Politics / Tripura

AGARTALA, Dec 5 ? Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) which fought the last Assembly elections in February as a Congress ally, is now trying hard to forge alliance with the BJP. An INPT delegation led by party general secretary Rabindra Debbarma has already left for Delhi to meet Prime Minister AB Vajpayee and other senior BJP leaders. Though Debbarma and his party colleagues maintained that they were going to the capital to press for more powers to the Tripura ADC ? autonomous state under Article 244A, sources in the INPT, however, confirmed that the main agenda to be discussed in...

AGARTALA, Dec 3 ? Tripura government has decided to issue red corner notice through the Interpol to detain five top ranking insurgents of two banned outfits of the state believed to be sheltering in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Thailand, reports PTI. Director General of Police (DGP) G M Srivastav told newsmen today that efforts are on to issue red corner notice through the Interpol for five more insurgents of National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) believed to have taken shelter in the three countries.

He, however, refused to divulge the name of the...

AGARTALA, Dec 2: BSF Inspector General Alexander Daniel has categorically said that no town or habitat of Tripura will fall in the other side of the barbed wire fencing being erected in the Indo-Bangla international border, reports PTI. The IG was commenting on the contention of Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar that if the fencing was constructed according to present norms, at least three subdivisional towns of the State ? Kailashahar, Belonia and Sahroom ? very close to the zero line, would be on the other sine of the fence.

Talking to newsmen here on the eve of the BSF Raising Day on...

SHILLONG, June 15 ? The ?Maran Nagas? of Manipur and ?Reangs? of Tripura are among the 75 Scheduled Tribes in India who have been listed as ?primitive tribal groups? which were recording negative growth rates, according to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

The yardsticks adopted to identify those primitives are that their agricultural practices are obsolete; their health conditions and educational levels very poor resulting in a negative population growth rate, Ministry sources divulged here recently.

The highest number of 13 primitive tribes have been listed in Orissa, followed by Andhra...

GUWAHATI, June 11 ? As many as six North East militant outfits based in Manipur and Tripura has recently approached the Mizoram Chief Minister, Sri Zoramthanga to act as the catalyst in facilitating talks with the Central Government. The Minister for Information and Publicity of Mizoram, F Malsawma informed The Assam Tribune that these militant outfits, all hardcore groups including the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) had shown interest in sitting for talks with the Government of India and approached Sri Zoramthanga, a former Mizo National Front rebel, to facilitate the same.

Sri...

AGARTALA, June 10 ? Growing influence of Islamic outfits on National Liberation Front of Tripura (Biswamohan), which maintains base camps in Bangladesh, has resulted in discontent among the staunch Christian leaders and lower rung armed cadres of the militant organization. The organization, which is dominated by Baptist Christian militants and till recently used to carry out conversion of Tripura tribals to Christianity at gun-point allegedly at the instance of some missionary organizations, is now playing second fiddle to radical Muslim outfits in Bangladesh.

According to intelligence...

Silchar, June 6: Bru refugees displaced from Mizoram after ethnic riots and settled in relief camps in North Tripura since November 1997, have demanded the Centre?s intervention to resolve their repatriation problem.

Bruno Msha, president of the Mizoram Bru Refugee Committee, said here recently that it was high time the Centre intervened to resolve the impasse. He said more than 3,600 refugees have died of various diseases in the camps in the past six years.

He regretted that since the last round of talks between the Bru refugee leaders and the Mizoram government in 2001, no major initiative...

Agartala, June 6: The Reangs, second largest tribal group in Tripura, are demanding formal recognition of their language Kai Bru as separate from Kokborok, the mainstream tribal language of the state.

Several seminars and meetings have been held in the Reang-dominated areas of Kanchanpur in North Tripura and Shantir Bazar in South Tripura to press for the demand. A Reang-dominated outfit, Bru National Renaissance Organisation (BNRO), is spearheading the struggle for recognition of Kai Bru. However, the Tripuri, Jamatya, Noatia and other tribal groups have opposed the demand.

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AGARTALA, June 6 ? Following his the footsteps of the outlawed All Tripura Tribal Force (ATTF), the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) recently changed its name to ?Plungers and Rangers? to avoid police action, CRPF IG, Tripura, Sukhjinder Singh said Thursday, reports PTI.

?We have definite information that both two banned insurgent outfits ATTF and NLFT have changed their names,? Singh said. The ATTF, the armed wing of the Tripura People?s Democratic Front (TPDF), in a press statement recently stated that it had changed its name to Revolutionary People?s Army (RPA) in the...

Agartala, May 30: A nine-member executive council of the Autonomous District Council, headed by Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) vice-president Debabrata Koloi, was today sworn in at the council house in Khumlung, 25 km from here.

State law secretary Alak Bandhu Paul was present on the occasion on behalf of Governor Lt. Gen. Krishna Mohan Seth. The nine Left Front members boycotted the ceremony in protest against the shuffle.

Debabrata Koloi took over as the chief executive member, while Sridam Debbarma, Benoy Debbarma, Mohan Debbarma, Krishna Kanta Jamatya, Mulukchand Debbarma...