Storms In Tripura

Heavy rain lashed Tripura on Monday under the influence of cyclonic storm Remal while 11 flights were cancelled from Agartala airport due to bad weather, officials said.

Ahead of the approaching severe cyclonic storm "Remal", disaster management authorities and security forces in various northeastern states have been placed on high alert and the district administrations asked to take advance precautionary steps.

Cyclonic storm 'Fani' that has become "extremely severe" is set to make landfall in Odisha on Friday morning with speed of gusting 180-200 kmph, affecting about 10,000 villages, even as the government agencies have asserted to be prepared with disaster management measures.

BJP national secretary H Raja has created a storm in Tamil Nadu with a controversial Facebook post this morning, warning that the statue of social reformer EVR Ramasamy, popularly known as Periyar, will be brought down, just like Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin's statue was razed in Tripura yesterday.

On a day the BJP stormed the Red bastion of Tripura putting an end to 25 years of Left rule, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called his party's journey in the state from "no one" to "won". The BJP that failed to win a single seat in the last assembly elections has won 35 seats this time, enough to form the government on its own. Its ally IPFT has won ...

Himanta Biswa Sarma, former Congressman and the ruling BJP's main strategist in the northeast, has suggested that Manik Sarkar, who will soon be resigning from Tripura chief minister's post, can seek shelter either in West Bengal, neighbouring Bangladesh or the southern state of Kerala. The BJP stormed Tripura today and dethroned Manik Sarkar-led L...

Mumbai trounced underdogs Tripura by 10 wickets in their Group C Ranji Trophy game on the third and penultimate day on Monday to storm into the quarter finals.

Seasonal cyclonic storms accompanied by lightning and rain continued to create devastation in Tripura and Mizoram for the sixth day on Friday, killing eight people so far and injuring 40 others, an official said.

At least three persons including a 76-year-old man was killed and 500 houses collapsed when rain and storms swept different parts of Tripura, official sources said today.

Heavy rain lashed Tripura on Monday under the influence of cyclonic storm Remal while 11 flights were cancelled from Agartala airport due to bad weather, officials said.

Ahead of the approaching severe cyclonic storm "Remal", disaster management authorities and security forces in various northeastern states have been placed on high alert and the district administrations asked to take advance precautionary steps.

Cyclonic storm 'Fani' that has become "extremely severe" is set to make landfall in Odisha on Friday morning with speed of gusting 180-200 kmph, affecting about 10,000 villages, even as the government agencies have asserted to be prepared with disaster management measures.

BJP national secretary H Raja has created a storm in Tamil Nadu with a controversial Facebook post this morning, warning that the statue of social reformer EVR Ramasamy, popularly known as Periyar, will be brought down, just like Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin's statue was razed in Tripura yesterday.

On a day the BJP stormed the Red bastion of Tripura putting an end to 25 years of Left rule, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called his party's journey in the state from "no one" to "won". The BJP that failed to win a single seat in the last assembly elections has won 35 seats this time, enough to form the government on its own. Its ally IPFT has won ...

Himanta Biswa Sarma, former Congressman and the ruling BJP's main strategist in the northeast, has suggested that Manik Sarkar, who will soon be resigning from Tripura chief minister's post, can seek shelter either in West Bengal, neighbouring Bangladesh or the southern state of Kerala. The BJP stormed Tripura today and dethroned Manik Sarkar-led L...

Mumbai trounced underdogs Tripura by 10 wickets in their Group C Ranji Trophy game on the third and penultimate day on Monday to storm into the quarter finals.

Seasonal cyclonic storms accompanied by lightning and rain continued to create devastation in Tripura and Mizoram for the sixth day on Friday, killing eight people so far and injuring 40 others, an official said.

At least three persons including a 76-year-old man was killed and 500 houses collapsed when rain and storms swept different parts of Tripura, official sources said today.