well-known...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Mizoram polls: Lal Thanhawla in advantageous position in Serchhip
Aizawl: With Mizoram's Serchhip district reaping benefits of
central and state socio-economic welfare schemes, Chief Minister Lal
Thanhawla seems to be in an advantageous position both in Serchhip and
Hrangturzo seats from where he is fighting the...
Mizoram's diverse modes of transport for poll officials
Aizawl: From heavy vehicles to two wheelers, small boats and trekking on foot, all modes are being used to ferry over 4,000 polling officials over topographically diverse Mizoram, where Assembly elections will be held on November 25."For transport of...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Rahul Gandhi to campaign in Mizoram
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will campaign in Mizoram Thursday, party sources said.Sources said Rahul Gandhi will hold two public meetings -- Kahrawt Ground in district Champhai and Tumpui Field in district Kolasib.Polls in the northeastern state...
Mizoram polls: VVPATs to be used on large-scale for the 1st time
Aizawl: With voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) being used on a large-scale for the first time in the country in the Mizoram Assembly polls, the Elections Commission is leaving no stone unturned to make it easily accessible to voters.’The VVPAT...
Mizoram film industry pins hope on new government
Swamped by Korean films dubbed in Mizo language, the film industry in Mizoram hopes that whichever party comes to power after polls should allocate more funds for its development.The chorus for more funds for Mizo films had gained momentum after...
Mizoram's Gorkhas may go the NOTA way over OBC status fight
Gorkhas are said to be weighing up
the NOTA option provided by the Election Commission in Mizoram's
Assembly elections, slated for November 25.
The
Gorkhas, who are one of the largest minorities in the state, are
deprived of OBC status through what...
Polling in Bru relief camps peaceful
Aizawl: Polling in the six Bru relief camps in North Tripura, for the coming election to the 40-member Mizoram Assembly on November 25, was completely peaceful on Tuesday where 23 percent of votes were polled at four PM, state Chief Electoral Officer...
Monday, November 18, 2013
After 20 years, 1,000 Bru families will exercise their franchise from home soil
Dhananjay Reang will exercise his franchise on home soil after 20 years
on November 25 when Mizoram goes to polls. Thousand others, lodged in
six relief camps in Tripura, are not so lucky enough, at least for now.
Some 37,000 Brus of Mizoram had...
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Polls just days away, but for candidates in Mizoram, Sunday is still a day of rest
Sunday is for God in Mizoram. Everything else can wait, even campaigning for once-in-five-years assembly elections. Campaigning for the November 25 polls in Mizoram has entered a crucial phase. But for the people, nothing is more important than...
Mizoram polls: Political parties use social media to woo voters
Political parties in Mizoram have been using social media and mobile phones to woo voters, especially the youths, for the coming Assembly election to be held on November 25.Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) chief Lalduhawma has an account on Facebook.Rothuama...
Mizoram polls: Sonia Gandhi to address people in Lunglei today
Lunglei: Congress President Sonia Gandhi will head to Mizoram on Monday for election campaigning in the state. She will be addressing the crowd in Lunglei.Mizoram goes to polls on November 25. Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is also expected to...
7th Assembly election is a battle between Mizo nationalism and Indian nationalsim: MDA
Newmai News NetworkImphal, Nov 18 : "The forthcoming 7th Mizoram Assembly election will be a landmark in the history of Mizoram general election as it is the battle between the devotees of Mizo nationalism and the leaders who want the Indianisation of...
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