http://zolengthe.net Connecting the Zo People Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:35:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/43-27pc-in-mizoram-had-pre-marital-sex-survey/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/43-27pc-in-mizoram-had-pre-marital-sex-survey/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:35:11 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=18859 Aizawl, Mar 9: According to the latest survey done by a church body in Mizoram, 43.37 % had revealed that they had pre-marital sex. The survey was done to 31,202 persons across the state. Dr. Robert S Halliday, Coordinator of Synod Social Front in the Mizoram Synod said. The main reason for the Synod Social Front (SSF) of the Mizoram Synod, the largest church organisation in Mizoram, to conduct such survey had been to eradicate the practice of pre-marital sex in Mizoram. The SSF said that out of the total 31,202 people ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/43-27pc-in-mizoram-had-pre-marital-sex-survey/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/manipur-govt-sticks-to-no-arrear-stand/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/manipur-govt-sticks-to-no-arrear-stand/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:29:20 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=18856 IMPHAL, Mar 9: Chief Mi-nister O Ibobi Singh, who also holds the Finance port-folio has reiterated State Go- vernment’s inability to en-tertain employees demand for release of accumulated arrears of the Sixth Pay Commission recommenda-tion with the assertion that proposals to the 13th Finance Commission has failed to evoked positive res-ponse. Addressing the second day of the ongoing Assembly session today, the CM said taking into account plight of the state Government employees, the 13th Finance Commission had been approached for award of the additional amount in the next allocation but ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/manipur-govt-sticks-to-no-arrear-stand/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/nungba-rally-against-tipaimukh-dam/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/nungba-rally-against-tipaimukh-dam/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:23:20 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=18853 Imphal, March 09, 2010: A massive protest rally was taken out today against the proposed Tipaimukh Dam at Nungba Bazar in Tamenglong district after a public meeting was held there. A memorandum demanding immediate halt to all process of Tipaimukh Project was also submitted to the Chief Minister through Nungba SDO. The protest rally was organised jointly by Tipaimukh Dam Affected Villages Committee, Nungba Area, Committee on Land and Resources, Citizens Concern for Dams and Development and Action Committee Against Tipaimukh Project. Many speakers addressing the meeting iterated that Tipaimukh Dam would produce ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/nungba-rally-against-tipaimukh-dam/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/churachandpur-blaze-consumes-10-houses/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/churachandpur-blaze-consumes-10-houses/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:21:41 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=18851 Lamka, March 09, 2010: A devastating inferno with its origin traced to a little hamlet on the outskirt of Vaisuon village near here today razed to the ground at least ten other residential houses, equal number of granaries and a shop under severe wind, rendering almost fifty people homeless and leaving them with nothing but the clothes they wear. ‘My two-year-old daughter and her eldest sister were at home when they saw the fire inside our house,’ Nemjahat, mother of eight children said amid the ruins of her thatched house and ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/churachandpur-blaze-consumes-10-houses/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/1430-raped-125-women-killed-in-assam-in-10-months/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/1430-raped-125-women-killed-in-assam-in-10-months/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:30:16 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=18848 Guwahati: A frightening report was revealed to the women in Assam on Women’s Day by the official statistics on crime against women in the state during the past ten months. One hundred and twenty-five women were murdered, 1430 raped while 143 others subjected to dowry related harassment in the state from April 2009 to January this year. Moreover, Assam police have registered 3807 domestic violence cases and 40 cases related to trafficking of women during the same period, according to figures provided by Assam government on Monday in the State Assembly. On behalf ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/1430-raped-125-women-killed-in-assam-in-10-months/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/foundation-of-northeast-india-first-5-star-hotel-laid/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/foundation-of-northeast-india-first-5-star-hotel-laid/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:17:06 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=18844 GUWAHATI, March 9 – Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday unveiled the foundation stone of the State’s first five-star hotel Vivanta, a venture by Tata group, in the presence of Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata Sons, RK Krishna Kumar, vice chairman of Indian Hotels Company Limited, Rockybul Hussain, Minister of Forest, Environment and Tourism, Government of Assam, Pradyut Bordoloi, Minister of Power and Industries, Government of Assam and a host of dignitaries. Gogoi, while lauding the introduction of Tata’s brand Taj, one of Asia’s largest chains of hotels in the region, said ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/foundation-of-northeast-india-first-5-star-hotel-laid/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/mizo-women-comprise-43-98-per-cent-of-the-workforce/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/mizo-women-comprise-43-98-per-cent-of-the-workforce/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:55:20 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=18841 AIZAWL, March 9, 2010 (Agencies): Women folk in Mizoram comprise a healthy 43.98 per cent of the state’s total work force, says a new book on economic participation of the fairer sex. “The population of working women is increasing in the state as they are emancipated a lot here, and they now constitute 43.98 per cent of the total work force,” the author Dr Lalhriatpuii has said in her book ‘Economic Participation of Women in Mizoram’, which was published here last week. Lalhriatpuii, however, has lamented that in the strict Mizo patriarchal ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/mizo-women-comprise-43-98-per-cent-of-the-workforce/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/manipur-express-march-09-2010/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/manipur-express-march-09-2010/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:49:53 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=18837 ZORO Gen HQ makaite tawh meeting Lamka, March-8: ZORO Northern Zone makaite inntekna in March 6,2010 in PTC Conference Hall ah mipi kikhopna om a, huai ah Aizawl apan hongzin Zo Re-Unification Orgn(ZORO) Gen HQ makaite’n uap uhi. Huai ah R. Thangmawia, President,ZORO Gen HQ in May, 1988 in Champhai a 1st World Zomi Convention om akipan  Zo(Kuki-Chin-Mizo-Zomi) Re-Unification Movement paitouzel dan report pia a, India, Burma leh Bangladesh a Zo suante kigawmna dia ZORO in kum 20 val pan alakdan tangpi leng pulak ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/10/manipur-express-march-09-2010/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/09/rajya-sabha-passes-historic-womens-bill/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/09/rajya-sabha-passes-historic-womens-bill/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:08:32 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=18834 It is a historic moment. The Women’s Reservation Bill has cleared the first hurdle, being passed by Rajya Sabha at 6.48 p.m. on Tuesday with 186 votes for and only 1 against. With Congress ally Trinamool Congress abstaining, the BSP boycotting the vote and staging a walkout, and dissenting, unruly members of the Samajwadi Party and RJD evicted from House, the move to amend the Constitution to provide 33 per cent reservation to women in Parliament and state Assemblies was passed with overwhelming support. But not without drama and discomfort for the ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/09/rajya-sabha-passes-historic-womens-bill/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/09/hope-of-manipur-girl-in-chennai-resturant/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/09/hope-of-manipur-girl-in-chennai-resturant/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:02:26 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=18832 Imphal, March 08, 2010: Her face a mask of concentration, the young girl’s nimble fingers slide a sharp blade through the flesh of a watermelon, slicing out slivers of fruit. Kim Boi is a senior vegetable carver at Thai restaurant Benjarong, and spends most of her day, crouching on a platform, carving vegetables and fruits into different shapes to decorate the dishes. “I always thought I would be a nurse or join the police force. I had to come all the way here as my family was facing a financial crisis,” says ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/09/hope-of-manipur-girl-in-chennai-resturant/feed/ 0