Tripura reports first COVID-19 positive case, CM Biplab Deb asks people not to panic
India | April 06, 2020 22:49 ISTTripura reports first COVID-19 positive case
Tripura reports first COVID-19 positive case
The Agartala Municipal Corporation that operates the crematorium has been urged to issue a circular that a maximum of seven people should accompany a body due to the present situation, said Ajoy Chakraborty, another priest.
Amid the growing coronavirus scare, the Tripura government on Monday decided to shutdown all schools, colleges, universities, cinema halls, swimming pools, gymnasiums with immediate effect till March 31.
The charred body of a 23-year-old woman has been found in West Tripura district, police said on Saturday.
Alleging that the violence in Delhi was a "pre-planned conspiracy", former Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar started a drive to raise funds for thoseaffected by the clashes.
Tripura police on Sunday recovered 1.5 lakh Yaba tablets worth Rs 7.5 crore in the possession of a man at the international market from Gokulnagar.
In a major breakthrough, BSF, forest and police officials in a joint raid have seized around 9,000 kgs of sandalwood worth nearly Rs 25 crore in Tripura, officials said here on Wednesday.
Former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Saturday alleged that tribal people in Tripura are not getting any jobs as BJP workers and supporters are getting all work under MGNREGA and other government schemes.
A video clip of endangered pythons being slaughtered for its meat at a tribal hamlet in north Tripura district has gone viral on social media, prompting the forest department to order a probe into the incident.
The Tripura government on Tuesday sounded a coronavirus alert in the whole state especially along the Indo-Bangla international border, an official said.
PM Modi greeted the people of Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura on their Statehood Day and hailed the traditions and culture of the three northeast states.
The BJP MP said that days before the voting on the CAB, he was threatened of dire consequences by NLFT if he had voted in the favour of the bill.
The Bangladesh government has withdrawn its restrictions on importing nine items from India through two land ports in Tripura, in a boost to traders of the region, officials said on Saturday.
Road and rail traffic were badly affected and thousands of passengers stranded in the midway as the picketers did not allow plying the vehicles and trains running between Tripura and rest of the country
Ajoy Rudra Pal (21) and his mother, Minati, were arrested, based on a complaint filed by the girl's family with Santirbazar police station in South Tripura, Officer-in-Charge Narayan Chandra Saha said.
UDAN seeks to connect unserved and underserved airports as well as make flying more affordable. "With a focus on connectivity of Northeastern region, UDAN 4.0 scheme under the Ministry of Civil Aviation has invited bids for six underserved and 24 unserved airports/airstrips in the North East states of India," an official release said.
'Yaba', the Thai word for "crazy medicine," is a tablet form of methamphetamine, a powerful stimulant and caffeine. The 'Yaba' tablet seizure was almost double than that of the previous year, BSF has said.
"We organised a rally to spread the ideals and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. It was Gandhi Vichar Sandesh Padyatra, not a protest against anyone. But police thrashed the activists with lathis and tortured them," Youth Congress national secretary Dr Smruti Ranjan Lenka told reporters.
The 15 km-long railway line project is being jointly implemented by the Indian Railways and the Bangladesh Railways, and is expected to be completed by 2020.
The two were brought to Rajasthan where a kidnapping case had been filed against the the then minor boy by the girl's family and were produced before the Rajasthan High Court.
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