Agartala, 18 March (Tripura): The Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) surrendered to ruling L-F parties and failed to nominate a candidate for Rajya Sabha (RS) election.   It may be noted that L-F parties have fielded a female candidate for the first time in RS election. Jharna Das of CPI-M elected unopposed as the L-F candidate and became the first woman member of RS from the state.   Once again, the basic organizational weakness is exposed, lamented a disgruntled congress supporter. Failure to nominate a candidate for RS poll without any valid reason is nothing but a betrayal with the...

Agartala, 18 March (Tripura): Tripura is famous for high quality pineapple production. However, cultivation of watermelon is fast gaining popularity among the farmers. The atmosphere and soil condition support quality production of watermelon. In this season, watermelon production is expected to be good and this will help to improve the economic power of the rural people.   Look at Hrishyamukh block. It is a remote block of Belonia sub division under South Tripura district. In this block around 175 families received government aid to cultivate watermelon using scientific methods. Report sugges...

Agartala (Tripura): 2010-02-04: The common language of around 19 ethnic groups of Tripura is known as Kokbarok. The state government recognized Kokbarok as official language in 19th Jan 1979 by the 1 st LF government. However, very next year, the state experienced the worst kind of bloody conflict between the Bengali settlers and ethnic people. Bengalis were forced out of hill and forest areas. This turbulent period, in fact, severely hampered the growth prospect of the ethnic communities. After more than a decade of mistrust, normalcy restored. At present, few extremist organizations have st...

Agartala (Tripura): 2010-02-04: The ruling Left Front is now trying its best to perform better after series of setbacks in West Bengal and Kerala. Their tasks have been made easy by the faction ridden main opposition Congress Party. The Members of Legislative Assembly are openly lobbying against incumbent state unit president Samir Barman and his son Sudip Barman. Taking advantage of a divided and unorganized opposition, CPI-M led LF is leaving no stone unturned to make a strong base in rural Tripura. Allegations of corruption and nepotism against the ruling party are very much common. However...

Agartala (Tripura): 2010-02-04: Doctors of south Tripura district hospital have successfully removed a massive 40 kg tumor from the abdomen of a 55 year old lady. Sources said, Gynecologist Dr SB Chakraborti along with other doctors and nurses conducted such a rare operation. The infrastructure of the said hospital was not up to the mark to carry out such an operation. However, Doctors were left with no other options but to operate upon. In the end everything was done successfully and the patient is recovering well. The operation continued for two hours and at last the tumor weighting around...

Agartala (Tripura): 2010-02-03:To win the hearts of the rural people, the ruling Left Front has chalked out ‘ Vision 2013’ program to monitor the welfare projects at the block level. It is learnt that under this new program all the existing and forth coming welfare schemes will be monitored. Under this new program, plans for three successive years will be prepared and all the block offices have been duly informed. Meanwhile, all the block development officers were requested by the Village Welfare Minister and Finance Minister to prepare a report mentioning present situation of individual bloc...

Agartala (Tripura): 2010-02-03: In a major road mishap, a truck crashed an auto here yesterday morning. Eye witness said, the badly damaged auto was parked by the side of the road. A truck crashed on it while the truck was making room for a bus coming from opposite side. Fortunately, there was no passenger in the auto and auto driver left auto to buy something. As a result, no one was injured. The truck driver was taken to local PS. However, eye witness said that truck driver had no serious fault. Illegal parking and encroachment are main culprits.   Local people complained that the road is be...

Agartala (Tripura): 2010-02-03: Media personnel get very rare chance to hit the news headline. However on 1 st and 2 nd February, reporters of Tripura, were fortunate to be hit news. On 1 Feb, new building of Agartala Press Club was formally inaugurated by the Chief Mininster, Manik Sarkar in presence of other ministers and distinguished persons. The prince of Tripura, Pradyut Debbarma was one of them. The 3 tier building is fitted with all the modern facilities and comfortable guest rooms. This Press Club is arguably the second best in the country in terms of facilities.   All the media per...

Agartala (Tripura): 2010-01-30: A ten-day long industrial fair declared open by Tripura CM Manik Sarkar yesterday evening. The main objective of this fair is to attract investment. The central government already designed a policy coined ‘Look south east’ to establish business relationship with south eastern countries. Meanwhile, a successful meeting between Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counter part Manmohan Singh has provided the necessary boosting to promote south east corridor for business purposes. If the corridor is properly used, Tripura is going to be economically benefited...

Agartala (Tripura):2010-01-30: Huge disappointment prevailed among the state government employees after state government once again failed to pay Dearness Allowance (DA) in the same line with the central government employees. It noted that the state government declared a 3% DA for the state employees.   It is very much unusual policy, said an agitated teacher. Central government employees and state government employees purchase goods from the same market at a same price. Then why such disparity exists, asked another state government employee. During last Congress regime in Tripura, Leftists mo...

Agartala (Tripura):2010-01-28: The border areas of Tripura have been extensively used for ganja cultivation. In south district, recently enforcement department along with other security forces destroyed around 6 lac ganja crops.   Informed sources said that villagers of those border areas got involved into such illegal cultivation to earn fast money. It was learnt that most of them were earlier vegetable cultivators. However, profit in ganja cultivation is much more lucrative though risky. The male members of the alleged ganja cultivators’ family escaped before security forces reach to them. ...

Agartala (Tripura):2010-01-27: The state government has granted a 3% Dearness Allowance (DA) to its employees and pensioners. Ruling Left Government usually grants DA twice in one financial year. It is customary under CM, Manik Sarkar regime to grant DA to state government employees and pensioners in July and January of a financial year.   The declaration was due and today after a special cabinet meeting, it was officially announced. Sources said, the government will need to incur a fresh expense of around Rs 14 crores. However, most of the state government employees and pensioners are not sat...

Agartala (Tripura): 2010-01-26: Chief Minister, Manik Sarkar is regularly visiting villages under Tripura Tribal Area Autonomous District Council (TTAADC). Yesterday he visited two TTAADC villages in south Tripura district. Both the villages fall under Sonamura sub division of south Tripura. In an effort to know the plight of rural people, CM is emphasizing on personal interaction. Manik Sarkar said, Left Front government in Tripura is willing to take the administration with in the reach of rural people. He requested rural people to grab the opportunities and remain alert against corruption.  ...

Agartala (Tripura):2010-01-26: A rare breed of bison found dead at Trishna National Park in Tripura. It is learnt that the said bison died 5 days before and yesterday a forest dept worker found it. A post mortem could not be done properly as the body of the bison was badly mutilated.   The concerned authority reportedly failed to explain cause of death of this bison.   Meanwhile sources claimed that 9 rare species of bison died in 2009 after a viral attack. It is alleged that facility of proper treatment is not available at this National Park. Trishna was declared a national park because of p...

Agartala (Tripura): 2010-01-26: Two persons died today in road accident at Agartala. Police source said, a vehicle while carrying Tripura State Riffles (TSR) personnel collided head on with a motor bike. Both the rider and co-rider received grievous injuries. Both the injured persons were taken to hospital immediately. Although the condition of co-rider is still not out of danger; rider succumbed to his injuries soon after reaching hospital. Age of the deceased person was 20. The accident occurred at around 12 noon at a crossing about 2 km away East Agartala Police station. However, there is n...