Water rushed to thristy hamlets
Agartala: A total of 300 tribal hamlets in Tripura’s Dhalai and North Tripura districts were rushed water tankers as the natural sources of waters dried up there due to scanty rainfall and dry spell, a minister said. “Tribal people mostly in hilly terrains were facing tremendous crisis of water due to dry spell and scanty rainfall. Every day we are sending 110 tankers of drinking water for about 300 tribal villages,” state minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ratan Bhowmick told reporters yesterday. He said, mostly the tribal dominated hilly areas in Dhalai and North Tripura district are affected and government was taking all possible measures to cope with the situation. Sources in DWS department said 138 hamlets across the state had no permanent source of drinking water and the department was working hard to create permanent sources of drinking water with the projects funded by the state and central government. (PTI)
One charred to death
Aizawl: One person was charred to death and two houses gutted in two different villages in Mizoram. Lalsiamkima Ralte (28) died while trying to put out forest fire on Thursday near south Mizoram’s Buarpui village in Lunglei district. A house was completely gutted yesterday in Mizoram-Myanmar border Khawzawl village while another house was completely destroyed by fire on Thursday in south Mizoram’s Haulawng village in Lunglei district. No one was killed on injured in the incidents while the two families lost everything in the fire. Meanwhile, a forest fire was raging near the Mizoram-Bangladesh border Tlabung town ravaging private lands and forest areas and destroying crops. Volunteers from Tlabung and surrounding villages were yet to be able to put out the inferno. (PTI)
Ajmer boy arrested in Tripura for proxy exams
Agartala: Tripura police has arrested a boy from Rajasthan on Saturday for impersonating a candidate in writing of West Bengal Joint Entrance test for MBBS at Agartala Women’s College. Police said the detainee has identified as Rahul Kumar Sharma (22) from Liri village of Ajmer. He was carrying the admit card of one Syed Faruque Ahamed of Baruipur New Town of South 24 Pargana district of West Bengal on Saturday. The invigilators found mismatch of his appearance with the photograph of attendance registered and the signature was also somehow different with the original application. They reported to the observer and he was handed over to East Agartala Police Station. West Bengal Joint Entrance Board has been conducting test for Medical and Engineering aspirants of Tripura for past few years where non-resident of Tripura also can appear in the exam. “As many as 374 students were enrolled on Saturday to write Biological science for Medical and Pharmacy courses in different colleges of West Bengal and Ahamed was one of them,” said Centre In-charge Gita Debnath. Initial investigation revealed Sharma was associated with a coaching centre and was brilliant in Biology. He was hired by Ahamed for writing the exam instead of him against payment. (UNI)