Linda ChhakchhuakAIZAWL, July 29 – The Mizoram Environment & Forest department has raked up a controversy by banning the collection and sale of bamboo shoots in tribal markets under the Forest Conservation Act 1985 which is a clear violation of the...
Monday, July 29, 2013
Sunday, July 28, 2013
PWD made fraudulent payments: CAG
Comptroller and Auditor General of India has indicted the Mizoram Public Works Department of making fraudulent payment to the tune of Rs 5.81 lakh against works which were not executed.The report, laid in the state assembly recently, said the Chief Engineer,...
Mizoram CM says food scheme will add to misery of poor
AIZAWL: Congress chief minister LalThanhawla again sent out mixed signals on the launch of the food security scheme on Thursday when he said it would only increase the miseries of the poor in the state if implemented without any modifications .Addressing...
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Eight held for truck robbery in Mizoram
SILCHAR: Mizoram and Assam Police, in a joint operation, arrested eight miscreants from the Dolai locality of Cachar district on Wednesday. The criminals were allegedly involved in robbing at least 17 trucks at Saifai on Bhaga-Sherkhan Road in Mizoram,...
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Congress-ruled Mizoram finds it tough to implement food scheme
AIZAWL: Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla today said that the Food Security scheme would not be implemented in this Congress-ruled state because of "financial constraints"."It will be impossible to take up the scheme before the coming Assembly polls...
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Mizoram Government Launching MLM Company
It is first time in the history of MLM that a government is prepared to launch an MLM entity.
Yes, the government of Mizoram is
launching an MLM company for the people. The launch date is 18th July
2013. The name...
Manik Sarkar seeks PM's intervention in Reang issue
Manik
Sarkar has sought intervention of PM for repatriation of over 37,000
internally displaced people from Reang community from neighbouring
Mizoram.
AGARTALA: Tripura Chief Minister ManikSarkar has sought intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
'No major business slated for Mizoram assembly's monsoon session'
Aizawl, July 18 :The two-day monsoon session of the Mizoram assembly scheduled to begin July 23 may probably not witness any significant business transaction, an official said Wednesday."There would be no significant business in the two-day session...
Monday, July 15, 2013
Two-day monsoon session of Mizoram assembly
Aizawl: The Monsoon session of the Mizoram legislature, summoned by the state governor Vakkom Purushothaman, to commence from July 23 would be sitting for two days only.The Business Advisory Committee of the assembly which met today under the chairmanship...
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Mizoram on alert after seizure of 'party drug' methamphetamine
The anti-narcotics agency of Mizoram has alerted its units to look for party drug, methamphetamine especially in areas close to Myanmar. The move comes in the wake of the Forensic Science Lab in Aizawl confirming that the small reddish-orange pill, each...
Mizoram MLA jailed on forgery charges
AIZAWL, July 15 – Mizoram Legislator RL Pianmawia who was accused of making a fake rubber stamp for withdrawing funds from the MLA Development funds has been sent to jail by a District Court. Pianmawia is also the deputy chief whip of the ruling Congress...
HIV cases decline in Mizoram
AIZAWL, JULY 15 : HIV cases in Mizoram have declined considerably in the past few years. According to Mizoram health minister Lalrinliana Sailo, HIV cases in the state have declined during 2007-2011 as per ‘Technical Report India, HIV Estimates-2012,...
Mizo Marriage Bill deliberated
AIZAWL, July 15 : Mizoram State Law Commission in its 18th meeting today discussed on the Mizo The Marriage Bill, The Inheritance Bill, 2013 and reviewed them.The meeting was held under the leadership of its Chairman R.Lalrinawma, MLA at his Office Chamber...
Monday, July 8, 2013
Laldenga’s death anniversary observed
AIZAWL, July 9 – Opposition Mizo National Front (MNF) leaders today laid wreaths at the tomb of the late MNF supremo Laldenga at the Treasury Square here, on the occasion of his 23rd death anniversary.Laldenga died on July 7, 1990 but his death anniversary...
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Help us enrol eligible voters: Mizoram poll officer tells political units
Aizawl: Mizoram Chief Electoral Officer Ashwini
Kumar today expressed dissatisfaction that there were fewer voters
compared to the population in some places of the state.
Include all voters. Reuters
Convening a meeting of representatives of the...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Mizoram swine fever abates
Silchar, Jul 4 : The Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), which had killed over 3,800 pigs in Mizoram during March and April this year, seems to have died down with no fresh cases reported since May.The syndrome, also called blue-ear...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Seven acquitted in Mizoram exorcism death case
Aizawl: Thangvunga, a resident of Lunglei district in South Mizoram, died after sustaining injuries all over his body in an exorcism ritual on August 8, 2010.Exorcism is the practice of expelling evil spirits by means of prayer. However, the use of brute...
Monday, July 1, 2013
Chin and Mizo singers will perform in US
Popular Chin and Mizo singers will be performing in the US at a
conference organized by the Chin Youth Organization (CYO) next month.
Salai Cung Lian Thawng (Thawngbawih), Van Dawt Cin (Moe Moe), both
from Chin state, and Mami Varte from Mizoram...
Fish farming booming in Mizoram
AIZAWL, Jul 2 – Fish farmers in Mizoram are doing brisk business these days, thanks to the New Land Use Policy (NLUP).However, the Mizoram Government wants that the local fish farmers should increase their production to the extent where they can start...
No fresh PRRS infection in Mizoram
There was no report of any fresh death of swines due to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) and no pig was detected infected with the virus since May in Mizoram, officials said here today.At least 3,800 pigs died during March and April...
More Chin families could be forced from Mizoram
More Chin families living in Mizoram state in northeast India may
soon be forced out by Mizo organizations. A new order calling for the
ejection of 16 families in Mual Khang village, Kolasib Township was
recently issued by the Young Mizo Association...
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