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Tripura official in police custody for killing son

Last Updated: Sunday, July 14, 2013, 15:48

A Tripura government official, who was arrested on the charge of murdering his son-in-law, was sent to 10 days` police custody by a local court.

Agartala going green with piped cooking gas, CNG vehicles

Last Updated: Monday, July 8, 2013, 16:39

Tripura`s capital city is planning to go green in a big way. Households would be provided piped cooking gas connections.

Tripura minister bitten by snake

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 15:25

Tripura Tribal Welfare and Agriculture Minister Aghore Debbarma has been bitten by a snake, an official said on Tuesday.

President express concern at deteriorating education standard

Last Updated: Thursday, June 20, 2013, 19:56

President Pranab Mukherjee expressed deep concern at the deteriorating standard of education in the country, regretting that not a single university or IIT or NIT found place in the list of top 200 universities of the world.

2 CERN scientists to be honoured by President

Last Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013, 17:57

Two eminent scientists associated with CERN, the prestigious European laboratory for particle physics, would be conferred honorary Doctor of Science (DSC) degree by National Institute of Technology (NIT) Agartala.

Unable to afford treatment, parents kill baby girl

Last Updated: Friday, June 14, 2013, 13:53

Unable to afford costly treatment for their six-month-old daughter, a daily-wage labourer and his wife strangled her to death and dumped her body in a ditch near their home, Tripura Police said Friday.

Govt reduces areas under AFSPA in Tripura

Last Updated: Friday, June 7, 2013, 15:42

With insurgency on the wane in Tripura, the government has reduced the areas under AFSPA, which gave ample powers to paramilitary forces to conduct search or arrest people in the name of insurgency.

Widow of slain newspaper employee arrested

Last Updated: Saturday, June 1, 2013, 15:00

In a curious twist to the probe into the killing of three newspaper employees at the office of a local vernacular on May 19 in Agartala, widow of one of the victims has been arrested.

Imphal, Agartala to get international airports

Last Updated: Saturday, June 1, 2013, 13:40

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has begun preliminary work to upgrade the airports in Imphal and Agartala as international airports.

Agartala-Akhaura rail link work to start soon

Last Updated: Friday, May 24, 2013, 17:08

Works for laying of 15.054 km railway tracks to connect Agartala and Akhaura in neighbouring Bangladesh would start this year.

Three militants surrender in Tripura

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 18:24

Three militants who had fled from their hideout in Bangladesh along with two CPI-M leaders, who were kidnapped April 1 from Tripura, have surrendered to the security forces, officials said Tuesday.

Tripura registers improvement in literacy rate

Last Updated: Friday, May 17, 2013, 15:22

Literacy rate in Tripura has risen to 87.22 percent from the previous 73.3 percent, ranking the state fourth in the country, according to the preliminary census report of 2011.