Agartala | 4 days ago
Banks yet to raise credit flow in northeast: Tripura minister
Agartala, May 14 - Despite the Reserve Bank of India asking nationalised banks to improve their credit flows to the industry-starved northeast, the credit-deposit ratio in the region has remained static during the past many years, Tripura Finance Minister Badal Chaudhury said here Tuesday.He said the credit-deposit ratio of the northeastern region is 34 percent against the national average of 78 p ... read more

Agartala | 5 days ago
Tripura assembly witnesses bedlam over chit fund firms
Agartala, May 13 - The Tripura assembly Monday witnessed unprecedented bedlam as the opposition Congress created a ruckus demanding that the government promise security for the money deposited by the people in chit fund companies.While protesting, the agitated opposition lawmakers took away the about three-feet-tall silver metallic 'maize' emblem placed in front of the speaker's podium. The assemb ... read more

Agartala | 5 days ago
President to open ONGCA's first power plant in Tripura
Agartala, May 13 - President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the ONGC's first commercial power project in Tripura next month, an official said here Monday.The president would likely inaugurate the thermal power project at Palatana - on June 21, a Tripura government official told IANS.During his two-day - visit, the president would address the convocations of the Tripura University and National In ... read more

Aizawl | 7 days ago
Landslides, house collapses kill eight in Mizoram; 11 missing
Aizawl, May 11 - At least eight people were killed and 11 were missing, while 25 others sustained injuries in Mizoram Saturday, when nine houses were swept away in a massive landslide, officials said.Incessant rains for the past one week caused nine houses to be swept away in huge landslides at Laipuitland locality here early Saturday morning, killing eight people on the spot, a police official to ... read more

Agartala | 7 days ago
Crackdown against chit fund group in Tripura
Agartala, May 11 - The Tripura government has launched a crackdown against Rose Valley, one of the biggest chit fund companies in eastern India. Two executives of the group have been arrested and documents have been seized, an official said here Saturday.Raids in Rose Valley's main office in Tripura began late Friday and are continuing. Police arrested the company's regional director Ashok Saha an ... read more

Agartala | 8 days ago
Chemists in northeast shut as part of national strike
Agartala/Guwahati, May 10 - Thousands of retail and wholesale medicine shops remained closed across northeastern region Friday in support of the 12-hour all-India strike called by their national organisation against government policies and their impact on traders.The dawn-to-dusk country wide shutdown was called by the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists to protest the central governm ... read more

Agartala | 8 days ago
8 killed, many injured; large damage in weather fury in Tripura, Mizoram
Agartala/Aizawl, May 10 - Seasonal cyclonic storms accompanied by lightning and rain continued to create devastation in Tripura and Mizoram for the sixth day Friday, killing eight people so far injuring 40 others, an official said here.Several thousand houses have been damaged in the cyclonic storms accompanied by lightning and incessant rains that also uprooted thousands of trees, telephone and e ... read more

Agartala | 9 days ago
Seven killed in Tripura cyclone, lightning
Agartala, May 9 - Cyclonic storms accompanied by lightning and rain continued to create havoc in Tripura for the fifth day Thursday, killing seven people, including five women and injuring 20 others, an official said here.Sixty-year-old Ramani Debbarma and her 17-year-old-son Utpal died when huge landslides buried their home at Simna in western Tripura Wednesday night, an official of the relief de ... read more

Agartala | 10 days ago
Tripura to ask CBI to probe illegal chit funds in state
Agartala, May 8 - The Left Front government in the northeastern state of Tripura has decided to ask the CBI to probe the illegal activities of the non-banking financial companies - in the state, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here Wednesday.We have discussed in the cabinet meeting the illegal and fraudulent activities of the NBFCs and UIBs - and decided to ask the Central Bureau of Investigation ... read more

Agartala | 11 days ago
One killed in Tripura squall
Agartala, May 7 - Strong winds accompanied by lightning and rains continued to lash Tripura, killing one person and injuring four others, an official said here Tuesday.The seasonal squalls accompanied by rains, thunder-storms, lightning and hail-storms since Sunday night have destroyed more than 1,000 houses and disrupted power supply and telecommunication across the northeastern state, an officia ... read more