DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma The Tripura Pradesh Congress staged a pointed demonstration outside the State Election Office in Agartala on Friday, burning an effigy of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and demanding his resignation and prosecution. MLA Sudip Roy Barman, addressing the gathering, tied the protest to several threads at once: alleged use
DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka At around 11:30 on Friday morning, in the Nakul Para area of Longtharai Hill in Dhalai district, residents were doing what villagers in Tripura’s forested interior have done for generations — gathering trees, bamboo and bamboo shoots from the surrounding forest for their livelihood. A Forest Department patrol team
DA Editorial Team In August 2021, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stood at Mohanpur and promised that a ₹1,300-crore World Bank-funded project for Tripura’s tribal areas would be cleared “within a week to ten days.” That promise took nearly two years to become reality: the project, now formally known as the Tripura Rural Economic Growth
DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma Biplab Kumar Deb, Tripura’s Chief Minister from 2018 to 2022 and currently the sitting Lok Sabha MP for Tripura West, assumed office as a National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party on 17 August this year. It is, by any measure, a significant elevation — a position that
DA Editorial Desk | dhruba deka Paul Dangshu, the 34-year-old TIPRA Motha MLA from Karamcherra, spent part of this August far from the Assembly floor in Agartala, at the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Legislative Summit 2026 in Chicago. As part of the programme, he toured and studied at the University of Chicago’s Harris School
DA Editorial Team The Tripura High Court issued a notification this week declaring a court holiday on 28 September for the TTAADC Village Committee elections. On its own, this is the smallest possible administrative footnote — courts routinely close on major poll days so that staff and litigants alike can participate in the democratic process
DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma Transport Minister Sushanta Chowdhury’s attendance at a road safety awareness event in Agartala this week continues a long tradition in Tripura’s public life — road safety campaigns, awareness clubs, bike rallies and helmet distribution drives have recurred steadily for years, from Sabroom to Sonamura to the state capital. The
DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka The India Meteorological Department has forecast thunderstorms accompanied by lightning across Tripura today, part of a broader spell of heavy rainfall warnings covering much of the Northeast — Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya and Sikkim among them. On its own, this is routine late-monsoon weather, the kind Tripura sees every
DA Editorial Team Ladakh’s leaders have been pressing the Centre for special constitutional protections modelled on Article 371 — the family of provisions that already grant tailored autonomy to states across the Northeast and parts of the Deccan. What makes Ladakh’s case genuinely novel is its ask for the first Article 371-style provision granted to
DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma Speaking at the state BJP headquarters on 15 September, Tripura BJP president Abhishek Debroy addressed reports of groupism and differences among party workers and mandal-level leadership, saying the party would work through its internal mechanisms to resolve organisational concerns while warning that members found engaging in activities against the
