Tripura announces Rs.150 mn package for Muslims

August 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.

August 15th, 2009 AGARTALA - Saying that terrorism was on the wane in Tripura, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar Saturday urged the separatists to shun violence and support the government in developing the region. "Terrorism seems to be in its last legs in Tripura which bodes well for faster development in this state," he said after unfurling the national flag at the Assam Rifles ground here.

July 5th, 2009 AGARTALA J - The ruling Left Front in Tripura won unopposed 109 Village Panchayat seats. Left front candidates were also elected unopposed to one seat each in Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad.

June 10th, 2009 AGARTALA - The Left Front government in Tripura Wednesday announced a special economic package for poor girl children to continue their education and maintain minimum nourishment. "Under the scheme, the state government would provide Rs.300 to the mother of two girl children every month for their care and education," said Chief Minister Manik Sarkar.

June 2nd, 2009 AGARTALA - Tripura Tuesday decided to give Rs.5 million to cyclone-hit West Bengal to help in the relief relief efforts. "The people of Tripura are confident that with the resilience of the people and the adequate support of the central government, the West Bengal government would come out of this situation," Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said in a letter to his West Bengal counterpart Bhudhadeb Bhattacharjee.

April 24th, 2009 AGARTALA - The Election Commission Friday announced by-election to the Bordowali assembly seat in western Tripura May 28. 'The formal notification for the by-election would be issued May 4,' said Sanjeev Ranjan, chief electoral officer of Tripura.

April 23rd, 2009 AGARTALA - Banking services had to be curtailed in Tripura after the Election Commission appointed a large number of bank employees to conduct the Lok Sabha election Thursday, an official here said. 'We had to restrict some customer services since Wednesday as a large number of bank employees of various nationalised banks were engaged in the general election,' a senior bank official said.

April 2nd, 2009 AGARTALA - A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper and a civilian were injured in a bomb explosion near the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura Thursday, police here said. The police blamed separatist National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) for the explosion in Bhandarima, 185 km north of the Tripura capital, Agartala.

April 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.

March 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.

March 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.

March 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.

March 4th, 2009 AGARTALA - The ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) led Left Front in Tripura Tuesday renominated the two sitting Lok Sabha MPs to contest the April 23 parliamentary elections. 'Khagen Das and Bajuban Reang, both CPI-M central committee members, would contest from the west Tripura and east Tripura (ST) Lok Sabha constituencies respectively,' said Bijon Dhar, CPI-M state secretary.

February 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.

January 3rd, 2009 AGARTALA - Two prominent leaders of Tripura, former chief minister Sudhir Ranjan Majumder and veteran Communist leader Swaraijam Kamini Thakur Singh, died Sunday. Majumder, 74, is survived by his wife.