Agartala: The opposition Congress in Tripura has called a dawn-to-dusk bandh in the municipal corporation area here on Tuesday to protest the killing of three employees of a local Bengali daily. Leader of the Opposition Ratan Lal Nath, belonging to the Congress, said on Monday that the killing proved that journalists and newspaper employees were not safe in the state. "This is unprecedented in the state as well as in...
01:59:30 PM May 20, 2013
Agartala: Three staff members of a newspaper in Tripura, Dainik Ganadoot, were killed on Sunday after armed men attacked the paper's office. The three non-journalist staff members were stabbed by the unknown assailants. According to police, the motorcycle-borne assailants barged into the office of 'Dainik Ganadoot' at the Palace Compound at about 3 pm and stabbed a proof reader and a driver on the ground floor before proceeding to the...
08:19:33 PM May 19, 2013
Agartala: With cyclone Mahasen likely to hit Tripura on Thursday, the state may witness heavy rains and a gale of 50-60 Kmph, the met office said. "There is likely to be heavy rain in the state in the next two days with wind blowing in 50 to 60 Km speed per hour," Met Director Dilip Saha said. "The effects of the cyclone might slightly be felt in southern and eastern...
04:37:38 PM May 16, 2013
Tripura: In yet another shocking incident of crime against children, a six-year old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Tripura, triggering violent protests by the locals. The incident happened on Thursday evening at Chelagang in Gomati district of Tripura. The accused has been arrested. The police said that the accused Sanjit Saha, confessed that he raped the girl before strangling her to death. He said he dumped the body...
07:34:56 PM Apr 27, 2013
Opposition Congress in Tripura on Thursday claimed that people's verdict was not reflected in the result of the February 14 Assembly elections as the ruling CPM had manipulated the EVMs. ...
01:35:16 AM Apr 05, 2013
Tripura's dissident Congress leader Subal Bhowmik on Wednesday launched a new party and blamed the central and state party leaders for the Congress' humiliating defeat in the February 14, 2013 assembly polls. ...
05:15:49 AM Apr 04, 2013
Tripura, which has the Agartala bench of the Gauhati High Court, would get a separate high court on March 26, official sources said on Thursday. "The Union Law ministry and Supreme court have agreed to set up a separate high court for Tripura on March 26," Tripura Law Secretary Data Mohan Jamatiya told reporters. ...
07:31:58 PM Mar 21, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) plans a "long march to Dhaka" on Monday to protest against reported atrocities on religious minorities in Bangladesh and express solidarity with protestors demanding death penalty for those convicted of war crimes. ...
04:30:33 AM Mar 18, 2013
North-East Expert Sanjoy Hazarika joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the significance of the North-East poll results. ...
06:22:08 PM Mar 01, 2013
The Left Front led by the CPI(M) came to power for a record fifth straight term defeating the Opposition Congress by a huge margin. The CPI(M) won 48 seats in the 60-seat Assembly. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar won the Dhanpur Assembly seat defeating his nearest Congress rival Shah Alam by 6,017 votes. ...
02:00:02 PM Feb 28, 2013
The counting of votes began in Tripura amidst tight security and CPI(M) is leading in one seat. ...
08:09:04 AM Feb 28, 2013
Counting of votes has begun in the Northeastern states of Meghalaya, Tripura and Nagaland amidst tight security. The Assembly elections in the three states, having 60 seats each, were held February 14 and February 23. ...
08:05:46 AM Feb 28, 2013
Both the ruling CPM led Left Front as well as the Congress-led opposition alliance were optimistic of forming the next government in Tripura as election officials prepared for counting of votes on Thursday. ...
05:56:50 AM Feb 28, 2013
PTI's Agartala bureau chief Jayanta Bhattacharya joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the possible outcome of the Tripura polls. ...
05:14:05 PM Feb 15, 2013
Tripura on Thursday witnessed a massive turnout of 91.6 per cent of 23,52,505 voters in peaceful polling amidst tight security for the 60-member House. The percentage of polling could rise as poll process was still continuing in some parts of the state, sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said. ...
02:40:55 PM Feb 14, 2013
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