SHILLONG: Seventeen towns and cities have been chosen as benificiaries under the Rajiv Awas Yojna. In pursuance of the Government’s vision of creating a slum-free India, a new scheme called ‘Rajiv Awas Yojana’(RAY) was launched on June 2 this year, which is expected to cover about 250 cities across the country by the end of the 12th Plan.

AGARTALA, July 31 – Tripura, one of the high endemic malaria zones in the country, has witnessed a sharp decline in the incidence of the ‘fatal’ disease.

The census of India’s poor began on June 29 in Tripura, in the Northeast, with a methodology Jairam Ramesh, who was made Union rural development minister in the recent reshuffle, didn’t get a chanc

Aizawl: The State-owned North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Ltd. (NEEPCO) will set up three power plants in Mizoram, generating a total of 1,526 MW, officials said here on Monday.

Agartala: Gas-based 100 MG watt Monarchak power plant in West Tripura district would start generation by January 2013. Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of North East Electrical Power Corporation (NEEPCO), Prem Chand Pankaj, told reporters today that in the first phase 60 MW would be generated by 2013 and later another 40 MW would be generated.

AGARTALA, June 29

Agartala: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led ruling Left Front in Tripura on Saturday called for a 12-hour shutdown in the state Monday to protest against the hike in fuel prices.

AGARTALA, June 22

Agartala: 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.

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