The Mizoram government is making efforts to set up a rail-fed Petroleum Oil Lubricant (POL) depot near Aizawl, an official statement said on Thursday. The depot is planned to be set up at Sihhmui, about 22 km from here, it…
The Assam Rifles recovered a huge cache of Myanmar-bound tactical and war-like stores near Niawthlang village in Siaha district of Mizoram bordering Myanmar on Wednesday and arrested four persons in this connection. A satellite phone, five bulletproof jackets, handcuffs, five…
Villagers in Mizoram's Mamit district have started repairing an 18-km stretch of a strategic road that was to have been completed by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) a year ago. According to a legal notice sent by a West Phaileng…
The third round of inter-state boundary talks between Mizoram and Assam would be held on November 4 in Guwahati, a Home department official said here on Thursday. The Assam government on Thursday intimated to the Mizoram Home department to hold…
A Mizoram Civil Service officer was arrested for allegedly assaulting an elderly relative after a purported video of the incident went viral, police said on Tuesday. Daniel Sailo, a 2014 batch officer who holds the rank of undersecretary, was arrested…
The Assam Rifles on Tuesday said that a large number of Methamphetamine tablets valued at over Rs 30 crore were seized in Mizoram capital Aizawl. Acting on specific inputs, personnel of Assam Rifles and officials of the state excise and…
In one of the biggest hauls of illegally trafficked animals, as many as 140 exotic wildlife species, including an Albino Wallaby, were rescued on Saturday in Mizoram. Police have arrested three people in connection with the case. According to police…
The Centre has informed Mizoram governor Hari Babu Kambhampati that import of teak and other timbers that not came under the ‘restricted list’ are allowed to be imported from Myanmar, an official said on Wednesday. In July, the Governor had…
A team of the Serchhip Battalion of 23 Sector Assam Rifles seized 53 cases of smuggled foreign-origin cigarettes worth Rs 68.9 lakh from the General Area Tiaukawn, Mizoram. A statement said that the operation was carried out by a joint…
With around 30,500 Myanmarese sheltered in Mizoram since the military junta seized power in their country in February last year and intermittent clashes going on with the civilian forces, smuggling of drugs, foreign cigarettes, gold, dried areca nuts, exotic animals…
