Politics / Tripura

IMPHAL, August 3: In what could be construed as a blow to the academic atmosphere in the entire north-eastern region, all the students of the Central Agriculture University (CAU) at Irsishemba here, barring Manipuri and Sikkim students, have made a vain bid to leave the varsity campus and the state alleging harassment. However, they were intercepted by a strong team of Manipur Police in time and were sent back to their respective hostels with their bag and baggages on Wednesday. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, SS Bhagel, while talking to The Assam Tribune said that he had no idea about...

IMPHAL, August 2: Altogether 96 students from Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh, who were studying at College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Iroishemba, abruptly fled the college early this morning without informing the authorities and tried to leave the state, but were stopped by the police. The fleeing students were forcibly taken back to the college later this afternoon but not before a tussle with the police that left several students injured. The 96 students, including a number of girls, left their hostels with their luggage early this morning without...

IMPHAL, August 1: The Manipuris Students' Federation (MSF) has expressed serious concern over the killing of four Manipuris in ethnic clashes in Tripura recently. Castigating the unfortunate incident, MSF urged the Tripura Government to look into the matter seriously in the interest of the Manipuris so as to avoid any form of untoward incident in Manipur, too. The general secretary of MSF Thokchom Bomcha in a press statement said that the four innocent Manipuris were killed by the rival group of Tripuris on the ground that Manipuris residing in Tripura have a close relation with the Tripuris...

AGARTALA, July 30: Eight persons including five police personnel have been injured in a clash with villagers in North Tripura district, police said on Thursday. Hundreds of villagers from Machhmare village armed with lethel weapons gathered before Penchartal police station on Wednesday night demanding immediate release of two villagers who were arrested on Wednesday itself under National Security Act (NSA) on the charge of inciting communal violence in the area. After being refused to entry to the police station, the villagers stormed the building and ransacked it. Tripura State Rifles (TSR)...

AGARTALA, July 24: Suspected All-Tripura Tiger Force militants attacked Autonomous District Council member Budhu Debbarma and three of his aides at Chebri in Tripura's Khowai sub-division yesterday. Another group of militants abducted two traders from Samcherra near Dharmanagar town in North Tripura. Police sources said Debbarma, who is from the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura, was heading for Tulasikhar from his home constituency of Champahaor when a group of rebels waylaid his vehicle. The Tiger Force rebels took Debbarma and his three aides, including his guard, to a nearby jungle and...

AGARTALA, July 23: India and Dhaka will sign an agreement next month to start Agartala-Dhaka bus service after the successful running of the 'Souhardha' service between Calcutta and Dhaka, reports UNI. A senior official told newspersons here on Sunday that a 16-member joint Indo-Bangla official team had recently conducted an-the-spot survey to examine the 144-km-long road with its infrastructural facilities to commence the service. The joint working group that held a meeting with Tripura Chief Secretary V Thulasidas on this subject on July 18 came here by road. The senior officials of the two...

AGARTALA, September 1: The Nationalist Congress Party's Tripura unit has been formally launched and Birballav Saha has been appointed its president, party sources said. The state unit was launched here on Tuesday but NCP is not yet decided whether it will contest the coming Lok Sabha elections. Arindom Lodh and Sipra Kar have been appointed general secretary and joint secretary respectively of the party.

AGARTALA, August 22: The possibility of an alliance between the newly-formed Trinamul Congress in Tripura with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has run into rough weather with the latter declining to accept the former as poll partner. "We cannot accept Sudhir Ranjan Mazumder as candidate for the Tripura West Lok Sabha constituency. Our grassoots workers have already lodged strong complaints against the candidature of Mazumder," general secretary of BJP's state unit, Rakhal Majumder, told reporters here today. He alleged that a conspiracy was hatched against BJP in 1991 as a result of which...

AGARTALA, August 22: The recent abduction of four Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) leaders by tribal insurgents has opened up another battle front for the church and the Sangh Parivar. But the event has a far reaching consequence in the Northeast where the church has been an important socio-political institution and the RSS gradually gaining ground. The authorities have been trying to say that the abduction of four RSS leaders from a remote area in North Tripura on August 6 was part of abduction menace indulged in by the insurgents. This claim has gained ground since the National Liberation...

CALCUTTA, August 21: Tripura seems to be going the West Bengal way, with the Tripura Congress heading for a certain split following largescale desertions from the party in favour of the Trinamul Congress. Buoyed by the developments, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has already staked her claim on Tripura West seat, in which she plans to put up former Tripura chief minister and veteran state Congress leader Sudhir Ranjan Mazumder as her party candidate. Mazumder has already quit the Congress to join the Trinamul Congress. Banerjee said talks were under way with the central leadership of...