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 …
AGARTALA, June 7 (IANS): Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has assured the cash-strapped North-east States that his ministry and the Planning Commission would soon work out strategy to provide special financial aid. Tripura Finance Minister Badal Choudhury said on Thursday that Mukherjee also said the central government intended to involve …
AGARTALA, April 15 – Two Mumbai-based entrepreneurs have agreed to invest Rs 80 crore for setting up two industrial units – plywood manufacturing and incense stick-making factories at the proposed Bamboo Park. The Park, spreading over 69 acres of land at Bodhjungnagar Industrial Estate, 12 km from the capital town …
Among the other safety measures announced by Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi in his budget on Wednesday are increasing the number of trains to be escorted by RPF/GRP personnel to 3,500 and integration of the RPF helpline with the All-India Passenger Helpline. As part of the Railways' green initiative, 2,500 coaches …
AGARTALA, March 13 – The 52-km gas pineline to feed the Palatana power plant is almost ready and is expected to be tested in the next few weeks, said K Satyanarayana, Asset Manager, ONGC Tripura Asset. Talking to The Assam Tribune here on Tuesday, the Asset Manager said the laying …
AGARTALA: Bird flu has been detected in a government owned poultry farm at Gandhigram, about 18 km from here. Director of Animal Resource department, Manoranjan Sarkar on Saturday said following deaths of poultry in the farm about four days ago, samples were sent to High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) …
Agartala: Acquiring of land has come in the way of upgrading Agartala airport into an international airport, Tripura Transport minister Manik Dey said the assembly on Thursday. Replying to a calling attention notice on Upgrading the Agartala airport in the standard of an international airport brought by ruling CPI-M member …
The Indian government will soon start work on a new rail link to Bangladesh that would ease surface transport in the mountainous northeastern states, a railway official said on Tuesday. India will build a 15-km railway track linking Tripura capital Agartala with Bangladesh’s southeastern city of Akhaurah, which is also …
AGARTALA: The Northeast Frontier Railways (NFR) will begin final survey for the proposed rail link between Gangasagar (Bangladesh) and Akhaura, close to Agartala very soon. Chief Administrative Officer (Construction) of NFR, Mohan Lal who is on a two-day visit to attend a review meeting on rail works in Tripura on …
AGARTALA:The proposed up-gradation of Agartala airport to an international airstrip has run into rough weather with the dispute over land acquisition for expansion of the runway and other mandatory infrastructure. Officials here on Saturday said that the state government had been demanding an international airport for the past two years …
Agartala: Tripura, which grows 25 varieties of bamboo, is about to make the most of this natural wealth by developing India’s first bamboo park. The idea is to help expand industries based on this produce, also known as green gold. Industries, Commerce and Forest Minister, Jitendra Chowdhury said the bamboo …
AGARTALA: State-owned ONGC is to set up a slew of projects in the nuclear, fertiliser, solar, wind power and lighting sectors, a top company official said Thursday. A gas-fired fertiliser plant would be set up in Tripura, the solar projects in Rajasthan and Gujarat and the wind power project in …
AGARTALA: Solid waste management in Agartala Municipal Council is running under pitiable condition, leave aside the issues of smaller townships, said Minister for Urban Development Manik Dey here today. A news website quoted the Minister about proposals tabled by the state government before New Delhi for catering better facilities to …
Agartala: The ambitious project to make Agartala as country’s first Solar City has received a setback as Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) did not receive the final project proposal, officials said here on Saturday. According to report, master plan for only seven cities, including two of Northeast – …
Agartala: Garbage collections in Agartala Municipal Council (AMC) area remained halted for the eighth consecutive day on Tuesday following blockade by the residents around the existing dumping ground of the city. According to a report, the stalemate continued even after several rounds of meeting with the residents of the area, …
Tripura has sought Rs.440 crore from the central government to undertake livelihood schemes for thousands of tribals who will get title deeds in the state under the forest rights act, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here Wednesday. Sarkar, accompanied by state finance minister Badal Choudhury, Monday met Prime Minister Manmohan …
Agartala: Ministry of Urban Development has held up the installments of fund under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) of Agartala city for non-compliance of conditions set for Urban Infrastructure and Governance sub-mission. Urban Development Minister Manik Dey said here despite several persuasions Centre has stuck to the …
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 …
The ONGC is fully ready to supply the required natural gas to the upcoming Palatana power project in South Tripura district. The first unit of 726 MW power plant is scheduled to be operational by February next year. The ONGC is ready to supply 1.3 million MMSCMD for the first …
AGARTALA: The impasse over land acquisition has emerged a major bottleneck in laying rail track in between Agartala and Udaipur with the state government failing to convince the landowners in Bishalgarh subdivision. In a recently concluded review meeting, the state government had informed Advisor Projects, Railway Board Chandra Prakash that …
Agartala, Oct. 10: There has been an alarming 36 per cent rise in incidence of cancer in Tripura in the past five years, with nearly 50 per cent of the cases being attributed to consumption of tobacco products. According to data available with the Regional Institute of Cancer Research and …
