Tripura

Agartala, May 19 : Troopers of the Tripura State Rifles (TSR) who played a key role in curbing terrorism in the northeastern state would be deployed in West Bengal to conduct free and fair elections to civic bodies, officials said here Wednesday.

Khumlwung (Tripura), May 19 : The newly elected members of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council took oath at Khumlwung on Tuesday.

As a tribute to Rabindranath Tagore, Tripura will set up a museum and research centre at the 93-year-old Pushpavant Palace where the Nobel laureate had stayed during his last visit to the state in February 1926. The memorial will be part of the year-long celebrations of Tagores 150th birth anniversary.

Guwahati: Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat on Tuesday alleged that the United Progressive Alliance government miserably failed to check skyrocketing prices of food articles and other essential commodities during the first year of its stay in power because of wrong policies of allowing futures (forward) trading of essential commodities.

The general secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, Prakash Karat raised alarm over upsurge of 'Hindu fundamentalists' in the country as it was aimed at triggering communal polarization in the country and posed a grave threat to national unity.

Agartala, May 18 : As a tribute to Rabindranath Tagore, Tripura will set up a museum and research centre at the 93-year-old Pushpavant Palace where the Nobel laureate had stayed during his last visit to the state in February 1926.

As a tribute to Rabindranath Tagore, Tripura will set up a museum and research centre at the 93-year-old Pushpavant Palace where the Nobel laureate had stayed during his last visit to the state in February 1926.

Agartala, May 18 : The Left Front has nominated incumbent Chief Executive Member (CEM) of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) Ranjit Debbarma for the third term.

Kolkata, May 17: Met officials today declared that the long-awaited Monsoon has already arrived in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and would hit the mainland by May 30, two days before schedule.

A series of shutdowns in Meghalaya to protest a violent border row with Assam is set to affect two more highways NH40 and NH44 in the Northeast, reports Rahul Karmakar .

Imphal, May 17 : Elections for autonomous hill district councils in the northeast, are responsible for the socio-economic development of the tribal dominated hill-districts witnessed peaceful voting recently.