Agartala

Aritra Roy, a software engineer from Tripura, completed a triathlon to Mount Everest — cycling across states, summiting the world’s highest peak, and running a marathon — while managing his corporate job at TCS.

Close to 800 trees, varying between 10-15 feet, have been planted along NH 44, using Tripura-based IFS officer Prasada Rao’s low-cost method to increase the green cover.

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Moreover, his initiative has helped around 1000 tribal households get employment. They are involved in all the processes of the project - right from procurement of material to assembling and the packaging of the product.

Far from the India's popular tourist circuits, Tripura is home to one of the most spectacular heritage sites in South Asia — the giant bas-relief sculptures of Unakoti.

On his visit to Agartala for a two-day programme called Setubandhan or bridge of bonding, Mujibul Haque Mujib, Bangladesh’s railway minister, announced that the country would restore railway lines at 12 places between the two countries which were discontinued after the partition and wars.