Politics / Tripura

AGARTALA, Dec 22 – Tripura has recorded satisfactory rate in disposing of consumer related cases under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986. There are four courts in the state- State Commission, Agartala nd three district fora of North, West and South Tripura districts- that look into the consumer rights protion. In all the district fora total 1192 cases were registered from 1989 till June this year. Among these 1009 cases were redressed. According to official data available, in WEst Tripura district forum out of 969 registered cases, 818 cases were redressed while in South Tripura district...

AGARTALA, Dec 17 — The hands which were once used to fire automatic Kalashnikovs, will now drive sleek cars, or curve out furniture from timbers. People who once feared the gun-totting militants, will now find them of great help. The first batch of the 74 surrendered militants who had left their underground organisations and joined one year vocational training at the Love Story Bazar Rehabilitation Centre in South Tripura district, completed their training on December 16 last. The vocations they have been trained in included electronics, tailoring, carpentry, electrical wiring, driving, motor...

Agartala, Dec. 21: The Congress election committee for Tripura last night finalised the nomination of 12 of the 13 sitting legislators for the coming Assembly elections in the state.

The clamour for tickets has led to utter confusion. Aspirants are trying out all means to run one another down, with the high command deciding that the only way to control the bickering was to nominate members through voting within the committee.

Sources said ?several names have already been cleared? by consensus. Last night?s meeting in New Delhi, led by AICC general secretary Mani Shankar Aiyar, decided to...

AGARTALA, Dec 17—In a sharply polarized political scenario in Tripura, a new Opposition alliance seems set to emerge as a third front. The Tripura Ganatantrik Aikya Mancha (TGAM) comprising BJP, Amara Bangali, Shiv Sena, Pashchatpada Jati Samity and Tripura Nagarik Mancha— is presently having hectic parleys on poll strategy and seat sharing among its constituents. The Trinamul Congress, which has already held prelimianry talks with the BJP and its ally, is also likely to join the platform soon. The Trinamul had earlier urged the Congress to float a united and broad-based Opposition alliance...

Guwahati, Dec. 16: Christian missionaries in the Northeast have once again come under severe criticism from a Sangh outfit. The nascent North East India Janajati Faith and Culture Protection Forum, a front organisation of the Sangh Parivar, today accused the Church of having a nexus with insurgent outfits.

Forum president B.B. Jamatia at a press conference here today justified its claim, saying the missionary-run schools were functioning normally in the insurgency-affected areas where even government schools were unable to function.

He was specifically referring to the threat to non...

AGARTALA, Dec 2 ? Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura will demand 18 ST reserved and two general seats from the alliance partner Congress. The Central Working Committee of the INPT held a six-hour meeting Saturday at old ADC building in Palace Compound to discuss the political impasse that had arisen out of Congress stand not to share more than 14 seats with it. The CWC which was attended by INPT president Bijoy Harangkhawl, veteran tribal leader Shyamacharan Tripura and party? general secretary Rabindra Debbarma, has resolved that in case Congress declines to share all the 20 ST reserved...

AGARTALA, July 9 : In what seems to be an attempt to pre-empt desertion of important leaders with top portfolios en masse, the Trinamool Congress high command dissolved the Tripura unit of the party. A 15-member steering committee has been formed with Amal Mallik as convenor while both the chairman and president Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar and Ratan Chakrabarty were made members. General secretary of the TMC Mukul Roy in a communication on July 6 informed the State unil that the high command had decided to dissolve the Pradesh Trinamool Congress and form a steering committee. The steering committee...

AGARTALA, July 8 ? The outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (Biswamohan group) has put forward pre-conditions for peace talks with the State government. The outfit said that it favoured a political solution to the militancy problem of the State but the ??dialogue should be on the question of sovereignty and independence of Twipra kingdom?. This if for the first time that the NLFT has come out with a specific and clear stand on the State government?s offer for peace negotiation. The NLFT in its recently published mouthpeice Yok said: ?The Government of India has always insisted that it...

AGARTALA, July 6 ? As the talks between the agitating part time college teachers and government came a cropper yesterday the college education in the State seems to have reached its nadir. More than 400 part-time college teachers are on strike from Thursday last demanding better remuneration and guarantee in services. A delegation of the Part Time College Teachers Association (PTCTA) on July 5 met Education Minister Anil Sarkar pressing their demand. But the meeting came a cropper as the government turned down their demand of guarantee on continuation part-time status till 58 years of age (of...

AGARTALA, July 2 ? A tribal housewife was killed by insurgents of the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), police Tuesday. Police said a group of armed NLFT ultras raided Ramkrishna Para village in West Tripura district last night and stormed the house of one Santosh Debbarma. As the houseowner was not present, the insurgents attacked his wife Khanjani Debbarma (24) with sharp weapons before fleeing from the area and she died on the spot, police added. A search operation has been launched in the area to nab the culprits, police said.