AGARTALA, July 17 (TIWN): Tripura Police have continued its battle against drug-mafias except top heads in politics. On yesterday also, Dharmanagar police led by SP Bhanupada Chakraborty has seized 8,000 yaba tablets based on secret information. SP praised Chief Minister Biplab Deb for his move against drug and said, CM always asks police, administration to keep eyes open against illegal practices. Assam Rifles jawans have now joined in Anti-Drug mission of Tripura Govt in full wave. After massive recovery of brown sugar, yaba tablets along with catching one drug smuggler on July 14, once again the Assam Rifes have recovered huge amount of ganja. 50 kilo of Ganja was recovered at OGNC Power Point in Baramura, later handed over to police.Police, BSF are equally striving hard to seize as much as ganja can be seized. However, Police are taking action in all fields but when it is about the political party’s political heads even though their involvements were time to time alleged, problems are erupting for police to take hurdle free actions.

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AGARTALA, July 17 (TIWN): Almost by force Tripura's Gomati District's Udaipur Municipal Corporation’s former members were given resignations and Municipal corporation went in BJP leaders’ hands, but for common men the problems of the town instead of solving, it has increased. In Vivekananda Palli area, under Municipal Corporation members’ indirect hands allegedly all drains were covered up for a section of people's personal benefits which has led massive flood in that area. People are unable to come out of homes for 4 days. Now to fix the situation instead of recovering the drains, the Municipality has taken attempt to build a culvert under the national highway which has left the national highway paralyzed leading public suffering. Vehicles are bound to take another route for passage and passengers are charged with extra fares. DM to all high rank officials attempted to investigate the matter but when they came to know that this task is done by BJP leaders, there was no action so far. How without permission, a national highway can be damaged which is not even under a State Govt ?

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AGARTALA, July 17 (TIWN): Even after the issue was raised in the Parliament, Central Govt yet to respond to the plea of State Tripura about flight increasement. Airlines Companies yet to show any positive reply to the State Govt’s please as SpiceJet didn’t respond to Tripura Govt’s demand of Agartala-Guwahati routes flight. In case of emergency flies the ticket prices are going Rs. 12,000 to Rs. 15,000 causing huge distress for the flyers. However, Chief Minister Biplab Deb has requested central Govt to give one-way flight to Agartala-Delhi, Delhi-Agartala which is hoping to be come in action. During NITI Aayog meeting, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb has sought a direct flight between Agartala-Delhi, Delhi-Agartala.This demand was kept one of the top prioritized issues of the Govt.Also, the CM has demanded more numbers of flights from Agartala Airport due to sudden decrease in the flight counts.The Agartala-Delhi connectivity was asked for the ease-move of Doctors, Technocrats, Health Experts, Central Govt officials, Private Investors to save their valuable times.To mitigate the ongoing flight crisis, Govt of Tripura has requested the SpiceJet airline company to connect Agartala’s Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport under its Dhaka-Guwahati flight service.In a letter L.H.Darlong, Principal Secretary to the Govt of Tripura has written to Ajay Singh, Chairman and Managing Director of SpiceJet regarding this.

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