Politics / Tripura

AGARTALA, Dec 31 ? Despite strong opposition from a section of tribal leaders, the Indigenous National Party of Tripura president Bijoy Kumar Rangkhawl and general secretary Rabindra Debbarma could retain their position in the party. The decision that the two INPT MLAs would stay in their organisational posts was approved by the party?s state-level meeting which ended on Sunday. However, both the former vice-president and his staunch critic the chairman of the advisory committee of the party Shyamacharan Tripura were axed from their positions. Both were accused of playing maverick and...

Agartala, Dec. 29: The banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) has resorted to the fake currency business after exhausting all sources of earning. Three groups of militants are currently moving in South and North Tripura and Dhalai districts of the state with fake currencies in the denomination of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000, official sources here said.

The top brass of the outfit, based in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, has directed the NLFT activists and their overground agents to fetch genuine currencies worth Rs 40,000 in exchange of Rs 1 lakh fake currencies, the sources...

Agartala, Dec. 29: The erection of barbed wire fence on Tripura?s long and porous border with Bangladesh has run into troubled waters over land acquisition and related problems. The 856-km international border in the state runs through 15 subdivisions. At many places, houses, schools and government offices have fallen outside the line marked for the fence.

The issue came up for discussion in the Assembly today with PCC president Birajit Sinha pointing out that resentment was running high at many places over the issue and people were contemplating launching an agitation to protest the...

Agartala, Dec. 29: The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) successfully weathered some dissidents? bid to split the party in its state conference here even as it sprang a surprise by demanding 2,060 square miles of more areas within the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC). The tribal-based party created more organisational posts to accommodate the dissidents who had challenged the leadership of Bijay Kumar Hrangkhawal as president and Rabindra Debbarma as general secretary, sources within the INPT said.

Both Hrangkhawal and Debbarma managed to retain their...

AGARTALA, Dec 27 ? Boosted by Bhutan?s flush out campaign against the Indian militants from its soil Tripura Assembly also unanimously appealed Bangladesh to follow suit. A resolution has been passed in the Tripura House that was deliberating on a Private Member?s resolution on Friday last. The resolution appeals New Delhi to persuade Dhaka to chase out the Indian militants who are presently holed up in that country. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar informed the House that there were at least 50 camps of the Tripura militants in the neighbouring country but at the same he clarified that never the...

Agartala, Dec. 25: The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) has driven out 72 tribal families from their homes in remote areas under the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) for failing to pay ?tax? to the outfit. The families, belonging to the backward Noatia community, were displaced from their ancestral homes in remote Khagendra Roaja Para and Shikaribari villages under Kamalpur subdivision as they pleaded their inability to pay ?tax? at the rate of Rs 200 per month per family.

Police sources said on December 14 night 20 militants swooped down on the village and...

Agartala, Dec. 22: In a new twist to the insurgency equations in Tripura, two outfits have taken on the most powerful faction. This is likely to trigger fresh factional clashes in interior areas. The Nayanbasi faction of the National Liberation Front of Tripura and the All Tripura Tiger Force have decided to gang up against the official group of the NLFT led by Biswamohan Debbarma.

Already the two outfits have launched joint operations against the NLFT group led by Biswamohan Debbarma in remote areas of trouble-torn Takarjala police station.

Official agencies keeping tabs on militant...

AGARTALA, Dec 21? In an attempt to enable the students of the state to compete in national level, Tripura government has decided to introduce a new education policy online with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). The new education policy, announced by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar after the cabinet approval on December 18 last, would come into force from 2005 at primary, secondary and higher secondary levels. The new education policy came in the wake of the recommendations made by first Education Commission headed by Prof Basudeb Burman, former Vice Chancellor of Kalyani University...

AGARTALA, Dec 17? Following the fall of the central headquarters of the banned insurgents outfit All Tripura Tiger Force at Satcherri in Bangladesh, tribal guerrillas belonging to this faction are now on the run. Intelligence services confirmed that a large detachment of about 43 Tiger militants who escaped the rival NLFT attack last week at Satcherri entered Indian territory in West Tripura district on Friday.

The NLFT militants had pulled off an all-out attack on the well-fortified CHQ of the ATTF on last December 6 midnight and shot dead eight Tigers. One NLFT militant was also killed in...

Agartala, Dec. 9: Dissension within the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) has intensified with a section of militants beginning to give vent to their frustration by targeting their leaders. A 24-member group shot dead as many as 12 NLFT commanders at Jupui in the Sajek range of Bangladesh?s Chittagong Hill Tracts on November 21 and sneaked into South Tripura.

Two of the militants, identified as Sanjib Reang and Jibon Reang, surrendered at Belonia police station last month.

They deposited an AK-47 rifle, an M-16 assault rifle, a 9mm pistol and a huge quantity of ammunition.

The...