Mizoram Election Update: Nov 1

Prime Minister, Sonia and Rahul to campaign for Congress in Mizoram Aizawl:  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will campaign for the party in...

Mizoram Assembly Elections 2013: List of BJP Candidates

Aizawl, Nov 1 : The BJP has announced a list of candidates for assembly elections to be held in Mizoram . The election to the Mizoram legislative assembly will be held on November 25.The Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party met on Thursday under the Presidentship of Rajnath Singh. The meeting was attended by L.K. Advani, Murali Manohar Joshi, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley,...

World Bank Loan To Northeast Job-Creation project

The World Bank will provide 90 percent soft loan to a Rs.683.2-crore project aimed at creating employment opportunities for 300,000 families in four north eastern states of Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura, officials said here Thursday. The Bank would provide the soft loan of the North East Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP), which will be executed in five years starting from this fiscal...

Thousands Protest ‘Underground Tax’ in Dimapur

Dimapur, Nov 1 : Call it an uprising or an awakening call. The message was loud and clear. The people of Dimapur have come out on to the streets in thousands to express their resentment and opposition against illegal and unabated taxation imposed on them and vowed not to pay multiple tax to any underground group. They have also resolved not to be cowed down by the barrel of the gun and to take the...

‘Mizoram, Not Gujarat, is Role Model’: Faleiro

Aizawl, Oct 31 : Congress general secretary and Congress Working Committee member in-charge of northeastern states Luzinho Faleiro on Wednesday took a dig at BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and said that in Gujarat "some microscopic minority are living on islands of prosperity amidst an ocean of poverty, whereas in Mizoram it is an ocean of prosperity because Mizoram has taken everybody...

Tripura Troopers For Mizoram Assembly Polls

Aizawl, Oct 31 : Tripura State Rifles (TSR) would be deployed in the November 25 Assembly elections in neighbouring Mizoram, officials said.The troopers are being sent to Mizoram following requests from the Union Home Ministry as some battalions of TSR work as India Reserve Battalions (IRB) and the Centre deploys them as per requirements, officials said.The TSR, which was raised about two decades...

NTPC Signs MOU for Kaladan Hydro Electric Power Project in Mizoram

A 460 MW hydroelectric project will be set up by state-run National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) in Mizoram, officials said. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between NTPC and the Mizoram government to commission the Rs.30 billion power project in Sahia and Lawngtlai districts of southern Mizoram. The Kaladan Hydro Electric Power Project (KHEPP) on the Kaladan river will be...

Imphal Airport Get International Status

New Delhi, Oct 31 : The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave approval for declaring Imphal airport as international."Declaration of these airports as international airports will offer improved connectivity, wider choice of services at competitive cost to air travellers resulting in boosting international tourism and economic development of the region and the country,’’ an official statement here said....