The brick manufacturing industry in Tripura is passing through a tough time with the State Government importing bricks from Bangladesh.

Around four crore bricks will be imported from the neighbouring country to meet ever- growing demand of bricks in Tripura where development is not the fast-track.

Tripura Government has requested the Centre to change the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006 to give dwelling rights in forests to non-tribals who entered the State after 1947.

According to the present law, a patta can be given to a non-tribal whose family is living in forest land for the past 75 years.

Agartala: The Fitch Ratings, a leading global rating agency recorded the cost of water production in the state to be Rs 19 per kilo litre-one, highest in the country.

AGARTALA, Aug 10: In a bid to protect, conserve and develop the degraded forest areas, the State Government has constituted as many as 472 Joint Forest Management Committees (JFMC) with local communities.

The ONGC has achieved another breakthrough when it discovered a gas field at Kalaban near Palatana in Tripura

Agartala: Designed on the lines of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the Tripura Government would on Friday launch a special employment guarantee scheme for the urban poor.

"Rs 30 crore would be spent initially to benefit 48,000 families in the towns of the state including 22,000 at Agartala," Urban Development Minister Manik Dey said here on Thursday.

The Northeastern States are amongst the top consumers of tobacco products in the country with Mizoram earning the dubious distinction of having the largest number of tobacco product consumers in India.

Sixty-one per cent of the population in Mizoram uses some form of tobacco products. In India, 57 per cent males and 10.9 per cent females use tobacco products.

With the detection of swine flu cases in neighbouring Bangladesh, Tripura has formed Rapid Response Teams (RRT) in all districts and prepared a clinical protocol as a precautionary measure.

Principal Secretary Health Y P Singh told reporters that isolation wards have been set up in district hospitals and sufficient n-95 masks were being kept ready for health workers.

Agartala: Outbreak of gastro-enteritis coupled with viral fever and malaria has taken a worst turn in some areas of West and North Tripura districts, claiming at least three lives in a week.

But not with urban renewal funds, says Centre; rejects its plan THE Centre said no to Tripura