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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A state of extreme eastern India between Bangladesh and Myanmar. Largely inhabited by hill tribes speaking Sino-Tibetan languages, Mizoram was long a part of Assam but gained separate statehood in 1987.
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- proper noun State in north-eastern
India which hasAizawl as itscapital .
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India will propose two additional such centres-Avangkhu in Nagaland and Zowkhathar in Mizoram which is also a long-standing demand of these two states.
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Left, Rami, 27 posed for a picture at their residence in Baktawng village in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, Oct. 7.
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European Pressphoto Agency A group of women worked in a stone quarry near Mizoram's capital city of Aizwal, Monday.
India in Pictures 2011
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Diganta Talukdar/Demotix The Armed Forces Special Powers Act was passed in 1958, giving the armed forces greater autonomy in so-called "disturbed areas" in the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Jammu & Kashmir.
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It said it will continue to provide assistance for the country's rural road development program in other states such as Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, and West Bengal, as well as for public resource management projects in Assam and Mizoram.
ADB to Lend India $7.4 Billion for Infrastructure Projects Abhrajit Gangopadhyay 2011
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Left, family members of Ziona posed for a group photograph in Baktawng village in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, Oct. 7.
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Adnan Abidi/Reuters Ziona, a man from the north-eastern Indian state of Mizoram, has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren.
Bizarre India, 2011 2011
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Left, Zathiangi posed for a picture at their residence in Baktawng village in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, Oct. 7.
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They are: Assam, Meghalaya, Arunchal Pradesh, Mizoram (known for eating dog), Nagaland (known for eating these giant spiders I saw), Manipur.
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Ziona, a man from the north-eastern Indian state of Mizoram, has 39 wives and 94 children.
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