Eight tribal villagers killed in TripuraNovember 10th, 2009 AGARTALA - At least eight tribal villagers including four women were killed and another injured by separatists in Tripura, police said Tuesday. Police spokesperson Nepal Das said: "Heavily armed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants attacked Pushparampara village in northern Tripura Monday midnight and abducted eight villagers before gunning them down in a nearby jungle."
"The victims were all family members of ten NLFT militants who had surrendered before security forces Monday," Das added.
Six killed in Tripura militant attackNovember 10th, 2009 AGARTALA - At least six villagers were killed and another injured by tribal separatists in a daring raid Tuesday in India's northeastern state of Tripura, officials said. A police spokesperson said heavily armed militants of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) attacked Bhandirama village early Tuesday, about 140 km north of state capital Agartala.
Militants kidnap three Tripura villagersOctober 2nd, 2009 AGARTALA - Militants from the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) are demanding a ransom of Rs.56,000 for three tribals they had abducted two days ago, police said here Friday. The separatist guerrillas had Wednesday kidnapped six people from Raishabari village in Dhalai district, 180 km from here, but subsequently released three of them.
Tribals attend RBI's financial outreach camp in TripuraSeptember 6th, 2009 AGARTALA - Thousands of tribal families turned out to participate in a financial outreach camp organized by the Reserve Bank of India in Pitra village of Tripura. The camp was organised with the objective of bringing awareness among villagers about banking norms.
Tripura government employee killed in fight over mobile phoneSeptember 2nd, 2009 AGARTALA - A government employee succumbed to injuries after he was beaten by a former militant in a dispute over a mobile phone in Tripura, officials said Wednesday. "A former militant, Jugal Debbarma, 26, severely beat 27-year-old Sukhubasi Debbarma, an employee of the state power department in Takarjala in west Tripura Sunday," a police spokesman said.
Arms and ammunition recovered in Tripura-Bangladesh borderAugust 20th, 2009 AGARTALA - Security forces in Tripura recovered cache of arms and ammunition from a tribal hamlet close to the state's border with Bangladesh. Acting on a tip off by a surrendered militant, a joint operation was launched by state police along with paramilitary forces.
Assam learns from Tripura how to run tribals' autonomous councilsAugust 5th, 2009 AGARTALA - The Congress-led Assam government is learning from the Left Front government in Tripura how to effectively run autonomous district councils for the tribal people. A five-member ministerial team led by Assam Revenue Minister Bhumidhar Barman is on a three-day visit to Tripura to study the functioning of the politically important Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), which provides tribals constitutional rights to develop their socio-economic position.
Four killed in lightning in TripuraApril 1st, 2009 AGARTALA - At least four people were killed and 10 others injured when lightning struck them in Tripura villages, an official said Wednesday. A 42-year-old woman and three young men died when lightning struck in Kapalipara, Hedania, Teliamura villages of western Tripura and Udaipur village in the southern part of the state Tuesday.
Trinamool Congress to fight it out alone in TripuraMarch 25th, 2009 AGARTALA - Despite a seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress will contest alone the Lok Sabha elections in Tripura. The Trinamool Congress Wednesday said it has finalised its candidates for the two Lok Sabha constituencies in the Left ruled state.
Trinamool to fight against Congress in TripuraMarch 17th, 2009 AGARTALA - Though it has a seat-sharing agreement with the Congress party in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress said Tuesday it will put up its own candidates for the Lok Sabha polls in Tripura. Tripura Trinamool Congress chairman Arun Chandra Bhowmik told reporters: 'We will fight the Congress and the ruling Left Front in Tripura and we are likely to form an alliance with tribal based parties.'
Meanwhile, the tribal-based Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) and the Party for Democratic Socialism (PDS), a local party formed by breakaway leaders of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), have announced their support to the Congress.
Trinamool, Congress fight separately in TripuraMarch 11th, 2009 AGARTALA - The Congress and the Trinamool Congress are likely to put up candidates against each other in the two Lok Sabha seats in Tripura even as they forge an alliance in West Bengal. 'We have shortlisted seven names for the two seats in Tripura and decided to form a tie-up with two tribal-based parties,' Arun Chandra Bhowmik, chairman of the Trinamool Congress in Tripura, told journalists Wednesday.
Tribal based party in Tripura seeks separate stateMarch 8th, 2009 AGARTALA - A tribal based political party Saturday demanded the creation of a separate state carved out of Tripura, a move seen as an attempt to whip up emotions ahead of parliamentary elections. 'The existing Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) areas should be given the status of a separate state for the one million indigenous tribal people of Tripura,' said Narendra Chandra Debbarma, president of the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT).
Two men killed by their sons in TripuraFebruary 1st, 2009 AGARTALA - Two men, one as old as 70 years, were killed by their own sons in two incidents of patricide in Tripura following family quarrels, the police said here Monday. A police spokesperson said Saptami Tripura, 70, and Budhirai Debbarma, 41, a teacher, were hacked to death by their sons late Sunday in south and west Tripura districts respectively.
Two villagers killed, five injured in BSF firing in TripuraJanuary 18th, 2009 AGARTALA - At least two civilians were killed and five other people, including a para-military trooper, were injured when Border Security Force (BSF) personnel opened fire after a clash with a mob in Tripura Monday, the police said. The violence erupted at Boxanagar village, 60 km west of Tripura capital Agartala, when BSF troopers went to the village bordering Bangladesh to catch 'ganja' (hemp) smugglers.
Tripura gives land deeds to tribalsJanuary 17th, 2009 AGARTALA - Tripura has become the first state in eastern India to hand over ownership rights of forest land to tribal people. 'After the enactment of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (recognition of forest rights) Act, 2005 by the Centre, the long cherished dreams of tribal people and traditional forest dwellers have been fulfilled after granting 'Patta' (title deed) of the land on which they had been residing for years,' Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar said Saturday.
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