Mizoram Board of School Education (MBSE) Class X Results 2015 Declared

Correspondence on April 29, 2015 Aizawl: Mizoram Board of School Education (MBSE) has declared the results for their High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) today. The results can be checked at indiaresults and mbse.edu.in website using your roll number and name.  The Mizoram Board conducted exams from 21st February 2015 to 14th March 2015.  Mizoram Board of School Education (MBSE) was established by the Government of Mizoram...

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Delhi Chakma protest against police firing in a Buddhist Temple

via CHT24.COM on April 24, 2015 Delhi: The Chakma people residing in Delhi staged a sit-in-protest against firearm use at Buddhist Temple.  The Chakma people accused that Tripura state ‪#‎CPIM‬ Government and Tripura State police/ Tripura State Rifles personnel used firearms in the premises of Pechartol Buddhist Temple Udayan Buddha Vihar on 13th April 2015, When Buddhist devotes including women and children visited...

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Total Literacy Drive Programme Launched in Chakma Council

via Mizo News on April 23, 2015 Kamalanagar, April 22, 2015: Lawngtlai District one of the three targeted districts for total literacy drive had its Total Literacy Drive Launching Programme organized today at Kamalanagar, the Headquarter of Chakma Autonomous District Council. The Programme was organized by Lawngtlai District Working Committee on Literacy Drive whose chairman is District Education Officer, Lawngtlai. The programme was graced by Gana Chandra Chakma, Dy. DPC, SSA Mission, CADC Area as its Chairman and by Dangu Buddhalila Chakma,...

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District Councils in Mizoram want direct funding, but will that really help them develop?

via Scroll on April 21, 2015 Funds may not be the problem. How they are used is more important. A solitary doctor mans the only public health centre for 81 villages scattered along a 12-kilometre-wide and 140-kilometre-long ribbon of hilly terrain that makes up the Chakma Autonomous District Council. Trained in Ayush, the non-allopathic stream of medicine, Lauva Chakma, the young doctor, can administer only basic drugs and first aid....

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MZP take up Chakma ‘influx’ issue with Amit Shah

via TNT on April 17, 2015 AIZAWl: Capitalising on the visit of BJP chief Amit Shah, the Mizo Zirlai Pawl, Mizoram’s apex students’ body, has drawn his attention to the “abnormal increase” of Chakma population in southern Mizoram due to immigrants from the neighbouring Bangladesh. In a memorandum to Shah, the MZP pointed out that the population of Chakmas, who are “not indigenous people” of Mizoram, has increased from a mere 198 in...

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Amit Shah set for Northeast tour in 12 days

via TheIndian EXPRESS on April 14, 2015 Shah will proceed to Nagaland, where the party is part of the ruling coalition, and then travel to Manipur on Saturday. Aizawl: BJP president Amit Shah plans to visit all the northeastern states in 12 days, starting with Mizoram on April 16 where he will address a public meeting. The party’s Mizoram unit vice president, Chalngura Zahau, said Shah will address the meeting...

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Chakmas celebrates 'Bizu' festival

Young generation offering flowers to the river, while elders look. BIZU is the main festival of Chakma tribe which celebrates once in a year for three days. The BIZU festival celebrates in the month of April every year and the Chakma people have been celebrating the BIZU festival since its existence. The Bizu is the most important socio-religious festival of the Chakma. The bizu festival gave birth to the Bizu dance and Bizu song....

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Bangladesh: Indigenous Peoples faces obstruction on their New Year eve

via The Daily Star on April 12, 2015 Khagrachhari: Law enforcers obstructed indigenous people of Khagrachhari from bringing out a procession marking ‘Biju’ festival this morning as they failed to show any written copy of permission for holding the programme. “But later, we allowed them to bring out the procession on instruction from the deputy commissioner’s office,” Sheikh Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, superintendent of police in Khagrachhari,...

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After 30 years of peace, Mizoram facing terror again

via Business Standard on April 10, 2015 Aizawl: Nearly 30 years after Mizoram embraced peace, there are signs that terrorism may be raising its "disturbing" head in the northeastern state bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh. Mizoram was the first and the only state in India to get Rs.182.45 crore from the central government in 2000-01 as "Peace Bonus" for keeping peace after decades of insurgency. That record was shattered on March 28 when the Manipur-based Hmar People's Convention-Democratic (HPC-D) ambushed a police party...

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Mizoram: Chakmas demonstrate protest against discriminatory rules

Correspondence on April 10, 2015 Kamalanagar: More than one thousand people from all walks of life from Kamalanagar and nearby villages joined the Peace Procession called by Chakma National Council of India (CNCI), Mizoram State Committee in collaboration with all Political Parties and NGOs at Kamalanagar on 10th April, 2015 to demonstrate protest against the making of amendment of the Mizoram (Selection of candidates for Higher &...

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President Pranab Mukherjee arrives in Mizoram amid strong protest

via The IndianEXPRESS on April 9, 2015 Aizawl: President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Mizoram capital Aizawl on Thursday and was greeted by hundreds of students in school uniforms, and others draped in traditional shawls of mourning, to protest against the spate of transfers and sackings of the state’s Governors. Mizoram has had seven different Governors within nine months. The Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP, or Mizo Students’ Association) which led...

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BJP village council body file case against Chakma ADC govt

Correspondence on March 9, 2015 Aizawl: Today, BJP Village Council Members of Banganpara Village Council filed a case against the CADC Government at the Gauhati High Court, Mizoram Bench. The case is put up under, The Indian Constitution, Article 126, Fundamental Rights.  "The Democratic Rights of my Clients have been violated, and under the Constitution of India, no one is above the Law and We will win this case to safeguard the Democratic...

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Manav Chakma earns his first GCAC weekly honour

via xulagold.com on April 8, 2015  8:30:00 PM NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana's Manav Chakma is the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Week in men's tennis for March 30-April 5.      Chakma, a junior from Agartala, India, and a graduate of Kendriya Vidyalaya Maligaon, was 2-0 in singles and 2-0 in doubles in Xavier's final two dual matches of its California trip. He scored two...

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Chakma civil bodies and political parties condemn Mizoram govt action

via Mizo News on March 8, 2015 Aizawl: The Chakma National Council of India (CNCI), Mizoram State Committee convened a meeting of representatives of all Political Parties, NGOs and MDCs in CADC on the 7th April, 2015 at Kamalanagar to discuss on the recent Amendment of the Mizoram (Selection of Candidates for Higher & Technical courses) Rules, 1999 made by the State Government of Mizoram. Rasik Mohan Chakma, President, CNCI Mizoram State Committee, who presided over the meeting while placing the agenda for discussion stated that the recent...

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