Enrolment in govt schools significantly rose post pandemic: Mizoram education minister

Mizoram State Education Minister Lalchhandama Ralte said in a meeting that enrollment in Mizoram government schools increased significantly after the pandemic. Mizoram State Education Minister Lalchhandama Ralte, said on Tuesday, that the student enrollment in state government schools increased ‘significantly’ as educational institutes began reopening after they were shut because of the Covid-19...

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Aizawl To Become 4th State Capital In North East To Have Rail Connectivity Next Year

A new Broad Gauge railway line is currently under construction from Bairabi of Assam’s Hailakandi district to Sairang of Mizoram’s Aizawl district covering 52 km. In a recent development in the railway sector of the northeastern region, the capital city of Mizoram, Aizawl is...

Unemployed Doctors Come Forward To Fight Covid In Mizoram

Aizawl: In a generous gesture, over 400 unemployed doctors, nursing students, laboratory technicians and pharmacists in Mizoram have voluntarily agreed to assist the government in Covid management, health officials said on Wednesday. A health official said that responding to the state government’s appeal, 412 unemployed doctors, nursing students and laboratory technicians willingly engaged...

Mizoram: Eight-day lockdown imposed in Aizawl, other district headquarters

A health worker collects a swab sample The lockdown would come into force at 4 am on Monday (3 May) and would remain in force till 4 am of 11 MayThere is no restriction in terms of opening of shops and other economic activities in other parts of the state Amid an alarming surge in Covid-19 cases, the Mizoram...

Mizoram plans to become ‘Har Ghar Jal’ State by 2022-23

NEW DELHI: The State of Mizoram presented their Jal Jeevan Mission Annual Action Plan via video conference with details of the saturation plan for the financial year 2021-22, thereby ensuring that every rural household in the State gets tap water connection. Working along with the mission objective ‘HarGharJal’, Mizoram proposes 100% tap connections in rural homes of the State...

48 hours on, forest fires rage across Mizoram

According to a satellite data assessment by the Forest Survey of India (FSI), there were as many as 2,671 forest fire points in the state between April 20 and 26, with over 400 points on Monday alone. By Jayashree NandiNew Delhi: Massive forest fires that broke out on Saturday and continued to rage till Monday have affected several parts of Mizoram and damaged vast tracts of land, satellite...

Schools to Close in Mizoram Due to New Covid Cases

AIZAWL, Apr 12:  The Mizoram Government has ordered closure of schools for students up to Class VIII following a surge in COVID-19 cases. Fresh guidelines issued last night said that the State Government has again banned night church service and extended the duration of night curfew by two hours in all the district headquarters, including the State capital as the second wave of COVID-19...

29 new cases push Mizoram's COVID-19 tally to 4,612

Aizawl, Apr 12 : At least 29 people, including three children and a CRPF employee, tested positive for COVID-19 in Mizoram on Sunday, taking the tally in the state to 4,612, an official said.Of the new cases, 28 were reported from Aizawl and one from Mamit district, he said. Eight new patients have travel history, while four were detected during contact tracing and it is yet to be ascertained...

Mizoram’s bond with people fleeing Myanmar

Centre wants these Myanmar nationals deported, but Mizoram wants political asylum for their ‘Mizo brethren’. A look at their common roots and continuing bond. By Esha RoyAt a bridge on the river Tiau, which separates India...

Assam Rifles puts 24×7 patrol on all entry points to keep Myanmar refugees out of Mizoram

Political refugees from Myanmar have sought asylum in Mizoram since the military coup last month. MHA wants them deported but Mizoram govt doesn’t want to. By Amrita Nayak Dutta  ...

Do Not Send Back Myanmar Exiles

Mizo National Front Rajya Sabha MP K. Vanlalvena. File   They are our brothers; sending them back will mean killing them, says lawmaker A Rajya Sabha member from the Mizo National Front (MNF) said on Tuesday that more than 300 people who have entered Mizoram from Myanmar fearing the military crackdown in that country include pregnant women and children. K. Vanlalvena...

Mizoram group urges Centre to impose sanctions on Myanmar

A Mizoram-based group representing the Zo indigenous folks of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar has petitioned President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to impose sanctions on military-ruled Myanmar. The Zo Reunification Organisation (ZORO) comprising the Chin-Kuki-Mizo-Zomi...

Mizoram NGO’s Proposal for Mizo Tribes in Myanmar

NGO United for Democratic Myanmar-Mizoram on Saturday met Mizoram Pradesh BJP President Vanlalhmuaka and asked him to request the Centre to give refuge to Mizo tribes from Myanmar.Vanlalhmuaka had contacted the BJP National President JP Nadda on the matter and requested him to support the refugeesThe deputy commissioner of Falam district, Myanmar has written to the Deputy Commissioner of Champai...

India-Myanmar Road Project Nearing Completion: Mizoram CM

Aizawl, Mar 11 : The construction of a cross- border road between Mizoram''s Lawngtlai town and neighbouring Myanmars Sittwe port is nearing completion, Chief Minister Zoramthanga informed the state assembly on Wednesday. The road is part of the Kaladan multi-modal transit transport project which is being viewed as India''s gateway to Southeast Asia and the project, when completed, will connect Kolkata...

Myanmar writes to Mizoram government seeking handover of eight policemen who fled country

Aizawl, Mar 7: Indian officials said on Friday that 16 people from Myanmar have crossed over to India over the last few days, of which 11 have claimed that they were police personnel. Myanmar has requested the administration in Mizoram to send back eight policemen, who have...

19 Myanmar Cops Take Shelter in Mizoram

‘They got instructions from the military rule, which they cannot obey so they have run away,’ Indian officer saidDozens of people have been killed in Myanmar since February 1 coup as security forces have responded with increasing force Riot police officers in Yangon. Photo: EPA At least 19 Myanmar police have crossed into India to escape taking orders from a military junta that is trying...

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