Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Meeting on Bru families in Tripura held

Aizawl:  Union Home Ministry convened a meeting on the several issues regarding Bru families lodged in the six relief camps in North Tripura district to be held in New Delhi on January 30, Lalbiakzama, Additional Secretary for Mizoram Home department...
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Chakma quits Congress

AIZAWL, Jan 29 – Mizoram’s first Minister from the Chakma community and veteran Congress leader Nirupam Chakma today resigned from the primary membership of the party.Chakma submitted his resignation as the senior adviser of the Chakma Autonomous District...
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Four, including Myanmar national, arrested for heroin possession in Mizoram

Investigators from Mizoram’s chief anti-narcotics agency have arrested four suspected heroin peddlers — among them two women of which one is a Myanmar national — in as many seizures over the past two days.Wednesday’s arrests by the Excise and Narcotics...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Meeting on Bru families lodged in Tripura

Union Home Ministry convened a meeting on the several issues regarding Bru families lodged in the six relief camps in North Tripura district to be held in New Delhi on January 30, Lalbiakzama, Additional Secretary for Mizoram Home department today said.Lalbiakzama...
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Sunday, January 25, 2015

Make Mizoram a place to live with prosperity, peace: Guv

Aizawl: Mizoram Governor Aziz Qureshi on Monday appealed to the people to give their best to the state so that Mizoram could be a place where all could live with dignity, peace, prosperity and happiness.In his first address after unfurling the tricolour...
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Security beefed up in Aizawl

Aizawl, Jan 26 : Security has been beefed up and in and around the capital here as Mizoram prepared to celebrate the Republic Day tomorrow.Bomb disposal squad and special branch personnel checked the Assam Rifles ground here, the venue of the Republic...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

India, Bangladesh officials, border guards to work jointly

Aizawl, Jan 23 : The district administrations and border guards of India and Bangladesh would deal jointly with various border issues and crimes, officials said here Thursday.District magistrates and other officials of Mizoram's two districts - Mamit...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

Mizoram CM urges MLAs for fire prevention

Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla today urged all the legislators to have interactions with all the village council leaders in their respective constituents on the issue of fire prevention.Inaugurating the 'Fire Prevention Week' in Aizawl, Lal Thanhawla...
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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Ammunition seized in Mizoram

Two persons were arrested and about 2000 rounds of ammunition seized by the Special Branch of the Mizoram police at Phunchawng village near Aizawl, a senior police officer said today.Yesterday, Laldinnghaka (28) of Lawngtlai district and Rohmingthanga...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Female voters outnumber males again in Mizoram

There are more female voters than male ones yet again in Mizoram, the latest electoral rolls released on Thursday show, with the voter sex ratio currently at 1000 males: 1040 females.In all, 29 out of 40 assembly constituencies have a higher ratio of...
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Two persons killed as garbage truck rolls down gorge

Aizawl: Two persons in a garbage disposal truck were killed when it rolled down into a gorge near Vangchhia village in Mizoram-Myanmar border Champhai district, police said on Wednesday.Police said the accident occured Tuesday while the two were engaged...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Minor earthquake jolts Mizoram-Bangladesh border region

An earthquake of slight intensity, measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale, shook the border region between the Indian state of Mizoram and Bangladesh this morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.   The quake, which had its epicentre...
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Man arrested following death of wife in Mizoram

A 51-year-old man in Kolasib distraict on the Mizoram-Assam border was arrested after his wife died under mysterious circumstances, a police officer said today.The officer said that Lalthangliana and his wife Lalsangluaii (37) were living in a roadside...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Mizoram Liquor act

Silchar, Jan. 14 : The decks have been cleared for the implementation of the Mizoram Liquor (Prohibition and Control) Act, 2014, for allowing only those who would possess liquor cards, with an official announcement yesterday that the act will come...
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Monday, January 12, 2015

Qureshi hopes to complete tenure

AIZAWL, Jan 13 – The new Governor of Mizoram, Dr Aziz Qureshi said that as far as his plan is concerned he would like to complete his tenure of Governorship in Mizoram unless his service is terminated by the Central Government. He also said that he will...
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