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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Mizoram Assembly passes resolution to oppose Myanmar border fencing

GUWAHATI The 40-member Mizoram Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution against the Centre’s decision to fence the India-Myanmar border and scrap the Free Movement Regime agreement with the civil war-torn neighbouring country. Reconsider move In the resolution moved by Mizoram Home Minister K. Sapdanga, the Centre was urged to reconsider its decision and take steps instead to ensure the Zo …

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1 year, 1 month ago

ZPM Chief Lalduhoma To Take Oath As Mizoram CM On Dec 8

ABP News

Mizoram's newly elected Chief Minister, Lalduhoma, will be sworn in on Friday, December 8, news agency ANI reported. The meeting of the newly elected MLAs of Zoram People's Movement will be held at the residence of Lalduhoma, Chief Ministerial candidate of ZPM in Aizawl today at 8 pm. — ANI December 5, 2023 Lalduhoma, the Chief Ministerial candidate of the …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Campaigning in Mizoram ends with Sunday service

The Hindu

AIZAWL The campaign for the election to the 40-member Mizoram Assembly came to a close on Sunday but political parties unofficially wound up their canvassing 24 hours ahead of schedule for their candidates and leaders to visit the local church and interact with people. “The political parties and candidates decided on their own not to campaign on Sunday, a day …

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1 year, 2 months ago

MNF cannot monopolise issue of Manipur’s displaced Kuki-Zo people: ZPM leader Lalduhoma

The Hindu

A former IPS officer who became the first MP to be disqualified under the Anti-Defection Law, Lalduhoma is the chief ministerial face of the Zoram People’s Movement, a five-year-old regional party that is shaping up to be the strongest challenger of the ruling Mizo National Front in poll-bound Mizoram. Seeking re-election from the Serchhip constituency, he tells The Hindu why …

Congress State Bjp Mizoram Mnf Zpm

1 year, 2 months ago

‘Zo unification’ is a running theme in Mizoram; MNF makes it a promise

The Hindu

Rahul Karmakar AIZAWL Teresa Manhau used to pray twice a day until May 3 when the fire of ethnic violence engulfed Sugnu Zoveng, her village on the border between Chandel and Kakching districts in Manipur. Ms. Manhau and Ms. Vungkhanching are among more than 300 people belonging to 56 Kuki-Zo families displaced from Manipur living in a Mizoram government residential …

Political Congress Manipur Displaced Falkland Mizoram Mnf

1 year, 2 months ago

Morning Digest | Noida residents’ body to move SC against Allahabad HC order on Nithari Killings; Pentagon rushes defences and advisers to Israel, and more

The Hindu

Nithari killings: Noida residents’ body to move SC against Allahabad HC order A residents’ body in Noida on October 23 said it will move the Supreme Court against the Allahabad High Court’s recent order acquitting domestic help Surendra Koli and his employer Moninder Singh Pandher in the 2006 Nithari serial killings. Govt sets up tribunal headed by Delhi HC judge …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Manipur, Myanmar shadow on Mizo polls

Hindustan Times

At 79, life has come full circle for Zoramthanga, the chief of Mizo National Front, who is fighting to retain office in Aizawl. If he wins, it will be a record fourth term as chief minister for Zoramthanga, who started his political career in the Mizo nationalist movement in the 1960s as an activist of MNF, then an underground outfit. …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Mizoram contest animated by distant thunder in Myanmar and Manipur

The Hindu

Nowhere in India are elections as bland as in Mizoram, where the influential church – mostly Presbyterian – and community-based NGOs issue stricter dos and don’ts than the Election Commission of India. Mizoram Seat Sharing In the 2018 election, Mizo National Front emerged as the single largest party with 27 seats with a vote share of 37.7% INC won 4 …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Mizoram election 2023: Increasing refugee influx a key issue as MNF looks at 2nd term

Hindustan Times

The shadow of the five-month-long ethnic conflict in neighbouring Manipur will hang over the November 7 elections in Mizoram where the ruling Mizo National Front, the opposition Congress and the Zoram Peoples’ Movement are locked in a three-cornered fight. HT Image The state is hosting around 72,000 refugees – 12,600 Kukis from neighbouring Manipur and about 60,000 from Myanmar, from …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Supreme Court Restores Plea In Gauhati HC Which Challenges Sub-classification Of STs As Mizos & Non-Mizos In Mizoram

Live Law

The Supreme Court on Monday set aside an order of the Gauhati High Court which dismissed a petition challenging the sub-classification within the Scheduled Tribes in Mizoram. The bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala, and Justice Manoj Misra was hearing a petition filed by the Mizoram Chakma Students. The bench comprising Chief Justice of India …

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1 year, 5 months ago

After Mizoram CM, main opposition ZPM opposes UCC

The Hindu

The Zoram People's Movement, the main Opposition party in Mizoram, has written to the Law Commission of India, opposing the Uniform Civil Code in the country, and said the Mizo Christians will be "worst affected" if it is implemented, a party leader said. "The Mizo Christians will be worst affected if the UCC is implemented as Mizoram has sent the …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Supreme Court agrees to hear plea against Mizoram notification ‘discriminatory’ to non-Mizo tribes

The Hindu

The Supreme Court on July 17 agreed to hear a petition seeking to quash a government notification that discriminates against non-Mizo Scheduled Tribes of Mizoram, which has one of the best literacy percentages in the country, in reservation to higher technical courses. The students’ union, represented by senior advocate Aditya Sondhi and advocate Vikram Hegde, said the notification arbitrarily sub-classified …

State Category Petition Tribes Notification Mizoram Mizos

1 year, 6 months ago

Mizoram to raise funds for Manipur-displaced

The Hindu

GUWAHATI The Mizoram government has decided to seek donations from the people to support some 12,000 internally displaced persons who sought refuge in the State after fleeing ethnic violence in Manipur. Mizoram’s Home Secretary, H. Lalengmawia told Aizawl-based news portal ZoramChronicle that fundraising has become necessary as the Centre has not provided any financial or humanitarian aid for the IDPs. …

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2 years ago

Myanmar jets shelled Mizoram border area, claims youth body

The Hindu

An influential Mizoram youth organisation claimed that one of several bombs dropped by the Myanmar military jets on the camp of a pro-democracy extremist group fell on Indian territory, causing some damage and affecting the lives of border villagers. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Tuipuiral Group of the Young Mizo Association said Myanmar jets strafed Camp Victoria, the …

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3 years ago

Christmas in the North East: bonfire, doughnuts and potluck

Live Mint

For Zeinorin Stephen, who grew up in Ukhrul in Manipur, Christmas feasts are imbued with memories of the fireplace. This is the season for feasting on the much loved raphei hoksa, which sees a whole pig, including the head and intestines, being braised overnight with either ground Sirarakhong or hau chillies in the traditional Longpi pot, handcrafted black stone pottery …

Community Christmas Tea Rice East Pork Feast

3 years ago

Christmas in the North East: bonfire, doughnuts and potluck

Live Mint

For Zeinorin Stephen, who grew up in Ukhrul in Manipur, Christmas feasts are imbued with memories of the fireplace. This is the season for feasting on the much loved raphei hoksa, which sees a whole pig, including the head and intestines, being braised overnight with either ground Sirarakhong or hau chillies in the traditional Longpi pot, handcrafted black stone pottery …

Community Christmas Tea Rice East Pork Feast

3 years, 5 months ago

Why seven people died in clash between two northeast India states

Al Jazeera

Rare clash last week over longstanding border dispute between Assam and Mizoram leaves six police officers and a civilian dead. Likewise, the Assam police registered cases against a Mizoram politician for his “threatening comments” and six other police officers who allegedly fired at their Assamese counterparts. In 2018, about 50 people from Mizoram were attacked by Assam police after some …

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3 years, 5 months ago

5 Assam policemen killed in border clash with Mizoram

The Hindu

Five Assam police personnel were killed in an exchange of fire with their Mizoram counterparts after the protracted border row between the two northeastern States took a violent turn on Monday. ‘CRPF post attacked’ Mizoram’s Home Minister Lalchamliana said the chain of events began at 11.30 a.m. when some 200 Assam police personnel came to the Vairengte auto-rickshaw stand and …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Democracy in Myanmar and India’s dilemma

New Indian Express

India’s principled stance continued for many years. The military brass felt that if we got the Burmese army’s support, we would be able to contain the threat posed by the rebels. In the course of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial lecture, Suu Kyi, more in sorrow than in anger, expressed her anguish over India letting them down. To quote: “I was …

India Burmese

3 years, 8 months ago

The Mizos and Myanmarese share deep cultural bonds that go beyond the citizen-refugee divide

The Hindu

Salai Uk Thang, 31, a policeman from Myanmar’s Sagaing Division, knew his arrest was imminent. Thousands of Myanmarese like Thang, mostly from Myanmar’s Chin State, the Sagaing Region, and other neighbouring provinces, have trooped into Mizoram since February, an influx that once again raises questions about identity and borders, refugees and relatives, friends and foes. The Mizos have long believed …

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4 years ago

An Indian state's harmonious approach to life

BBC

An Indian state's harmonious approach to life Wildlife/Alamy Aizawl is India's only "honk-free" city, where people follow traffic rules and don't blare their horns In Mizoram in north-east India, harmony and sustainability of society – rather than economic wealth – are the most valued objectives in life. "It’s hard to trace the beginnings of tlawmngaihna," said Naulak, "But it’s been …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Assam and Mizoram Agree to Settle Border Dispute, Stress on Coordination to Avert Standoff in Future

News 18

Assam and Mizoram on Wednesday agreed to settle the border dispute and stressed on coordination to avert any future standoff, an official said. The two states committed to settle the border dispute at a district-level meeting held in view of the recent conflict, triggered by the torching of a farmhouse in an area claimed by both, he said. The meeting …

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4 years, 7 months ago

Video of Bihar villagers rushing to give food to Mizoram migrants on Shramik Express restores faith in humanity

Op India

On Saturday, Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthang took to Twitter to share a heart-warming video of a large number of locals in Bihar coming to the rescue of the stranded Mizos by offering them food. Few days after stranded Mizos offers their food to flood-affected victims on their way back, a brief halt of their #ShramikSpecialTrain at #Begusarai Bihar witnessed good …

Food Video Bihar Train Twitter Mizoram Zoramthanga

6 years, 1 month ago

Ground Zero | The changing dynamic between minority Brus and dominant Mizos in Mizoram

The Hindu

Lalvungthanga, 67, misses being Nanda Kumar Reang. Fear of ‘outsiders’ In the recent Assembly election, Bru refugees came to Mizoram to vote, unlike in the past when polling officials from Mizoram went to relief camps in Tripura to conduct the elections. Mizo organisations reacted by demanding that the Brus be left out of the State’s electoral rolls as they “are …

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Mizoram Assembly passes resolution to oppose Myanmar border fencing

ZPM Chief Lalduhoma To Take Oath As Mizoram CM On Dec 8

Campaigning in Mizoram ends with Sunday service

MNF cannot monopolise issue of Manipur’s displaced Kuki-Zo people: ZPM leader Lalduhoma

‘Zo unification’ is a running theme in Mizoram; MNF makes it a promise

Morning Digest | Noida residents’ body to move SC against Allahabad HC order on Nithari Killings; Pentagon rushes defences and advisers to Israel, and more

Manipur, Myanmar shadow on Mizo polls

Mizoram contest animated by distant thunder in Myanmar and Manipur

Mizoram election 2023: Increasing refugee influx a key issue as MNF looks at 2nd term

Supreme Court Restores Plea In Gauhati HC Which Challenges Sub-classification Of STs As Mizos & Non-Mizos In Mizoram

After Mizoram CM, main opposition ZPM opposes UCC

Supreme Court agrees to hear plea against Mizoram notification ‘discriminatory’ to non-Mizo tribes

Mizoram to raise funds for Manipur-displaced

Myanmar jets shelled Mizoram border area, claims youth body

Christmas in the North East: bonfire, doughnuts and potluck

Christmas in the North East: bonfire, doughnuts and potluck

Why seven people died in clash between two northeast India states

5 Assam policemen killed in border clash with Mizoram

Democracy in Myanmar and India’s dilemma

The Mizos and Myanmarese share deep cultural bonds that go beyond the citizen-refugee divide

An Indian state's harmonious approach to life

Assam and Mizoram Agree to Settle Border Dispute, Stress on Coordination to Avert Standoff in Future

Video of Bihar villagers rushing to give food to Mizoram migrants on Shramik Express restores faith in humanity

Ground Zero | The changing dynamic between minority Brus and dominant Mizos in Mizoram