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The Plurals
Scientists have urged Tripura to cap the land under rubber, citing lost biodiversity and worn-out soil, and propose Malabar neem as an alternative. The rubber industry answers that more planting is needed.
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At the Destination Tripura Business Conclave 2026, the state’s electricity corporation signed 14 agreements, worth about 18,100 crore rupees, to modernise the grid and produce more green power.
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The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2025 report, released as the UN climate talks in Bonn closed, records ocean heat at a new high, glaciers in retreat and more extreme weather.
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A national survey, Climate Change in the Indian Mind, finds most Indians worried about global warming and in favour of moving from coal to clean energy.
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Climate Action Network International, in a statement during the Bonn climate talks, criticised the agenda of the G7 summit in France for leaving out climate, gender and taxation.
The Plurals
Residents in several parts of Tripura blocked roads in 2026 after going weeks without water. The article sets the shortage against failures of governance, polluted rivers, hydrocarbon extraction and a changing climate.
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Written for The Plurals’ series on India at 79. Unplanned construction across the North East is adding to the region’s environmental troubles, and climate change is making them worse.
Down To Earth
Part of Down To Earth’s series on air quality and how people move in Indian cities. Agartala’s vehicles have multiplied far faster than its roads, leaving polluted air, scarce parking and streets where residents cannot walk or cycle.
Down To Earth
Unusual pre-monsoon and monsoon rain delayed the planting of kharif paddy in Assam, Tripura and Nagaland and hurt the boro harvest before it. Mixed farming softened the losses in many areas.
Down To Earth
Heavy rain and landslides cut the rail and road links to the southern part of the North East, leaving Tripura, Mizoram, Meghalaya and southern Assam short of fuel and other essentials.
Down To Earth
Bostami turtles, a soft-shell species, laid eggs again near the lake of the Tripureswari temple in Udaipur: their comeback in Tripura after a decade.
Down To Earth
The Tripura government approved a plan to replace Agartala’s 30,000 street lights with LED lamps, a switch expected to cut the city corporation’s costs.
India Water Portal
Tripura has twice the national average of water for each person, yet its people still face shortages. The article points to deforestation, soil erosion that has raised river beds, and contaminated groundwater.
Down To Earth
Tripura was the first Indian state to set up a system for biomedical waste that runs from collection to final disposal. The report finds it failing in practice, held back by poor policy management and a spread of pathology labs.