Aizawl, August 19, 2008: Reacting over newspaper report on Tuesday that accused Zoram Nationalist supremo Lalduhoma of allegedly involving in funds diversion, Aizawl-based Nature Protection Society has rubbished the reports as “baseless”. [...]
Aizawl, August 19, 2008: Zoram Kuthnathawktu Pawl (farmers’ association) has split into two and this may affect the ZKP-backed United Democratic Alliance. Announcing the split before media persons at ZKP general headquarters Saitual today, ZKP founding office-bearer Lalhmuchhuaka made it amply clear that the division had been caused by the involvement of ZKP in the formation of UDA by two political parties, Zoram Nationalist Party and Mizoram People’s Conference. [...]
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August 19, 2008, 2008 (DVB): Around 2000 Khami people from Palatwa township in Chin state have been forced by food shortages to migrate to Saiha and Lawngtlai provinces in India’s Mizoram state. [...]
Shillong, August 19, 2008: Bowing down to the pressure from KSU and State Government, Union Health Ministry has finally decided to postpone the proposed entrance examination for MBBS course in NEIGRIHMS scheduled to be held in Guwahati on August 24. [...]
Cherrapunjee, August 19, 2008: People of Cherrapunjee among 10 other remote places of the North-East will now be able to “e-post” their letters in a faster manner. The e-post, a modern mean of communication introduced in the Project Arrow of Postal department, was launched at Cherrapunjee for the first time in the entire North-East. [...]
Shillong, August 19, 2008: Meghalaya’s Khasi Students Union has threatened to disrupt the MBBS classes in the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) if their demand for 30 per cent reservation for local students in the institute was not met. [...]
CCpur, August 19, 2008: After rodent tails, it’s now rice scarcity that raised the eye brows here as helpless villagers in pockets of the Mautam affected areas reportedly approached the armed outfits there to do the rescue act, an exclusive report received by this correspondent said today. [...]