AGARTALA, Jan 26 (TIWN): The five day long statehood celebration of Tripura which concluded on Sunday proved to be a flop show. Celebration started on 21st January at Umakanta school ground. To make the programme a grand success, no stone was left unturned by the state government, at least Rs 50 lakhs was drained from the state exchequer. From day one, Governor, Chief Minister and Senior Ministers of the state cabinet gave lectures on different issues relating to the development of the state. But presence of people during five days of the programme was very low, chairs were seen empty in all five days. Even mentiom of two stalwart of CPI (M ) party leaders and former chief ministers Nirpen Chakrabroty and Dashrath Deb was found missing. This issue drew flak among the people. The five day programme only highlighted Manik Sakar, more like selling his scam tainted 'CLEAN' image from day one till the end.

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AGARTALA, January 26 (TIWN): “Corruption is the weapon to retain the power”, remarked the Leader of Opposition (LoP) Sudip Roy Barman, while speaking on the reasons or circumstance of the inactivity in taking effective measures to put an end to the ceaseless corruption all over the state, at the initiative of the left cadres and patronisers of them.

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DHAKA / AGARTALA, January 26 (TIWN): The dreaded Tripura rebel group NLFT seems to have collected enough money to pick up a fairly substantial consignment of weapons on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border recently.Intelligence officials say that a gang of 30 to 40 NLFT rebels trekked down to a base of National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) in Silopi in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and collected about 50 assault rifles and an assortment of ammunition and explosives recently.The NSCN's Issac-Muivah faction , though negotiating with Delhi , for the last 17 years, never closed down the base at Silopi and also few other bases in Myanmar's Sagaing Region.They use them to trade in weapons and narcotics. Bangladesh agencies say they are considering the possibilities of raiding Silopi and other remote locations in Chittagong Hill Tracts but find it considerably more difficult to do that because its Rapid Action Battalion is not really trained for mountain warfare.Sources in Nagaland say the NSCN is trying to sell off their old weapons stocks to lesser rebel armies like the NLFT and NDFB or the Karbi and Dimasa rebel groups.

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