Mamit district

1 new case pushes Mizoram’s COVID-19 tally to 4,447

3:26 pm March 21, 2021

Aizawl: Mizoram’s COVID-19 tally rose to 4,447 on Sunday as a 52-year-old man tested positive for the infection, a health official said. The new patient, who hails from Mamit district, tested positive for COVID-19 during screening at the inter-state border with Tripura, he said. The state now has 15 active cases, while 4,421 people have […]

Fresh COVID-19 case in Mizoram; count rises to 148

4:15 pm June 27, 2020

Aizawl: A 32-year-old man has tested positive for COVID-19 in Mizoram, taking the northeastern state’s tally to 148 on Saturday, officials said. The new patient, a resident of Champhai district, had recently returned to Mizoram from Delhi, a statement issued by the state Information and Public Relations Department said. He is asymptomatic and has been […]

Brus living in Tripura relief camps demand permanent residential, ST certificates

SC lawyer issues legal notice to officials over stopping ration supply to Bru refugees

9:02 pm November 13, 2019

Aizawl/Agartala: A Supreme Court lawyer has issued a legal notice to six officials for stopping supply of free ration and cash-dole to Bru refugees living in relief camps in Tripura leading to the “death of six persons”, an organisation of the displaced people said on Wednesday. The Ministry of Home Affairs has stopped free ration […]

Two die in Tripura Bru relief camp, blockade continues demanding resumption of free ration

7:00 pm November 2, 2019

Aizawl: A two-year-old boy and a woman died in a Bru relief camp in Tripura even as the refugees continued to stage blockade for the third consecutive day on Saturday, demanding resumption of free ration and cash-dole to them, officials said. Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum (MBDPF) alleged that the two died of “starvation” after […]

Bru voters to be deleted from Mizoram electoral roll

Protests over killing of Bru woman stalls repatriation

9:10 pm October 7, 2019

Agartala/Aizawl: Protests over the killing of a Bru woman allegedly by her husband in Mamit district of Mizoram, bordering Tripura, has stalled the on-going repatriation of Bru refugees who put up blockades in protest on Monday, officials said. In the ninth round of repatriation which is termed as the “final” one, altogether 4,447 Bru families, […]