ONCE RAVAGED BY insurgency, Mizoram is now the most peaceful state in the Northeast. But a new menace is disturbing the people and the state government there, and it is not a band of gun-totting youth but the tiny mosquito that is causing a major headache. Malaria was the biggest killer in the state last year, killing as many as 119 people.
AIZAWL, Feb 2: Malaria, which claimed 119 lives in Mizoram during last year, remains the biggest killer disease in this Northeast State. According to the Health Department records, 1,71,793 people hot their blood tested and 9,399 had tested positive for malaria during 2009. The victims aged between 1 to 64, of which 40 were females.
AIZAWL, Feb 1: The State Health Department in a statement issued on the Anti-Leprosy Day today said Mizoram is marching ahead towards total eradication of leprosy. Mizoram on Saturday observed the 62nd Anti-Leprosy Day along with the rest of the country to mark the death anniversary of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi.
AIZAWL, Jan 29: The State unit of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), in its project sanctioning committee (PSC) meeting here recently, has sanctioned a number of projects under Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) to the Mizoram Government.
Reports said that the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary department of Mizoram conducted an inspection on the meat sold in Aizawl during this Christmas season and found out that out of 500 cows tested around 100 of the animals suffered from Food and Mouth disease.
AIZAWL, Dec 20: The number of people living in acute poverty in Mizoram is fast increasing but the successive governments continue to display indifferent attitude to this issue.
The number of people living in acute poverty in Mizoram are fast increasing but the successive governments continue to display indifferent attitude to this issue.
In Aizawl alone there are over 60,000 people living in Mizoram version of slum areas. They are officially called
AIZAWL, Nov 26: The tiger habitat analysis in Dampa Tiger Reserve (DTR) in western Mizoram has found that closed evergreen or semi evergreen forest in the tiger reserve has considerably decreased over the last few decades.
