Category: AGARTALA

Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar will join the nomination filing by the I.N.D.I.A. bloc candidate and congress state president Ashish Kumar Saha on Wednesday.

Chief Minister Prof. Dr. Manik Saha on Monday slammed the CPIM and Congress for engaging in politics driven by their own vested interests, while ignoring the issues faced by the people in the state.

A teenage girl was rescued by Tripura Police from Gujarat's Ahmedabad, over three months after she was kidnapped from the state by a youth, a police official said.

Officials said that three of the four bodies of fishermen were recovered on Sunday and the fourth body was recovered by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel.

The Additional Director General, BSF (Eastern Command), Ravi Gandhi who was on a three day visit in Tripura has reviewed the current security scenario and discussed various operational and administrative aspects of border management.

He also emphasized that the BJP always believes in work rather than empty rhetoric, contrasting it with CPIM, which used to make big promises but never delivered for the people.

An official from the State Emergency Operation Centre disclosed that an initial financial assistance of Rs 1.10 lakh has been disbursed. Despite the devastation, the official reassured that all rivers in the state are currently flowing below flood levels.

In a significant move, the Directorate of Elementary Education (DEE) in Tripura has recently decided to disallow the use of pen and paper tests for evaluating children aged between 3 and 6 years at the pre-primary level.

Governor Indrasena Reddy Nallu inaugurated the programme here at Agartala Raj Bhavan and stressed on generating more awareness about TB. He called for a collective effort in ending the TB disease and make the state free from TB.

The Chief Minister said that the so-called INDIA bloc is an opportunistic alliance practically they have no faith in each other, adding “how they would do welfare of the people when the parties have no confidence among themselves.”

Addressing the election rally of BJP Yuva Morcha here at Agartala, Dr Saha said, “In I.N.D.I.A, ‘A’ has departed, and as elections progress, other elements will fade away, leaving only ‘I’ in place.”

The 10th Annual Judicial Conclave was held here at Agartala on Saturday. Supreme Court Justice Surya Kant had inaugurated the progranmme and called for strengthening the judicial system.

The pradesh BJP on Saturday has constituted a 13-member election management committee for the 7-Ramnagar Assembly Constituency, where the by-election will be held on April 19.

In response to an unfortunate incident at the Bairagimura Anganwadi Center in the Sepahijala district of Tripura, where two children suffered severe burn injuries due to an accident involving hot water, the Tripura government took immediate action.

He said, “Wherever I go, I find an overwhelming response for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP. The people are enthusiastic to vote for the BJP.”

The BJP’s National General Secretary (Headquarters), Arun Singh, in a statement announced the name of Majumder, who would contest against former CPI(M) MLA, Ratan Das, who is a nominee of the INDIA bloc in Tripura.

Setting a target to increase the vote share of the ruling BJP in this ensuing Lok Sabha election, Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha launches his poll campaign in support of the candidates of the two parliamentary constituencies of the state.

Biplab Kumar Deb, the BJP's candidate for the West Tripura Lok Sabha seat, criticized the CPIM, labeling them as opportunistic for forming an alliance with the Congress due to their lack of a candidate to contest in the Lok Sabha elections.

In a significant crackdown on drug trafficking, the Tripura Police have apprehended two individuals and confiscated a substantial quantity of Yaba tablets valued at Rs 6 crores in Damcherra, situated in the North District of Tripura.

He said that Arun Kumar Bhowmik has filed nomination papers as SUCI candidate for West Tripura constituency on the second day of filing nomination papers for Lok Sabha elections.

While attending a door-to-door campaign at Bamutia Assembly Constituency, Bhattacharya said that eyeing the Lok Sabha elections across the state, BJP is holding door-to-door campaigns and receiving a huge response.

In a tragic turn of events late Wednesday night, one Tripura State Rifles jawan identified as Sandana Darlong, met with a fatal accident while on duty in the vicinity of Baghan School near Churaibari Police jurisdiction in North Distrct.

"During our extensive door-to-door campaign across the state, the overwhelming sentiment is in favor of Prime Minister Modi's re-election. Both candidates in Tripura are poised to win with remarkable margins in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections," Chowdhury stated.

For the first time in the 72-year electoral history of Tripura, the Left parties and the Congress are contesting together in the parliamentary polls to take on the BJP, though the two traditional rivals jointly fought against the ruling party in last year’s Assembly elections.

The I.N.D.I.A bloc Tripura on Wednesday announced its 25-member committee ahead of the Lok Sabha elections and called for united fight against the ‘fascistic’ government at the Centre.