India, Jan. 2 -- After a grand Christmas, Mizoram on Thursday celebrated New Year with religious and traditional fervour marking it with community feast and church service.

Thanks giving ceremony, worship service, prayers and congregational singing (zaikhawm) were held in churches across the state on Thursday as part of the celebration.

Usually, New Year is celebrated for two days in Christian majority Mizoram.

Several churches belonging to different denomination, including Presbyterian Church of India (PCI) and Baptist Church of Mizoram (BCM) particularly in villages and some small towns held community feasts on Thursday, while most churches in Aizawl and other towns will hold the same to mark the closure of the New Year celebration ...