The World Bank would provide a soft loan of Rs 1,100 crore to the Tripura Government for improvement of the transmission and distribution of power in the State, official sources said here today.

A five-member team of the World Bank headed by senior Energy specialist, Rohit Mittal today met the Tripura Power Minister, Manik Dey and Chief Secretary, S K Panda and gave an outline of reforming the

Agartala: The alignment of the railway line between Agartala with Akhaura via Gangasagar in Bangladesh would be finalised by an inter ministerial group during a visit here on June 9.

Agartala, May 20: Tripura

Agartala, Concerned over the frequent influx of wild elephants in the human habitats in search of food, Forest Department in Tripura has started work to establish two elephant reserves in the state.

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

AGARTALA: Upbeat by the possible reserve of coal in West Tripura’s Tulasikhar area, a far-flung tribal hamlet, local authority of Geological Survey of India (GSI), has sent a report to the Ministry of Coal and Mine, official sources said here on Friday. In the report, the GSI has recommended further study in and around Tuidangkhi, 40 km from Khowai subdivision town.

AGARTALA, April 16

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Agartala, March 30: A person was killed, over 200 houses were damaged and trees and electric posts were uprooted in a severe storm in Tripura last night, police said today.

Purnaram Reang (21) was killed and his wife Anjuti was seriously injured when lightning struck them at Paharpur, a remote tribal hamlet in South Tripura district.

One person was killed while over 200 houses were damaged and trees and electric posts uprooted in a severe storm in Tripura, police said today.

Purnaram Reang (21) was killed and his wife Anjuti was seriously injured when lightning struck them at Paharpur, a remote tribal hamlet in South Tripura district, last night.

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