Category: tripura

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, considering the huge development and enormous resources of the eight northeastern states, is presenting the region before the country as ‘Astalakshmi’.

The Bangladesh Assistant High Commission (AHC) office here on Wednesday resumed all visa and consular services for Indians after two months, officials said.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah would virtually distribute job offer letters to those selected for various posts in the Tripura government departments on Wednesday, officials said on Tuesday.

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) urged the Central government to immediately intervene to remove Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh and initiate dialogue with all sides in the conflict to ensure that the rights of all communities are safeguarded and peace and normalcy restored.

The opposition CPI(M) on Tuesday staged a rally to oppose the union budget presented by the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the parliament on February 1 last and termed the budget as a ‘cheat’ to the people of this nation.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Tuesday said that through the expansion of cooperative societies not only the unemployment problems would be resolved but militancy activities would be curbed as well.

The Assam Rifles and other security forces in different places have destroyed a marijuana (ganja) plantation area, seized drugs valued at Rs 3.50 crore and also busted an inter-state drug peddling gang in Tripura and Mizoram, an official said on Tuesday.

The Tripura Government has launched an investigation and filed an FIR following the discovery of a large quantity of discarded government-supplied medicines near the roadside in the Durga Chowmuhani area of Agartala.

In a joint operation, the Government Railway Police (GRP) and the Railway Protection Force (RPF) apprehended nine individuals and seized narcotics worth Rs 30 lakh from a parcel van of a train at Agartala Railway Station late Monday night.

Chief Minister Prof. Dr. Manik Saha today said that initiatives have been taken to strengthen PACs by computerizing them and to establish multi-purpose PACs at the Panchayat level.

In a press statement, CBI said that Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on February 03 arrested accused Bikash Das (R/o Das Colony, Panchgram, Hailakandi District, Assam) from Bhiwandi, Thane District, Maharashtra in a Tripura Chit Fund Scam case.

Residents of Durga Chaumuhani in Agartala have expressed alarm after discovering a large quantity of medicines dumped in the open near a canal. The source of the discarded medicines remains unknown, but the incident has triggered widespread concern and outrage.

In a major breakthrough for cancer treatment in Tripura, specialist doctors at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Regional Cancer Center have successfully installed a Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) line for the first time.

Local women in the Kumarghat Ratiyabari Truck Syndicate area have taken to the streets in protest, blocking the road since Sunday morning over an ongoing water crisis in the region. The protest has led to severe traffic congestion, causing inconvenience to commuters.

Finance Minister Pranajit Singha Roy on Sunday hailed the Union Budget 2025 as a progressive and development-oriented financial plan that will significantly benefit the Northeast region.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah would virtually distribute job offer letters for those selected for multi-tasking staff (Gr-D) posts in the Tripura government on February 5, officials said on Saturday.

For the first time in Agartala, the embassy of Japan in India jointly with the Japan Foundation in Delhi and the Indian Council for Cultural Relation, North East organised two days long North East Japan Caravian. The caravian has begun here at Agartala Rabindra Satabarshiki Bhavan from Saturday.

Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha on Saturday hailed the union government’s budget presented by the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the parliament and claimed that the union budget of the Modi government is a blue print for Viksit Bharat.

The Border Security Force (BSF), Tripura, has enhanced vigilance and intensified its domination along the international border as since 26th January BSF troops have successfully thwarted several attempts of infiltration, exfiltration, and trans-border smuggling.

In a shocking incident, a land dispute led to the brutal killing of a couple by their nephew in Bishalgarh sub-division under Sepahijala district late Friday night.

Maintaining full cooperation with the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), India's Border Security Force (BSF) has conducted nearly 80 simultaneous coordinated patrols along the India-Bangladesh frontiers in the recent past, officials said here on Saturday.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha also took to X to laud the Budget 2025 as the Modi government's blueprint for a Viksit Bharat and Aatmanirbhar Bharat as it covers farmers, the poor, the middle class, education, nutrition, health, startups and innovation. "Kudos to Hon’ble PM Narendra Modi and Nirmala Sitharaman".

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha said, adding that keeping this in mind, the state government has sought 20 per cent devolution of taxes in the forests and ecology category to the 16th Finance Commission, which is now visiting the state.

Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) central committee member Jitendra Chaudhury re-elected as party’s Tripura state Secretary in the three-day (January 29 to 31) 24th state conference of the Left party.

Officials of the National Council of Educational Research and Training  (NCERT), along with Tripura Police, seized pirated NCERT books that were being sold to students in bookshops in Agartala, officials said on Friday.