Aizawl’s multi-storey Cemetery solves Grave Shortage

Aizawl’s multi-storey Cemetery solves Grave Shortage

Stressed Christian cemeteries, with shrinking space and crowding of graves can take a leaf out of the Aizawl book. Aizawl’s Chaltlang neighbourhood inaugurated its first ‘modern multi-storey concrete cemetery’, the first of its kind in Mizoram to cope with the rising graveyard crisis. The five-storey cemetery which houses at least 163 crypts (ready-made tombs) was […]

Mizo mob’s lynch attempt thwarted

Mizo mob’s lynch attempt thwarted

Aizawl, Mizoram: Mob justice again? In Mizoram, hundreds of protesters from Thingdawl and its neighbouring villages in Kolasib district tried to drag out a man accused of attempted rape from Saipum Mizo India Reserve Battalion camp. The police fired blanks to disperse the mob. But the mob left the camp around one o’clock Sunday morning […]