Tripura

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding a dumping ground located at Debendra Chandra Nagar run by the Agartala Municipal Corporation, Tripura, 15/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Subrata Debnath Vs State of Tripura & Others dated 15/05/2025. The matter related to a dumping ground of Agartala Municipal Corporation under the name of ‘Waste Processing Center’ with the object of processing waste materials and …

Centre praises Tripura for NREGA record

Agartala, Aug 1: The Union Ministry of Rural Development has applauded Tripura Government's performance in implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in the last fiscal. The ministry had held review meeting of progress of key processes under NREGA in New Delhi last week with the state Nodal …

Governments anti-malaria drugs ineffective: Minister

Agartala, July 31: Drugs and injections supplied by the central government to prevent malaria in the northeast are ineffective, Tripura Health and Family Welfare Minister Tapan Chakraborty said here on Thursday. "We are forced to procure anti-malarial drugs and injections from the market as stocks supplied by the central government …

Tripura to receive Rs 518 cr under NREGA

Fund will not be a constraint to provide 100 mandays work to the job cardholders with the Union Government pumping the highest-ever allocation to carry out the national flagship scheme

Power from natural resources of NE cheaper

UDAIPUR (Tripura), July 19: Criticising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for going ahead with the nuclear deal, Tripura Chief Minister and CPI-M Politburo member Manik Sarkar today said if power is generated from different natural resources of the northeastern region it would be cheaper than that from nuclear reactors. Addressing CPI-M …

Water table in Punjab dipping: Saifuddin Soz

"Punjab is one of those six states in the country which feels it is not necessary to enact legislation on control and development of groundwater resources,' said union water resources minister Saifuddin Soz. The other five states are Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Mnipur and Arunachal Pradesh. Incidentally, in neighbouring Haryana and …

Thirty one bio-diversity hotspots identified in Tripura`

Agartala, July 16: The Tripura Government has decided to conduct an extensive survey of the flora and fauna of the state under bio-diversity conservation project funded by the Japan Bank for International Corporation (JBIC). Experts have identified as many as 31 bio-diversity hotspots in the State, including 21 in South …

Tripura Home Guards set up nursery of rare species

Agartala, July 6: The Tripura Home Guards have set up a huge plant nursery during the spare time of the volunteers within a year and also announced to supply the plants to all public authorities for planting in their campus and along the busiest roads of the State in the …

Burden on States

The oil price hike burdens already strained State finances and threatens to jeopardise welfare programmes run by State governments. THE Union government's decision to raise the prices of petroleum products has placed State governments in a quandary. While taxes on petroleum products constitute a significant proportion of a State's revenue, …

Tripura instals solar hybrid project for low cost energy

Tripura Renewable Energy Agency (TREA) has adopted an ambitious plan for producing low-cost electricity. As part of the plan, one solar hybrid project has been installed on top of the Vigyan Bhavan recently. The project that was established at a cost of Rs 5 lakh is unique in nature as …

Bamboo and famine

Bamboo has a peculiar phenomenon of flowering. Flowering in bamboo draws attention, as it dies after flowering and is believed to cause famine. Gregarious flowering occurred in 1958, which was followed by the 1959 famine. John and Nadgauda showed that there is a connection between the incidence of bamboo flowering …

Agartala to hold film fest on environment

In an effort to make people aware of the rapid and alarming change in the environment worldwide, Tripura State Pollution Control Board along with Centre for Media Studies (CMS) and Cine Delve, a film society of Agartala will screen a series of special films here on September 26 next. The …

Badal presents deficit budget

Promising massive infrastructure building, Tripura Finance Minister Badal Chowdhury presented a budget of Rs 5,248.76 crore with a deficit of Rs 76.74 crore for the 2008-2009 financial year in the Assembly here today. The budget has proposed substantial increase in capital expenditure as the outlay for infrastructure building has been …

Left-ruled states to go on strike

Upset that most of its proposals have been ignored by the government, Left reacted to the price hike of petroleum products calling it unjustified and gearing for a "powerful protest movement'. While senior Left sources indicated some

NREGA launched in North Tripura

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was launched in North Tripura with job cards to 30 families of Hirachhara and Golakpur village under tribal area autonomous district council as the first step of NREGA execution in the localities. An official release here today said at a formal ceremony at …

Tripura tribals taking to rubber cultivation

Each family gets 1 ha land; Rs 87 a day as wages for 7 years Septuagenarian Kripasadhan Chakma, a landless tribal living in remote Tabidapara of Tripura's south district, is not a worried man today as he is now earning a living from his own rubber garden with the Tripura …

Tripura tribals taking up rubber cultivation

Septuagenarian Kripasadhan Chakma, a landless tribal living in remote Tabidapara of Tripura's South district is not a worried man today as he is now earning a living from his own rubber garden with the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council coming to his aid. Tabidapara is a picturesque tribal hamlet …

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