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Tripura emerging as land of opportunities, trade connectivity hub: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said, with improvement in connectivity and infrastructure, Tripura is turning into a land of opportunities and a hub for trade connectivity.

Covid-19 pandemic: Tripura logs 1,242 new cases, 4 more deaths

Tripura now has 7,050 active cases

Tripura enforces night curfew from Jan 10 to Jan 20 to curb Covid surge

The state expects over 32,000 cases in 3rd wave

PM to inaugurate slew of projects during visit to Manipur, Tripura today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate multiple developmental projects during his visit to the states of Manipur and Tripura on Tuesday

PM Modi to inaugurate development projects in Manipur, Tripura

In poll-bound Manipur, Modi will inaugurate 13 projects worth around Rs 1,850 crore and lay the foundation stone of nine projects worth around Rs 2,950 crore

Tripura govt to take strict action against land mafia, says CM Biplab Deb

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Saturday said that the state government would initiate strict actions against the land mafia and people involved in illegal land grabbing.

Mamata prays at Kamakhya; Trinamool celebrates KMC poll triumph in Tripura

The Trinamool chief was received in Guwahati by the party's Rajya Sabha MP, Sushmita Dev

Tripura violence: SC stays proceedings against journalists and media house

The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the criminal proceedings against two women journalists and media house booked by the Tripura police for their reporting on alleged communal violence in the State

Naidu rejects notices to discuss municipal polls, MSP law in Rajya Sabha

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday rejected notices under Rule 267 by some Opposition leaders seeking a discussion on municipal polls and legislation on the minimum support price (MSP)

CPI-M, not TMC finished second in Tripura civic body elections

According to the records of the state election commission BJP secured 59.01 per cent votes, followed by CPI-M and then the TMC.

SC agrees to hear plea for independent probe into Tripura violence

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea of an advocate seeking an probe into the recent "communal riots" in Tripura and the alleged complicity and inaction of the state police in it.

BJP steamrollers TMC, Left; wins 329 of 334 seats in Tripura civic polls

Tripura's ruling BJP pulverised Mamata Banerjee's TMC and the Left, capturing with surprising ease the Agartala Municipal Corporation and 13 other civic bodies where it now has 329 of the 334 seats.

Results of Tripura civic polls show people's trust in Modi: Nadda

BJP Swept the civic body elections in Tripura, having won all the seats of the 51-member Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) and clinching several other urban local bodies

Ruling BJP sweeps Tripura civic polls, takes all Agartala Municipal seats

The opposition TMC and CPI(M) failed to open their account in the Agartala Municipal Corporation

TMC moves SC alleging violation of court orders in Tripura civic polls

There was absolute mayhem there. Even candidates were not allowed to vote, said Kapil Sibal, who sought urgent listing of two applications filed by the party

SC orders more central police forces to be sent for Tripura municipal polls

The Supreme Court directed the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to provide two additional companies of the Central Armed Police Forces to secure every polling booth during the Tripura municipal polls

Tripura civic body elections begin amid accusations of violence

Amid accusations of political violence, civic polls to Tripura's 14 municipalities began on Thursday. TMC officials on Thursday claimed that a party worker was beaten up in ward number 5 in Agartala, the state capital. However, the police could not confirm any untoward incidents. CPI(M) state secretary Jiten Chaudhary also alleged that the ruling party was indulging in voter intimidation in south Tripura district and obstructing party workers from functioning freely. However, the ruling BJP denied these allegations and its spokesperson Nabendu Bhattacharya on Thursday said Utsaber mejaj e vote hocche (Vote has begun on a celebratory spirit). The run-up to the polls, which should have been a humdrum affair, became a cause celebre after it was marred by violence, arrests, sit-ins in far-away Delhi and a Supreme Court intervention asking officials to ensure peaceful polling. The electoral battle has the ruling BJP locked in battle with the Trinamool Congress which is foraying into th

SC to hear contempt plea of TMC over law, order situation in Tripura today

The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a contempt plea of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), which claimed that the law and order situation in Tripura is "worsening" by the day

Will meet PM, raise issues of Tripura violence: Mamata Banerjee

BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh dubbed her allegations as baseless

TMC MPs meet Amit Shah on alleged police violence in Tripura

A delegation of TMC MPs met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday alleging police violence in Tripura. The legislators who were sitting on a dharna outside the Ministry of Home Affairs since Monday morning were given an appointment to meet Shah in the afternoon. "We told him in detail how leaders were being arrested and MPs being beaten up. He told us that he had spoken to the Tripura CM on phone yesterday and assured us that he would seek a report from the state," TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee. Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Santanu Sen, Kalyan Banerjee, Derek O'Brien, Mala Roy 11 other MPs were part of the delegation that met Shah. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who is scheduled to land in Delhi in the evening is also planning to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue. Hitting out at Shah, the TMC chief said the Union home minister "is yet to show courtesy" and meet the TMC MPs who have been seeking an audience with him over the violence in Tripura. "During my visit to Del