North East

Director General of Police GP Singh said it is a strange coincidence that the day the government and the police started taking “revitalised action” in the APSC scam, the miscreants triggered the blast

Lt Gen Rana Pratap Kalita said that when the violence broke out on May 3, the Army’s immediate priority was to rescue people and provide relief to the displaced.

Flight operations resumed at 6.20 pm after the Air Force scanned the airspace and gave a clearance. A clearance was also received from the DGCA.

The jawan, who sustained grievous bullet wounds, was rushed to the Dinjan military hospital in Assam’s Dibrugarh district.

Regarding rebuilding of houses damaged, the commission directed the Manipur govt to complete the assessment within 6 weeks for distributing the compensation as per the existing scheme.

In the 2018 state polls, the overall voter turnout was 81.61 per cent.

The Kuki group Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) said the firing followed the alleged abduction of four Kuki-Zo tribals, including two women, by a Meitei group earlier in the day.

“Friends, the BJP is committed to creating a marvellous Mizoram. I am sure that we will get your support and blessings to make it happen” Modi said.

The culling operation was conducted on Friday after the death of some pigs due to African swine flu in a piggery farm at Batapara in the district.

“Sad to say, you have five wasted years with a government that has been extremely inefficient. There are serious allegations of corruption that I don’t want to repeat,” he said.

"Mizos are Christians and they don't like BJP's agenda. People will reject ZPM because it has tied up with BJP. MNF is a gone case," the State Congress president said.

Fresh tension erupted in the state after a police officer was gunned down by Kuki militants in the India-Myanmar border town of Moreh on Tuesday.

Reports suggested that the mob attempted to loot weapons but the reports could not be officially confirmed.

Anand was grievously injured and rushed to a local primary health centre but he succumbed to his injuries soon after.

He described Zoram People’s Movement, which is expected to give MNF a tough challenge, as a “khichdi” party but counted it as MNF’s main rival.

Party’s chief ministerial candidate Lalduhoma, who is a former IPS officer, told this newspaper that people have tried and tested Congress and MNF and they will give ZPM a chance this time around.

Zoramthanga is not happy with BJP over the manner in which it handled the Manipur situation. But Union minister Kiren Rijiju played down the Mizoram CM’s jibe.

In the March 27 order, the then-acting Chief Justice MV Muralidharan had ordered the state government to consider the case of the petitioners for inclusion of the Meitei Community in the STs list.

The arms and ammunition were seized from Shantipur, Khamenlok and Wakan areas under Sagolmang police station jurisdiction in Imphal East district.