Six people have been arrested in connection with the lynching of a 35-year-old man at a construction site within Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in South Tripura’s Belonia.
A Muslim man was killed and 17 others injured in North Tripura’s Kadamtala, after a violent clash erupted over a Durga Puja subscription on Sunday. The dispute escalated quickly, leading to vandalism and looting, with several shops being set ablaze during the unrest.
Prohibitory orders in the Jirania subdivision of West Tripura district, where violence erupted following the alleged arson of over a dozen Muslim houses after a Kali temple idol was allegedly defaced, have been extended until Saturday, August 31.
At least 24 people have been killed, and two are missing, with nearly 1.28 lakh people left homeless and relocated to shelters across various parts of the north eastern state after severe flooding caused by heavy rainfall over the past week in Tripura.
Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) has announced that it will hold a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on 24 August in support of its demand for a separate Tipraland state.
Badal Shil, a candidate for the South Tripura Zilla Parishad and a Communist Party of India (Marxist) local leader, was injured in an alleged attack by BJP supporters in Rajnagar, South Tripura, on Friday and succumbed to his injuries on Saturday.