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.

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Railway extension work from Bairabi to Sairang is in full swing, said Zasanga, chairman of Mizoram State-level task force on National Railway Project.

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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.

AIZAWL, Nov 3: Serlui river, the main source of water in the State capital, has been found to be poisoned by unidentified miscreants, disrupting water supply to many localities in the city today.