Aizawl: Officials in four Mizoram districts are yet to complete biometric enrolment of 29,577 Myanmar refugees taking shelter in the state, nearly a year after the exercise began under the directives of the ministry of home affairs, state home department officials said on Sunday.The officials said the process remained stalled in the four districts since…
Aizawl: District administration officials in Mizoram have completed biometric enrolment of 1,679 refugees from the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh and have finished 98.88% of the biometric enrolment of refugees from Myanmar, state home department officials said on Saturday.The officials said the process for Bangladesh refugees was completed with enrolment of 1,361 people sheltering in…
Aizawl: Mizoram is set to introduce a first-of-its-kind agri-tourism event, the ‘Pluck & Pay Festival’, scheduled to be held in Khawzawl district from Sept 23 to 25 to promote community-based tourism and create new income opportunities for local farmers and villages.The dates and venues for the festival were finalised at a meeting chaired by tourism…
Aizawl: Mizoram has emerged as the leader in digitisation of enumeration forms in the ongoing third phase of special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls among 16 states and 3 union territories, completing 68.05% of the process — far ahead of Manipur, which has achieved only 27.11%, state election officials said on Friday.The state’s Khawzawl…
NEW DELHI: Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted a pharmaceutical unit in Uttarakhand, which was allegedly being used by an international cartel to manufacture captagon, a powerful psychotropic drug said to be widely used by Islamic State (IS) fighters.In a separate operation, NCB has arrested a Myanmar-based drug kingpin from Delhi who was long wanted…
