DA Editorial team Monday brought India two very different kinds of news. At the Asian Games 2026, shooter Esha Singh won a silver medal in the women’s 25m pistol event, adding to the country’s medal count and giving millions of Indians a reason to cheer. On the same day, public sector bank branches across the
DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma Long before voting opened at 7 a.m. on Monday, men and women from Tripura’s tribal communities, many in traditional attire, were already standing in line outside polling stations across eight districts. By 10 a.m., more than 20 per cent of eligible voters had cast their ballots, and in the
DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka By evening, the queues outside Tripura’s 1,095 polling stations will have thinned, the ballot boxes will be sealed, and the state will enter a week of waiting. The State Election Commission has scheduled counting for the Village Committee elections on 5 October, leaving a gap of a full week
DA Editorial Team Tomorrow, Tripura’s voters head to 1,095 polling stations to elect Village Committees under the TTAADC — a democratic exercise this newspaper has followed closely through weeks of campaigning, controversy and preparation. Today, the last calm before that verdict, is a fitting moment to take stock of what remains unresolved as the state
DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma From Monday, 28 September through Wednesday, 30 September, public sector bank branches across India — Tripura’s included — will fall silent as employees observe a three-day nationwide strike called by the United Forum of Bank Unions. Because the preceding days are a fourth Saturday and a Sunday, the practical
DA Editorial Desk |Dhruba Deka On World Tourism Day, Chief Minister Manik Saha made a case for tourism as an emerging pillar of Tripura’s economy, crediting the renovation of temples and heritage sites for rising footfall and pointing to the state’s second-place ranking among Northeastern states by GSDP as evidence the strategy is working. Speaking
DA Editorial Team It has now been just over a year since the Centre’s Next-Gen GST Reform took effect on 22 September 2025, collapsing India’s tax structure toward a simpler two-tier system and cutting rates on a wide range of essentials, automobiles, agricultural inputs and electronics. The numbers cited at the time were substantial: a
DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma Campaigning for the TTAADC Village Committee elections ended peacefully at 4 pm on Saturday, with voting set for Monday, 28 September. Briefing reporters at the State Election Commission office in Agartala, SEC Secretary Anurag Sen laid out the scale of the exercise: polling across 44 blocks at 1,095 stations,
DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka Xi Jinping’s motorcade rolled up to the White House on Thursday for his first visit to Washington in more than a decade, greeted the previous evening by President Trump himself on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews — a red carpet, a military honour guard, and a level of
DA Editorial Team Late Thursday night in Agartala’s Colonel Chowmuhani area, a vehicle evaded a routine police checking point, was pursued into a narrow lane, and was abandoned by its driver, who escaped on foot. Inside, police recovered roughly 193 kilograms of suspected cannabis. A second operation in Unakoti district the same period brought the
