Category: AGARTALA

According to reports, a man dressed in khaki clothes, impersonating a policeman, visited Arun Saha’s grocery store in Bisramganja Bazar. The impostor ordered goods worth 52,000 rupees, which Arun Saha diligently packed.

In anticipation of Cyclone Remal the Tripura Power Secretary on Sunday held an emergency review meeting and directed the officials remain vigilant, particularly in areas susceptible to lightning storms.

Mormari Tripura (39) gave birth to a girl on Thursday at the Gandachara Sub-Divisional Hospital and the next day, she reportedly sold the infant to a couple for Rs 5,000.

Tripura along with the rest of the nation and neighboring Bangladesh observed Nazrul Jayanti to commemorate the birth anniversary of rebel and national poet of Bangladesh Kazi Nazrul Islam on Saturday.

Most northeastern states will witness moderate to very heavy rainfall for three days from Sunday due to a severe cyclonic storm arising from a depression over the central Bay of Bengal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast on Friday. 

In yet another crackdown on illegal infiltrators, the police of Government Railway Police (GRP) jointly with the RPF on Thursday detained at least four Bangladeshi nationals including three women from Agartala railway station.

The Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) has announced the TBSE Class 10 (Madhyamik) and Class 12 (Higher Secondary) results on Friday. A total of 79.27% of the class 12 students cleared the exam this year while 87.54% passed class 10.

The Revenue Department of Tripura has issued an advisory for cyclone to all District Magistrates, directing them to take all necessary measures as the state is expected to experience severe weather, including heavy to very heavy rainfall, along with strong winds and thunderstorms.

He said that the Dhalai District Police, along with the Tripura State Rifles and Border Security Force, acted on secret information and detained a truck en route to Agartala from West Bengal.

The chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Mohan Bhagwat, arrived here on Thursday on a five-day visit to Tripura and attended a training programme for RSS cadres and karyakartas from the eight states in the northeast region.

The Communist Part of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Wednesday claimed that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) would not only affect the demography of the northeastern region but also the economy, culture, employment, society, land and other resources. 

The Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limited (TSECL) is to get over Rs 100 crore as outstanding payment for supplying electricity to Bangladesh, top officials said on Wednesday. 

The 2,568th Buddha Jayanti Utsav and Vaishakhi Buddha Purnima is celebrated in the state of Tripura with hundreds of devotees gathered at Venuban Buddha Vihara in Agartala Kunjaban and worshipped Lord Buddha.

In a major crackdown on drug trafficking, the police of Amtali police station accompanied by the BSF troopers on Thursday detained one suspected drug smuggler from his residence at Motinagar village.

Tensions flared in Nandigram in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district on Thursday, hours after a woman worker of the BJP was killed and seven others were injured after being attacked on Wednesday night, days before the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections in the state.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an Orange alert for Tripura on May 26 and 27, warning of very heavy rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds due to a low-pressure area over the west-central and adjoining South Bay of Bengal.

The ruling BJP in Tripura on Thursday has slammed the opposition for spreading misinformation related to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), asserting that the act will not be implemented in the Sixth Schedule and Inner Line Permit areas.

Tripura Chief Minister Prof. Dr. Manik Saha on Thursday said that people in West Bengal are eagerly waiting June 4th for the BJP's victory to restore peace in the state, which is under Trinamool Congress’s misrule.

Political observers felt that Bhagwat's visit to the northeastern state ahead of the counting of Lok Sabha votes on June 4 is significant as the RSS has been expanding its bases in the northeastern states.

In an attempt to give a facelift to Tripura's attractive Neermahal Palace, the government has decided to uproot and clear the water hyacinth covering the Rudrasagar Lake to ease the tourists.

Opposing the implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) here in the state of Tripura, a delegation of the state Pradesh Adivasi Congress on Tuesday met the Chief Secretary and sought his intervention over halting the implementation of CAA in the state.

He highlighted that Prime Minister Modi is very sincere in the implementation of various central public schemes and criticized the Trinamool Congress for not allowing the introduction of such schemes in Bengal.

In a heart-wrenching turn of events, a four-year-old girl named Ananya Karmakar met with a tragic fate as she drowned in a pond adjacent to her house in the Khilpara Taltala area of Udaipur. The sorrowful incident unfolded while Ananya was innocently playing near the water's edge.

The Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) is set to release the results for Madhyamik (Secondary) and Higher Secondary examinations in the last week of this month. This announcement was made by TBSE President Dhananjay Gan Choudhury during a press conference held today.

In yet another major crackdown on illegal infiltration, the police of GRP and Railway Protection Force on Sunday last detained at least 3 Bangladeshi women from Agartala Railway Station while attempting to board a train for Ahmedabad.