DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka On Thursday, Xi Jinping will walk into the White House for the second time in less than a year of renewed engagement with Donald Trump, in what will be their third in-person meeting since October 2025. Trump is set to greet him personally at Joint Base Andrews the day
DA Editorial Team Official state data shows a notable rise in chemical fertiliser consumption across Tripura in the years since the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, better known as PM-KISAN, began putting direct income support into farmers’ bank accounts. The correlation is being read by some as evidence that the scheme’s modest but predictable payouts
DA Editorial | Sara Debbarma Tripura’s Leader of Opposition, Jitendra Chaudhury, has accused the ruling BJP of delaying Village Committee elections in the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council for nearly a decade, alleging that the polls now underway were only scheduled after the Supreme Court directed the State Election Commission to conduct them. Speaking
DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka Some stories do not need statistics to make their point. This week, in Naljala village near Bishramganj in Sepahijala district, residents carried the body of a 70-year-old man on their shoulders to the cemetery — because the road connecting Naljala to Jotatali remains, according to villagers, in the same
DA Editorial Desk| DA Team Apollo Hospitals’ recent contribution of ₹1 crore to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund for Tripura’s flood recovery operations is a welcome gesture, and one that fits a pattern this state has seen repeatedly in recent years. When flooding has struck Tripura before, the response from beyond its borders has been
DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma On 20 July this year, Tripura’s Director General of Police, Anurag Dhankar, was found dead in his own office at the state Police Headquarters in Agartala. He was rushed to hospital and, despite resuscitation efforts, declared dead shortly after noon. A 1994-batch IPS officer who had been given a
DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka The warmth that once defined the India-US relationship has cooled considerably over the past year, and the latest chapter in that story arrived this month in the form of legislation with a deceptively narrow name: the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026. Signed by President
DA Editorial Team Tripura’s network of Eklavya Model Residential Schools is set to grow from 12 to 18 by November, with six new campuses nearing completion and expected to become operational within weeks, according to the state’s Tribal Welfare Department. Construction on all six is reported to be finished, barring minor remaining work. For a
DA Editorial Desk (Sara Debbarma) H.H Pradyot Kishore Debbarma, the founder of TIPRA Motha and the figure most closely associated with the movement that has reshaped indigenous politics in Tripura over the past five years, has signalled that he may step back from active political positions. In a video message shared on social media, he
DA Editorial Desk (Dhruba Deka) In the middle of an already tense Village Committee election season, Tripura has run into a problem that has nothing to do with candidates, symbols, or voter rolls, and everything to do with the platforms on which the campaign is now fought. TIPRA Motha’s General Secretary, Brishaketu Debbarma, has approached
