Church, Mizo body divided over burial taboo

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir1O3wIexJdx3rnw2ye7Q2i7PHh6jvMQAjVwIkG2ArgWCcJoj4655ApnvZLVlbcCXRxhS4mGwNsCG3AiWySLd2lX0aHentZpjbjsJgtC7RY1PuHwSMZ3fYXHsHEVMgbUw2azPwfUZdYJwG/s1600/Charred.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir1O3wIexJdx3rnw2ye7Q2i7PHh6jvMQAjVwIkG2ArgWCcJoj4655ApnvZLVlbcCXRxhS4mGwNsCG3AiWySLd2lX0aHentZpjbjsJgtC7RY1PuHwSMZ3fYXHsHEVMgbUw2azPwfUZdYJwG/s200/Charred.jpg"></a></div>Aizawl, October 7, 2014: The Young Mizo Association (YMA), the largest social organisation in Mizoram, is against abolition of Hlamzuih, one of the oldest Mizo traditional taboos associated with infant death, creating a wide ideological gap between the YMA and the Church.

Church, Mizo body divided over burial taboo

Aizawl, October 7, 2014: The Young Mizo Association (YMA), the largest social organisation in Mizoram, is against abolition of Hlamzuih, one...

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Disaster training -programme in Mizoram

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoo5hQNsW0iVq80rRemaU7HspYHELCfjhR36ma2x7U4BcI3Yn-YFi9XAcED4ZYzvUiHifMs2lnjNWxqFuShT0EHOoc4afqVGYJPSRsfBuNgarrg9LVKyxHnuknljMpXSey_B0ewQgY9MUx/s1600/YMA.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoo5hQNsW0iVq80rRemaU7HspYHELCfjhR36ma2x7U4BcI3Yn-YFi9XAcED4ZYzvUiHifMs2lnjNWxqFuShT0EHOoc4afqVGYJPSRsfBuNgarrg9LVKyxHnuknljMpXSey_B0ewQgY9MUx/s200/YMA.png" /></a></div>Aizawl, September 30, 2014: Mizoram Disaster Management and Rehabilitation Minister C. Ngunlianchunga on Tuesday inaugurated the two-week training of Young Mizo Association (YMA) volunteers on disaster response at the headquarters of the Fifth India Reserve battalion in Lungverh near Aizawl. <!--more--.<br /> <br /> At the initial training which began on Tuesday. 54 members of the YMA, including two girls, would be imparted training by experts from the First battalion of the National Disaster Response Force (NDPF), Guwahati. <br /> <br /> The minister said that the YMA, which has a unit in every village has become the first response force in any disaster that hit the state and proper scientific training would come a long way in prevention and mitigation of disaster. <br /> <br /> Training of a few members of the YMA in each village and locality would help the people before the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) could arrive at a disaster site, he added. <br /> <br /> Meanwhile, the state government was making efforts to ensure that at least 100 trained SDRF personnel were there in each of the eight armed police battalions in the state.<br /> <br /> Source: The Shillong Times

Disaster training -programme in Mizoram

Aizawl, September 30, 2014: Mizoram Disaster Management and Rehabilitation Minister C. Ngunlianchunga on Tuesday inaugurated the two-week tr...

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Mizoram court issues arrest warrant against Bru leader

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZuqZKG4g3C7fWIjHbzrMjcksmNcnBKdnzCCxav5pjtS1o4v46Ca8QEi4-1SYh9O7kPZ_lQrpJw8cPaUnbtJkFvgCXRmxB7TXgiZ6CN7fIG8u7iLQKoR1fAe5d2X3MTJKOmmUN6rCAB1le/s1600/Court+Judgement.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZuqZKG4g3C7fWIjHbzrMjcksmNcnBKdnzCCxav5pjtS1o4v46Ca8QEi4-1SYh9O7kPZ_lQrpJw8cPaUnbtJkFvgCXRmxB7TXgiZ6CN7fIG8u7iLQKoR1fAe5d2X3MTJKOmmUN6rCAB1le/s200/Court+Judgement.jpg"></a></div>Aizawl, September 20, 2014: An arrest warrant was issued against A Sawibunga, President of the Mizoram Bru Displaced People's Forum (MBDPF,) by a Mamit district court after the police failed to produce him before it.

Mizoram court issues arrest warrant against Bru leader

Aizawl, September 20, 2014: An arrest warrant was issued against A Sawibunga, President of the Mizoram Bru Displaced People's Forum (MBD...

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