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Mirra Bank’s documentary ‘The Only Real Game’ examines the popularity of baseball in the troubled North-Eastern state By Mridula Chari A still from ‘The Only Real Game’ One of the jokes about the Major League Baseball World Series is that only one country participates: the United States of America. While this is factually inaccurate, commentators might soon be able to add India to the...

After Arunachal, Mizo Govt in Soup

By Sandeep Ashar The contentious plot in Vashi. Narendra Vaskar Mumbai, Oct 31 :  It's not just the Arunachal Pradesh government that brought in a private player to exploit commercial space on land allotted to it at subsidised rates in Navi Mumbai by the Maharashtra government. It turns out that Mizoram government has taken a similar route. It has tied up with US Roofs — the same company...

Mizoram Elction Update: Oct 30

EC instructs Mizoram election department for VVPAT system in 10 constituencies Aizawl, Oct 30 : The Election Commission has instructed the Mizoram election department to use Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System (VVPAT) system in 10 Assembly constituencies in the coming elections to the 40-member state legislature to be held on November 25. The instruction was issued yesterday to introduce...

Mizoram Opposition Parties Form Alliance

Aizawl, Oct 30 : The Mizo National Front (MNF), Mizoram People’s Conference (MPC) and Maraland Democratic Front (MDF) today entered into a pre-poll alliance for the state Assembly polls that are just 27 days away.According to the agreement reached between the three parties, the MNF will contest 31 seats, the MPC will contest eight seats and the MDF one.The seat-sharing formula was announced today...

MNF Wants To End Favouritism, if Voted To Power

Aizawl, Oct 29 : To put an end to nepotism, opposition Mizo National Front (MNF) has promised voters that recruitment for all government jobs would be made through employment exchanges, if the party is voted to power in the forthcoming Assembly elections to be held on November 25.MNF leaders said yesterday that they would stop the practice of recruiting youths for government service on the basis of...

Grape-Growers Sour Over Winery Issues in Mizoram

By Rahul KarmakarAizawl, Oct 29 : In Champhai North, Champhai South and East Tuipui — three of Mizoram’s 40 assembly constituencies south-east of capital Aizawl — wine is the guiding spirit of the people when it comes to elections, given that all three constituencies fall in the grape-growing belt.The three constituencies have 33,000 voters and 25% of them are linked to the grape-growing business....

Mizoram Polls: Just 2 Woman Candidates

Aizawl, Oct 29 : Going by numbers, the Mizoram polls are going to be a women's show all the way, with more female voters (3,49,506) than male (3,36,799) being part of the electorate. But though the number of female voters is higher, if history repeats itself, women candidates are unlikely to squeeze any advantage out of the numbers.So far, only a couple of possible women candidates are clearly identifiable....

Are Indians Offenders Or Victims Of Racism?

NEW DELHI – Most Indians believe in the myth about the presence of racism only in foreign countries and see themselve sas a victim of it. On researching about the social attitudes of Indians towards being racist, it was found that the country has the least tolerant population towards people from other nations and their ethnicity. Another racist country like India is Jordan,...