Heroin, gold bar seized in Mizoram
Aizawl, February 2 (PTI): Two persons were arrested for allegedly possessing 56 grams of heroin and 35 gold bars at Mizoram-Myanmar border Champhai district, officials said today. Mizoram Excise and Narcotics department officials seized heroin worth around Rs 2.24 lakh in the local market at Mualkawi village from the possession of two persons, including a woman, last night, department spokesperson Peter Zohmingthanga said. The officials, in a joint operation with the personnel of the Customs and Central Excise, also seized 35 bars of gold (5.817 kg) in Champhai last night and arrested one person, Zohmingthanga said. The gold bars is reportedly worth around Rs 143 lakh in the local market and the seized gold bars were handed over to the Customs and Central Excise, he said.
MPF demands spl session of Assembly on headmen law
Shillong, February 2 (PTI): Opposition coalition Meghalaya People's Front (MPF) today demanded that the Congress led state government convene a Special Session of the Assembly to discuss the recent High Court order for framing uniform laws on headmen. "We request you to convene a Special Session to discuss this important issue," MPF secretary James K Sangma said in a letter to Assembly Speaker AT Mondal. Meghalaya High Court recently directed the state government to frame uniform laws on the functioning of the traditional chiefs (headmen). The decision to demand a special session of the Assembly was taken at a recent meeting of MPF consisting of United Democratic Party, National People's Party, Garo National Council and Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement.
Two light intensity quakes hit northeast in early hours
New Delhi, February 2 (PTI): Two low intensity earthquakes, measuring 3.7 and 3.8, hit northeast region of the country in the wee hours of February 2. According to the National Seismology Centre, a unit of the Ministry of Earth Science, one earthquake measuring 3.8 on Richter Scale hit the region along Indo-Myanmar border at 1:18 AM at the depth of 111 km. Four hours later at 5:19 AM, a second quake of magnitude 3.7, hit Karbi in Assam at the depth of 33 km. However, no casualty was reported in both the cases. The northeast is an active seismic zone. Last month, Manipur witnessed a major earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale.
