could not produce any document in support of the legal purchase, possession, transportation of the drug, which is in violation of section 9 (A) of the, assistant commissioner of headquarters preventive in the office of the commissioner of customs (preventive), northeastern region. "Accordingly, the goods valued at about93,45,750 was seized and further investigation into the case is going on," he a...

Source : Times Of India | 8 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Aizawl

Pachhunga University, Aizawl Invites Applications for Junior Research Fellowship 2013

Pachhunga University, Aizawl Invites Applications for Junior Research Fellowship 2013for Junior Research Fellowship 2013. The fellowship is for a project entitled "Detailed Database on Geology, Structure, Geomorphology, Slope Land Use/Cover and Landslide Causative Factors between Aizawl Town and Lengpui Airport" under Department of Science and Technology.Candidates having M.Sc. in Geology with at least...

Source : Mingle Box | 14 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Aizawl

Repatriation of refugees from Tripura hangs in balance

Aizawl/Agartala, June 4 : The repatriation of over 40,000 tribals, who took refuge in Tripura about 16 years ago after ethnic disturbances in Mizoram, has not been resumed, officials said. Although the union home ministry had issued instructions to resume the repatriation of Reang tribal refugees from northern Tripura to western Mizoram this week, both Tripura as well Mizoram government officials have...

Source : Newkerala | 14 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Aizawl

Over 565 backdoor jobs in 4 yrs

Aizawl, Jun 4 : The Congress government has allegedly made direct appointments for 254 jobs in the health department and 311 jobs in police department alone without floating advertisements during the last four years, from 2009 till date.Disclosing this in a memorandum submitted to the state Governor Vakkom B Purushothaman today, the Mizoram People's Conference (MPC) this unconstitutional practice ...

Source : Newkerala | 15 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Aizawl

Zofa Welfare Organisation seeks judicial probe into arson at Saikhumphai

a memorandum to the chief minister, the ZWO said the Saikhumphai village, inhabited by 41 Indian families and 11 foreign nationals, was set ablaze on April 29, 2013, allegedly by people from the nearby Vaphai village. Saikhumphai was reduced to ashes despite the deployment of 3 platoons of armed police by the administration of Champhai district to enforce law and order in the area."Leaders of two student...

Source : Times Of India | 15 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Aizawl

Pigs dying of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome in Mizoram

government is likely to continue the ban on import of pigs from Myanmar, from where theMizoram animal husbandry and veterinary department officials said that the disease that claimed the lives of at least 500 pigs in the state during the first part of this year was not classical swine fever but PRRS.Lalbiakmawia Sailo, director of the animal husbandry and veterinary department, said samples of dead...

Source : Times Of India | 15 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Aizawl

Pig disease virus detected in India for first time

Aizawl, June 4: For the first time in Mizoram and perhaps in the country, virus of a pandemic disease which causes reproductive failure in breeding stock and respiratory tract illness in young pigs has been detected in the samples of sick swines sent to laboratories for testing.The samples of the sick swines were tested at the laboratories in the Veterinary College in Selesih, Mizoram and at ICAR Research...

Source : Oneindia | 15 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Aizawl

6 Bru families return to Mizoram

Aizawl, May 30: Even as the proposed repatriation of Bru refugees from Tripura has been deterred by the sealing of Mizoram-Tripura bridge, six families of the refugees have returned to Mizoram at their own will.Officials said six families, comprising 40 people from Asapara-- one of the seven relief camps, are being temporarily accommodated at Zamuang and Zawlnuam villages in Mamit district, four families...

Source : Newkerala | 19 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Aizawl

Dogs posing threat to Lunglei residents

AIZAWL: Man's best friend is posing a threat to residents of south Mizoram's largest town, Lunglei. At least 726 people in Lunglei have been victims of dog bites between January 2010 and April 2013, according to the records of the Lunglei Civil Hospital.is increasing every year - 139 in 2010, 235 in 2011 and 250 in 2012. Till April this year, 102 people have fallen prey to the dog menace. That comes...

Source : Times Of India | 19 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Aizawl

Mizoram policy to check drug menace

AIZAWL: The increasing drug menace in Mizoram has compelled the state government to formulate a new drug policy as at least 10,750 youths in the state, which has a population of barely 10 lakh, areAddressing a press conference in Aizawl on Monday, Kishore added that Mizoram is vulnerable due to its proximity to Myanmar, through which heroin manufactured in the infamous Golden Triangle is brought to...

Source : Times Of India | 22 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Aizawl