Category: TRIPURA

• WEST TRIPURA
• GOMATI
• DHALAI
• SOUTH TRIPURA
• NORTH TRIPURA
• SEPAHIJALA
• KHOWAI
• UNAKOTI

The advocates and other officials of the West Tripura District Sessions and Judicial Magistrate Court have staged a road blockade in protest against the power outage caused by Cyclone Remal.

Cyclone Remal has taken a toll on the electricity supply across the state since Monday night following a heavy shower accompanied by a high-speed storm that resulted in disruption of power supply in multiple areas of the state including the capital town of Agartala.

Churaibari Police Station Officer-in-Charge Samaresh Das said that at around 5 PM on Tuesday, a bus numbered AS11BC-0462 from Dharmanagar to Silchar arrived at Churaibari police station on the Assam-Tripura border.

The Howrah River has seen a significant rise in water levels due to heavy rains, causing severe flooding in the West District and following this the floodwaters have inundated numerous homes, forcing residents to seek refuge in government-established relief camps,

After visiting the State Ayurvedic Hospital here, the Chief Minister added that the state government has recently written a letter to the Centre proposing to set up an Ayurvedic medical college first, followed by the homeopathy medical college.

Days after a three-day-old baby girl in Tripura's Dhalai district was rescued hours after a poor tribal woman reportedly sold the infant, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Monday said more social awareness is needed to make sure such incidents do not happen again. 

The incessant rain since Sunday night has disrupted normal life in the state of Tripura on Monday. Due to the impact of the cyclonic storm, Tripura has received average rainfall of 40.73 mm on Monday.

Ace gymnast Dipa Karmakar bagged the historic gold medal at the Asian Women's Artistic Gymnastic Championship here in Tashkent on Sunday to become the first Indian to achieve the feat.

As cyclone ‘Remal’ intensifies and the Indian Meteorological Department issued a red alert for the state of Tripura, the Tripura government has shutdown all educational institutions and Anganwadi Centres for two days till May 28 next.

An auto rickshaw accident in the Melaghar left five people injured, including women and minors. The accident occurred when the driver, Liton Das, tried to avoid hitting two dogs that suddenly appeared in front of the vehicle.

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.