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Chief Minister Prof. Dr. Manik Saha on Friday took a jibe at the Congress and CPI(M), stating that one party has become directionless, and the other has been rejected by the youth.

The Tipra Indigenous Students Federation (TISF), affiliated with Tripura’s principal opposition party Tipra Motha, has declared an indefinite road and rail blockade starting from February 12.

Chief Minister Prof. Dr. Manik Saha on Friday said that the present government will not compromise on the quality of healthcare in the state and has made a series of decisions for the development of the healthcare system.

In Kamalpur, under the Dhalai District, Tripura Police seized a substantial quantity of Yaba tablets valued at Rs 78 lakh and apprehended two individuals on Thursday night.

The tension at Sandeshkhali in West Bengal escalated on Friday after women agitators seeking absconding Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Shahjahan’s arrest, burnt down a poultry farm owned by his close confidant and Trinamool Congress leader Shibu Hazra.

Former Prime Ministers Chaudhary Charan Singh and P.V. Narasimha Rao, and legendary agricultural scientist Dr M.S. Swaminathan will be honoured with the Bharat Ratna, announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday.

As the counting of votes for the national elections is underway, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Friday claimed to have leads on over 150 seats, and asked PML(N) supremo Nawaz Sharif to "accept defeat".

A Delhi court on Friday granted interim bail to former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav's wife Rabri Devi and her daughters -- Misa Bharti and Hema Yadav -- till February 28 in a money laundering case pertaining to the alleged land-for-job scam matter.

The JICA team visited Agroforestry plantations and check dams constructed under the SCATFORM Project at Khumpui JFMC, as well as the piggery Income Generation Activity under Khuluma SHG, and interacted with beneficiaries.

In a significant development, the Melaghar police station apprehended one Kamrul Mia, a 38-year-old Bangladeshi national residing in Tel Kajla Srimati in Sonamura for over eight years.

The Crime Branch formally filed the case against the implicated individuals following a comprehensive inquiry conducted by a three-member SIT into the accusations.

In a significant development, Tripura's Unakoti name has found a place of honor on Indian Railways' WDG-4 category locomotive engine number 12226.

MLA Birajit Sinha called upon the Tripura government to expedite the acquisition of land for the Kailasahar airport and to kickstart the long-awaited renovation process.

According to reports, Rakesh Roy and Pintu Debnath, residents of Barajala Manipuri neighborhood, have been implicated in the incident as per the statement provided by the homeowner.

In India’s battle against drug addiction, the Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Dr Virendra Kumar on Thursday virtually inaugurated 5 in Tripura among 41 Addiction Treatment Facility Centres (ATFs) from Delhi.

Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha on Thursday claimed that the government is working with transparency for overall development of the state of Tripura. He said that his government will never compromise on any form of corruption, regardless of the person's position.

The White Paper on Indian Economy tabled in the Lok Sabha by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday enumerates about 15 cases of corruption and scams that happened during the 10-year rule of the Congress-led UPA government.

Ayushman Bharat (PM-JAY), the largest health assurance scheme in the world fully funded by the government, is a flagship scheme of the NDA Government and was launched by the Prime Minister in September 2018.

The telecom licenses issued in FY09 were cancelled by the Supreme Court due to a lack of transparency in the allocation process. In this period, the telecom sector went into a seizure as the government was caught out by the top court judgement.

The 'White Paper' stated: "Poor policy planning and execution resulted in large unspent funds for many social sector schemes during the UPA years, which in turn crippled the effectiveness of the government's schemes.

The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government on Thursday presented a White Paper on Indian Economy to draw a comparison between the 10 years of Congress-led UPA regime and 10 years of post-2014 rule.

The White Paper presented in the Lok Sabha by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharman on Thursday states that the erstwhile Congress-led UPA government's decade of governance was marked by a policy of misadventures and scams such as the coal, telecom and Commonwealth Games corruption scandals.

The White Paper slams the erstwhile UPA government for the policy paralysis that resulted in large scale power shortages in the country and a 10-year setback for the telecom sector.

The Modi government’s ‘White Paper on Indian Economy’, which was tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, has “exposed” the “fiscal mismanagement” of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, which was in power for 10 years from 2004 to 2014.

The ‘White Paper’ pointed out that economic mismanagement happened despite the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA Government having handed over a healthy and resilient economy with high growth potential in 2004 to the UPA regime.