Agartala:&nbsp;Four insurgents of outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (Biswamohan Debbarma) and two collaborators surrendered before the police on Friday, a senior police official said. They surrendered one AK-47 rifle and two magazines, two pistols with three magazines and a note book containing extortion notices, he said. This was the biggest surrender of militants in the state in the past one year. The north eastern state has not witnessed any major extremist-related incident since the past one year. The militants led by Umesh Koloi(42) had entered Tripura from Bangladesh through Ganganagar in Dhalai district on July 21, the official said. The intention of these militants was to kidnap villagers and they had sent extortion notices. They moved in the jungle areas of Ganganagar in Dhalai district, Mungiakami in Khowai district and Ompi in Gomati district , he said. The intelligence department sensing their movement inside the state, carried out special operations by Tripura State Rifles and the police. The pressure exerted by the security forces made the militants surrender before the police", the official said. Preliminary investigation has revealed that NLFT has been facing hardships and their survival in their hideouts in the state has become difficult due to the continuous pressure of the security forces. All the surrendered militants and their collaborators were handed over to the special branch of state police for joint interrogation , he added.—PTI

Four insurgents of outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (Biswamohan Debbarma) and two collaborators surrendered before the police on Friday, a senior police official said

Four NLFT militants surrender with weapons in Tripura

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Agartala:&nbsp;The Tripura government has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the North East Space Application Centre (NESAC), Shillong, for 21 projects including disaster management and resource mapping, an official said on Tuesday.NESAC Director, SP Agarwal and Tripura's Science, Technology and Environment secretary Pradip Kumar Chakravarty signed the MoU on Monday.Of the 21 projects, the Centre has already approved 20 projects as part of promotion and transfer of technology to develop capacity building as well as resource mapping, Chakravarty told PTI.The 20 approved projects include resource mapping of agriculture, horticulture, forest, land revenue and disaster management.Chakravarty said resource mapping holds the key for formulating proper planning and coordination and the concerned department will benefit once the resource mapping of a particular segment is done.We are in the process of preparing resource mapping of patta lands allocated under the Forest Dwellers' Right Act. It will be beneficial to undertake any project be it agriculture or horticulture or anything else. Plans can be chalked out based on the availability of land and its present status , he explained.Since Tripura is disaster prone, early warning of earthquake, flood and landslide will be developed in the state in collaboration with NESAC. Early warning system is important to mitigate any disaster. We will work together with NESAC to develop an early warning system so that the state could predict any disaster well before it takes place , he said.Chakravarty further said the state space application centre will also be given more teeth to cater the future needs.The Indian Space Resource Organization (ISRO) and North Eastern Council (NEC) will fund to implement all the 21 projects within the next three years. An amount of Rs 4.30 crore has been sanctioned for disaster management as resource mapping.—PTI

The Tripura government has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the North East Space Application Centre (NESAC), Shillong, for 21 projects including disaster management and resource mapping, an official said on Tuesday.

Tripura govt inks MoU with NESAC for 21 projects

Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Wednesday said he tested positive for COVID-19.Saha, who also holds the health portfolio, urged people who have come in contact with him to take necessary precautions.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Wednesday said he tested positive for COVID-19.

Tripura CM tests positive for COVID-19

Agartala : &nbsp;Trinamool Congress (TMC) would implement the 'Bengal model of governance' in Tripura and it would continue its fight unless the BJP government voted out in the northeastern state, party leaders said here on Monday.The Trinamool Congress on Monday set up its state party headquarters, two-and-a-half months after the party had announced a 132-member full-fledged committee in the state. After Assam and Meghalaya, the Trinamool Congress, headed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Monday set up its Tripura state party headquarters in Agartala.After the inauguration of the state party headquarters at Chittaranjan Road in the heart of the capital city, TMC's Tripura state in-charge Rajib Banerjee quoting party's National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, said: "Tripura is our next goal. We are following that. We would implement the Bengal model of governance into the state and continue to oust BJP from the governance."All the social sector schemes launched by the Bengal government would be implemented in Tripura once the TMC came to power in the state after the early next year's assembly elections, he said.TMC's Tripura state President Subal Bhowmik said that the people had been waiting for the day when the BJP would be voted out of power."Even last night, the ruling party tried to create obstructions to halt the inauguration of our party office. But the people of Tripura are with us and they want Mamata Banerjee's leadership to free Tripura of the oppressive BJP regime," Bhowmik said.TMC's Rajya Sabha member Sushmita Dev highlighted how "democracy was being muzzled" in Tripura."In a democratic country, it took a political party one year to establish its own party office in another state. This was not due to the lack of our efforts but other reasons," he said.We want to assure all sections of people that we will stand by their side and fight for them. We will fight the 2023 Assembly elections not through bullets or violence but through democracy," she said.Senior TMC leader from Bengal Moloy Ghatak was also present at the event.He said: "People of Tripura will have a place to raise their complaints and seek support in their struggle against the BJP government."Bengal TMC Youth Congress leader Saayoni Ghosh said that the support by the common people to the party has given us the encouragement to continue our fight against the BJP government. -- IANS

Trinamool Congress (TMC) would implement the 'Bengal model of governance' in Tripura and it would continue its fight unless the BJP government voted out in the northeastern state, party leaders said here on Monday.

Bengal model of governance to execute in Tripura: Trinamool

Agartala : &nbsp;Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, who was elected to the state Assembly on June 23, resigned from the Rajya Sabha on Monday and will take oath as member of the Assembly on July 8, officials said. Saha on Monday met Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu in New Delhi and handed over his resignation letter to him."Today, I have submitted my resignation letter as MP, Rajya Sabha to the Hon'ble Vice President of India Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu ji. I shall always remain grateful to our Hon'ble PM Shri Narendra Modi ji, National President of BJP Shri J. P. Nadda ji," he tweeted later.

 Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, who was elected to the state Assembly on June 23, resigned from the Rajya Sabha on Monday and will take oath as member of the Assembly on July 8, officials said. Saha on Monday met Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu in New Delhi and handed over his resignation letter to him.