AGARTALA, Dec 4 ? More and more skeletons in the cupboard are tumbling in the Tripura Autonomous Distrct Council (TTAADC). The faction-ridden Nationalist Socialist Party of Tripura (NSPT), ruling party of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), suffered yet another jolt with the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate on Tuesday issuing an arrest warrant against Chief Executive Member (CEM) Budhu Debbarma in a cheating case.

Judge Udit Choudhury also directed police authorities to arrest Debbarma and to produce before the court at earliest. The move plunged the NSPT into an...

GUWAHATI, Dec 4 ? The winter sun is once again illuminating artefacts, which have emerged from some mounds in Dubarani at Barpathar after a gap of several centuries. While there is no definite information when the artefacts became entrenched in the mounds, some of them could belong to AD 7-8 century.

Excavation in the Dubarani site in Golaghat district has till now revealed two brick-built temple plinths. In another round of recent excavation, a Shivalinga has also been exposed to the delight of the archaeologists. The objects are now being prepared for conservation in situ. Recently, Lecham...

IMPHAL, Dec 3 ? A series of landmine blasts at the ?conflict zone? in the interior areas of Manipur bordering Myanmar that cost the lives of a dozen people including securitymen, insurgents and civilians have sounded an alert particularly to the voluntary organizations of the ethnic tribals.

In the absence of high tech devices, troops of the Indian Army now launching large-scale counter-insurgency campaigns at the Indo-Myanmar border villages of Molcham and Selon in Chandel district of Manipur are using cattle to detect landmines planted by insurgents, intelligence reports said here on Friday...

NEW DELHI, Dec 3 ? At least 293 tea gardens in Assam have defaulted in payments of Provident Fund (PF) dues, while 65 criminal cases have been filed so far against defaulting tea garden managements.

Union Minister for Labour and Employment, Sis Ram Ola in a letter to AGP MP, Sarbananda Sonowal, copy of which was released to the media informed that recovery cases against 164 tea gardens under Assam Tea Plantation PF schemes were underway, involving an arrears of Rs 37.67 crore. So far only Rs 4.06 crore have been realised.

The Union Minister further added that 12 FIRs have been lodged for...

NEW DELHI, Dec 3 ? Assam Government?s indifference to illegal cutting of trees is likely to land it in a soup, with the Supreme Court today calling for a status report on Rani Reserve Forest from an independent agency.

Alarmed by reports of devastation suffered by Rani Reserve Forest following massive felling of trees, a three-member bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice SK Sabarwal, Justice Arijit Pasayat, Justice SH Kapadia, in a response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) ordered Regional Chief Conservator of Forest, Shillong, a Central Government agency to file a status report...