Mizoram

Chandigarh, Sep 2 (UNI) Riding on the hat-trick by L Robert Metai, Gorkha Training Centre of Shillong began their campaign by handing out a 10-0 drubbing to Indian Tigers of Mumbai in the 8th Administrator’s Challenge Cup All India Under-17 Football Tournament being organised by the Chandigarh Sports Department at the Sector 42 Football Ground here today.

The United Nations (UN) will support Mizoram in prevention of HIV/AIDS and in management of prisons in the northeastern state, an official said here Thursday.

The process of re-electing Sonia Gandhi as Congress President was set in motion on Thursday with the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi proposing her name for the top post along with a host of other party leaders.

Aizawl, Sep 2 : Mizoram Agriculture Minister H Liansailova today said the state government was aiming to achieve an agricultural revolution with the ambitious New Land Use Policy (NLUP) to boost the state's economy.

Chandigarh, Sep 2 : Riding on the hat-trick by L Robert Metai, Gorkha Training Centre of Shillong began their campaign by handing out a 10-0 drubbing to Indian Tigers of Mumbai in the 8th Administrator's Challenge Cup All India Under-17 Football Tournament being organised by the Chandigarh Sports Department at the Sector 42 Football Ground here today.

With the government allowing Chinese vendors to supply equipments, state-owned BSNL has decided to scrap the 5.5 million lines tender for expanding its GSM operations and invite fresh bids for the same.

State-owned BSNL has decided to re-tender its 5.5 million lines order to expand its GSM operations as the government has lifted ban on the import of Chinese equipment.

The move may prove a shot in arm for the Chinese firms such as Huawei and ZTE, who were not allowed to put in bids for the 5.5 million tender due to security concerns.

Agartala, Sep 1 : Banned militant outfit National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) has kidnapped five innocent tribal villagers demanding year-long financial support from each family of the village in remote Shukraichari of Dhalai district.

United News of India Aizawl, Aug 31: Employees of MIFCO, a Mizoram PSU, have decided to go on indefinite strike from September 1 due to non-payment of salaries.

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday created an uproar in the Lok Sabha over the government's 'failure' to provide long-term solutions to the recurring problems of droughts and floods in various parts of the country. "I assure the House that the inter-ministerial group and central teams will carefully look into the reports of floods and droughts and take a view sympathetically and ...

Agartala, Aug 30 (PTI) The representative body of displaced Reang/Bru people living in refugee camps in Tripura, suffered a setback today as six of its executive members resigned alleging inaction.

Pune, Aug 29 : Heavy to very heavy rain are likely to occur at most places in south Gujarat, Konkan and Goa and at many places in north Gujarat and Madhya Maharashtra.

Border ‘haat’, a common marketplace for both Bangladeshis and Indians to boost local business and trade between the two neighbours, is unlikely before mid-September as Bangladesh is yet to get a reply from Delhi on Dhaka ’s proposals with new conditions.

Aizawl, Aug 28: Growing affinity with ‘Hallyuwood’ movies has been reported in Mizoram among teenagers, who have gradually turned away from Bollywood movies and even the Hollywood flicks in favour of the ‘Hallyuwood’ movies.

New Delhi, Aug 27 : Nine states including Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh have formulated organic farming policy, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.

Germany captain Michael Ballack was left out of Joachim Loew’s squad, on Friday, for the first two 2012 European Championship qualifiers.

Kolkata, Aug 27 : On any given day, over a lakh armed forces personnel transit from one place to another either on posting, leave or temporary duties and is the Embarkation Headquarters Kolkata that in part works out the logistics for that.

New Delhi, Aug 26: A multi-modal transit transport facility -- Kaladan project-- linking Mizoram and other North-Eastern states with Myanmarese Sittwe port is being implemented on schedule, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.

New Delhi, Aug. 26: The army has urged the government to change the definition of field areas so that it depicts more accurately the map of internal strife in the country.