Union Public Service Commission invites applications for the following mentioned posts. Application forms are available in the Recruitment Section of the above said website. Completed applications with enclosures should be sent to the Secretary, Union Public Service Commission, Dholpur House, Shahjahan Road, New Delhi – 110069, so as to reach on or before prescribed closing date i.e. 4/11/2008.

KOLKATA: A 22-year-old HIV-positive Mizo girl — counting her last breaths — tried desperately to reach home to see her parents, but airport red tape strangled her last wish. Mawii died at Kolkata airport on Tuesday after being turned away by Air India officials on Monday.

AIZAWL: Women are set to play a major role in the Nov 29 assembly elections in Mizoram – the only state in India where women voters outnumber men.

Of the total of 611,124 voters eligible to exercise their franchise in next month’s elections to the 40-seat Mizoram assembly, 308,884 are women and 302,240 men.

Women outnumbered men voters by 3,816 during the last assembly polls in 2003.

First, I would like to thank all of you for giving me this opportunity to discuss about the Origin of the Chin. Talking about the “Origin of the Chin”, of course, is very much about searching for our identity: Who are we? Where we come from? What makes us Chin a Chin? What are the chief features which distinguish the Chin people as an ethnic nationality from other human collectives or ethnic groups? And which criteria make it possible for us to be recognized as a distinctive people and nationality? Why we are in different countries though we all still living in the same homeland of our forefathers? etc…