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  • tripura registers improvement in literacy rate

    Tripura registers improvement in literacy rate

    India | May 17, 2013, 02:06 PM IST

    Agartala, May 17: Literacy rate in Tripura has risen to 87.22 per cent from the previous 73.3 per cent, ranking the state fourth in the country, according to the preliminary census report of 2011.The state's

  • prison fine for ragging in tripura

    Prison, fine for ragging in Tripura

    India | May 15, 2013, 05:05 PM IST

    Agartala, May 15: Students caught ragging other students in any educational institutions in Tripura will be get a maximum of four years in prison and a fine, a government notification said here Wednesday.A Tripura government

  • president to open ongc s first power plant in tripura

    President to open ONGC's first power plant in Tripura

    India | May 13, 2013, 12:02 PM IST

    Agartala, May 13: resident Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the ONGC's first commercial power project in Tripura next month, an official said here Monday."The president would likely inaugurate the thermal power project at Palatana (in southern

  • tripura to be declared fully literate state by sept

    Tripura to be declared fully literate state by Sept

    India | May 09, 2013, 07:18 AM IST

    Agartla,a May 9 : Tripura will be declared a fully literate state by September this year, chief minister Manik Sarkar said here on Wednesday. "We are targeting next September, when we will achieve 100 per

  • tripura to ask cbi to probe illegal chit funds in state

    Tripura to ask CBI to probe illegal chit funds in state

    India | May 08, 2013, 01:06 PM IST

    Agartala, May 8: The Left Front government in the northeastern state of Tripura has decided to ask the CBI to probe the illegal activities of the non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) in the state, Chief Minister

  • refugees likely to return home to mizoram from tripura

    Refugees likely to return home to Mizoram from Tripura

    India | May 06, 2013, 01:45 PM IST

    Aizawl/Agartala, May 6: Despite uncertainties among refugees, the Mizoram government has agreed to resume the rehabilitation of over 40,000 tribals who had sought refuge in Tripura for about 16 years, a home ministry official said

  • tripura meghalaya to ban gutka pan masala

    Tripura, Meghalaya to ban gutka, pan masala

    India | Apr 23, 2013, 03:32 PM IST

    Agartala/Shillong, Apr 23: Following the direction of the union government, Tripura and Meghalaya will ban the sale, manufacture and distribution of gutka (tobacco-laced areca nut pieces) and pan masala (a chewing mixture), officials said Tuesday.Health

  • tripura curriculum to help check crime against women

    Tripura curriculum to help check crime against women

    India | Apr 22, 2013, 02:59 PM IST

    Agartala, Apr 22: Tripura will incorporate issues like crime against women and domestic violence in the school curriculum to sensitise students towards such evils, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here Monday."Students' mind must be understandable

  • tripura to emerge as fully literate state by september

    Tripura to emerge as fully literate state by September

    India | Apr 13, 2013, 09:11 AM IST

    Agartala, April 13: Tripura will emerge as a total literate state in the country before World Literacy Day on September 8, a minister said yesterday.A meeting of the State Literacy Mission Authority presided by Chief

  • tripura to be declared fully literate

    Tripura to be declared fully literate

    India | Apr 12, 2013, 04:08 PM IST

    Agartala, Apr 12: India's northeastern state of Tripura will be declared fully literate in September this year, state finance minister Badal Choudhury said here Friday."On the occasion of World Literacy Day (Sep 8), Tripura will

  • ongc private firm to set up urea plant in tripura

    ONGC, private firm to set up urea plant in Tripura

    India | Apr 10, 2013, 06:52 AM IST

    Agartala, April 10: State-owned ONGC Tuesday signed an MoU with a Rajasthan-based private company to set up a gas-based fertilizer plant in Tripura to meet the growing shortage of urea in the eastern and northeastern

  • tripura remains on top in providing rural jobs

    Tripura remains on top in providing rural jobs

    India | Apr 09, 2013, 01:24 PM IST

    Agartala, Apr 9: Left-ruled Tripura provided 86.27 days of work under the central government's flagship rural jobs scheme in fiscal 2012-13, the highest in the country, a minister said here Tuesday.Quoting the performance report of

  • bihar tripura kerala nagaland odisha get new governors

    Bihar, Tripura, Kerala, Nagaland, Odisha get new governors

    India | Mar 09, 2013, 10:58 PM IST

    New Delhi, Mar 9: Former CBI Director Ashwani Kumar and Congress veteran S C Jamir were today appointed as Governors of Nagaland and Odisha respectively.Kumar, who was the Director of the agency from August 2008

  • trooper kills two colleagues in tripura

    Trooper kills two colleagues in Tripura

    India | Jan 29, 2013, 12:00 PM IST

    Agartala, Jan 29: A trooper of the elite Tripura State Rifles (TSR) gunned down two colleagues and shot at three others before fleeing away with his service rifle, police here said Tuesday."Following a quarrel, TSR

  • assembly polls in tripura on feb 14 meghalaya nagaland on

    Assembly polls in Tripura on Feb 14; Meghalaya, Nagaland on Feb 23

    Politics | Jan 11, 2013, 06:13 PM IST

    New Delhi, Jan 11: Assembly elections in Tripura will be held on February 14 and in Meghalaya and Nagaland on February 23 and their results will be out on February 28, the Election Commission announced

  • tripura demands air india to continue flights to north east

    Tripura demands Air India to continue flights to North East

    India | Jan 01, 2013, 07:01 PM IST

    Agartala, Jan 1: Tripura on Tuesday requested the central government to reconsider the decision to withdraw ATR—50 aircraft services of Air India in the northeast, which remains isolated from the rest of the world due

  • ten killed in tripura road accident

    Ten killed in Tripura road accident

    India | Dec 12, 2012, 11:15 AM IST

    Agartala, Dec 12: Ten people, including a child and three women, were killed and four critically injured when the jeep in which they were travelling collided with a mini-truck in Tripura, an official said Wednesday.The

  • tripura manipur meghalaya to get separate high courts by

    Tripura, Manipur, Meghalaya to get separate high courts by December

    India | Nov 26, 2012, 03:41 PM IST

    Agartala, Nov 26: Three northeastern states -- Tripura, Manipur and Meghalaya -- would get their own full-fledged high courts by next month as the required formalities are almost complete, an official here said Monday."The Supreme

  • 4.2 magnitude quake hits western tripura

    4.2-magnitude quake hits western Tripura

    India | Nov 25, 2012, 07:06 PM IST

    New Delhi, Nov 25: A light intensity earthquake shook parts of western Tripura on Sunday.The quake, which struck at 11:32 a.m., was measured 4.2 on the Richter Scale, the India Meteorological Department said.The epicentre of

  • tripura bangladesh maitree bus service resumes

    Tripura-Bangladesh 'Maitree' bus service resumes

    India | Oct 03, 2012, 08:38 PM IST

    Agartala, Oct 3: The Agartala-Dhaka bus service, suspended after India's 'Maitree' passenger bus running between the two cities was burnt by an angry mob in Bangladesh last month, resumed after an 11-day break Tuesday, officials

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