Agartala, Feb 21 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, on Saturday, chaired a high-level review meeting on reviving the long-closed Kailashahar Airport in Tripura’s Unakoti district headquarters, officials said. An official of the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said that Chief Minister Saha during the meeting directed the Airports Authority of India (AAI) officials to revive the long closed airport and resume flight operations. The Chief Minister asked the AAI officials to depute a technical …
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Agartala, Feb 17 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha said on Tuesday that politics based on ethnicity and communalism is neither desirable nor constructive, asserting that governance should focus on development and unity. Addressing a public meeting organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at Demdum in Fatikrai area of Unakoti district, the Chief Minister criticised attempts to mislead people by raising demands such as ‘Tipraland’ and ‘Greater Tipraland’. He said that certain political…
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 12 (IANS) With the situation improving, the district administration on Monday lifted the suspension of internet and mobile data services in Tripura’s Kumarghat subdivision of Unakoti district, while the prohibitory order under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) was relaxed and restricted only to vulnerable areas, officials said. A senior police official said that so far, 11 persons from both communities have been arrested in connection with the clashes that broke out o…
Agartala, Jan 11 (IANS) A day after clashes broke out between two communities over the collection of subscriptions for a local fair, the situation remained tense but calm in the Kumarghat subdivision of Tripura’s Unakoti district on Sunday, police said.A senior police official in Agartala said that the police on Saturday detained 10 persons from both communities.The official added that on Sunday, the police arrested seven of the detainees and presented them at a local court, seeking police custo…
Agartala, Jan 10 (IANS) Prohibitory orders were imposed and a huge contingent of security forces deployed in Kumarghat subdivision of Tripura’s Unakoti district on Saturday after clashes broke out between two communities over the collection of subscription for a local fair, leaving at least five to six people injured and a few houses gutted, officials said. Internet services have also been suspended across the Kumarghat Sub-Division for 48 hours as a precautionary measure, while at least eight…
Agartala/Itanagar, Dec 24 (IANS) Acting on a request from the Tripura Police, the Arunachal Pradesh Police on Wednesday rescued 24 child labourers along with a few adult workers who were allegedly trafficked to the state for unauthorised work, officials said. A senior Tripura police official said that the Arunachal Pradesh Police informed them on Wednesday night about the successful rescue of all 24 child labourers and the accompanying adult workers. He said that an official team of the Tripura …
Agartala/Itanagar, Dec 24 (IANS) Acting on a request from Tripura Police, the Arunachal Pradesh Police have launched a search operation to trace and rescue 30 child labourers, along with a few adult workers who were allegedly taken forcibly to the state for work, officials said on Wednesday. Officer-in-Charge of Kailashahar Police Station in Tripura’s Unakoti district, Tapas Malakar, said that after a missing persons case was registered, Tripura Police contacted their counterparts in Arunachal…