After facing a drubbing in four states, Congress on Monday got some good news in Mizoram where it powered to a two thirds majority in the assembly elections snapping up 27 of the 40 seats, while the opposition Mizo National Front secured four.
The move comes in view of rising cases of the infection, weekly positivity rates and weekly deaths in some districts.
The bandh, called by Barak Democratic Front and supported by political outfits including opposition AIUDF and social organisations, was "total" and there was no report of any untoward incident from any district, another official said.
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He travelled over 3,000 km to take his friend's body from Chennai to Mizoram, and now he has donated the money he received as reward to the Chief Ministers Relief Fund to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Twenty-three-year-old Raphael AVL Malchhanhima, a native of Hmawngbu village in Mizoram's southernmost Lawngtlai district, on Thursday donated Rs 5,000 to the CMRF.
The MNF returned to power in Mizoram by bagging 26 seats of the 40-member state legislature after a decade which saw the crumbling of the last Congress bastion in the north east.
Low fare carrier Air Deccan on Monday launched three new daily flights between Kolkata and Aizawl, Bagdogra and Bhubaneshwar using 48-seater ATR-42 aircraft.
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A large quantity of explosives was recovered on Thursday from a vehicle in the capital city where security has been tightened ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit on November 29.
Mizoram has India's second-best health indicators and third-best literacy rate.
During the three-day mourning period, the national flag will fly at half-mast and there will be no public entertainment, a notification issued by the Assam government said.
However, the Indian Army did not cross the border during the operation, they said.
Women voters have been outnumbering male voters in Mizoram for the past few years, but paradoxically there are no women representatives in the state legislature for years together.
The Election Commission on Tuesday deferred the polling date for election to the lone Lok Sabha seat in Mizoram and by-poll to Hrangturzo assembly seat to April 11 from April 9 in view of a state-wide bandh called against exercise of franchise by Bru voters lodged in Tripura camps through postal ballots.
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After facing a debacle in four states, Congress on Monday received some cheer in Mizoram, where it stormed back to power for a second consecutive term, capturing 22 of the 40 seats, while leading in four.
Vardhan, who interacted with chief ministers, state health ministers, principal secretaries and additional chief secretaries of Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya and Goa through video conferencing and urged them to focus on effective clinical management of COVID-19 cases to reduce deaths in the first 24, 48 or 72 hours.
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With COVID cases declining, Delhi will see further relaxation in lockdown, including reopening of markets and malls and resumption of metro services, from June 7 while Maharashtra will implement a five-level plan to ease curbs based on weekly positivity rate and occupancy of oxygen beds in districts.
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The DGCA would inquire how the monitor of the area western radar went blank for over three minutes soon after the aircraft took off from the Kolkata airport on Thursday morning, a ministry spokesperson said in New Delhi
The civil aviation ministry on Friday said the aircraft carrying President Pratibha Patil never lost contact with the air traffic control while flying to Aizawl and was put on an alternate radio frequency immediately after an Air Traffic Control monitor suffered technical glitch.
A church elder who allegedly sent offensive SMS to Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla after the declaration of the Assembly elections results has been arrested.
The groups were asking for Shashank's ouster over a row on allowing Bru voters lodged in Tripura relief camps to exercise their franchise from there.
Of the 142 candidates contesting in the 2013 Mizoram assembly elections, only three candidates have registered criminal cases against them. Two of them are facing serious criminal charges.
Kerala's Tirur betel leaf, Tawlhlohpuan and Mizo Puanchei from Mizoram, and Palani Panchamirtham, a temple 'prasadam' from Tamil Nadu have been awarded Geographical Indication tag.
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Mumbai FC almost pulled off a spectacular upset before Mohun Bagan rode on a Balwant Singh strike in the dying moments for a thrilling 2-2 draw in an I-League football match in Kolkata on Wednesday.
The lone Lok Sabha member from Mizoram, Vanlalzawma of the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF), is likely to abstain from voting on the confidence motion in the Parliament, highly-placed sources in the MNF said today. Sources said that if Vanlalzawma's vote is to result in the ouster of the Congress-led UPA government, he would vote against the government, but if the UPA government is going to survive he would abstain.
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Veteran Congress leader Lalthanhawla will take oath as the new chief minister of Mizoram on Thursday after leading the party to a landslide victory against the rival Mizo National Front (MNF) in the Assembly elections.
Regarded as the orange bowl of Mizoram, the prestigious Aizawl South III constituency will witness an interesting tussle between state home minister Tawnluia and number two in the cabinet and Congress nominee and former student leader K S Thanga.
The North-East is finally set to have its own exclusive private airline with daily flights to Guwahati, Agartala, Lilabari, Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Aizawl and Silchar among others.
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