Women voters to play key role in Mizoram polls

Last Updated: Sunday, November 24, 2013, 16:13

Women voters will play a key role in the November 25 assembly elections in Mizoram, the only state in India where women voters outnumber men.

Chana sect members free to vote anyone sans diktat from leader

Last Updated: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 13:48

For long Mizoram political parties have tried to persuade members of the Chana`s sect led by Ziona to vote en bloc for them, but without success, in their village in the Tuikum Assembly seat in Serchhip district.

UPA`s policies have given good results, record growth: PM

Last Updated: Saturday, November 16, 2013, 08:27

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said that the UPA government`s policies and programmes for rapid and inclusive growth are showing good results and the country has seen a record average economic growth in the last nine years.

Average age of candidates for Mizoram polls is around 52

Last Updated: Friday, November 15, 2013, 19:40

The oldest candidate contesting the election to the 40-member Mizoram Assembly to be held on November 25 was the present Revenue Minister J H Rothuama (74) from Champhai North seat while the youngest candidate was Pazawna (27) of the BJP contesting from Mizoram-Tripura border Hachhek seat.

Expenditure for Mizoram Assembly polls up by over 40 per cent

Last Updated: Thursday, November 7, 2013, 20:03

The expenditure for the elections to the 40-member Mizoram legislative Assembly to be held on November 25 was estimated at Rs 24.30 crore and was the highest ever expenses in the history of the state elections.

Security tightened at the borders of poll-bound Mizoram

Last Updated: Thursday, November 7, 2013, 18:28

Security has been tightened along the unfenced 64-km-long border near the tri-junction of Mizoram-Tripura-Bangladesh in the state`s Mamit district.

VVPAT to be used in 10 Assembly constituencies in Aizawl

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 16:31

The VVPAT system was first experimented in the Noksen Assembly bypoll recently in Nagaland and Mizoram would be the first state where it would be introduced in a large scale, EC officials said.

Lal Thanhawla to face tough contest in Mizo Assembly polls

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 12:13

Serchhip constituency in Mizoram`s central district of Serchhip would be one of the most interesting seats in the coming elections to the 40-member state Assembly to be held on November 25.

ZNP announces its candidates for Mizoram Assembly polls

Last Updated: Monday, November 4, 2013, 17:04

Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP), which would contest 38 constituencies in the coming elections to the 40-member Mizoram Assembly to be held on November 25, on Monday announced the names of its candidates.

No nominations filed for Mizoram Assembly polls till now

Last Updated: Sunday, November 3, 2013, 17:50

No nominations have been filed so far for the coming 40-member Mizoram Assembly elections scheduled for November 25, even as the filing of nominations started from Friday last.

BJP to contest 11 seats in Mizoram

Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 13:24

BJP would contest 11 seats in the coming elections to the 40-member Mizoram legislature to be held on November 25, BJP sources said on Friday.

Mizoram polls: No women representatives in state legislature

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 10:31

Women voters have been outnumbering male voters in Mizoram for the past few years, but paradoxically there are no women representatives in the state legislature for years together.