News and stories from the eight states of Northeast India
Food and Civil Supplies Minister Sushanta Chowdhury said all 9.92 lakh ration-card families will get free festive items from ration shops within seven days. Each family receives 2 kg of flour and 1 kg of sugar, and poorer households also get 500 g of semolina. The Rs 9 crore scheme began on Friday. The minister rejected CPI(M) criticism about supplies.
A team of 80 Mog community artists from Tripura's Sangrrain Dance Academy, led by Raju Mog, will perform their traditional dance and music at the Rashtriya Ekta Diwas celebrations in Ekta Nagar, Gujarat, on October 31. About 5,000 artists from across India are expected to take part in the cultural programme near the Statue of Unity.
Khaani, a Kokborok-language feature film and the debut of director Ploto Debbarma, will be released on October 30 in cinema halls across Tripura, including in Agartala and Khowai. The film, which shows everyday life in the state, has already been screened at the Kolkata International Film Festival.
Tipra Motha MLA Ranjit Debbarma has asked for all his security personnel to be withdrawn and says he will return to his village to continue party work. He said his security officers were changed again and again over four and a half years without explanation, and alleged bias. Chief Minister Manik Saha said he would ask the police chief why the officer was changed.
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya in Viveknagar, Agartala, has been ranked 20th among India's top schools in the EducationWorld India School Rankings, up from 22nd and 23rd in the previous two years. Bhavan's Tripura Vidyamandir was ranked fourth among schools in Tripura.
The Tripura State Pollution Control Board collected water samples before and after Durga idol immersion and sent them for laboratory tests, an official said. Water checks will go on for about a week. The board will also measure noise and air quality during Lakshmi Puja and Diwali, and send a full report to the Central Pollution Control Board.
A teacher at a government school in Sabroom subdivision, under the Rupai Chhari school inspectorate, has received a show-cause notice for allegedly coaching TET candidates privately, against service rules. The notice followed a complaint to the Directorate of School Education. The teacher has three days to reply, and departmental action may follow if the explanation is not accepted.
Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha inaugurated the new office building of the Bishalgarh Municipal Council in Sepahijala district on Saturday. The building cost Rs 2.88 crore. At the event he also virtually opened new concrete roads and drains, and said foundation stones for projects worth about Rs 1,000 crore have been laid in the state this financial year.
The opposition INDIA bloc in Tripura, led by CPI(M) leader Jitendra Chaudhury, who heads the opposition in the Assembly, will march from Orient Chowmuhani to the Chief Electoral Officer's office on October 30. They want the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls scrapped and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar removed. Chaudhury claimed about 2.5 lakh voters in the state could be dropped from the rolls.
On Saturday, a Delhi court remanded influencer Amir Shokeen in police custody for five days in a case of alleged racial harassment of a young man from Tripura, seen in a viral video. Tipra Motha founder Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma met the youth in Delhi and promised him support. Shokeen has apologised and claimed the video was scripted.