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Speaking with reporters, Minister Nath said, “We have a shortage of agriculture officers in the department. A few months back, we requested the TPSC to fill 60 posts and after the exam 59 officers qualified as agriculture officers.”

Jhuma Datta Chowdhury, the member secretary of Tripura State Legal Services Authority, stated that the pre-Lok Adalat conciliation process has commenced in Tripura as per the Supreme Court's directive, ahead of the final hearings.

In a heartbreaking incident in the Gamaibari area under Teliamura police station, Bimal Das, a 38-year-old laborer tragically drowned while bathing in a nearby pond.

According to GRP Agartala the Bangladeshi citizens entered India illegally from Bangladesh, some of them wanted to go to Ahmedabad, some wanted to go to Pune by train in search of work.

Tripura Police in last from May 2023 till today, arrested 1266 people and registered 704 cases after drugs were seized from their possession, said Chief Minister Prof. Dr. Manik Saha.

"Based on secret information, we detained one vehicle at Dharmanagar. When we searched the vehicle, we seized 17 pouches carrying more than 200 grams of heroin. The market price would be more than Rs 2 crore," said the SP.

On 50 years of imposing Emergency across India by the then Congress government led by Indira Gandhi, the BJP on Tuesday took out protest rallies in different northeastern states.

Transport Minister Sushanta Choudhury strongly responded to a letter from Leader of Opposition Jitendra Choudhury, who had accused the government of privatizing a fully functional government medical college.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Tripura has called for a conducive environment and adequate security measures ahead of the upcoming Panchayat elections, citing alleged intimidation and attacks by BJP workers.

The state government on Tuesday opened the Project Monitoring Unit (PMU), which will help the state in faster project sanctioning under many Central schemes and will also serve as an innovation hub advising departments on future projects.

State is all set to celebrate the century-old week-long Kharchi Puja and Festival, starting from 14th July at Chaturdasa Devata Temple (Fourteen gods’ temple) in Old Agartala, under the West Tripura District.

Amid the visit of the Inter-Ministerial Central team to assess the damage due to Cyclone Remal last month, the Mizoram government has urged the Central government to provide Rs 237.6 crore to the state to rehabilitate the affected people and repair the damage to the properties caused by landslides and rain triggered by the cyclone.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (APSEZ) on Monday said it has made it to the honour list of the Institutional Investor Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) Executive Team Survey and in the transportation sector, the Adani Group company is the only Indian firm to feature on the list, at the second rank.

Under its influence, widespread rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning is likely over sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam & Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura during the next 5 days.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday chargesheeted eight more accused in a case relating to trafficking of Bangladeshi nationals and Rohingyas through the India-Bangladesh border as part of a trans-national racket.

“Jiten Chaudhuri’s threat of moving to HC against Mayor Dipak Majumder is nothing but to defame the transparent policy of the present government and to discover a malign campaign against the government,” Chakraborty told media.

Announcing 12,94,060 eligible voters in the state, the Tripura State Election Commissioner Saradindu Chowdhury stated that the tenure of the present Panchayat term would end in the first week of August.

The Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday organised a special session here at the frontier headquarter at Agartala Shalbagan to encourage the use of millets among families of Seema Praharis. Senior officers, troops and their family members were present during the seminar.

The leader of opposition Jitendra Chaudhury on Monday wrote to the Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha to seek his intervention over disallowing West Bengal TMC leader Anubrata Mondal to run Shantiniketan Medical College here in Tripura.

Biplab Kumar Deb, the current Lok Sabha Member of Parliament, emphasized on Monday that his primary objective is to address the issues affecting the people of Tripura.

Speaking with reporters on Monday, Superintendent of Tripura Traffic Police, Manik Das said that they have launched a drive against illegal parking and vehicles that have been causing massive traffic congestion in Agartala city as well as across the state.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to direct an urgent listing of a plea seeking an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into the alleged NEET-UG paper leak.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's son Yathindra Siddaramaiah, former BJP national General Secretary C.T. Ravi, and 15 others took oath as MLCs at a function held in the Vidhana Soudha here on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that the BJP-led NDA government remains committed to continuing the journey of reforms to transform people's lives.

As both ministers reviewed the multi-faceted India-UAE Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, Sheikh Abdullah stressed that the UAE and India share a strong bond, marked by growing momentum in bilateral cooperation.