Aizawl

Few know that Christmas has been celebrated in the subcontinent for almost two millennia. According to writer Manimugdha S Sharma, there are two different apocryphal traditions about the coming of Christianity to India. The first says that Thomas the Apostle arrived at the court of Indo-Parthian king Gondophernes and introduced the new faith in north-western and northern India. The other tradition says that Thomas came to Kerala in 52 AD and built the first church there and introduced the faith. Novelist Madhulika Liddle…

Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Sunday inaugurated three flights connecting five cities of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, and Mizoram. A flight connecting Imphal and Aizawl under RCS UDAN commenced on Sunday and will operate five times a week, while a flight connecting Shillong and Lilabari under RCS UDAN will commence from Monday and will operate four times a week. A flight connecting Lilabari and Ziro also began operating on Sunday and will operate twice a week. Scindia also announced on…

After a gap of 10 years, the air connectivity between Silchar — the second populous city of Assam, and Manipur’s capital Imphal is set to resume in October. The flight on this route will also connect Mizoram capital Aizawl with Silchar via Imphal. It has been nearly 40 years since one could reach Aizawl from Silchar by flight. A senior official at Silchar airport said that under the Regional Connectivity Scheme UDAN (Ude Desh Ke Aam Naagrik), Alliance Air, which is a division under the Air India Asset Holdings Private…