Aizawl: Mizoram reported 135 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, 108 less than the previous day, with the tally mounting to 2,34,522, a health official said. The death toll rose to 715 after three more persons from Aizawl, Lunglei and Lawngtlai districts succumbed to the infection in the last 24 hours, he said. Lunglei reported the highest number of fresh cases at 56, followed by Champhai (26) and Siaha (24), he said. The new infections were detected from 534 sample tests with a single-day positivity rate at 25.30 per cent, he said. Mizoram currently has 1,174 active cases, while 2,32,633 people have recovered from the infection, including 172 on Tuesday, he said. The discharge rate stood at 99.19 per cent. The state has tested more than 19.59 lakh samples for COVID-19 so far. It has administered 16,77,363 doses of vaccines to eligible beneficiaries till Tuesday, the state health department said. —PTI

Mizoram reported 135 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, 108 less than the previous day, with the tally mounting to 2,34,522, a health official said

Mizoram logs 135 fresh COVID-19 cases, 3 more fatalities

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Aizawl: A ministerial level meeting between Assam and Mizoram was held in Aizawl on Tuesday to evolve strategies for a lasting solution to the inter-state border disputes between the two northeastern states.
The Mizoram delegation was led by Home Minister Lalchamliana, while the Assam deputation was headed by Border Protection and Development Minister Atul Bora.
After the meeting, Bora told the media that both the states agreed to promote and maintain peace and to prevent any untoward incident along the borders, adding that the deputy commissioners of the bordering districts of Assam and Mizoram would meet at least once in two months.
A joint statement issued after the meeting said: "Both the states agreed that economic activities, including cultivation and farming, which have been practised by the people along the borders of the two states, shall not be disturbed and they would continue regardless of the administrative control presently exercised by either state at such locations, subject to forest regulations and after informing the deputy commissioners concerned."
Bora said the next meeting would be held in Guwahati in October.
At Tuesday's meeting, Mizoram Home Minister was accompanied by state's Information and Public Relations minister Lalruatkima and top officials of the state home department, while the Assam delegation also included Housing and Urban minister Ashok Singhal and three officials, including state border protection and development commissioner and secretary, G.D Tripathy.
The Mizoram and Assam delegations had met in August last year to find a permanent solution to the vexed border issues after a series of clashes in the last two years.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Mizoram counterpart Zoramthanga met over the border issues in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi in November last year and agreed to form committees involving all the stakeholders to resolve the border disputes through talks.
Assam has border disputes with Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya.
The worst-ever violence along the 164.6 km long Assam-Mizoram border was reported on July 26 last year, which left six Assam Police personnel dead and nearly 100 civilians and security personnel of the two neighbouring states injured.
The decades-old boundary dispute between Mizoram and Assam mainly emerged from two colonial demarcations in 1875 and 1933.
While Mizoram accepted the demarcation under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation (BERF) notified in 1875, which covers vast stretches of area now falling under Assam, as its actual boundary, the Assam government said that the demarcation made under the 1933 notification was its constitutional boundary. —IANS

A ministerial level meeting between Assam and Mizoram was held in Aizawl on Tuesday to evolve strategies for a lasting solution to the inter-state border disputes between the two northeastern states.

 Assam, Mizoram hold ministerial-level meeting over border disputes

Aizawl:&nbsp;Assam Rifles troopers have seized foreign cigarettes, valued at Rs 3.25 crore, in Mizoram, within 24 hours after the seizure of foreign cigarettes, valued at Rs 1.04 crore, being smuggled from Myanmar, officials said on Sunday.Assam Rifles sleuths, accompanied by the Custom officials, seized foreign cigarettes contained in cartons from an abandoned house at Champhai district's Tlangsam in Mizoram, on Saturday night.One person was arrested in connection with the seizure of the smuggled foreign tobacco products. The seized items were handed over to the Custom's Preventive wing. The cigarettes, which were valued at Rs 1.04 crore, were seized by the Assam Rifles personnel at Champhai district's Dungtlang on Friday night.Various illicit drugs, especially heroin, highly addictive methamphetamine tablets, also commonly known as 'Yaba', poppy seeds, opium, ganja (marijuana), morphine, bottles of cough syrup, various other contraband like gold, and arms and ammunition are also often smuggled from Myanmar, which shares an unfenced border with four northeastern states: Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.—IANS

More foreign cigarettes, smuggled from Myanmar, seized in Mizoram

Aizawl: A moderate earthquake, measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale, jolted parts of Mizoram along India-Myanmar border on Wednesday, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said.The NCS data and Mizoram disaster management officials said that the quake struck at a depth of 130 km at eastern Mizoram’s Champhai district.There was no report of loss of life or damage to property in any of the quake hit areas.“Earthquake of Magnitude : 4.3, Occurred on 20-07-2022, Lat: 23.57 &amp; Long: 94.49, Depth: 130 Km ,Location: 119 km E of Champhai, Mizoram”, the NCS said in a tweet.Successive earthquakes in the mountainous northeastern states, especially Assam, Mizoram and Manipur, have the authorities worried and having to make structure quakes protective.Seismologists consider the northeastern Indian region as the sixth most earthquake-prone belt in the world.

A moderate earthquake, measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale, jolted parts of Mizoram along India-Myanmar border on Wednesday, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said.

Moderate quake in Mizoram, no damage reported

Aizawl: Mizoram Police rescued 468 exotic animals suspected to be smuggled from Myanmar in Champhai district, an officer said. Acting on specific inputs, police rescued the animals at Khawkawn check gate in Champhai district bordering Myanmar and arrested five persons for smuggling the wildlife species. The rescued animals included four tortoises, 11 snakes, 442 lizards, four toed sloths, two beavers, four pattos and one wild cat, the officer said on Thursday. The rescued animals and the arrested five persons were handed over to the Custom preventive force. Meanwhile, the Mizoram Police has told all SPs to activate district wildlife crime control sub-units to curb smuggling of wildlife species, another officer said on Friday.A meeting of Lunglei district wildlife control sub-unit was held on Thursday. The meeting convened by the SP was attended by the district forest officer, commanding officer of 3 Assam Rifles, Honorary Wildlife Warden Lunglei and representatives from Environment Forest and Climatic Change Department and Custom Preventive Force in Lunglei. The meeting extensively deliberated upon strengthening of cooperation among the members for prevention, detection and investigation of wildlife crimes. Police said that a dire need is felt to activate district wildlife crime control sub-units across the state headed by SPs in the wake of recent seizures of smuggled exotic wildlife species.—PTI

Mizoram Police rescued 468 exotic animals suspected to be smuggled from Myanmar in Champhai district, an officer said. Acting on specific inputs, police rescued the animals at Khawkawn check gate in Champhai district bordering Myanmar and arrested five persons for smuggling the wildlife species.