AGARTALA: Tripura’s traditional Ker Puja commenced on Monday night at Ujjayanta Palace, with religious rituals held at the Rajbari premises on Tuesday. The puja will formally conclude on Wednesday morning. Ker Puja is a two-and-a-half-day tantric and cultural festival dedicated to the Vastu deity ‘Ker’, considered the protector of the state. Unlike conventional pujas, it […]
AGARTALA: Tripura University organised a day-long programme on Tuesday to mark the 12th National Handloom Day 2026, featuring a quiz competition and awareness sessions aimed at students. The event was designed to sensitise Tripura University students about the significance of handloom and the handicraft sector, while also guiding them on how they can build careers
A deadly drone strike on a crowded beach near Russia’s Black Sea resort town of Gelendzhik has killed seven people, including three children, and injured 40 others, according to regional authorities. The attack occurred in Arkhipo‑Osipovka, a popular holiday destination in the Krasnodar region, where tourists had gathered during peak summer season. Russian officials accused
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will make her first live media appearance since her 2024 ouster, speaking to international journalists through an audio‑only link from India on 5 August. The event, organised by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia (FCC South Asia), marks exactly two years since she fled Dhaka following a student‑led
A senior operative linked to Lashkar‑e‑Taiba (LeT) — a violent extremist organisation responsible for severe harm, loss of life, and human rights violations — has claimed that more than 30 militants from LeT and allied outfits have been killed by unidentified attackers across Pakistan over the past three to four years. The allegations, made by
An Air India flight travelling from Phuket, Thailand, to New Delhi ran into severe air turbulence on Tuesday morning, leaving 10 passengers and four cabin crew members injured. The aircraft, an Airbus A320 operating as flight AI 2379 with 134 people on board, suddenly dropped nearly 300 feet in altitude while cruising through an area
A generator, stowed inside a moving bus, exploded and set the vehicle ablaze on National Highway 108(B) near Mohanpur, leaving thirteen school students with burn injuries — nine of them serious enough to require referral to GB Pant Hospital in Agartala. Passengers described a fire that spread within minutes, panic in a remote stretch of
Chief Minister Manik Saha’s inspection this week of the pond restoration work at Madhya Para Chalaman Sangha, near Prabhu Bari, is easy to read as a routine administrative visit — a photo-op with the mayor and a local councillor, a three-month deadline set, officials nodding along. But look past the ceremony and the story underneath
When Washington redrew its tariff map this year, India’s textile and apparel exporters found something they had rarely enjoyed in a decade of trade negotiations: an advantage. Under the new US schedule, Indian goods face a 10 percent duty, while Vietnam — the country that has spent the last ten years quietly eating into India’s
Agartala: The Weavers’ Service Centre, Agartala, under the Office of the Development Commissioner for Handlooms, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, is organising the celebration of the 12th National Handloom Week on August 4, 2026, at the Conference Hall, Pariksha Bhawan, Tripura University, starting at 10:30 AM. Prof. Debabrata Das, Vice-Chancellor of Tripura University, will
