Huge cache of cannabis recovered from Tripura forest
Agartala, Feb 23 (UNI) The BSF and Tripura police seized a huge quantity of dry cannabis last evening from forest areas of Rampadpara village of Matinagar under Sonamura in Sepahijala district.
Tripura police arrests pro-Pak commenter in Mysore
Agartala, Feb 23 (UNI) A Tripura police team arrested a youth from a hotel in Mysore, who hails from Asharambari area of Khowai district in West Tripura, in a predawn operation early this morning.
Amid protests over Citizenship bill, PM Modi in northeast today
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IBNS): Amid protests over the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting the northeast on Saturday to inaugurate a number of projects.
On January 29, 2019, the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), a Tripura based tribal political party, an ally of the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), along with another 10 political parties of the Northeast, met in Guwahati, the capital of neighbouring Assam, to announce their opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). The other political parties included the Mizo National Front (MNF), the United Democratic Party (UDP), the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), the Naga Peoples Front (NPF), the National Peoples’ Party (NPP), the National Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), the Hill State Peoples Party (HSPP) and the Peoples Democratic Front (PDF).
Seven Assam bound Rohingya children detained in Tripura
Guwahati, Feb 3 (IBNS): Seven Assam bound Rohingya children were detained by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) from a railway station in Tripura on Sunday.
BJP killing CPI-M comrades in Tripura and Kerala: Sitaram Yechury counters Modi
Kolkata, Jan 2 (IBNS): CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury has countered Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement where he said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers are getting killed due to political fights in West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala.
Biplab Kumar Deb meets Union Minister Rathore, informs him about Khelo Tripura mission
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IBNS): Tripura CM Biplab Kumar Deb on Friday met Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore here.
Agartala, Sept 28 (IBNS): In a shocking incident, a 40-year-old woman was publicly thrashed and forced to wear a garland of shoes by a group of villagers for allegedly having an extramarital affair with a man in Tripura’s Gomati district.
Tripura government announces to donate Rs. 1 crore for Kerala flood victims
Agartala, Aug 21 (IBNS): The Tripura government on Tuesday announced donating Rs. 1 crore for relief work in flood-hit Kerala.
Amid controversy, demand of NRC rises in Tripura, Meghalaya
Agartala/Shillong, Aug 2 (IBNS): Amid controversy over the release of Assam's National Register of Citizen (NRC), which excluded over four million people, demand to take such a step has been raised in two other northeastern states- Tripura and Meghalaya, media reports said.
Man from Uttar Pradesh lynched in Tripura on child-lifting suspicion
Agartala, Jun 29 (IBNS): A hawker from Uttar Pradesh was lynched by a frenzied mob in Tripura on Thursday at Sidhai Mohanpur, 25 km from Tripura's capital town Agartala following a WhatsApp rumour about child lifters being on the prowl, media reports said.
Guwahati, June 15 (IBNS): The Northeast Frontier Railway (NF Railway) has suspended five passenger trains following several new landslide incidents in Assam’s Lumding-Silchar hill section on Friday morning, snapping rail connectivity to Tripura and parts of Assam's Barak valley.
President of India inaugurates 73-km long national highway in Tripura
Agartala, Jun 7 (IBNS): President Ram Nath Kovind, who is arrived in Tripura on Thursday, inaugurated National Highway from Matabari to Udaipur-Sabroom and said that the development of northeast India is a priority of the government.
President Kovind arrives in Agartala on two-day visit to Tripura
Agartala, Jun 7 (IBNS): Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy and Chief Minister Biplab Deb received President of India Ram Nath Kovind on his arrival in Agartala on Thursday for a two-day official visit.
BSF jawan kills three colleagues before committing suicide in Tripura
Agartala (Tripura), May 6 (IBNS): A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper killed three of his colleagues with his service rifle before committing suicide at a border outpost in Tripura, officials said on Sunday.