Agartala: A Tridev temple dedicated to Mahadev, Hanuman and Shani Dev was inaugurated on Friday in the Nutan Palli area of Krishnanagar, near Durga Chowmuhani, amid religious fervour and celebration. Set up on the initiative of Ward No. 18 of the Agartala Municipal Corporation, the temple stands in front of the ward office. It was
DA Editorial Team Durga Puja in Tripura is a season of lights, music and reunion, and this year the state prepared well, with more than 10,000 police personnel deployed for 3,047 pujas across nine police divisions. Yet the festival has also brought sorrow. On Maha Navami night, a minor died and another was critically injured
DA Editorial Desk|Sara Debbarma Tripura’s young people are among the most mobile in the country. They travel to Delhi, Bengaluru and other cities to study, work and build careers, because opportunities at home are limited. This week brought two reminders of how much they risk. Political parties and leaders have condemned the alleged racial abuse
DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka The Supreme Court will hear a plea on 28 October that goes to the heart of how India keeps its voter lists honest. Two days later, on 30 October, the window for claims and objections in Delhi’s Special Intensive Revision closes. Those two dates sit very close together, and
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held talks in Mumbai on 20 and 21 October, his second visit to India in five months. He met External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to discuss trade, defence, technology and energy security. Mr Rubio said the two countries are nearly done with the proposed trade agreement, with only a
Brazil’s presidential runoff on 25 October is now too close to call. Senator Flavio Bolsonaro finished first in the 4 October first round with 47.03 percent of valid votes against 45.16 percent for President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the narrowest gap between the top two since the return to democracy, according to Latin Times.
European Union leaders ended a two-day summit in Brussels on 16 October with an agreement to take coordinated short-term action on energy prices, and with work still to do on the bloc’s next long-term budget and Ukraine’s finances for 2027. Council President Antonio Costa had called for “targeted and temporary measures”. On energy, leaders welcomed
On 9 October, President Donald Trump announced a deal to buy Russian diesel, a sharp break from years of Western economic pressure on Moscow. He said President Vladimir Putin had agreed to supply more than 300,000 tonnes immediately, then 500,000 tonnes in November and 1 million tonnes soon after, with a further 3 million tonnes
Tripura’s teacher eligibility test is meant to be the beginning of a career, not the start of a long wait. Yet candidates who qualified the test say they have waited more than a year for recruitment. In September, protesting aspirants said about 40,000 candidates sat the exam and 1,856 qualified. They gave the government a
DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma Delhi’s air has slipped into the “poor” category. At 7 am on Wednesday, the air quality index stood at 219, according to the early warning dashboard run by IITM Pune with the India Meteorological Department. The previous afternoon it had been 179, in the moderate band. The forecast is
