Seat-sharing tensions within the BJP-TIPRA Motha-IPFT alliance have surfaced this week in South Tripura, where sections of BJP workers have voiced disappointment over their party’s allocation under the joint arrangement. In Dumburnagar block, BJP workers in Raimavally have questioned receiving only five of 19 Village Committee seats. In West Ludhua, where TIPRA Motha was allotted
TIPRA Motha founder Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma, addressing supporters through a Facebook Live session on August 31, described the upcoming Village Committee elections as a crucial political contest whose outcome could send an important signal ahead of Tripura’s 2028 Assembly elections. He urged party leaders and workers to begin preparations early and to select honest,
Tripura Power and Agriculture Minister Ratan Lal Nath told reporters this week that the NDA alliance of BJP, TIPRA Motha and IPFT is confident of winning between 90 and 95 percent of seats in the September 28 Village Committee elections, spanning 587 villages and 4,597 seats across 52 of Tripura’s 58 blocks. Nath framed the
Nomination filing for Tripura’s Village Committee elections closed this week with a genuinely striking number on the board: 10,936 candidates submitted 10,958 nomination papers across 52 blocks, contesting 4,597 seats spread over 587 Village Committees. Today, September 9, those papers go through scrutiny, the next formal step before the September 11 withdrawal deadline and the
Chief Minister Manik Saha told the International Literacy Day and ULLAS Mela in New Delhi this week that Tripura’s primary-level dropout rate has fallen to zero percent in 2025-26, down from 2.21 percent in 2013-14, placing the state among a small handful nationally to reach that mark. Secondary dropout, for Classes IX and X, has
Nomination filing for Tripura’s September 28 Village Committee elections closed today, September 8, amid Left Front allegations that its candidates faced systematic intimidation across multiple TTAADC blocks. Former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said Left candidates in several areas were warned their homes would be burned if they didn’t withdraw, and specifically flagged Jirania and Mohanpur
IPFT General Secretary Swapan Debbarma was allegedly assaulted at Hezamara on Tuesday while travelling toward Khowai district on Village Committee election business, with supporters of TIPRA Motha named as those allegedly involved. IPFT minister Shukla Charan Noatia called it a “brutal attack” and warned that such acts “directly undermine the very spirit of our unity,”
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
