Agartala, March 17: The Tripura Government has embarked upon numerous socio-cultural and economic programmes to protect the dwindling and endangered tribes of the State, a minister said here on Wednesday.
AGARTALA, March 7: H5 strains of avian influenza have been confirmed in the poultry samples collected from State Poultry Farm at Gandhigram, Agartala, Tripura.
The samples collected from the infected site were forwarded to the ERDDL, Kolkata and High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL), Bhopal for testing.
Sipahijala sanctuary
Agartala, March 3: Close on the heels of an avian flu outbreak in the state, an unidentified disease has claimed the lives of 10 birds of varied species and three animals in the Sipahijala sanctuary in the past three days.
Authorities of the santuary, 30km south of this town, have initiated precautionary measures and closed the zoo and bird sanctuary to public.
Bird flu has struck the country again. This time at the State Duck Breeding Farm in Agartala that has been ordered to cull all poultry within a radius of three kilometres of the farm.
Agartala: The India-Bangladesh Secretary-level talks of the Joint River Commission (JRC), removed four years long deadlock over the construction of 14 irrigation projects along the border in Tripura, officials said here on Wednesday.
During the one-day JRC meeting held in Dhaka on Monday, the two countries have agreed to sign a 15-year interim water-sharing treaty on two common rivers - Teesta
