Agartala: A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter Scale struck Tripura this afternoon, triggering landslides in the hill state and jolting the country’s Northeast. There was no report of any casualty. According to the National Centre for Seismology, the epicentre of the temblor which occurred at 1439 hrs …
Agartala: A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter Scale struck Tripura this afternoon, triggering landslides in the hill state and jolting the country’s Northeast. There was no report of any casualty. According to the National Centre for Seismology, the epicentre of the temblor which occurred at 1439 hrs …
To ensure preservation of jumbo population in Tripura, the State government has sent a proposal to the Union Ministry of Forest and Environment seeking its support to establish two elephant conservation reserves – at Atharamura in Dhalai district and Gandhari in Gomati district. While the Gandhari elephant conservation reserve would …
The malaria epidemic that so far claimed nearly hundred lives in Tripura has been worst in past three decades. Experts identified the menace as a result of biting by mainly Anopheles Baimai which is most dangerous of all mosquitoes, a Health Department report informed. Four districts were badly hit, with …
Two-month long malaria epidemic in Tripura’s rural districts is now under control. However, hundreds of people are still being detected with the disease. The situation which went out of control improved with the help of NGOs and volunteers who worked alongside official teams in affected areas. “It was a fight …
The official death toll in Tripura after the outbreak of malaria reached 45 on Tuesday. Among the deceased at least 30 are children and most of them are under 10 years of age. Confirming this, state health minister Badal Choudhury said nearly 23,000 people, mainly belonging to tribal communities, have …
Most fatalities are children below 10 years, hundreds admitted to hospitals At least 17 people died and several hundred were admitted to rural hospitals as malaria gripped tribal hamlets in remote Dhalai district in Tripura. Health Minister Badal Choudhury, who chaired a high-level meeting on Thursday to review the health …
Indo-German Development Cooperation (IGDC) project of Tripura has begun to assess land based climate finance possibilities in tribal dominated Dhalai district of Tripura besides, identifying existing land use systems the villages. In the aegis of 17th CSE media study on Fragile Ecosystem in Tripura revealed that under carbon finance they …
Agartala: Left-ruled Tripura provided 86.27 days of work under the central government’s flagship rural jobs scheme in fiscal 2012-13, the highest in the country, a minister said here Tuesday. Quoting the performance report of the union rural development ministry, state Rural Development Minister Jitendra Chaudhury told reporters that Tripura has …
Agartala: Tripura government will set up two elephant reserves for preservation of the species whose numbers have vastly depleted due to large-scale poaching and migration to neighbouring Bangladesh. State Forest Minister Jitendra Chowdhury on Saturday said the two reserves would be part of elephant conservation projects and land for one …
Agartala: State-owned ONGC’s proposed gas-based fertiliser plant in Tripura would meet the growing shortage of urea in the eastern and northeastern states of India and neighbouring Bangladesh, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here Wednesday. ONGC in association with Tata Chemicals and the Tripura government would set up a Rs.5,000 …
– The much-hyped MGNREGA has once again failed to meet its main target – providing 100 days employment to each jobcard holder in Tripura. The startling revelation came to light at a review meeting of Rural Development department held at Civil Secretariat here on November 4 last. While job generation …
There is an urgent need to make all the Northeastern States well-equipped in handling disaster keeping in mind their vulnerability, said Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar. “Everybody knows that the North East including Tripura falls under seismic zone V, considered as most vulnerable tremor zone, but the region is still …
Agartala: Altogether 2000 buildings including Neer Mahal, Raj Bhavan and Ujjayanta Palace have been identified as potential structures for retrofitting work keeping in mind Tripura’s vulnerability to earthquake. “In course of a preliminary study, experts identified at least 2000 buildings across the state which need retrofitting given their long existance,” …
Agartala, Nov. 2: The Union department of disaster management has raised the hackles of the Tripura government by warning about possible earthquakes and their likely disastrous effects on the state. What has become a source of major concern is that North Tripura and Dhalai districts have been identified as “most …
AGARTALA: Tripura’s current population stands at 36, 71,032, having registered a growth of 9.12 percent in urban population in 2011 compared with the preceding 2001 when the urban population stood at 17.06 percent, according reports in Tripura media. Successful implementation of the literacy programmes like ‘Sarva Shiksha’ has helped the …
Agartala: Tripura has witnessed a 23 per cent drop in the malaria cases as compared to 2009, a top health official said on Sunday. Citing that four deaths had been recorded in hospitals this year, Director of Family Welfare and Preventive Medicine department Dr R K Dhar said there has …
Agartala: Malaria has turned into an epidemic in remote hamlets of Dhalai district in North Tripura claiming 15 lives over a month, officials said here today. The health directorate sent a contingent of specialist doctors in the affected areas and had been holding health camps in the locations besides, mobilising …
AGARTALA: Upbeat by the possible reserve of coal in West Tripura’s Tulasikhar area, a far-flung tribal hamlet, local authority of Geological Survey of India (GSI), has sent a report to the Ministry of Coal and Mine, official sources said here on Friday. In the report, the GSI has recommended further …
AGARTALA, Dec 18: Following a report of fresh cases of Meningococcal Meningitis in remote locations of North Tripura, the state government has demanded 1.83 lakh vaccines from Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, State Health Minister Tapan Chakraborty said. Talking to mediapersons here today, Chakraborty said two deaths were reported …
Supratim Dey / Kolkata/ Guwahati June 15, 2009, 0:29 IST Germany has come forward to fund a 15 million euro Tripura government project for socio-economic development of tribals and forest resource management. The project, which would be implemented by the state government over a period of six years, would be …
