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WITH Bangladesh finally giving its nod to the much-awaited bus service between Agartala and Dhaka, a long-cherished dream of the people of far-flung Tripura is now on the verge of fulfillment. Once the bus service becomes operational, it will be the second such service between India and Bangladesh, the first between Kolkata and Dhaka having been inaugurated in June 1999 by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. The new bus service will reduce the current 1,645 km land route between Agartala and Kolkata to just about 500 kms, apart saving the traveller from the unsafe militant and dacoit-infested route via Meghalaya, Assam and North Bengal. The distance between Agartala and Dhaka is just about 150 km. Nodal point in drug battle THE Forensic Science Laboratory in Guwahati has been chosen as a nodal point by the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention for its new pilot project for Southeast Asia's battle against ...

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