Tripura

NEW DELHI:  Tripura chief minister Biplab Dev, also the first by the BJP in this hill state, on Saturday resigned as the state head, triggering an immediate meeting of party’s legislators led by Union minister Bhupendra Yadav and MP Vinod Tawde, both of whom were rushed to oversee the election of new leader. The meeting […]

KANCHANPUR/AMBASSA(TRIPURA): At 35, Govinda Bru, a father of three kids, and a member of vulnerable tribal group from Mizoram, had almost lost hope of living a dignified life in Tripura’s Ashapara, a poor suburb in a hilly terrain. He belongs to a community of 37,000 such Bru tribals, also known as Reangs, who left Mizoram […]

VANGHMUN (JAMPUI): With his one leg resting on a bench in a garden full of orchirds, lillies, daisies and other bright flowers, Lallianngena Sailo looks at complete ease as he chops bamboo into small logs to make a step-ladder out of it. The quaint settings of lovely Jampui hills — a block in North Tripura […]

PANISAGAR/ROWA (North Tripura): On a winding street dotted with a dense cover of rubber and betel nut trees, two shrines, a temple and mosque, stand right adjacent to each other near Regional College of Physical Education (RCPE) in in Panisagar in North Tripura. Both of these places have clear inscriptions on them that read: Built by 94 Central […]