Modi summons Tripura CM over controversial remarks
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reportedly summoned Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb over his controversial statements, NDTV said in a report quoting news media. As per the report, Deb has been summoned to meet PM Modi and Bharatiya...
Statue row: Bengal intellectuals urge Kovind to take strongest action against Tripura guv for tweets
New Delhi: Prominent Bengali intellectuals urged President Ramnath Kovind to take the strongest possible action against Tripura governor Tathagata Roy for sparking tension with his tweets on the demolition of a Lenin statue in the state. Roys message has sparked tension...
Mega Hindu congregation in Tripura last year was effective: RSS
Nagpur: On a day when the BJP assumed power in Tripura, its ideological mentor the RSS said the mega Hindu congregation organised by it in the northeastern state last year was "inspirational" and "effective in every sense". Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)...
Vladimir Lenin’s statue pulled down in Tripura
Agartala: A statue of communist icon Lenin, has been pulled down by some people with an excavator machine at Belonia in South Tripura district, the police said today, with the CPI(M) holding BJP workers responsible for it. Days after the Left...
Lok Sabha polls in December 2018?
File Pic New Delhi: With state elections dominating most of 2018 -- Nagaland, Tripura, Meghalaya and Karnataka -- in the first half of the year and Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan and Mizoram (all BJP-ruled states) in the second half...
Fatwa issued on Facebook against Tripura CM Manik Sarkar,police trace source to Indore
Agartala: The Tripura police on Friday launched a probe over a fatwa issued against Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Facebook, the authorities said. "After noticing the fatwa post on Thursday, an inquiry has been initiated following the registering of a...
Read Tripura CM’s I-Day speech blacked out by govt
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, who heads a Left Front government in the state, has alleged that Doordarshan and All India Radio refused to broadcast his Independence Day address unless he reshaped it. Doordarshan Kendra, Agartala has refuted the allegations. A news...
5.7-magnitude quake jolts Tripura
Tripura: An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale hit Tripura this afternoon. No damage to life or property was immediately reported. According to the National Centre for Seismology, the epicentre of the temblor was in Dhalai district in the north-eastern state. 'The...