The ruling BJP won two seats including that of Chief Minister Manik Saha who has been elected to the state assembly for the first time from Town Bordowali while the opposition Congress won one seat in Tripura, where the bypolls were held on June 23 in the...

An elderly couple and their son were killed and four others critically injured during a fight over an alleged land dispute between two families in Tripura's Dhalai district, police said on Friday. A police official said the kin of the two families attacked...

Acting promptly on specific intelligence input, alert troops of the Border Security Force (BSF) have recovered narcotics worth over Rs one crore in Tripura's Sepahijala district, officials said here on Tuesday. The recovery was made on Monday. According to...

The two-day nationwide strike called by the 10 central trade unions against the central government's policies and in support of the 12-point demands, partially affected the banking, postal, telecommunication, insurance services and many production sectors...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said that the northeastern region was once known for insurgency, infiltration, blockades, drugs menace and corruption, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi with ambitious development missions turned the eight states of...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that through the construction of connectivity infrastructure, Tripura is fast becoming the hub of a trade corridor.Highlighting the state's excellent performance on many of the development parameters, the Prime Minister...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that Tripura will be a trade corridor of India and the northeastern state will be linked with Bangladesh through railways and waterways.Without naming the CPI-M led Left Front government, the Prime Minister said...

The Border Security Force (BSF) and the Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) have been jointly organising a series of events to mark the 50th Year of Independence of Bangladesh and to showcase BSF's contribution in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.As part of...

Indias northeast region is the 6th most quake-prone belt in the world, the soil of the young Himalayan region is fragile and due to the heavy monsoon, the working season is very less. However, despite these challenges the world's tallest railway bridge is being...

Four Bangladeshi trained extremists of National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have surrendered to the Tripura police and deposited arms and ammunition, police said on Saturday.A police official said that the four NLFT militants -- Doberam Reang (47),...

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday reviewed and inaugurated 12 developmental projects, including few externally-aided projects worth Rs 7,719 crore, being implemented in Tripura and promised to grant more EAPs to the state.Sitharaman, who...

The highly infectious Delta plus variant of coronavirus has been found for the first time in Tripura after the Delta strain was detected in three northeastern states -- Assam, Manipur and Mizoram, doctors said here on Saturday.Agartala...

Leading gymnast Pranati Nayak, who will be the lone Indian to compete at the upcoming Olympic Games, has the "competition mind-set to stand out in big events", feels top gymnast Dipa Karmakar."Everyone works hard. But Pranati's competition mindset stands out....

A bridge over Feni river in Tripura is set to turn the dream of the northeastern region into reality, as it would connect the landlocked region with the rest of the world through the Chittagong international sea port in Bangladesh.On Tuesday, Prime Minister...

Left parties and their front organisations on Saturday organised sit-in demonstrations instead of the 'chakka jam' against the three farm laws in Assam and Tripura.In Assam, the Communist Party of India-Marxist Central Committee member Suprakash Talukdar...

Union DoNER Minister Jitendra Singh said on Saturday that constructing more railway lines and connecting routes between the northeast and other regions are the priorities of the Central government.Addressing the inaugural function of the two-day North East...

After Gujarat, Kerala and a few other states, the Tripura government has started distribution of a homeopathic drug to boost the immunity of the people against coronavirus, officials said on Thursday.Tripura Government Medical Officer (Homeopathic) Surjya...

Assam police on Sunday arrested six men for gang raping two Tripura girls in southern Assam's Karimganj district, officials said.Karimganj police Chief Mayank Kumar said that a car driver picked up the two girls to take them to northern Tripura, adjoining...

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has asked four northeastern states – Tripura, Manipur, Meghalaya and Mizoram – to increase testing on high risk groups and vulnerable population to check the spread of Covid-19, officials said on Thursday.According to the...

The situation on the Assam-Mizoram border took an ugly turn in the past 48 hours with many shops and houses burnt and over 50 people injured, officials said on Sunday.Security was also beefed up along Tripura-Mizoram border and prohibitory orders promulgated,...