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Ambassa, Apr 10: The district committee of Tripura Journalist Union(TJU) submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb here yesterday.
The CM who was visiting Ambassa to inaugurate the campaigning of Prime Minister's flagship development programmes met with district president of TJU, Manik Debnath along with excecutive member Ratan Saha and others, and accepted the memorandum. 
The TJU Dhalai district committee, through its memorandum, demanded that all the journalists of the district be accredited by the government and included in the Rastriya Swasthya Bima Yojana(RSBY), and provided housing facilities and other benefits. 
The CM assured to consider their demands and take take early steps. UNI



Ambassa, Feb 23: Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) Tripura State Chief Biplab Deb said his party will gain landslide victory over the left in the recently concluded assembly election.
While interacting with media persons in the Northern District of Dhalai, Deb said BJP would sweep across all the six constituencies.
The BJP leader arrived here on Thursday to hold post-election meeting with the six BJP candidates from six constituencies in the district. 
He further added that CPI-M was demanding scrutiny of the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail(VVPAT) slips as it was sure of its impending defeat. 
He claimed confidently that the district was all set for a new beginning. 
The results of Assembly elections are scheduled to be declared on March 3 next. UNI


Ambassa, Feb 19: The six constituencies of the northern district of Dhalai recorded around 89 per cent of casting where people voted till midnight, leading to chaos among the polling staff and officials at different Electronic Voting Machine(EVM) collection centres, informed the election officials. 
According to the information provided by the district election authority, 44 Raimavalley recorded 88.05 per cent votes, 45 Kamalpur recorded 89.05 per cent votes, 46 Surma recorded 88.80 per cent votes, 47 Ambassa recorded 91.11 per cent votes, 48 Karamcharra recorded 81 per cent votes and 49 Chawmanu recorded 76.73 per cent votes. 
Due to the machinery problems and inefficiency of the polling staffs voting continued in many booths till midnight. Moreover, when the polling staffs reached their respective EVM collection centres, it also took long time as the receiving officials had to rectify many loopholes and faults. The irked polling staffs even pelted stones and abused the officials in centres like Kamalpur Class XII School where the process completed around 9 am this morning.
However, all the contesting parties thanked people as they expressed their opinion through EVMs bearing all the problems caused due to technical glitches. In some parts of the district, skeletal number of political scuffles were reported among different parties though police handled the situation sternly. UNI


Ambassa (Tripura), Feb 2: After long 46 years BJP turned to be the second national 
party after Congress to contest election against CPI(M) from 47 Ambassa (ST) constituency in the northern district of Dhalai here.
In the 47 Ambassa (ST) constituency CPI(M) always fought against regional parties since 1972 when Congress contested and won for the last time. 
In the assembly election of 1977 Congress made alliance with regional TUJS (Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti)and the seat went to the TUJS. Then TUJS fought in 1983, 1988, and 1993. 
Around 1998, INPT (Indegenous National Party of Tripura) formed as TUJS dissolved and Bijoy Hrankhwal contested in 1998, 2003, 2008 and 2013. In 2013 he was defeated. 
This time main opposition BJP made alliance with regional IPFT (Indegenous National People Front of Tripura). But in this election BJP set their candidate Parimal Debbarma for Ambassa.
According to poitical analysts, BJP candidate would grab victory. UNI


Ambassa, Jan 10: The doctors released a corpse from the district hospital without postmortem and police seized the corpse from crematorium and sent it for postmortem, in the northern district of Dhalai here yesterday.
On Monday last one Anil Malakar was hit by a motorbike and was admitted in a local hospital. From there, he was referred to the District Hospital where he died on Tuesday morning. However, the doctors released the corpse without postmortem. As the matter of accident was lodged with police, postmortem was needed. Hence, Police took the body from the crematorium and sent to the District Hospital for postmortem again.
This created much resentment among the local people against the lack of responsibility shown by the doctors. UNI

Ambassa (Tripura), Oct 18: In a major boost to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), hundreds of CPI(M) activists joined the saffron camp under 46 Surma assembly constituency in the bordering sub-division of Kamalpur in this district where BJP state vice president Subal Bhowmik embraced them into the party. The BJP held two separate meetings at Chulubari area and remote Santosia market yesterday. BJP Dhalai district committee member Paritosh Pal informed over telephone, "In those two places almost 150 activists from 61 families joined the party leaving CPI(M). Mr Bhowmik welcomed them into the party." It might be mentioned here that, the 46 Surma assembly constituency remained to be a den of the leftist in which opposition candidate won only once in 1972 in the history of state's assembly election. For last two years or more BJP continued its work there and became successful to pierce into the leftist vote bank and now got into the position to give a tough fight to CPI(M), according to the political analysts here. UNI

Ambassa (Tripura), Oct 5: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staged protest against the disruption of internet facility by the state government in all the four sub-divisions in the district here today. "Late afternoon yesterday, the state government once again disconnected the mobile internet facility after a trifling incident under Radhapur police station. The state government has the ill-motif of spreading a false message of unstability in the state. We, strongly protest this effort", informed BJP Dhalai district committee member Manoj kanti Deb. Another district committee member Goutam Biswas alleged, "The State government has got it a a trick for present days to terrify people by discarding the internet facility. After the murder of scribe Santanu Bhowmik they started it and now continued its usage in every trifling incident". In all the four sub-divisions in the district namely Kamalpur, Ambassa, Gandacharra and Longthoraivalley BJP Youth wing activists staged the protest. UNI