Latest Tripura Government News & Updates

Agartala, June 3 (IANS) Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Ratan Lal Nath on Wednesday said that the Tripura government would take a series of initiatives to promote grape cultivation in the state, including conducting trials on 18 additional grape varieties. The Minister, while addressing a field day-cum-awareness programme on commercial grape cultivation and the launch of NABARD-funded projects at Chandipur in Unakoti district, said the state government will intensify research activit…

New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Union Minister for Development of the North Eastern Region (DoNER) Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday highlighted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision to transform the North Eastern region into a major hub for high-value agricultural and horticultural products. Jointly with Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha and the state’s Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Ratan Lal Nath, launching the Rs 236 crore ‘Mission Queen Pineapple, Tripura’, Scindia stated, “Under Prime …

New Delhi/Agartala, May 26 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and congratulated him on completing 12 remarkable years of dedicated service to the nation. The Chief Minister also congratulated the Prime Minister for the “historic and resounding victory in the recent West Bengal Assembly elections as well”. “Detailed discussions took place with him (PM Modi) on various important matters regarding Tripura’s overall development and organ…

Agartala, May 13 (IANS) Manik Saha on Wednesday said the Tripura government has accorded top priority to improving and expanding healthcare services across the state, leading to an 80 per cent reduction in the number of patients referred outside the state for treatment. The Chief Minister made the remarks while inaugurating the International Nurses Day celebration organised by the Health Department at Rabindra Shatabarshiki Bhavan in Agartala.Paying tribute to Florence Nightingale, Saha describe…

Agartala, April 26 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday demanded a probe into alleged irregularities in recruitment within the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC). Since 2021, the BJP’s ally, the Tipra Motha Party (TMP), has governed the strategically significant TTAADC, widely regarded as the second most important constitutional and political institution in Tripura after the state Assembly.A five-member BJP delegation on Sunday met Governor Indra Sena Reddy Na…

Agartala, April 11 (IANS) As part of the Central forces, the elite Tripura State Rifles (TSR), which has previously undertaken election-related duties in more than a dozen states, is set to be deployed in poll-bound West Bengal, officials said here on Saturday. A senior police official stated that, following a request from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), ten TSR companies comprising 778 personnel had been deployed in Assam, where elections to the 126-member State Assembly were held on April …

Agartala, Feb 4 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Wednesday urged students to embrace ethics and moral values alongside academic learning, stressing that education should be used for the welfare of society and the nation. “Only when education is guided by values can students develop into responsible and humane citizens,” the Chief Minister said while inaugurating the newly constructed two-storey building of P.M.-SHRI Hajibari Class XII School in the Fatikroy Assembly constituency. …

Agartala, Jan 30 (IANS) At least four people, including two women, were killed and two others critically injured after a 12-wheeler goods truck collided head-on with a passenger auto-rickshaw on the Assam-Agartala National Highway in Tripura’s Unakoti district on Friday, police said. A police official said that the accident occurred at Sidangchhara under the Kumarghat police station limits when the goods-laden truck, heading towards Agartala, rammed into the vehicle travelling towards Pecharth…

Agartala, Jan 17 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Saturday said that the present BJP government is giving special emphasis to strengthening school infrastructure and promoting holistic education beyond textbooks, while alleging that no significant development was carried out in the education sector before 2018. The Chief Minister, while physically and virtually inaugurating the newly constructed building of four Higher Secondary schools, said that no development in the education secto…

Agartala, Jan 4 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Tripura Assembly and CPI-M Politburo member Jitendra Chaudhury on Sunday demanded that one member of the family of Angel Chakma, who was brutally assaulted in Dehradun and later succumbed to his injuries, be provided a government job.Chaudhury, who is also the state secretary of the CPI(M), on Saturday visited Chakma’s residence at Machmara in Tripura’s Unakoti district and strongly criticised the handling of the case by the Uttara…