"The Mizoram Election Department has announced a selfie contest for young and first-time voters on April 11.

Aizawl: Cyclone 'Mora' accompanied by heavy showers and gusty winds lashed Mizoram on Tuesday disrupting power and telecommunication network, damaging houses and triggering landslides.

A brief statement issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan said, " Qureshi shall cease to hold the office of the Governor of Mizoram." Meanwhile, Governor of West Bengal Keshari Nath Tripathi has been asked to discharge the functions of the Mizoram governor, in addition to his own duties, the statement said.

Rosiama, a leader of the church and former moderator of the Presbyterian Church of India, told Ecumenical News international that the Mizoram synod had decided that homosexuals living together as couples will not be excommunicated, but they will not be allowed to hold any posts or preach in the church, even if they are ordained.

Mizoram where his father, the late Rev Owen W Owen, was a missionary and helped set up a youth organisation.

Around 500 soldiers have acted because after the last bamboo flowering, in the 1960s, famine and an armed rebellion followed in Mizoram. Bamboo was then a dominant food crop, and although there has since been diversification to rat resistant potatoes, ginger and turmeric, bamboo sticks are still economically the most important regional forest produce, falling as deadwood for harvesting.

The vegetation of Mizoram, according to Champion and Seth, is tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen forest in the lower altitude hills; sub-tropical to montane sub-tropical in the high hills.

Almost 1,000 families have been affected by the floods triggered by incessant rains in Mizoram.

Though women voters outnumber men in the parliamentary constituency, it's the first time that a woman has joined the race to challenge the hegemony of men to represent the lone Mizoram seat in the Lok Sabha.

The Mizoram footballer passed away at the Aizawl Civil Hospital, where he was admitted for five days, after injuring his spinal cord when his somersault went awfully wrong as he landed on his head.

North-east India consists of seven hill states: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura.

Summary: Tlabung town (Mizoram) [India], July 12 (ANI): At least 40 homes were evacuated amidst flood like situation in Tlabung town of Mizoram.