A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was today detained by security personnel at the Agartala airport following the recovery of some bullets from his baggage, police said.
Ruling CPI(M) has admitted that assembly elections in Triprua slated for 2013 will not be easy for party and it needs to reconsolidate organisation to perform a better result.
Two members of a Manipur-based separatist outfit have been arrested with a huge quantity of electronic goods in Tripura, police said here today even as the security forces are on maximum alert across the northeast to thwart possible rebel strikes ahead of India's Independence Day Aug 15.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to meet 10 chief ministers this month to finalise a strategy to deal with agrarian and land reforms, an official said on Sunday.
The Gauhati high court has asked the central government to pay Rs.10 lakh compensation to a minor girl whose school principal raped her in 1998 in Tripura. The girl, then a class 8 student, delivered a baby in hostel the next year, an official said Sunday.
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi today gave a clarion call to end the CPI(M)-led Left Front government’s rule in Tripura in the assembly elections slated for 2013.
The devastating fire at AMRI (Advanced Medicare and Research Institute) Hospital in Kolkata may force the Tripura and Mizoram governments to remove it from their list of referral hospitals, officials said in Agartala today.
A farmer was today shot dead in Sipahijala district along the Indo-Bangla border by Border Guards of Bangaldesh, police said.
A local court in Tripura today sentenced a woman to one year imprisonment for torturing her husband for 14 years, police said.
A drunk Border Security Force (BSF) constable gunned down two of his colleagues and wounded another critically late on Tuesday in the remote Raisyabari area of Dhalai district. Syed Sajjad Ali reports.
Fresh cases of avian influenza or bird flu have been detected in another Tripura poultry farm, and culling of birds is expected to start on Monday, an official said here Sunday.
With fresh cases of avian influenza or bird flu being detected at a government-run farm in western Tripura, the authorities Tuesday started culling more than 7,000 poultry birds at the farm to contain the spread of the disease, officials said in Agartala.
Atleast 21 inmates of Mizoram Reang refugee camp in north Tripura district were killed in a devastating fire today. Syed Sajjad Ali reports.
Confirming government information wrong that there are no tigers in the wild in Tripura, villagers in the state found two tiger cubs in a forest, officials said on Saturday.
Home minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said Ulfa leaders had expressed willingness to resume peace talks and they have been advised to prepare a document based on which dialogue with the government would take place soon.