Three bus drivers of a private school in Agartala were injured when guardians, angry with steep hike in school fee attacked the buses at Narsingarh area, police said.
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has found a gas field having estimated 1.5 lakh cubic metres of natural gas (hydrocarbon) at Kalaban in Tripura, ONGC sources said on Monday. The gas field was discovered after drilling 2,500 meters, the sources said.
Eight insurgents of outlawed ATTF have surrendered to the BSF in Tripura, barely two days after five ultras gave themselves up to the security forces in separate places in the state.
Services in nationalised banks throughout Tripura came to a grinding halt on the first day of the two-day countrywide strike called by trade unions.
Tripura has been put on swine flu alert to prevent outbreak of the H1N1 virus and observation centres were set up at seven entry points to the state, official sources said on Saturday.
Five hardcore insurgents of outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have been apprehended by Assam Rifles from a tribal hamlet in north Tripura district, the police said on Wednesday.
Tripura on Tuesday decided to give Rs. 5 million to cyclone-hit West Bengal to help in the relief efforts.
Two Border Security Force (BSF) jawans were injured in an encounter with suspected insurgents of outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) at Omar, a remote tribal hamlet, about 60 km from Kanchanpur police station in North Tripura District, BSF sources said on Friday.
Dhiraj Guha, renowned social activist and editor of a leading Bengali newspaper, died in Agartala late on Friday, family sources said on Saturday.
Congress candidate Asish Saha on Monday won the by-election to the Bardwali assembly constituency here by trouncing his nearest ruling left front rival Forward Bloc's Shyamal Roy by a margin of 3,244 votes.
The Tripura government has sounded an alert in the state to check an outbreak of the deadly swine flu, say official sources.
About 80 per cent votes were cast for the single phase elections to two Lok Sabha seats in Tripura, election office sources said in Agartala.
The Election Commission on Friday announced by-election to the Bordowali assembly seat in western Tripura on May 28.
Tripura has registered a record 84 percent polling in Thursday's parliamentary elections to two Lok Sabha constituencies, officials said in Agartala on Friday.
Indian security forces are fully equipped to deal with any armed infiltration bid from across the border in Jammu and Kashmir, Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF) M L Kumawat Saturday said in Agartala on Saturday.