The Tripura government on Thursday said it has asked the Centre to provide more BSF personnel and early completion of barbed wire fencing for effective guarding of the 856-km-long porous Indo-Bangla border along the state.
Normal life in Tripura was badly affected on Tuesday with the frontal organisations of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist enforcing a one-day vehicular strike to protest the hikes in prices of petrol and diesel.
Hinting that the CPI(M)-led government in Tripura was inflating the number of people living under Below Poverty Line (BPL), a Union minister on Wednesday said the living standard of people could not have gone high otherwise as claimed by the state.
India accounts for nearly a third of the world's engineering graduates each year, and offers a million students the opportunity to pursue technology courses annually, Science and Technology Secretary T Ramasami said in Agartala on Saturday.
A bulky 40-kg tumour was removed from the ovary of a 55-year-old woman by doctors in a government hospital in Tripura who said this was "not a rare case" in India.
Security has been beefed up throughout Tripura and an alert has been sounded along the 856-km-long porous state border to keep the Republic Day celebrations peaceful, police said.
Continuing his tirade against the ruling UPA coalition, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat appealed to party leaders and workers to oppose the "anti-people" policies of the Centre.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) began a two-day state level conference at Agartala on Friday to strengthen party organisations, particularly by focussing on members who have become unethical.
Four suspected militants of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), a Manipur based outfit, have been arrested from Chandrapur here, police said today.
With Bangladesh continuing its crackdown against militants active in northeast India, 10 more terrorists, including four women, have fled from that country and surrendered to Indian authorities this week, officials said in Agartala.
Tripura assembly speaker Ramendra Chandra Debnath's brother's wife and her paramour have been arrested for killing her husband, police said here Tuesday.
Eight National Liberation Front of Tripura insurgents, including one woman, were apprehended by Assam Rifles in North Tripura district, officials said on Saturday.
Tripura Governor Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil has announced he will take Re.1 as his monthly salary instead of Rs 110,000, an official said in Agartala.
At least seven persons were killed and 30 others injured when a bus fell into Lobo river at Sonapur in Meghalaya, police said on Friday.
The Tripura government has banned the use of mobile phones by students and teachers in schools across the northeastern state, an official said here on Saturday. The Meghalaya government has banned the use of mobile phones by drivers.