Folk people of Tripura, a small state of Northeast India, rely on their own traditional knowledge of phenological indicators for predicting the weather, to help plan their agroforestry activities and disaster prevention. One such prediction relates to the phenology of Nyctanthes arbor-tristis L., night flowering jasmine which helps them to forecast the onset of heavy rainfall.

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Agartala, Dec 22: Indian and Bangladeshi officials will start work later this month on a bridge over the Feni river in Tripura to get access to Bangladesh

GUWAHATI, Dec 15

ONGC Tripura Power Co (OTPC), a unit of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp, has signed an MoU with Dhaka to open up a new transport corridor through Bangladesh for transporting heavy equipment for its power plant at Tripura.

The MoU was signed by OPTC Director RK Madan and Azizur Rahman, Chief Engineer, Roads and Highways Dept, representing the Government of Bangladesh, a company press statem

Agartala/Aizawl, Dec 16 (IANS): Tripura and Mizoram are facing a food crisis as the Food Corporation of India (FCI) has not supplied the allocated quota of food grain to the two States, officials said today.

"In view of the inadequate railway wagons and feeble tracks of NFR (Northeast Frontier Railways), the FCI is unable to supply foodgrain to Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and southern Assam," Tri

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, Nov 28

AGARTALA - The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has embarked on a Rs 550-crore project to broaden storage facilities and maintain uninterrupted supply of food grain to the northeastern states, a top official said here Thursday.

"The corporation has started implementation of the Rs 550-crore project to build big godowns, storage facilities in most of the districts of seven northeastern states," F

It has long been felt that our natural environment should be mapped and monitored with active participation of agencies responsible for managing natural resources, industry groups and community organizations. This organized information forms a basis for storing soil and land databases for the implementation and monitoring of various efforts on land resource management.

Agartala/Aizawl, Oct 21: Mizoram tribal refugees sheltered in Tripura for over 13 years on Thursday organized a protest rally to express their distress over the Mizoram Government

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