AIZAWL, Dec 3 – The Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) has conferred ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ to Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla at the North East India Congress on Church in Mission (NEICOCIM) Conference held at CBCNEI Mission Compound...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Fake notes with Rs 1.5 lakh face value seized
Fake Indian currency notes having a face value of Rs 1.5 lakh were seized from one person who was arrested during a joint operation by BSF and police at Gumrah bordering Meghalaya in the district today.The joint team apprehended 24-year-old Nazmul Islam...
9,637 people HIV positive in Mizoram
AIZAWL, Dec 3 : At least 9,637 people in Mizoram have been found to be HIV-positive while 587 AIDS patients died in the State in the last 24 years, according to Mizoram State AIDS Control Society.MSACS officials said that 2,97,375 blood samples have...
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Mizoram Minister hints at austerity measures
AIZAWL, Nov 21 – Mizoram Finance Minister Lalsawta yesterday said that he expected to announce proposals for introduction of new taxes and imposition of austerity measures during the current fiscal.Lalsawta, during discussion on the budget, expressed...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Mizoram to announce new taxes and austerity measures: Lalsawta
Mizoram Finance Minister Lalsawta today said that he expected to announce proposals for introduction of new taxes and imposition of austerity measures during the current fiscal.Lalsawta, during discussion on the budget, expressed the hope that the government...
663 committed suicide in nine years in Mizoram
At least 663 people have committed suicide over the past nine years in Mizoram, with depression identified as the main cause, a report said Wednesday.An Aizawl-based NGO, New Life Charity Society (NeLICS), recorded and analysed these deaths between September...
Monday, November 17, 2014
Mizoram govt to ask Centre to set up border haat at Thingsai
Aizawl, Nov 18 : Mizoram government will ask the Centre to include Mizoram-Myanmar border village of Thingsai in Lunglei district for establishment of a Border Haat for the economic development of the area, Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla told the assembly.Intervening...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Four men, including a Myanmar national, arrested for heroin possession
Mizoram’s main anti-narcotics agency has arrested a Myanmar national and three others in four separate seizures of heroin in Aizawl over the past day and a half, a senior official said on Wednesday.Excise and Narcotics Department investigators on Tuesday...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Tax-free deficit Budget in Mizoram
AIZAWL, Nov 12 : Mizoram Finance Minister Lalsawta today presented a tax-free deficit Budget amounting to Rs 6,770.79 crore for the current fiscal.Lalsawta explained that he could not present the full Budget during the Budget Session in March and was...
Monday, November 10, 2014
Twelve-day Mizoram assembly session to start Tuesday, delayed budget and four bills to be tabled
Four bills and a delayed budget is set to be tabled before the house as the Mizoram Legislative Assembly begins its 12-day winter session starting Tuesday.The session will finally see a full-fledged budget presented before legislators by Finance Minister...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
High-level functionary of political party’s youth wing arrested in Rs 20 lakh extortion bid
The Mizoram Police have arrested a high-ranking political party worker and his accomplice for threatening an Aizawl resident to pay Rs 20 lakhs. The Zoram Nationalist Party has however denied the party’s involvement.Jacob Lianhuapa (40), currently chief...
Sandalwood seized in Mizoram
Aizawl: Customs officials seized 5,281 kilos of red sandalwood in Mizoram-Myanmar border Champhai town on Sunday, Customs officials Tuesday said.The officials said that the seized red sandalwood is worth around Rs 1.05 crore in the local market.Challiana...
Mizo govt to take strict action against extortionists
Aizawl: Mizoram government will take stringent action against militants involved in extortion, state Home Minister R Lalzirliana Tuesday said.Lalzirliana said some militants active in the Mizoram-Manipur-Assam border areas were sending letters demanding...
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Two persons abducted in Mizoram
Two non-tribals hailing from Baghabazar village in Assam's Cachar district have been abducted by unidentified people, police said today.Prabot Das and his friend Morrudin Laskar were abducted by people who had hired a van belonging to Das from Baghabazar...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Infant Mortality Rate in Mizoram '36' in past six months
The Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) in Mizoram during the past six months (April to September) was 36 and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) 121, health department officials said today.
There were 13 maternal deaths and 387 infant deaths (below one year)...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
‘Peter Biaksangzuala, look how many have come to see you off’
Peter’s No.21 jersey will be retired by his club (Source: FACEBOOK/MIZORAM PREMIER LEAGUE)
The death of a 23-year-old Mizo footballer from spinal-cord injuries
he sustained during a goal-celebrating somersault has found a mention in
football-centric...
Monday, October 20, 2014
Mizo girl’s body arrives in Aizawl
Aizawl:
The body of Juliet Zonunmawi, the Mizo girl who died in her Munirka
apartment in Delhi on Thursday night, was brought to Mizoram on Sunday.
She was laid to rest in a local cemetery in Aizawl's Kulikawn locality
on the same day. An autopsy...
Soccer player dies after goal celebration goes wrong
Bethlehem
Vengthlang FC midfielder Peter Biaksangzuala died on Sunday at a
hospital in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram after the incident
in Tuesday’s match in the third tier Mizoram Premier League (MPL).
(laurine kat/YouTube)
By...
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Mizoram to buy rice from private companies
AIZAWL, Oct 20 – Mizoram Government is planning to purchase rice from private companies and selected contractors to stem its shortage, State Food and Civil Supplies Minister John Rotluangliana said today.The proposed purchase of rice is aimed at preventing...
Delhi Police's Aizawl in Manipur howler, then correction
New Delhi : Delhi Police were left red-faced Friday after issuing a press release over the murder of a woman in which it was mentioned that she hailed from Aizawl and said the town was part of Manipur.However, 20 minutes later, the police rectified its...
Footballer dies from injury sustained during goal celebrations
The Mizoram Premier League footballer who injured his spinal cord during a celebratory somersault after scoring a match equalizer earlier this week passed away in a hospital around 7 am Sunday morning.Peter Biaksangzuala, 23, was a native of the eastern...
UN project on protection of ecosystem
AIZAWL, Oct 20 – Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla on Friday launched the United Nations Joint Initiative Project on protection of ecosystem.An MoU between various organisations under UN and Mizoram Government was inked on the occasion and the document...
5,000 rounds of ammunition seized
AIZAWL, Oct 20 : Police and Assam Rifles personnel have seized 5,000 rounds of smuggled ammunition from the border trade centre at Zokhawthar village in Champhai district of Mizoram.Police said the ammunition was smuggled from Myanmar by a man identified...
Friday, October 17, 2014
Arrest warrant against MBDPF president
Court of the Senior Civil Judge in Mizoram-Tripura border Mamit district issued warrant of arrest against Mizoram Bru Displace People's Forum (MBDPF) president A Sawibunga for the third time yesterday.The police said that the court's order and the warrant...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Mizoram NSS observes Global Hand Washing Day
Mizoram NSS today observed Global Hand Washing Day under Swachha Bharat Sapta in Aizawl when more than a thousand NSS volunteers and 85 programme officers from 30 educational institutions participated.The NSS volunteers, after reciting pledges for a...
Bodies of two non-tribals found in Mizoram
AIZAWL, Oct 16 – Bodies of two non-tribals, believed to be from Assam were found near Tuikhurhlu hamlet, about 30 km east of here today, police said.Police said that though the identities of the two deceased persons were yet to be ascertained, they surmised...
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Man attacked by bear
AIZAWL, Oct 13 – A 50-year-old man was attacked and injured by a bear in a jungle near the Mizoram-Myanmar border in south Mizoram’s Lunglei district, police said.The man was attacked by the bear inside the thick jungle protected by the local community...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Mizoram to share its power quota with Tripura during Pujas
Mizoram will share its quota of power received from the North Eastern grid to neighbouring Tripura during the coming Durga Puja, state power and electricity department officials today said.The officials said Mizoram would give around 25 MW of its share...
Mizoram, Meghalaya to light up Tripura during Puja
Agartala, Sep 24 : In a goodwill gesture, Mizoram and Meghalaya will provide 55 MW of electricity to Tripura during Durga Puja, a Tripura minister said here Tuesday."Mizoram will provide 25 MW and Meghalaya 30 MW of electricity from Sep 29 to Oct 7 to...
Monday, September 22, 2014
Mizoram plea on missionaries
Silchar, Sept. 23 : Mizoram home
minister R. Lalzirliana has written to his Madhya Pradesh counterpart
Babulal Gaur seeking immediate lifting of all cases against five Mizo
missionaries, who were arrested over a week ago in Sanawad town in that
state,...
Mizoram govt issues extreme weather condition warning
The Mizoram government today issued a warning in all the eight districts saying there is a possibility of extreme weather conditions in the state and neighbouring states during the next two days.An official statement said the warning came from the National...
96% people inhale second-hand smoke in Mizoram
A whopping 96.5 percent of non-smokers in Mizoram are still exposed to
second-hand smoke, which health experts have considered to be as harmful
as first-hand smoke of cigarettes.
Speaking at a training conducted by Tobacco Quitters of Mizoram (TQM)...
Mizoram govt creates 'Chief Minister's Free Medicine Scheme'
Mizoram government today decided to create the 'Chief Minister's Free Medicine Scheme' to ensure that people receive medicine free of costs in all hospitals and other health care centres, including health sub-centres in the remote villages, officials...
Sunday, September 21, 2014
3,481 people in Mizoram reject BME
AIZAWL, Sept 22 – At least 3,481 people in the Mizoram-Assam border town of Vairengte refused to be enrolled in the ongoing Biometric Enrolment (BME), officials who conducted the enrolment said.The officials said the people refused to be enrolled under...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Three years in jail for man who molested two minor daughters
A court in Mizoram’s Lunglei district has convicted and imposed a fine on a man for molesting his two minor daughters.
Additional District and Sessions Courth Judge Vanlalenmawia on
Tuesday sentenced the man to three years rigorous imprisonment and...
Rifleman’s death: Police question 3 accused
Mizoram
Police have started questioning personnel at the 39th Assam Rifles
paramilitary force’s Mimbung camp as part of its investigation into the
death of 26-year-old rifleman Ajit Rai there last month.
Senior police officials said that three men...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
New Governor Paul takes charge in Mizoram
Meghalaya
governor K K Paul took additional charge of Mizoram on Tuesday
afternoon, becoming the fifth incumbent of the Raj Bhavan at Aizawl in
just two-and-a-half months.
Paul was administered the oath of office at 4 pm by Guwahati High
Court Judge...
Monday, September 15, 2014
Mizoram measures to improve police efficiency
AIZAWL, Sept 15 – Mizoram Home department has made several suggestions for more efficient functioning of the State police in a meeting convened by Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla and attended by Home Minister R Lalzirliana.The meeting held here recently...
Mizoram not dumping ground for governors: Gen. V.K. Singh
Former army chief and now union minister Gen. V.K. Singh (retd) Monday said Mizoram was not a "dumping ground" for governors and those who resigned did so on their own."Mizoram is not a dumping ground for governors. It is one of the most beautiful states...
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Mizo editor passes away
Aizawl, Sep 15 :
Laldinthara Renthlei (43), the news editor of LPS Vision (local cable)
passed away at Zemabawk Cancer Hospital on Saturday around 11 a.m after a
long battle with cancer.His body was taken to his residence at Chanmari West and...
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Mary Kom spoke to the government officials, nothing could be done: Priyanka Chopra on Manipur banning her film
Priyanka Chopra is happy with all the critical praise coming her way
for her performance as MC Mary Kom in the boxer's biopic, but the
actress says it is "disheartening" that people from Manipur cannot see
the movie.
Mary Kom too had expressed her...
Meghalaya Governor KK Paul given additional charge of Manipur, Mizoram
Meghalaya Governor KK Paul was on Thursday given the additional charge of Manipur and Mizoram following the resignation of VK Duggal.
President Pranab Mukherjee, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan
spokesperson, has accepted the resignation...
Paul to be sworn in as Mizoram Governor
AIZAWL, Sept 12 – Meghalaya Governor Krishan Kant Paul is likely to be sworn-in at the Aizawl Raj Bhavan on September 16 to take additional charge of Mizoram’s Governor, sources in the Raj Bhavan today said.Paul was appointed to take additional charge...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
661 committed suicide in Mizoram since 2005: NGO
At least 661 people including 112 women committed suicide in Mizoram since 2005 till date, Dr Zawmsanga Sailo of the Aizawl-based NGO New Life Charity Society (NELICS) said here today.At a function held in the Pachhunga University College campus here...
Home dept suggestions for efficient functioning of police
Mizoram Home department today made several suggestions for more efficient functioning of the state police and observant of austerity measures in the meeting convened by Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla and attended by Home Minister R Lalzirliana.The meeting...
Mizoram: 47 kilos marijuana seized, three arrested
A joint operation by Mizoram’s anti-narcotics agency and a paramilitary force has caught 47 kilograms of marijuana worth Rs 2 lakhs and arrested three traffickers, an official statement said Wednesday.The statement said the seizure was made by officers...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Drugs seized in Mizoram
AIZAWL, Sept 4 – Mizoram Excise and Narcotics department officers have seized 2,763 capsules of Spasmo Proxyvon in south Mizoram’s Pangzawl village and arrested two persons in this connection, the department said today.The drugs were smuggled to Mizoram...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Brother blames seniors, police lodge murder case
The death was earlier recorded as a suicide.The Mizoram Police have lodged a case of murder and started investigations into the death of a rifleman posted with the 39 Assam Rifles at Mimbung in eastern Champhai district. The death was earlier recorded...
Monday, September 1, 2014
Explosion near residence of Mizoram Parliament Secy
Aizawl: A powerful explosion took place near the residence of the Mizoram Parliamentary Secretary for Home in Mission Veng locality here early this morning but there was no report of any casualty, police said.The explosion, suspected to be caused by...
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Presbyterian Church Commemorates Arrival of Welsh Missionary
Presbyterian Church of India Mizoram Synod, the largest church in the state today observed 'Ramthar Ni' or the day of enlightenment to commemorate the arrival of Welsh Christian Missionary Rev. David Evan Jones.Special prayer and worship services were...
USD 48,700 seized in Mizoram
AIZAWL, Sep 1 – In an operation conducted by the Assam Rifles, USD 48,700 were seized and one person was arrested near Zanlawn village on Mizoram-Assam border in Kolasib district.Personnel of the Assam Rifles and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence...
Thursday, August 28, 2014
PMJDY inaugurated in Aizawl and Mizoram dist headquarters
The Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) or 'People's Wealth Scheme' was today launched simultaneously in Aizawl and all the district headquarters of the state along with the rest of the country.Acting Chief Minister R. Lalzirliana, who inaugurated...
Opinion invited on Mizoram Lokayukta Bill, 2014
Aizawl, Aug 29 : The Mizoram Law and Judicial department today issued notification regarding The Mizoram Lokayukta Bill, 2014, the final draft of which has been completed and notified vide The Mizoram Gazette Vol.XLIII Issue No.398 dt.5/8/2014, and also...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Mizoram put on high alert to face Ebola
The Mizoram governemnt today placed the state health services department on high alert for any eventuality of Ebola break out in the state.An official statement released here said programme officers of the state health services department met here today...
Mizo minister orders probe into failure to unfurl tricolour
Mizoram's Minister of State for the Chief Ministers Office (CMO) Lal Thanzara has asked the Deputy Commissioner of inter-state border district of Kolasib Jitender Yadav to conduct a probe into the national tricolour falling from pall after being hoisted...
Monday, August 25, 2014
Acche din promise to Reang refugees
SEKHAR DATTA
Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya at the refugee camp at Kanchanpur on Sunday. (PTI)
Agartala, Aug. 25: Tripura governor
Padmanava Balkrishna Acharya yesterday visited two Reang refugee camps
in Kanchanpur...
Rs 66 lakh worth meth pills seized in Aizawl
Methamphetamine tablets with a street value of Rs 66,50,000 were seized in Mizoram state capital Aizawl in the last two days. Mizoram excise & narcotics department said today its anti-narcotics squad recovered 18,000 more tablets of methamphetamine...
Money disbursed to 173 Bru families
AIZAWL, Aug 26 – Mizoram Government has disbursed money under rehabilitation and resettlement package to all the 173 Bru families who returned to Mizoram from six relief camps in neighbouring North Tripura during June 17 to 21 last year.State Home department...
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Mizoram: Four governors in less than two months
Aizawl/New Delhi, Aug 25 : The
Congress-ruled northeastern state of Mizoram is likely to have the
dubious distinction of having four governors in less than two months.
Maharashtra
governor K. Sankaranarayanan was Sunday transferred to Mizoram for...
Mizoram cops: Beware of cheats using pics of ‘attractive Caucasians’ on Facebook
Sometimes the cheats convince the women that they want to settle down with them, and say they will send money for them to buy a house.The Mizoram Police on Thursday issued a warning about embezzlers creating fake Facebook profiles with pictures of “attractive,...
Drafting of Lokayukta Bill 2014 completed in Mizoram
AIZAWL: Mizoram's Lokayukta Drafting Committee has completed the draft Lokayukta Bill, 2014 and uploaded the bill in the state law department's website, officials of the state law and judicial department today said.The officials said that anyone...
Youth sentenced to life for murder
Aizawl, Aug 25 : A 20-year-old man was today
sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment by a local court for
killing a villager on the Assam-Mizoram border.Aizawl District and Sessions Judge R Thanga convicted
Raju Samir Das for killing Lalawmpuii in 2012...
Monday, August 18, 2014
Man arrested for raping minor in Mizoram
A 24-year-old man was arrested in Hnahthial town of Mizoram for allegedly raping a minor girl, the police said today.Police said that when the girl was going to a church service on Sunday, the man waylaid her and allegedly raped her.The accused was detained...
Landslides cut off Barak Valley, Tripura, Mizoram
Landslides on national highways in Meghalaya and Assam's Dima Hasao district have cut off the Barak Valley, Tripura and Mizoram for the last 30 hours.Reports said trees, boulders and mud came down the hills on NH-6 connecting Silchar with Shillong at...
Sunday, August 17, 2014
New Land Use Policy gets UN financial assistance
Aizawl, Aug 18 :
The United Nations (UN) is to extend financial assistance to New Land
Use Policy (NLUP), said NLUP Implementing Board (NIB) Chairman JH
Rothuama during an interaction with leaders of Mizoram Journalists
Association (MJA).
JH...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Rehabilitation package distributed to 30 Bru families
Rehabilitation and resettlement package were distributed today to the repatriated 30 Bru families at Mamit district bordering Tripura, state home department officials said.The officials said that Rs 85,000 was disbursed to each of the Bru families and...
Hotel owner's son killed by employee in Mizoram
Aizawl: A hotel owner's son was killed allegedly by his teenage employee in a hotel at Champhai in Mizoram, police said on Wednesday.The body of Lalrinpuia (19), son of the hotel owner, was found early this morning in the corridor of the hotel with a...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
AIDS patients died due to TB
Majority of full-blown AIDS patients died due to tuberculosis (TB) in Mizoram, state Health department officials said today.The officials said that while 91 per cent of the TB patients were cured, 46 people died due to TB since January till June out...
BSF constable from UP shoots self at base near Lunglei, Mizoram
A BSF constable shot himself with his Insas rifle while on duty. Did not leave behind a suicide note.A Border Security Force constable attached with the 63rd battalion, currently posted near Lunglei in southern Mizoram, shot himself to death with his...
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Mizoram Church demands SC status for Christians
Aizawl: Baptist Church of Mizoram
(BCM) on Sunday joined National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) in
observing 'Black Day' demanding acceptance of Christians as Schedule
Caste. Members of the Baptist Church pinned a piece of black cloth on
their...
Baptist Church demands Schedule Caste status for Christians
Baptist Church of Mizoram (BCM) today joined National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) in observing 'Black Day' demanding acceptance of Christians as Schedule Caste.Members of the Baptist Church pinned a piece of black cloth on their shirts and held...
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Opp decries sacking of Mizoram Governor
NEW DELHI, Aug 8 – The NDA government came under attack today over the sacking of Mizoram Governor Kamla Beniwal with the Opposition calling it “political vendetta”, a charge it rejected by saying the action followed “serious allegations” against her...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Visitors banned from Lengpui airport
Aizawl, Aug 6 : The terminal building of Lengpui
airport in Mizoram was closed for visitors from today till
August 20, airport officials said. Only passengers would be allowed to enter the terminal
building of Mizoram's lone airport, the sources said....
Monday, August 4, 2014
YMA to push for removal of B D Chakma
Young Mizo Association (YMA) would put more pressure on Mizoram chief minister Lal Thanhawla to sack Minister of State for Fisheries Dr B. D. Chakma due to his 'divisive' actions.General Secretary of the central committee of the YMA Vanlalruata told...
Mizoram Home min felicitates Shaurya Chakra recipient
Mizoram Home Minister R Lalzirliana today felicitated Lallawmzuala of the 18 Rashtriya Rifles who recently received Shaurya Chakra from President Pranab Mukherjee.Lalzirliana handed over Rs five lakh in cash and a citation to Lallawmzuala, who hails...
Mizoram: Minor Girl Allegedly Gangraped by Seven
Aizawl, Aug 5 : A minor girl was allegedly gang raped by seven persons, four of whom are also minors, in South Mizoram's Lunglei district, police said today.The girl has eloped with a boy and they were planning to go to Lunglei last night, police said."The...
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Mizoram's rail connectivity cut-off temporarily
SILCHAR: Mizoram, the eastern-most state of the country has been virtually cut-off from other states in terms of railway connectivity for over a week now following a rail blockade by a couple of NGOs both in Mizoram and certain areas of Assam.Mizoram...
2 arrested for blast near Mizoram Parliament Secy's residence
Two persons were arrested for a blast that took place near the residence of the Mizoram Parliamentary Secretary for Home, even as a Manipur-based militant group claimed responsibility for the explosions that rocked the state during the last two months.A...
Friday, August 1, 2014
Explosion near residence of Mizoram Parliament Secretary
Aizawl: A powerful explosion took place near the residence of
the Mizoram Parliamentary Secretary for Home in Mission Veng locality
early on Friday morning but there was no report of any casualty, police
said.
The explosion, suspected to be caused...
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Mizoram PHED employee dies while cleaning water tank
An employee of the Mizoram Public Health Engineering department died while cleaning a water tank at a place near the river Tlawng on the outskirts of the state capital, official sources said today.Rohmingthanga (47) was sucked inside a pipe while cleaning...
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