AGARTALA, March 21: Tripura Sunday announced plans to make all public and private vehicles in Agartala run on compressed natural gas (CNG) by 2013, thus making the capital

Maneka Gandhi

UDAIPUR, March 14: Maneka Gandhi

Agartala, March 3: Tripura Governor Dr DY Patil expressed concern over increasing incidences of green house gas (GHG) emission across the globe and claimed that the state government had been advocating and practising sustainable use of natural resources.

The work on the railway project linking Tripura with Akhaura in Bangladesh will be completed by 2014, officials said today.

Prices of essential commodities, such as rice, sugar and wheat, have increased due to supply of poor quality food grains by the fair price shops.

Addressing a press conference here today, Michael N Syiem, leader of an NGO Mait Shaphrang Movement, said that people are buying most of the essential commodities from the open market leading to price rice.

Agartala, Feb 9: Bangladesh has finally agreed to allow Tripura to use the water of Feni River and decided that a joint survey for setting up water treatment plant in the southern Tripura town of Sabroom would be carried out on February 12.

A ten-member delegation of Bangladesh will arrive Sarboom in South district on Monday to inspect the proposed water treatment plant at Anandapara, 6 km from Sabroom town.

The 6.5-lakh-gallon water treatment plant, which was mulled six to seven years back, could not be implemented due to opposition from the Bangladesh Rifles(BDR).

AGARTALA, Feb 5: Performance of Left Front Government in implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has emerged better in comparison with two other Left-ruled States West Bengal and Kerala, Rural Development Ministry

Agartala: Following report of fresh cases of Meningococcal Meningitis in remote locations of North Tripura, the state government has demanded 1.83 lakh vaccines from Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, state Health Minister Tapan Chakraborty said.