Cyclonic storms accompanied by lightning and rain continued to create havoc in Tripura for the fifth day on Thursday, killing seven people, including five women and injuring 20 others, an official

Kailashahar(Tripura): One person was killed and at least 200 houses damaged as hail storm accompanied by rain hit many parts of Unakoti and North Tripura district, official sources said on Thursday

Following the direction of the union government, Tripura and Meghalaya will ban the sale, manufacture and distribution of gutka (tobacco–laced areca nut pieces) and pan masala (a chewing mixture),

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 been providing the highest average employment for the past four years under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).

The Tripura government, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and a private company signed a tripartite agreement on Tuesday to establish a huge urea fertilizer plant in the State. The State government would have a 10 per cent stake in the Rs. 5,000 crore project which will come up in the Kumarghat area of north Tripura by 2016.

Sudhir Vasudeva, CMD, ONGC, Vice President of the Chambal Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited (CFCL) M.S. Rathore and Secretary of Tripura government Samarjit Bhowmik signed the agreement.

MoU will be signed to set up natural gas fertiliser manufacturing factory early next month

Oil and gas major ONGC will sign an agreement with the Tripura government to establish a fertiliser manufacturing unit near Kumarghat in Unakoti district.
The MoU would be signed to set up natural gas fertiliser manufacturing factory early next month, state's Industries and Commerce Minister Jitendra Chowdhury told reporters here.

Agartala: After a lull, two turbines of Palatana’s first unit have been put on operation since Tuesday generating 140-145 MW power on daily basis.

Earlier also, the Palatana first unit had successfully generated power upto 140-145 MW. However, it was put on shut down after directive from the NERLDC.
However, the power generation is on experimental before going for commercial production of power, according to sources. On Thursday, the two turbines generated 130 MW in the morning while it shot up to 140/145 in the night.

Agartala: Plans are afoot to turn Tripura’s capital into a green city by fitting, within two years, thousands of vehicles running on petrol or diesel with CNG kits and providing city households with piped natural gas connections, a senior official said Wednesday.

“While issuing vehicle permits, priority is given to those running on CNG (compressed natural gas). This is not only cheaper but also very environment-friendly. Our target is to make the capital Agartala a green city,” Tripura Industrial Development Corporation (TIDC) Chairman Pabitra Kar told IANS.

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 at Gandhari in Amarpur sub-division of Gomati district has already been already identified.

Agartala: Left-ruled Tripura on Thursday strongly opposed the central government’s proposal to provide direct transfer of food subsidy in cash to people, currently accessible through the public distribution system (PDS).

To check the leakage and diversions, an alternate model of direct transfer of food subsidy in cash to the consumers has been proposed by the Congress-led central government. Suggestions of state governments and the union territories on the alternate models have been invited on the issue.