DA Editorial Team On 30 July, an intruder allegedly entered the women’s resident doctors’ hostel at Agartala’s GBP Hospital through an open balcony, pushed a postgraduate resident, and fled with her mobile phone. The incident exposed a list of security gaps serious enough to prompt a formal review: CCTV coverage that did not extend across
DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma Residents of East Kolabaria in Belonia, led by local women, blocked the Belonia–Santirbazar road this week, demanding a permanent solution to a drinking water shortage that had left them without regular supply for a month. Water tankers sent by the department, they said, arrived irregularly and in insufficient quantity,
DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka Tripura’s Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department began a major verification exercise this week, checking ration-card beneficiaries under the state’s SMART-PDS system for inactive, duplicate and potentially ineligible entries. Any card against which no ration has been lifted for six consecutive months will be classified as a “silent
DA Editorial Team India’s approach to building foundational digital systems, Aadhaar for identity, UPI for payments, and the broader India Stack architecture connecting them, has quietly become one of the country’s more significant exports of ideas, even as the technology itself remains largely domestic in origin. A growing number of developing countries are now studying,
DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma Tripura’s success with rubber cultivation, discussed in this paper before, has come with an underappreciated cost: a state economy increasingly dependent on a single cash crop whose prices are set in commodity markets the state has no control over. When global rubber prices dip, as they periodically do, the
DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka India’s retirement age for most central government employees has stood at 60 for more than two decades, with many state governments and public sector undertakings following similar norms, some slightly lower, a few marginally higher for specific categories like judges and university professors. That figure has become so embedded
A shipment of nuclear fuel for Bangladesh’s flagship Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant has been delayed after Pakistan denied overflight clearance to a Russian aircraft transporting the cargo, raising fresh questions about regional transit routes and the movement of sensitive strategic materials. The consignment, carrying uranium fuel assemblies intended for the second reactor at the Rooppur
DA Editorial Team India’s projected overtaking of China in the number of affluent consumers by 2036 has, understandably, been read mostly through a corporate lens: a new frontier for global companies chasing premium spending. But the more consequential story is domestic. A near-quadrupling of India’s high-spending consumer base, from 2.6 crore to 10.8 crore people,
DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma Tripura’s transformation into India’s second-largest natural rubber producing state, behind only Kerala, is one of the Northeast’s genuine agricultural success stories. Beginning in the 1960s and accelerating through sustained state support over subsequent decades, rubber cultivation has spread across the state’s hill slopes, offering tens of thousands of small
DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka When direct channels between adversaries collapse, intermediaries step in to fill the vacuum. Pakistan’s Army Chief Asim Munir carrying a US-drafted framework on the Strait of Hormuz to Tehran this week is the latest instance of this pattern, one that has recurred throughout the history of US-Iran relations whenever
