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Agartala, 24: A five-member committee has been formed in Tripura to document the history of the Raj Bhavan. The committee, headed by Prof. Sirajuddin Ahmed of Tripura University, will bring out a book entitled History of Raj Bhawan, Agartala. Several meetings have already been held on the project with tribal welfare commissioner G.S.G. Ayengar and former chief engineer N.K. Dutta, who are also members of the committee.

The official residence of the governor has been home to visiting chief commissioners, lieutenant governors, visiting Prime Ministers, Presidents and vice- presidents, as well...

Agartala, June 15: Her mantra for success is simple: “Think beyond time and space”. But it surely has taken a lot more than simple philosophising for Arunima Jamatya to reach where she has from a state where 85 per cent of tribal students drop out of school. Arunima is fresh out of IIT, Kharagpur, and has two lucrative job offers on her lap. But the biggest achievement of this unassuming tribal girl — one that will perhaps not find a place on her CV — is that she has gone where no tribal student from Tripura has.

Back in this capital town for a month-long holiday, Arunima seems oblivious to...

Agartala, June 2: Tripura has made a record of sort — though a disheartening one. The state has registered a school dropout rate between Classes I and X at 80 per cent — a whopping 15 per cent higher than the national average. According to official statistics, the rate is even higher at 86 per cent among the tribal students.

Education minister Anil Sarkar today admitted in the state Assembly that the pathetic state of infrastructure and insurgency has wreaked havoc on the state education system. The decade-long insurgency has taken a heavy toll on lives and property, but the education system...

AGARTALA, April 10– Tripura has recorded an alarming rise in the number of AIDS patients in recent years despite the fact that crores of rupees are being spent on the prevention of the deadly disease. According to the Project Director of the AIDS Control Society, Dr TK Das, there are 70 HIV positive and six full-blown AIDS patients. There were in total eight AIDS patients but two had died recently.

While delivering a lecture at a seminar organised by the Society of Pathologists, Microbiologists and Bio-chemists on the occasion of its biennial convention, Dr Das said, till date HIV virus was...

Agartala, Dec. 30: Among the countless victims of insurgency in the interior areas of Tripura are invaluable archaeological treasures and artefacts. The Unokoti hills, an important Saivite site boasting of exquisite sculptures, is next only to Mahabalipuram in South India in its archaeological significance.

Already beyond the reach of tourists, it cannot even be accessed by experts of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). But the invaluable sculptural works in Debtamura and Chhabimura areas of south Tripura?s Amarpur subdivision, currently covered in thick jungle, are in a worse condition...

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 ? The Tripura government is ready to set up the first medical college in the State in a joint venture and Chief Minister Manik Sarkar hoped Wednesday that the approval for it will be given soon by the Union Health ministry, reports PTI.

The medical college would be set up at the BR Ambedkar Hospital here in a joint venture with the Manipal group, Sarkar said after his return from New Delhi Tuesday.

Sarkar, who met the Union Health Minister Sushma Swaraj and Planing Commission deputy chairman KC Pant during his stay at the national capital, said he was assured of an early...

AGARTALA, Dec 10 ? The Tripura Government is contemplating to set up a medical college in the State in collaboration with the Manipal Group. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar held a detailed meeting with the Planning Commission Deputy Chairman KC Pant and Chairman of Manipal Group Dr TA Pai on the matter. The Manipal Group seemed keen to come forward in setting up of a medical college and hospital in Agartala.

?For Tripura Government it is not possible to go it alone with the medical college project. That is why we are searching for a good partner. The talks with the Manipur Group were successful...

Agartala, Dec. 9: The tourism sector in Tripura has been hit by two unfavourable developments. The income of Comilla View, a tourist lodge in the Kasba area of West Tripura, plummeted after secretary of the department of tourism D.K. Chakraborty banned the system of spot booking at the lodge.

The lodge used to earn around Rs 50,000 per month. However, their income plunged after Chakraborty passed an order banning spot booking and consumption of liquor in the lodge.

This was done following a dispute with a nearby restaurant, run by a group of local leaders. Police intervened and arrested a...

Agartala, Dec. 8: The Tripura government will implement Dowry Prohibition Rules, 2003 by appointing officers in each district and one chief dowry prohibition officer here. This will be supplemented by the formation of district-level advisory committees for monitoring marriages. The ruling Left Front observed an Anti-Dowry Week from November 28 to December 2 to mobilise public opinion against the custom in the wake a spurt in the incidents of crimes against women.

Between 1994 and 2002, 4,456 cases of crimes against women were registered with the police and state women?s commission. This...