AGARTALA, May 17? Insurgents of banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have shot dead a woman leader of ruling CPI-M after branding her as a witch at Ramchandragha village of West Tripura district, police said Friday, reports PTI. Police said a group of armed NLFT ultras raided the village last night and stormed the house of one Dewan Debbarma and dragged his wife Madhumala Debbarma out of the hut, police said. The ultras blamed that she was a witch and responsible for spread of diseases in the village and shot the woman dead before fleeing the spot, police said adding they...

BADARPUR, May 23 ? As a part of the ongoing Silchar-Badarpur-Lumding 198 gauge conversion project work, the foundation stone ceremony of the second railway bridge was held at Badarpur Ghat, near Barak river, on Sunday by NF Rly General Manager Vipan Nanda, alongwith the NF Rly DRM ? Ashutosh Swami, NF Rly CPRO Smt U Hazarika, railway chief engineers and all other high officials of railway department. Sri Nanda in his brief speech said, this new bridge is the longest in the lumding-Badarpur hill section (409.80 metre long) and it will have also 10 piers. The total cost of the construction of...

GUWAHATI, May 23 ? State Minister for Labour and Employment, Rameswar Dhanowar today informed that Assam Government?s efforts to amend the Assam Plantation Labour Rules were yet to get the go-head from the Union Home Ministry. The Ministry said since the Act in this context, Plantation Labour Act, 1951, was a Central Act, to amend its provisions by any state government required permission from the Home Ministry. Talking to newsmen here today, Sri Dhanowar said the present Government was yet to take any initiative to either rectify or enforce the recommendation on minimum wages for tea workers...

GUWAHATI, May 23 ? ?We have been living here for over 50 years and today all of a sudden we have become homeless because of the Government?s eviction drive. This is despite the fact that we have been paying taxes for eksania land for all these years?, Sri Rojen Marak of Garobasti Kalapani lamented as his house was razed to the ground along with those 30-odd families in the area today.

The Garobasti area presented a very gloomy picture. The people, including children and infants, were left stranded in the rain with whatever little belongings they had exposed to the elements. ?Even now, we...

GUWAHATI, May 23 ? The latest revision of recharge voucher (Smart cards) rates by the Reliance Mobile for consumers of Guwahati has given rise to widespread resentment among mobile phone users here.

The consumers feel that they are being taken for a ride and made to pay through their nose by the Reliance Mobile which is enjoying a monopoly market here in absence of a second mobile phone service provider unlike in other cities of the country.

The Reliance Mobile has reduced the call time of the Rs 600 recharge voucher to Rs 428 only from earlier call time worth Rs 541 much to the chargin of...