Over 6,200 poultry birds and ducks were culled in Tripura after reports of a fresh outbreak of bird flu, officials said here on Thursday.

The culling was done in Lembuchara area of western Tripura. "

CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday came down heavily on the UPA government in the Centre headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Bird flu, or avian influenza, has resurfaced in Tripura barely within a month of declaring the country free from the disease and culling has started in villages within a 3-km radius of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research at Lambuchera in West Tripura district where it was first detected.

Sixty-five years after it crashed, the wreckage of an American plane used during the World War II has been found in a remote hamlet in Tripura.

The aircraft, which crashed on May 17, 1946 with 11 cr

Tripura Central University on Thursday conferred honorary D.

The central government will take necessary steps to ensure setting up of an IIIT in Tripura within the 12th Five Year Plan period, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said on Friday.

"I told (Union HRD Mini

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed given a call to fight the common enemy of the region — poverty — and stressed the need for increasing regional and bilateral cooperation in the field of trade and commerce. She also urged the India to play its role as a big nation and to be more liberal to easy the heavy trade imbalance now prevailing between the two countries.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed arrives here Wednesday on a two-day visit, when she will be conferred an honorary D.Litt. degree by Tripura Central University.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina makes a historic border crossing here on Wednesday with a 100-member delegation to commemorate the northeast Indian state's role in her nation's liberation.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed will arrive here on January 11 for a two-day visit that is being seen as a compliment for the state’s contributions to the freedom struggle of the neighbouring country four decades ago.