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
India’s National Statistical Office recently released updated National Accounts Statistics placing manufacturing sector Gross Value Added at ₹38.6 lakh crore for 2023-24, or 14.7 percent of GDP. When independent economists cross-checked that figure against other official data sources, they arrived at a substantially lower estimate — around ₹27.4 lakh crore — a gap of roughly
For decades, India has tracked its industrial output monthly through the Index of Industrial Production, while the sector that actually generates more than half the country’s Gross Value Added — services — had no equivalent high-frequency measure at all. That gap has now closed. MoSPI released its third trial round of the new Index of
The Reserve Bank of India’s Unified Lending Interface has moved well past pilot stage, now connecting 64 lenders and 136 data services, with officials pitching it as the lending-sector equivalent of UPI — a platform capable of cutting Kisan Credit Card approval times from four-to-six weeks down to as little as ten minutes by pulling
