In poll-bound Tripura, BJP chief J. P. Nadda also announced annual assistance of Rs 5,000 for every tribal family & enhancement of honourarium for community leaders.
Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress will contest all 51 seats in the Tripura municipal polls, the first time it will field candidates in an urban local body election outside Bengal.
In letter to son and TIPRA chief Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma, 'Rajmata' Bibhu Kumari Devi says Congress is broken mentally & physically, shouldn't use her name and misguide people.
In interview with ThePrint, TIPRA chairman Pradyot Debbarma said his outfit now has a settled vote-bank and will ally with whoever backs his demand for a state for Tripura tribals.
The Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) secured 18 seats, the BJP won nine seats and one seat was bagged by an independent candidate.
Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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