There is a particular kind of political fatigue that sets in when a demand keeps returning without ever being met. In Tripura, that demand is a white paper — a formal, public accounting of how the state government spends its money. The Congress party asked for one in October 2024, over the rehabilitation of surrendered
On the night of May 20, a routine patrol out of Teliamura police station in Khowai district intercepted a vehicle carrying a large consignment of Eskuf, a codeine-based cough syrup long favoured by narcotics traffickers for its easy misuse. It should have been an unremarkable success story: contraband seized, a case registered, the system working
From August 5, the streets of Agartala and district headquarters across Tripura filled with a familiar but pointed ritual of Indian opposition politics: the sit-in. The Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee launched a week-long statewide dharna, its cadres gathering for three-hour demonstrations at district and subdivision offices, demanding something that sounds almost mundane on paper —
Every student protest starts with a specific, answerable demand. Delhi’s began with one: NEET paper leaks and CBSE marking irregularities had wrecked the exam prospects of thousands of students, some of whom took their own lives over it. That is about as legitimate a grievance as a democracy will ever produce. What is worth asking,
Parliament has just expanded the Supreme Court’s sanctioned strength from 34 to 38 judges, including the Chief Justice of India. The bill passed the Lok Sabha by voice vote, with barely any debate, as opposition members occupied the Well of the House protesting entirely unrelated issues. A statutory resolution to reject the ordinance the bill
A single by-election rarely reshapes a state’s politics on its own, but Bankipur deserves more attention than the usual footnote reserved for a seat that changed hands. Prashant Kishor, contesting his first election, defeated the BJP’s candidate by close to 19,000 votes in a constituency the party had held for five consecutive terms — and
The unfair fight Human relationships are, by design, inconvenient. They involve forgotten anniversaries, misread text messages, silences that mean something and silences that mean nothing, and the slow, effortful work of being understood by someone who is not obligated to understand you. An AI companion carries none of that weight. It is built to be
A generator, stowed inside a moving bus, exploded and set the vehicle ablaze on National Highway 108(B) near Mohanpur, leaving thirteen school students with burn injuries — nine of them serious enough to require referral to GB Pant Hospital in Agartala. Passengers described a fire that spread within minutes, panic in a remote stretch of
Chief Minister Manik Saha’s inspection this week of the pond restoration work at Madhya Para Chalaman Sangha, near Prabhu Bari, is easy to read as a routine administrative visit — a photo-op with the mayor and a local councillor, a three-month deadline set, officials nodding along. But look past the ceremony and the story underneath
When Washington redrew its tariff map this year, India’s textile and apparel exporters found something they had rarely enjoyed in a decade of trade negotiations: an advantage. Under the new US schedule, Indian goods face a 10 percent duty, while Vietnam — the country that has spent the last ten years quietly eating into India’s
