Imphal, June 15: Even as Chief Minister O Ibobi is wracking his minds over the downsizing move to be effected by July 7, its partner the MSCP, which has two MLAs, has begun exerting pressure on the Chief Minister to include one of its MLAs in the Council of Minister when the down sizing is effected. Disclosing this to The Sangai Express a prominent member of the Congress said that the MSCP has recently submitted a written intimation to the president of MPCC (I), to accommodate one of the two MSCP MLAs in the Council of Ministers. Chief Minister O Ibobi is also the president of the MPCC (I)...

Guwahati, June 15: The Tarun Gogoi government and the World Bank are close to signing an agreement to put in place a “market-driven rural economy” with assistance of around Rs 917 crore from the latter. Headed by Australian Robert Epworth, an eight-member World Bank delegation is in the state on an “appraisal mission”. The delegation is reviewing presentations by the several departments that would form part of the five-year programme Assam Agriculture Competitiveness Project (AACP), which is tipped to take-off in November. The team will meet chief minister Tarun Gogoi on June 18.

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Agartala, June 15: Her mantra for success is simple: “Think beyond time and space”. But it surely has taken a lot more than simple philosophising for Arunima Jamatya to reach where she has from a state where 85 per cent of tribal students drop out of school. Arunima is fresh out of IIT, Kharagpur, and has two lucrative job offers on her lap. But the biggest achievement of this unassuming tribal girl — one that will perhaps not find a place on her CV — is that she has gone where no tribal student from Tripura has.

Back in this capital town for a month-long holiday, Arunima seems oblivious to...

Agartala, June 15: Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar today expressed concern over the sudden spurt in militant attacks, reflected in the killing of a party worker and abduction of 31 people over the past few days. Sarkar said the militants were trying to make their presence felt as they were demoralised by the return to mainstream of two groups of the National Liberation Front of Tripura — Nayanbasi Jamatya and Mantu Koloi-Kamini Debbarma combine.

Sarkar told the Assembly that militants belonging to the All Tripura Tiger Force and the Biswamohan Jamatya group of the NLFT, who had set up...

Agartala, June 15: Tripura’s increasing number of insurgency-hit non-tribal refugees has demanded adequate security from the government and their inclusion in the “cluster village” scheme. The Left Front government has implemented the scheme for tribal refugees in the interior areas. However, more than 10,000 non-tribal refugees, who have been ejected from the homes in the Jampui Jala and Takarjala areas under Bishalgarh subdivision, have requested the government to include them in the special rehabilitation programme.

The non-tribals in the sub-division bore the brunt of the Tripura...