Bru Refugees Likely To Return To Mizoram

Aizawl, May 7 : Despite uncertainties among refugees, the Mizoram government has agreed to resume the rehabilitation of over 40,000 tribals who had sought refuge in Tripura for about 16 years, a home ministry official said Monday.In view of the growing ethnic troubles, the Tripura government has been repeatedly telling the centre that the long stay of the immigrants was causing socio-economic and...

MBA Takes Exception To Burning Down of Mizoram Hamlet

Aizawl, May 6 : Mizoram Bar Association (MBA) has taken strong exception to the burning down of Mizoram-Myanmar border Saikhumphai hamlet in Champhai district on April 29 and intended to file charges of criminal contempt of court.A top leader of the MBA told PTI that the villagers of Vaphai village not only took law into their own hands while ravaging Saikhumphai, but also acted against the verdict...

Mizoram Asked To Boost Industry Through Local Resources

Aizawl, May 6 : The Planning Commission has asked the Mizoram government to create an investor-friendly environment to promote handloom, handicrafts, food and bamboo based industries in the northeastern state using locally available resources, an official said here Saturday.The suggestion was made during a meeting between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Mizoram Chief...

Welcome to Delhi, The New Drug Trafficking Hub

By Suhas Munshi Drug addicts wait for traetment at National Drug Dependence Treatment The National Capital is witnessing a boom in drug trafficking. A Mail Today investigation has found out that foreign drug cartels are smuggling in thousands of kilograms of narcotics through Delhi's porous borders even as the anti-narcotics forces grope in the dark for leads. On...

US Film 'Explores The Power' of Baseball in Manipur

By Arun KumarWashington, May 6 : It was amazing enough that in cricket-crazy India, America's national pastime baseball has found a foothold in the northeastern state of Manipur.And now two American women, one a critically acclaimed director and the other an Academy-Award winning actress, have come together to make a movie that they say "explores the power" of the game for "people in a troubled,...

Nagaland Governor Releases Book on Northeast Cuisine

Dimapur, May 6 : The variations in cuisine from region to region in India is quite staggering. In a major boost to exploration of the food culture of different tribes and communities of northeast, Nagaland Governor Dr. Ashwani Kumar recently released a book titled 'Food Trail- discovering food culture of NE India.'A first-of-its-kind anthology, the book written by Aiyushman Dutta, offers a peek...

Did Mizoram Govt Allow Mob Violence?

Aizawl, May 2 : Even as the people of Vaphai unreasonably blamed Gauhati High Court for the torching of Saikhumphai Bawk, an alleged illegal settlement near the Mizoram-Myanmar border, the state administration was held responsible for the heinous crime. Severely criticising the government's inaction to contain mob violence, the Mizoram Bar Association today asked if the government instigated Monday's...

Mizoram Restricts Pork Sale As Fever Kills Over 600 Pigs

Aizawl, May 2 : Over 600 pigs have died from swine fever and about 12,200 have been infected in the past two months in Mizoram, officials said here Wednesday. “The endemic swine fever caused the death of as many as 470 pigs in Aizawl district alone while remaining 130 died in other districts. Over 12,200 pigs have been infected with the disease,” a Mizoram animal husbandry and veterinary...