Mizoram News

For the first time, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) would provide compensation to two parties claiming the same plots of land to undertake the construction work of a four-lane highway in Mizoram, officials said here on Sunday.

Mizoram's Aizawl will be the fourth capital city in the Northeast to come under railway link within the next nine months as the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is laying the new 51.38 km Broad Gauge track up to Sairang, top officials said on Sunday.

The Assam Rifles today said their posts across Mizoram faced an electricity outage for several hours on Thursday after soldiers allegedly stopped the convoy of Mizoram Power Minister F Rodingliana.

Mizoram is fast running out of essential commodities and oil as tankers and trucks got stuck on the highway due to extremely bad roads, the states distributors group said. Long queues have started appearing at petrol stations.

With their heads tonsured and cigarette burns on bodies, two teenage boys returned home in Mizoram after being held captive by militants in adjoining Myanmar's Chin state for nearly a week, an Assam Rifles officer said on Sunday.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted 10 accused in an arms-and-explosives seizure case in Mizoram connected with Myanmar-based insurgent groups, according to an official statement issued on Friday.

Three people from Manipur and Mizoram working at a bar in a Chennai hotel have alleged the management kept them in illegal confinement over allegations of theft. They said the management did not let them go after their work hours on Saturday.

Mizoram and Assam on Friday agreed to continue to promote and maintain peace along the inter-state border, as part of efforts to resolve their decades-long boundary dispute.

Mizoram CM Lalduhoma held a meeting with Home Minister Amit Shah and urged him to hold talks with the tribal leaders of the Kuki-Zo community in Manipur, as part of the efforts to resolve the ethnic crisis, officials said.

Pig farmers and rearers in Mizoram have suffered colossal losses of over Rs 20 crore due to the outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) since February causing the deaths of over 5,430 pigs and culling of over 10,300 pigs, officials said on Thursday.

Several northeastern states, including Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram, and Assam, remained cut off from rest of country by rail as railway tracks were waterlogged and damaged after landslides triggered by incessant rain in the aftermath of Cyclone Remal.

Assam Rifles and Mizoram Police in a joint operation have seized heroin valued at Rs 8.43 crore from Champhai district, an official said on Friday.

Lok Sabha has 545 seats, but elections will be held in 543 constituencies. 

A 28-year-old security personnel on election duty in Mizoram died due to cardiac arrest on Friday, officials said.

More than 2,500 houses, schools and government buildings were damaged and a woman was killed in thunderstorm that hit Mizoram in the past three days, officials said on Wednesday.

For the first time, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) would provide compensation to two parties claiming the same plots of land to undertake the construction work of a four-lane highway in Mizoram, officials said here on Sunday.

Mizoram's Aizawl will be the fourth capital city in the Northeast to come under railway link within the next nine months as the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is laying the new 51.38 km Broad Gauge track up to Sairang, top officials said on Sunday.

The Assam Rifles today said their posts across Mizoram faced an electricity outage for several hours on Thursday after soldiers allegedly stopped the convoy of Mizoram Power Minister F Rodingliana.

Mizoram is fast running out of essential commodities and oil as tankers and trucks got stuck on the highway due to extremely bad roads, the states distributors group said. Long queues have started appearing at petrol stations.

With their heads tonsured and cigarette burns on bodies, two teenage boys returned home in Mizoram after being held captive by militants in adjoining Myanmar's Chin state for nearly a week, an Assam Rifles officer said on Sunday.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted 10 accused in an arms-and-explosives seizure case in Mizoram connected with Myanmar-based insurgent groups, according to an official statement issued on Friday.

Three people from Manipur and Mizoram working at a bar in a Chennai hotel have alleged the management kept them in illegal confinement over allegations of theft. They said the management did not let them go after their work hours on Saturday.

Mizoram and Assam on Friday agreed to continue to promote and maintain peace along the inter-state border, as part of efforts to resolve their decades-long boundary dispute.

Mizoram CM Lalduhoma held a meeting with Home Minister Amit Shah and urged him to hold talks with the tribal leaders of the Kuki-Zo community in Manipur, as part of the efforts to resolve the ethnic crisis, officials said.

Pig farmers and rearers in Mizoram have suffered colossal losses of over Rs 20 crore due to the outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) since February causing the deaths of over 5,430 pigs and culling of over 10,300 pigs, officials said on Thursday.

Several northeastern states, including Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram, and Assam, remained cut off from rest of country by rail as railway tracks were waterlogged and damaged after landslides triggered by incessant rain in the aftermath of Cyclone Remal.

Assam Rifles and Mizoram Police in a joint operation have seized heroin valued at Rs 8.43 crore from Champhai district, an official said on Friday.

Lok Sabha has 545 seats, but elections will be held in 543 constituencies. 

A 28-year-old security personnel on election duty in Mizoram died due to cardiac arrest on Friday, officials said.

More than 2,500 houses, schools and government buildings were damaged and a woman was killed in thunderstorm that hit Mizoram in the past three days, officials said on Wednesday.