Key contests to watch out for in triangular fight in TripuraBJP is contesting the polls in alliance with the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT). BJP has fielded candidates in 55 constituencie...
19 Feb, 2023, 04.58 PM IST
Tripura to go to polls on Thursday in high-stakes contest, over 28 lakh voters eligible to exercise franchiseTripura is the first state to go to the polls this year. While polling for Nagaland and Meghalaya assemblies will be held on February 27, f...
16 Feb, 2023, 12.48 AM IST
All vacant posts in Tripura govt will be filled up: BJP executive meetingIn the budget speech Deputy Chief Minister Jishu Dev Verma had announced that social pension will be hiked from Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,000 per mo...
07 Jul, 2022, 06.47 PM IST
Manik Saha takes oath; cabinet has 9 BJP and 2 IPFT facesThe IPFT, which is caught in a leadership tussle, has dropped Mevar Kumar Jamatia, the minister for forest and tribal welfare during Deb's ...
17 May, 2022, 12.06 AM IST
BJP has given me everything, will continue performing duties with devotion: Biplab Deb"I am a BJP karyakarta (worker). I have got everything from the party from being the state in-charge to the chief minister within a very sh...
16 May, 2022, 09.41 PM IST
Amid resentment, 11 Tripura ministers take oathOf the 11 ministers, nine MLAs of the BJP and two IPFT legislators, took the oaths administered by Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya during a c...
16 May, 2022, 03.57 PM IST
Eleven MLAs in Tripura to take oath as ministers on MondayGovernor SN Arya will administer the oath of office and secrecy to the cabinet ministers at a programme in Raj Bhavan in the presence of Ch...
16 May, 2022, 01.27 PM IST
Pandemonium in BJP office in Tripura, Manik Saha will be sworn in as CM on SundayManik Saha was recently elected to Rajya Sabha. On Saturday in a hurriedly convened BJP legislature party meeting, Deb announced Saha’s nam...
14 May, 2022, 10.34 PM IST
BJP sweeps Tripura civic body polls, Trinamool Congress fails to make a dentElections took place to the 51-member Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC), 171 seats in seven municipal councils and six nagar panchayats....
29 Nov, 2021, 08.40 AM IST
Trinamool Cong MPs raise pitch over Tripura violence, meet Amit Shah ahead of Didi's Delhi visitThe political tension between the BJP and Trinamool escalated on Monday with over a dozen Trinamool MPs protesting outside the home ministr...
23 Nov, 2021, 12.03 AM IST
Trinamool rally in Tripura on September 22“Our survey shows that people of Tripura have decided to oust BJP from the state,” said TMC leader Sushmita Dev. Earlier, the state governm...
15 Sep, 2021, 10.28 AM IST
FM promises Rs 1,300 crore development package for Tripura tribal areasAddressing a programme after inaugurating some 11 projects at Mohanpur, about 50 km from here, Sitharaman said the Rs. 1300-crore project w...
27 Aug, 2021, 07.38 PM IST
Tripura requests Centre to extend agreement for export of 160 megawatts power to BangladeshTripura’s Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma said that the state has surplus power and wants to continue with the supply to Bangladesh.
08 Jan, 2021, 06.39 PM IST
BJP’s central leadership asks Tripura CM to call off ‘referendum’ rallyDeb has been facing dissidence from party MLAs. After Deb’s meeting with ministers and MLAs on Wednesday, deputy chief minister Jishnu Dev ...
10 Dec, 2020, 11.44 PM IST
Sudip Roy Barman stripped of ministership in TripuraBarman had left congress and joined Trinamool congress. However Sudip later left Trinamool and joined BJP in 2017.
01 Jun, 2019, 09.07 AM IST
India, B'desh must take steps to further economic ties: DebAddressing the inaugural session of an Indo-Bangla dialogue organized by Agartala Press Club here today, Deb said both India and Bangladesh...
02 Sep, 2018, 10.05 PM IST
PM Modi pushes for cooperative federalism at Tripura oath-taking ceremonyOn Friday, Biplab Kumar Deb took oath as the chief minister of the state and Jishnu Deb Burman took charge as his deputy.
10 Mar, 2018, 06.47 AM IST