DA Editorial Desk(Sara Debbarma) On 28 September, voters across Tripura’s Sixth Schedule areas will go to the polls to elect Village Committees under the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council. On paper, this is grassroots democracy at its purest — the level of governance closest to the people, where roads, water points and local disputes
DA Editorial Desk (Dhruba Deka) New Delhi has just taken its bow on the world stage. The 18th BRICS Summit, held at Bharat Mandapam on 12–13 September under India’s chairship, wrapped up with leaders unanimously adopting the New Delhi Declaration, placing renewed emphasis on reforming global governance and strengthening multilateralism. Over the course of the
Tripura’s fight against drug abuse has taken on renewed urgency in recent months, with the state emerging as an active participant in the nationwide “Nasha Mukt Yuva Viksit Bharat Sankalp Abhiyan” launched by the Centre. Governor Indra Sena Reddy Nallu, addressing the campaign’s virtual launch at Tripura University, described the initiative as a people’s movement
Chief Minister Manik Saha announced at Monday’s press conference in Agartala that Tripura will run a month-long series of public welfare programmes from September 17 to October 17, timed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday. The calendar includes blood donation camps, health camps, “Boshe Anko” sit-and-draw competitions for children and adolescents, and lamp-lighting ceremonies, rolled
On Thursday, the Champaknagar stretch of National Highway 8 — the road that connects Tripura to Assam and, through it, to the rest of India — became virtually impassable. Rainwater pooled across the carriageway, mud swallowed sections of the road, and hundreds of goods-laden trucks and passenger vehicles sat stranded on both sides for the
The Ministry of Home Affairs’ Citizenship (Third Amendment) Rules 2026, notified last month and now beginning to reach public attention, hand district collectors in Tripura the authority to directly grant citizenship under Section 6B of the Citizenship Act — the CAA route available to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who arrived from Pakistan,
Banking services were disrupted across India on Friday as the United Forum of Bank Unions, an umbrella body of nine unions representing nearly eight lakh public sector bank employees, staged a nationwide one-day strike. Branch operations, cash services, and cheque clearance were affected wherever employees joined the walkout, including at institutions like Indian Bank, UCO
The Tripura High Court’s division bench of Chief Justice M.S. Ramachandra Rao and Justice Biswajit Palit issued a pointed set of directions this week in a suo motu public interest litigation the court itself had initiated over teacher vacancies in government schools. The state government was ordered to immediately commence recruitment for 1,116 vacant Post
The Election Commission of India has deferred the Special Intensive Revision of Tripura’s electoral rolls, originally scheduled to begin September 5, in response to requests from several parties including the ruling BJP, which cited the administrative burden of running SIR alongside the September 28 Village Committee elections. Under the revised timetable, Booth Level Officers will
The Tripura State Election Commission completed scrutiny of Village Committee election nominations on Wednesday, declaring 10,889 of the 10,958 papers filed by 10,936 candidates valid for the September 28 polls across 587 village committees under the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council. SEC Secretary Anurag Sen confirmed the numbers Thursday, while State Election Commissioner PK
