CM Saha told Director General of Tripura Police Amitabha Ranjan, who also attended the event, that the police should try to curb the rise in the number of road accidents in the state.
Sarkar also said a ‘few political personalities’ allegedly maintained links with banned insurgents for ‘narrow political gains’ and said stern action should be taken against such people.
At present, Tripura has eight sanctioned industrial growth centres including four fully functional ones. Among the operational growth centres, Bodhjungnagar Industrial Growth Centre and RK Nagar Industrial Growth Centre in West Tripura district are arguably the most successful ones.
Opposition leader Manik Sarkar wrote to Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha and said the incident is unforeseen and can't be treated as a simple theft.
Cargo would be imported to Tripura via the Kolkata-Mongla-Bibirbazaar-Sonamura route once it is launched full-fledged, said officials.
Tripura Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha said Swadesh Darshan and Prasad schemes have been adopted to promote tourism.
Thirty-three per cent of locally produced meat comes from pigs and the rest from goat, poultry and other sources.
On Raksha Bandhan, Chief Minister Manik Saha also announced a Rs 20 crore digital surveillance project to ensure women’s safety in Agartala municipality and adjoining areas.
While Congress leaders allege the attack was perpetrated by the BJP, the latter has denied responsibility and the police said unidentified miscreants were involved.
Speaking to the media, the minister said the government had set a target of cultivating 30,000 hectare land in the aaush cropping season this year in addition to a target of shifting cultivation on 15,500 hectare land.
Two returnee committees — Joint Action Committee and Deprived Returnees Movement Committee — have jointly agreed to launch the agitation.
Notably, the agitation comes close on the heels of the TMC suffering a major setback in the north-eastern state with over 2,500 of its party workers joining the Congress.
Speaking to reporters in Agartala, Baptu Chakraborty, who joined the TMC in September last year, said he decided to quit the Mamata Banerjee-led party as it was working in the interests of the BJP.
The move is the first major step to protect government data from cyber attacks, especially after a slew of recent complaints from ministers and senior officials of having their accounts and social media handles hacked.
The girl was on her way to a tutor’s house when the four accused allegedly kidnapped and raped her in North Tripura district on Friday.
The operation was launched after the National Liberation Front of Tripura ultras entered Indian territory from Bangladesh, say police.
The notification comes three weeks after the Tripura HC observed the polls were 'long overdue' as the tenure of the 587 village committees expired in March 2021.
Tripura Information and Cultural Affairs minister Sushanta Chowdhury said the decision would lead to an additional annual expenditure of Rs 523.80 crore for the state government.
Dr Manik Saha said the government hopes to cover 60 per cent of households in the state under the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign.
The training by the National Health Mission will not only benefit terminally-ill patients with cancer, but also those suffering from cardio-vascular diseases, strokes, brain strokes.
Saha added on their way back to Agartala, Congress leaders learnt that some miscreants attacked the derelict party office, tried to burn it, and damaged the party’s flags and police action was taken to thwart them.
Speaking to reporters, NSUI state president Samrat Roy said: “The education system is in a shambles in Tripura. When students protest, goons and bike bahini (motorcycle-borne goons) terrorise them and assault student leaders."
The initiative is going to be undertaken as per the provisions of the Representation of People Act, 1950 and 1951, and would continue for two months starting August 1.
Tea produced in the state was branded as Tripureshwari tea after the popular Hindu deity during the tenure of former CM Biplab Kumar Deb.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a clear mandate, which is to provide 100 percent drinking water connection to the households. We have completed 53 percent in the villages till now and are hoping to achieve 60 percent by the next fortnight," Minister Sushanta Chowdhury said.



