Agartala, Sep 28 : The forest research and development department of Tripura has come up with micro propagation technique that facilitates the supply of a large number of bamboo saplings in a short time.

Scientists of Van Gaveshana Sadan located at Gandhigram near Agartala, in collaboration with The Energy and Resource Institute of New Delhi, have achieved a significant breakthrough in bamboo tissue culture process.

Agartala, Aug 26:  A transit route between the mountainous northeastern states and the rest of India via Bangladesh, use of sea and river ports and border-related issues will be discussed during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Sep 6-7 visit to Dhaka.

"The prime minister's Bangladesh visit (is) expected to be a historic milestone in terms of economic prosperity of the land-locked northeastern states," Tripura Industries and Commerce Minister Jitendra Choudhury told IANS.

Agartala, June 30 : Tripura's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front will not join a nationwide shutdown July 5 as it has already protested against the fuel price hike through a 12-hour strike June 28, a front statement said Wednesday.

However, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would observe a shutdown in Tripura July 5 as part of its all-India programme.

The Tripura administration has banished ten brands of jabs manufactured by different pharmaceutical companies in the state with immediate effect till further order.

According to an official release, quoting the Deputy Drugs Controller, the ten branded jabs may lead to side-effects after their administration.

Therefore, more testing and examination of these medicines was required.

The state administration has placed a ban on the use as well as sale of these ten Injections till further declaration.

According to officials, around four people have lost their lives and over 50 injured when a cyclonic storm hit different regions of Tripura, causing a trail of destruction.

The pre-monsoon rainfalls followed by strong winds and hailstorm on Wednesday night also smashed over 2,000 houses and killed many domestic animals in western as well as southern Tripura.

A relief department functionary said, "North, west and south Tripura districts were worst hit by the thunderstorm. Most people have lost all their belongings and cattle."

Planning to introduce solar energy in the state capital, Tripura government is making a report to make use of the alternate form of energy and thus making it mandatory for usage.

Joy Gobinda Debroy, Tripura Science, Technology and Environment Minister said, "We have decided to make solar energy provision mandatory in buildings to make Agartala a solar city to keep it free from environmental pollution".

Oil and Natural Gas Commission's (ONGC) Tripura unit has crossed all the records in producing and selling of gas and well drillings. The unit has been able to do so in just nine months of the financial year of 2009-19. This was declared by the officials of ONGC on Thursday.

ONGC has also made a discovery of gas pool in Sundalbari in South Tripura.

The actual production of gas by Tripura unit was 421.038 Million Metric Standard Cubic Metre (MMSCM) as against the set target of 368.805 MMSCM from the time period between April 1 and December 1 of 2009.

Tripura Police seized a huge quantity of smuggled cough syrup from an airplane from New Delhi.

According to the reports, the cough syrup was said to be smuggled onward to Bangladesh.

Police officer Sidhartha Sankar Kar, who acting on a tip off led the operation to seize the contraband said, "We have seized 20 big trunks containing 4,000 bottles of Phensidyl worth Rs 400,000 from a private passenger airliner. The passenger plane arrived in Agartala from New Delhi via Guwahati."

He added that the shipment was booked in Indian capital under forged names.

He also said that they have handed over the smuggled goods to customs functionaries for compulsory action.

Dhamcheera (Tripura), Jan 6 : Hundreds of school dropouts and poor students have been drawn to rejoin school by the Union Government''s Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) scheme in Tripura.

Centre launched the scheme to provide education to the underprivileged girls, predominantly of Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Classes and minority groups.

Agartala, Jan 6 : A two-day business summit on north-east India will begin in Kolkata Friday to attract investment to the region, Tripura Industry and Commerce Minister Jitendra Choudhury said here Wednesday.

The ministry of development of north-eastern region (DoNER) and the Indian Chamber of Commerce are jointly organising the summit, where investors from Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia are expected to participate.

Agartala/Kohima, Jan 4 : A section of Congress leaders and legislators in Tripura and Nagaland have revolted against their state party chiefs and have demanded their immediate removal, party sources said Monday.

The Congress is the main opposition party in Tripura and Nagaland and is in power in the remaining five northeastern states -- Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur.

Agartala, Jan 1 - The central government will provide 90 percent of the amount required to enroll and educate high school students in the northeastern states, a minister said here Friday.

The students in the age group of 15-16 years will be enrolled under Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA).

Agartala, Dec 29 - The wife of Tripura assembly speaker Ramendra Chandra Debnath's brother and her paramour have been arrested for killing the woman's husband, police said here Tuesday.

"Tripura assembly speaker's brother Sushil Debnath, 46, was murdered by his wife and her lover, a police constable, Saturday at Kumarghat in northern Tripura," said police official Sudeshna Bhattacharjee, who is investigating the sensational murder.

Agartala, Dec 28 - As part of its rectification efforts, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) will form an inquiry body at the central level to identify "non-Communist behaviour and fraudulent acts of party men" and give a report to the politburo for taking action, party sources here said Monday.

"More or less most of the party men have non-Communist behaviour. We want to rectify those non-Communist acts," said CPI-M central committee member Bijon Dhar.

Agartala, Dec 26 : Paramilitary troopers have apprehended eight heavily armed tribal guerrillas including a young woman in Tripura, officials said Saturday.

"During a counter-insurgency operation, Assam Rifles troopers Friday night detained eight dreaded terrorists of banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) in north Tripura's Kanchanpur area," said Assam Rifles spokesman Dinesh Thakur.

A large cache of arms and ammunition including US-made carbines and revolvers were recovered from the eight.

Agartala, Dec. 24 : With Tripura gradually moving towards normalcy and peace returning, local people here are in a joyous mood on the occasion of Christmas, the biggest festival of the world commemorating the birth of Lord Jesus Christ.

People irrespective of their religious identities were busy on Thursday evening with last minutes purchasing of gifts and greeting cards to wish their near and dear ones while a lot of them were interested in buying X-Mass Cakes.

Agartala, Dec. 22 : The Meitei Manipuri people in Tripura, who have settled and made this State their homeland, celebrated Lai Haraoba recently with pomp and show after a gap 30 years since peace has started returning to Tripura.

The objective of the celebration was to keep alive the cultural heritage of Manipuris who are living away from their home State and let the new generation know about their cultural heritage.

A team from Manipur was invited to conduct this special programme.

Agartala, Dec 22 : The Tripura Gramin Bank (TGB), one of India's 84 Regional Rural Banks (RRB), is appointing business correspondents and opening mobile bank branches to provide banking services in villages and far-flung areas, officials said here Tuesday.

"We have already engaged 25 farmers' club as business correspondents and engagement of 20 retired bank officers as business facilitators is under process," TGB chairman Nilmani Gangopadhyay told reporters.

Agartala, Dec 21 : Rashyabari is a picturesque hilly area in Tripurs’s Dhalai district surrounded by forests and mainly occupied by tribals.

Chelephu Mog, a landless tribal living in a remote village is not a worried man today. Mog is not only arninga living from his own rubber garden but is also giving employment to few locals with the help of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC).

Agartala, Dec 19 : State-owned exploration major Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will provide funds for conservation, renovation and restoration of the monuments of Ahom kings in Sibsagar in eastern Assam, an official said here Saturday.

''ONGC would fund and collaborate with Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in the conservation works,'' an ONGC official said.