The Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council was conceived with a clear purpose: to give the state’s tribal communities greater control over their own governance, land, culture, and development. Established under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, the TTAADC covers nearly two-thirds of Tripura’s geographical area and remains one of the most significant instruments of […]
Tripura has made real strides in education over the past two decades. Literacy rates have climbed steadily, more young people are completing higher secondary school, and enrolment in colleges and universities across the state continues to grow. Yet this progress sits alongside a persistent and uncomfortable reality: a large number of educated youth in the
Every few months, India is reminded — often through images of tractors on highways or farmers camped outside state capitals — that the country’s agricultural heartland remains in distress. The scenes vary: sometimes it is protests over minimum support prices (MSP), sometimes it is farmer suicides reported in Vidarbha or Bundelkhand, and sometimes it is
Responding to PM Modi’s Independence Day speech, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge reached for a familiar line: accusing the BJP and RSS of spreading hatred and division, he declared that the Congress, by contrast, is “opening a mohabbat ki dukaan” — a shop of love. It is a good soundbite. It is also, at this point,
BJP MLA Sumitro Chatterjee, a direct descendant of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, has written to Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi demanding an unconditional apology over what he called an “insult” to Vande Mataram at the Congress headquarters on Independence Day. His specific allegation is striking: he says that when Congress workers began singing the full
Late Friday evening, as India readied itself for eightieth Independence Day celebrations, a flash flood tore through the Pasu Pani Army Camp in Arunachal Pradesh’s Dibang Valley, sweeping away two shelters of the 5th Grenadier regiment. Seven soldiers were carried off by the water. Two were rescued. Five — Havaldar Upendar and jawans Kundan, Vinod,
From the Red Fort this Independence Day, Prime Minister Modi renewed India’s bid to host the 2036 Olympics and announced a nationwide talent hunt for children aged five to fifteen, aimed squarely at a blunt admission: India does not even qualify for roughly two-thirds of the sport’s 325 to 350 Olympic events. The goal, he
For fifteen months, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said nothing publicly about Operation Sindoor, India’s 88-hour military response to the April 2025 Pahalgam terror attack. That silence ended not in a press conference, a parliamentary session, or a formal government briefing, but in a two-part Discovery documentary, timed to premiere on the evening of India’s
In an 80th Independence Day speech otherwise built around growth roadmaps and a seven-part “Shakti Ki Saptadhara” framework, one line has ended up dominating the conversation the following day. Prime Minister Modi declared that armed Maoism has been almost entirely eliminated from India’s forests, then pivoted to warn of a different, more diffuse threat: “dimaagi
Six months after Prime Minister Modi personally invited Tarique Rahman to visit India “at his earliest convenience,” Bangladesh’s government still cannot say when, or even whether, that visit will happen. This week, Dhaka’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shama Obaed Islam, told reporters plainly that nothing has been finalised, adding only that the Prime Minister
