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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, May 30 ? A feature film in Tripura?s tribal language (Kokborak), Mathia, has been awarded the first prize in the feature film category at the 18th International Film Festival held in Warsaw from May 19 to May 25, the director of the film Joseph Pulinthanath said here on Thursday.

Festival director Ardrzej Jonuszewski in a communique from Poland informed director of the film Joseph Pulinthanath that Mathia had been awarded the first prize in the feature film category for its ?realistic depiction of the culture and heritage of a community in India?, the director said.

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Agartala, May 28: Mathia, a film directed by Catholic priest Joseph Pulinthanath in the tribal Kokborok language, has bagged the best feature film award at the international film festival held in Warsaw from May 19 to 25.

The film is based on the prevalent custom of witch-killing in Tripura?s tribal community. Zygmunt, chief organiser of the festival, conveyed the news in a message to Sampari Pictures of Bishramganj in Bishalgarh subdivision yesterday.

Since nobody on behalf of Sampari Films could attend the festival, the organisers will send the award, consisting of a citation and statuette...

Agartala, April 16: He is the “son of a coronated king”, to say the least, but in Bangladesh, he is known only as chief of his tribal subjects, the Chakmas.

A successful lawyer in the Bangladesh supreme court, 39-year-old Raja Debasish Roy feels in a modern democracy the title of a king is redundant.

The strapping raja was here as the special guest for the three-day “Bijhu” (new year) festival of the Chakma tribe of Tripura.

He took part in the traditional festivities in the remote Jharjharia village under Natun Bazar police station of South Tripura.

Before returning to Bangladesh, he...

Agartala, Jan. 1: If Bombay can become Mumbai and Madras renamed Chennai, why can’t Tripura be called “Twipra?” A million-rupee question, but being raised in the state by several organisations, led by the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT). Their argument: The renaming of Tripura to “Twipra” is a must for conformity with the tribal Kokborok language and its phonetics.

The issue is set to be the INPT’s main poll plank in the tribal-dominated areas for the forthcoming Assembly elections.

The demand was first raised, in passing, by INPT president Bijay Kumar Hrangkahwal at a public...

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, July 7 ? The arrival of quality silk from abroad threatens of squeeze out of the market looms large the silk farmers of the State. Sericulture Minister Ramendra Chandra Debnath speaking to the reporters at the Secretariat on Saturday said, due to fresh arrival of quality silk from abroad, the local producers have been badly affected as the foreign silk are available at a price much lower than the local ones. He said, ?We were forced to reduce the prices of the local silk so that they could compete in the markets with the foreign ones. Accordingly, we have reduced the prices of the...

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...

GUWAHATI, June 23 ? The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), an autonomous institution udner UGC, has conferred accreditation to the three Universities of Dibrugarh,, Arunchal Pradesh and Tripura including 29 other institutions of higher learning in the country. The performance of these 32 institutions have been evaluated and assessed during the last three months. With this, NAAC has completed the assessment and accreditation of 261 institutions. The accreditation process involves preparation of a self-study report, its validation by the peer team by expert technical analysis...

GUWAHATI, May 27 ? The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), an autonomous institution of the University Grants Commission, accredited three universities of the north-eastern region on May 15. These are Dibrugarh University, Tripura University and Arunachal University, a PIB release today said. Dibrugarh and Arunachal universities have been graded ?B? under the new grading pattern and Tripura University has been conferred with a C+ grading. With this, NAAC has so far completed the assessment and accreditation of 261 institutions.