Development / Tripura

AGARTALA, July 19: Stage is all set for much awaited Agartala-Dhaka bus service. An India and Bangladesh joint team has already undertaken route survey for the proposed Agartala-Dhaka bus service on Wednesday. Sources said the members of both the countries will hold a high-level meeting on Thursday in Dhaka and decide as to which route will be better for Agartala-Dhaka bus service. The meeting will submit recommendations to Dhaka and Delhi on which a formal accord on the bus service will be signed by the both countries. It may be mentioned that both the countries have already agreed to sign...

NEW DELHI, August 19: The wind of investments blowing all over the country may have finally touched the Northeast following the exemption of central excise duty in the region. Two cigarette giants have submitted four proposals envisaging investments worth of over Rs 400 crore, of which Rs 313 crore are proposed to be invested in Assam. Just when the gloomy investments scenario in the Northeast was about to look up, the Centre's move to exempt excise duties in the region has been challenged, with the Tobacco Institute of India, an apex body of all tobacco manufacturers, questioning the...

GUWAHATI, August 4: The North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NEDFi) has sanctioned projects amounting to Rs 554 lakh in Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and Assam. An official release said the statewise allocation was: Mizoram Rs 156.30 lakh, Manipur Rs 156 lakh; Tripura Rs 105 lakh and Assam Rs 137 lakh. NEDFi has sanctioned Rs 144 lakh as term loan to Greenwood Hospital Pvt Ltd for setting up a 59-bed hospital in Bawngkawn, Aizawl. It is an existing hospital with 30 beds on rented premises and is the only private healthcare unit providing tertiary healthcare facility in Mizoram...

AGARTALA, July 22: The Tripura government has criticised the Centre for abandoning an Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) funded educational project in the state and demanded immediate intervention by the Prime Minister on the issue. The state education minister Anil Sarkar said here on July 21 that the Centre had cancelled the Rs 43 cr educational project to be funded by OPEC International Development Fund "without assigning any reason". He said the state chief minister Manik Sarkar urged the Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to intervene and requested the human resource...