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The IPTF won last month's elections to Tripura's tribal area council, defeating the ruling communists.
BBC: Tripura's tribal parties merge
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Police in India's north-eastern state of Tripura say at least 14 people have been killed in a separatist attack.
BBC: Rebel attack kills 14 in Tripura
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The merger of two tribal parties in the north-eastern Indian state of Tripura has revived hopes of peace in the state.
BBC: Tripura's tribal parties merge
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It also has very strong links with the strongest rebel group in the state, the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT).
BBC: Tripura's tribal parties merge
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The Bangladesh Meteorological Department said Cyclone Mahasen had weakened and had hit the Sitakunda and Feni regions of Bangladesh, adjoining India's Tripura state.
WSJ: Cyclone Mahasen Hits Myanmar, Bangladesh
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It also raises the prospect of boosting trade on the Tripura border surrounded on three sides by Bangladesh which until now has been effectively at a stand-still.
ECONOMIST: The taxing new route to Kolkata
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They say that more than 20 rebels of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) opened fire indiscriminately after surrounding the market in Singhicherra.
BBC: Rebel attack kills 14 in Tripura
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In the past, Indians wanting to go from Tripura to Kolkata had either to travel by air or make a convoluted 1, 750-km (1, 100 mile) overland journey via Guwahati, capital of Assam.
ECONOMIST: The taxing new route to Kolkata
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The twice-daily service from Dhaka to Agartala, the capital of the Indian state of Tripura, enables Indians living in the inaccessible far east of the country to go overland to Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) or Delhi via Bangladesh.
ECONOMIST: The taxing new route to Kolkata