Air surveillance for peaceful polls in TripuraAGARTALA - With military helicopters maintaining air surveillance, paramilitary troopers Wednesday geared up to face any ‘eventuality’ as voting for the two Tripura Lok Sabha constituencies gets underway Thursday. Spirit of democracy triumphs over militants’ gunsAGARTALA - His life was shattered by terrorists’ bullets, but that is not going to stop Amar Ranjan Shil from casting his first vote. Multi-cornered fight in two constituencies (Poll Curtainraiser - Tripura)AGARTALA - Tripura is all set to witness a multi-cornered electoral battle Thursday with 19 candidates, including a woman, from various political parties in the fray for the two parliamentary seats from the northeastern state. Tripura witnesses dull campaigning on last dayAGARTALA - Elections for two Lok Sabha seats scheduled on April 23, Tripura witnessed a very dull last day of campaigning. After songs, plays, rallies galore, campaigning ends in TripuraAGARTALA - Street plays, poems, songs and colourful decorations had livened up the scene in Tripura as part of campaigning for the two Lok Sabha seats in the state that ended Tuesday. Some poll officials too began an arduous journey to reach their postings in remote parts of the northeastern state. Bangladesh seeks to increase trade with northeast IndiaAGARTALA - Bangladeshi trade and industry groups have said they would increase trade and economic activities with India’s northeast region and urged Dhaka to provide transit facilities to India. Money playing big role in northeast polls: BJPAGARTALA - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday alleged that money is playing a major role in the Lok Sabha elections in the northeastern states, dwarfing all other poll issues. Presidential system of governance not needed: MukherjeeAGARTALA - Rejecting the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) proposal of presidential system of governance in India, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here that the Congress is keen on strengthening the parliamentary system of democracy. Pranab Mukherjee terms ‘Third Front’ a dramaAGARTALA - Senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday compared the newly-formed ‘Third Front’ with a drama, saying it was a conglomeration of some State parties in search of a Prime Minister. Congress stronger than BJP in tackling militancy: MukherjeeAGARTALA - Senior Congress leader and External Affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday refuted the allegation of the BJP that the Congress was “soft” towards Pakistan and failed to contain terrorism in the country rather he claimed that his party is more strongly dealing with the militancy issue and particularly the Pakistan sponsored cross border terrorism than the BJP. Regional parties lack national perspective: MukherjeeAGARTALA - Regional parties have ‘no uniformity on national issues and no all India perspective’, External Affairs Minister and Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee said Thursday, reiterating the views of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Development, violence on voters’ mind in northeast pollsAGARTALA - Lack of development and continuing militant violence will be on top of the voters’ mind in the northeast as 10 of its 24 constituencies in six states go to the polls Thursday. Jumbo fear stalks some Meghalaya polling boothsAGARTALA - Poll authorities in Meghalaya are facing a strange problem - possible attacks by wild elephants during polling day. In Tripura, eight of 19 candidates are undergraduatesAGARTALA - At least eight of the total 19 candidates contesting the two Lok Sabha seats in Tripura were undergraduates while two have criminal cases pending against them, the National Election Watch (NEW) said in a report Monday. National parties field just three women in NortheastAGARTALA - The number of women candidates fighting the upcoming parliamentary polls in the northeast has increased from seven in 2004 to 18 this time, although just three of the women candidates have been fielded by national parties. Northeast India’s biggest steel plant begins productionAGARTALA - The biggest gas-based steel plant in northeast India started commercial production in Tripura Friday. Special powers for armed forces main poll issue in northeastAGARTALA - The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act of 1958 (AFSPA) has become a major poll issue ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in the northeastern region with demands for its repeal becoming louder. Communists plan to review economic policiesAGARTALA - CPI (M) General Secretary Prakash Karat has said that pro-people economic policies will replace what they feel pro-US policies, if voted to power. Third Front certain to win Lok Sabha polls, asserts KaratAGARTALA - Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat Sunday said it was now ‘thousand percent confirmed’ that the Third Front with the Left parties in the lead would form the government at the centre after the Lok Sabha polls. Scientists start regional network to study earthquakes in HimalayasAGARTALA - The Holy Grail for geologists is the ability to predict an earthquake. While they continue their search, the Geological Survey of India (GSI) is putting in place a network by which they can forecast overall seismic activity in the Himalayas, one of the most quake-prone regions of the world. BSF trooper, civilian injured in Tripura blastAGARTALA - A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper and a civilian were injured in a bomb explosion near the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura Thursday, police here said. Four killed in lightning in TripuraAGARTALA - At least four people were killed and 10 others injured when lightning struck them in Tripura villages, an official said Wednesday. Tripura will play crucial role in forming Third Front: CPI-MAGARTALA - Tripura will play a crucial role in forming a third front government after the April-May Lok Sabha polls, claimed a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) spokesman here Monday. Joint patrolling of India-Bangladesh border resumedAGARTALA - Indian and Bangladeshi frontiers guards have resumed joint patrolling along the border after a brief suspension of the combined vigil following a mutiny by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) troopers in Dhaka last month, officials said here Sunday. Southeast Asia planning to increase trade with northeast IndiaAGARTALA - Members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) will intensify business with the eight northeastern states of India, diplomats said here Friday. Trinamool Congress to fight it out alone in TripuraAGARTALA - Despite a seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress will contest alone the Lok Sabha elections in Tripura. Disease replaces terrorism as major poll issue in TripuraAGARTALA - A disease has replaced terrorism as the major poll issue in Tripura. The state has faced insurgency for three decades, but the death of 40 people and the illness of hundreds more from a virulent form of meningitis in the past two months is on top of the agenda for the people and politicians. Puppeteers on World Puppetry Day enthrall people of TripuraAGARTALA - Puppets on strings, rods and hands enthralled hundreds of enthusiastic spectators at an event organised on the occasion of World Puppetry Day here on Saturday. Ban on meetings in school, college grounds liftedAGARTALA - Giving in to the demand of political parties across the country, the Election Commission has lifted the ban on election rallies in school and college grounds, it was announced Saturday. India-Bangladesh trade hit by BDR mutinyAGARTALA - The bloody mutiny of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in Dhaka last month has knocked off the Indo-Bangladesh border trade by 50 percent, traders here Thursday said. |
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