Baryl Vanneihsangi, a radio DJ with a sizable Instagram following, has become Mizoram’s youngest MLA after winning the last state election. The 32-year-old Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) candidate won the Aizawl South-III constituency by 1,414 votes. The incumbent Mizo National Front (MNF) was decimated in the election by the ZPM, Mizoram’s newest party, which won … Read more
Exit poll projections for the five state assembly elections – Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, and Mizoram – came in on Thursday, suggesting a difficult contest between the Congress and the BJP in at least three of these states. The Assembly election results in 2023 will be critical because this is the semi-final before the … Read more
At least 17 employees were murdered, and several others are believed to be trapped, after an under-construction railway bridge fell near Sairang, Mizoram, about 11 a.m. on Wednesday, around 21 kilometres from the state capital Aizawl. At the time of the tragedy, there were 40 construction workers on the bridge. “Seventeen bodies have been recovered … Read more