The Speaker adjourned the house twice amidst opposition uproar over the implementation of the recommendations of Sixth Central Pay Commission, in the Tripura assembly.
The rebellion in Bangladesh Rifles has brought to a halt the bus services between Dhaka and the two Indian cities of Kolkata and Agartala for an indefinite period causing hardships to commuters.
A group of chief ministers from the northeastern states will visit Dhaka next month to press for transit facilities to the region via Bangladesh.
The Tripura government announced 30-35 percent hike in salaries of its 138,300 employees, with retrospective effect from last month.
A senior Tripura IAS officer has been relieved of his duties for allegedly abetting suicide by a woman employee and the state government ordered a judicial inquiry into the incident.
The budget session of Tripura assembly would begin on February 24 and would continue till March 26, official sources said on Saturday.
Tripura government has ordered a judicial inquiry into the alleged sexual assault of a woman, who committed suicide, by a senior IAS officer of the state.
Tripura government has urged the Centre to rush drugs and a team of doctors to control the fast spreading meningitis disease in Dhalai district which has so far claimed 16 lives in the district.
The Planning Commission has finalized state’s annual outlay at Rs. 1680 Crore for the 2009-10 financial year.
Bangladesh IS likely to accept India’s demand for access to its ports for transhipment of goods to the landlocked northeast, reports Syed Sajjad Ali.
The 13th Finance Commission will arrive here in the city on February 13, official sources said in Agartala on Monday.
Two men, one as old as 70 years, were killed by their own sons in two incidents of patricide in Tripura following family quarrels, say police.
A gallantry award winning police officer was seriously injured in a gunfight with insurgents in West Tripura district on Tuesday.
At least 165 people have died of meningococcal meningitis, a contagious disease, in the three northeastern states of Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram in the past one month, officials said.
Tripura government has demanded Rs. 24000 crore from the 13th Finance Commission as allocation from 2010 to 2015, official sources said.