Editorial

Tripura’s ruling BJP will contest this month’s Village Committee elections in formal alliance with TIPRA Motha and the IPFT, Chief Minister Manik Saha confirmed Saturday, following a 90-minute meeting at Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s residence that also included TIPRA Motha founder Pradyot Kishore Debbarma. The announcement papers over what had been, until this weekend, […]

GST 2.0 is approaching its first anniversary. The reform, effective September 22, 2025, collapsed India’s four-slab tax structure into essentially two working rates — 5 percent and 18 percent — plus a narrow 40 percent band for luxury and sin goods, moving most everyday items, from packaged food to household appliances, into lower brackets than

President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States would cut its reciprocal tariff on Indian goods from 25 percent to 18 percent, rescinding an additional 25 percent punitive duty imposed over India’s Russian oil purchases, was met in New Delhi with visible relief. Prime Minister Modi called it a “wonderful announcement” and thanked Trump “on

A high-level Ministry of Home Affairs delegation is set to visit Tripura next week to accelerate implementation of the tripartite agreement signed by the Centre, the state government, and TIPRA Motha in March 2024 — a deal meant to resolve long-standing political, land, economic and cultural demands of the state’s indigenous population. The visit follows

At Rangamatiya North High School in Nalchar, a single teacher is currently responsible for nearly 100 students. It isn’t an isolated anomaly. The Ministry of Education’s UDISE report for 2024-25 counted 340 Tripura schools running on just one teacher each, serving a combined 6,492 students; TET-qualified protesters outside the Teachers’ Recruitment Board this year put

On September 28, voters across Tripura’s tribal-dominated areas will finally cast ballots for Village Committees under the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council — a local body election that, by law, should have happened five separate times in the years since it was last held. The last Village Committee elections took place in 2016. The

Today’s IMD bulletin reads like a map of the entire country. Delhi-NCR has seen continuous rain since Friday, forcing at least 11 flight diversions and leaving stretches of the Dwarka Expressway tunnel waterlogged. A nowcast warning issued at 10:38 AM prompted Gurugram’s administration to advise residents against non-essential travel. Himachal Pradesh has 87 roads closed,

The Supreme Court’s September 1 order, published September 4, gives 23 states and union territories two weeks to decide whether district judicial officers should be allowed to serve until 62 instead of retiring at 60. Seven states — Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal — have already agreed and been

Sikkim has identified 40 high-hazard glacial lakes within its own territory, with 16 classified in the highest-risk category for a catastrophic outburst. The disclosure, made at a Gangtok media workshop this week, arrives with grim timing: barely ten days after a glacial collapse near the Nepal-Tibet border killed hundreds and left a trail of destruction

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh released ‘RAKSHA’ in New Delhi this week, a structured ten-year roadmap for India’s global defence partnerships built around four pillars: strategic partnerships, capacity building through joint exercises and training, indigenous defence exports under Make in India, and maritime security anchored in India’s role as Net Security Provider and First Responder in