Aizawl: The Mizoram government will construct four solar plants and a solar park in different parts of the state, to generate 80MW solar power by 2021, officials of the state power and electricity

GUWAHATI- Childhood cancer has a high fatality incidence in developing countries, including India.

The hill states of the Northeast are blessed with a moderate climate — pleasant in summer and enticingly chilled in winter.

As many as 10 lakh cancer cases have already been detected in India in current year with the case load set to shoot to 11.48 lakh by 2015 and 13.20 lakh by 2020.

Aizwal : With last month’s landslide that killed 17 people and swept away 11 buildings here fresh in mind, Aizawl’s district administration has ordered the demolition of a handful of large building

The number of death in Saturday’s Aizawl landslide incident has gone up to 17 on Monday out of which 15 dead bodies have been recovered so far.

Besides human casualties, 11 houses were totally damaged and as many as 7 four-wheelers and 9 two-wheelers were also damaged in that calamity.
Meanwhile, Mizo National Front (MNF), the principal Opposition party in Mizoram has demanded for the ‘independent judicial inquiry’ over building collapse that had killed 17 persons on Saturday.

Over 600 pigs have died from swine fever and about 12,200 have been infected in the past two months in Mizoram, officials said here on Wednesday.

“The endemic swine fever caused the death of as many as 470 pigs in Aizawl district alone while remaining 130 died in other districts. Over 12,200 pigs have been infected with the disease,” a Mizoram animal husbandry and veterinary department official told reporters. The northeastern state shares border with Myanmar and Bangladesh.

- 100KW capacity plant will soon come up on the campus, biogas unit also on the cards.

Silchar, July 6: Mizoram is facing a stiff power hike which is likely to be announced by the government in the last week of this month.