Tripura

Shutdown in Agartala over killing of 3 newspaper employees

Agartala: Normal life was paralysed in the municipal corporation area here on Tuesday in response to a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by opposition Congress to protest the killing of three employees of 'Dainik Ganadoot', a local Bengali daily.

Vehicles remained off the roads and markets, schools, colleges and educational institutions were closed. Official sources said attendance in government offices, banks and financial institutions was also thin.

Police said no untoward incident was reported from any part of the city. Motorcycle-borne miscreants attacked the newspaper office at the Palace Compound on Sunday and stabbed to death the office manager, a proof reader and a driver.

Leader of the Opposition Ratan Lal Nath, belonging to the Congress, said that the killing proved that journalists and newspaper employees were not safe in the state. ...more    

Shutdown in Agartala over killing of newspaper employees

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...  

Tripura: 3 killed as armed men attack a newspaper's office

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...  

Tripura to witness heavy rains due to Cyclone Mahasen

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...  

Tripura: Man arrested for raping, strangling 6-year-old to death

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...  

WB, NE a hotbed of investment frauds: probe

New Delhi: Amid a raging controversy over alleged cheating of gullible investors by Saradha group, the regulators have found that West Bengal and Northeastern states have become a hotbed of such frauds and NRIs from these regions account for a large chunk of defrauded people. While the Centre has announced an SFIO (Serious Fraud Investigation Office) probe into the affairs of Kolkata-based Saradha group and other such entities across the...  

CPM manipulated EVMs in Tripura Assembly polls: Cong

Agartala: 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. "It is not the people's verdict because the CPM managed to manipulate the EVMs during the elections with the help of the administration," Tripura Pradesh Congress President (TPCC), Sudip Roy Burman told reporters. The Left Front secured 50 seats...  

Tripura Congress leader Subal Bhowmik forms new party

Agartala: 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. "The state and central Congress leadership in league with the CPI-M (Communist Party of India-Marxist) helped the Left Front retain power in the recent polls for the fifth time," Bhowmik, a state Congress general secretary, told reporters...  

Tripura to get a high court on March 26: Sources

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. ...  

Australia updates travel advisory to its citizens visiting India

Australia has updated a travel advisory to its citizens visiting India, asking them to continue to exercise a high degree of caution because of the risk of terrorism, civil unrest, crime and vehicle accidents. ...  

BJP plans 'march to Dhaka' to protest against attacks on minorities

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. ...  

Security situation in northeast has improved, says Shinde

Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the security situation in northeastern states has improved while Rs.1,659 crore had been provided to them for modernisation of police forces during the last 12 years, an official statement said on Friday. ...  

Tripura: Manik Sarkar set to make history, to be sworn in as CM for 4th successive term

Manik Sarkar is set to make history when he is sworn in as Tripura's Chief Minister for a fourth successive term. The Left celebrated election victory in Tripura and their man of the moment is Manik Sarkar winning an unprecedented fourth term. ...  

Saha to lead East Zone in Deodhar Trophy

Five players from Assam, three each from Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha and one player from Tripura have been selected from East Zone. ...  

Congress to move court against post-poll violence in Tripura

The Congress on Saturday threatened to move court and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against alleged attacks on party workers by CPM activists after the Tripura polls. ...  

Congress defeat in 2014 Lok Sabha polls in Nagaland and Tripura inevitable: Sanjoy Hazarika

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Old guard reclaim power in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland

The Left Front stormed back to power in Tripura and the Naga People's Front in Nagaland, while the Congress, which fared poorly in both states, emerged as the single-largest party in Meghalaya with two seats short of absolute majority in the assembly election results declared on Thursday. ...  

Tripura polls: CPI(M) takes out victory procession in Assam

Jubilant over the ruling Left Fronts's victory in Tripura for the fifth straight term, the CPI(M) in Assam took out a victory procession through the main thoroughfares of Guwahati on Thursday. ...  

Left wins Tripura, NPF bags Nagaland, Cong Meghalaya

It was a repeat of the 2008 Assembly elections in the three northeast states of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya as the incumbent parties came to power in all the three states. In Tripura, the CPI(M) registered its fifth consecutive victory with wins in 49 seats. In Nagaland, the Naga Peoples Front retained power with wins in 37 seats. In Meghalaya, the Congress emerged as the single largest party with wins...  

CPI(M) win in Tripura reflects re-emergence of Left: Yechury

The return of the CPI(M)-led Left Front in Tripura and Forward Bloc wresting the Nalhati seat from Congress in West Bengal reflects "re-emergence" of the Left parties, senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said on Thursday. "We congratulate the people of Tripura to have given us two-thirds majority for the seventh Left Front government in the state and sixth in a row," he told reporters when his reaction was sought on...