Woman electrocuted, drunken couple drown in Tripura Agartala, January 2 (IANS): A tribal woman was electrocuted and five members of her family were critically injured, while a drunken couple died after falling into a water body in Tripura, police said on Saturday. Renukumari Reang, 22, was electrocuted when she switched on the television set in her home at Sarbang in southern Tripura on Friday night. Five of her family members tried to rescue the young woman and were injured, police spokesman Uttam Kumar Bhowmik told IANS. The five were admitted to a hospital in a critical condition. In another incident, a tribal couple hailing from Jharkhand died after they fell into a water body in an inebriated condition. Sambhu Orang, 42, and his wife Bina Orang, 35, fell into a ditch at Jirania in western Tripura on Friday night, police said. DGAR visits Vijaynagar Dimapur, January 2 (MExN): Director General Assam Rifles, Lt Gen HJS Sachdev, visited troops stationed at Vijaynagar, an air maintained post located in eastern Arunachal Pradesh. In addition to meeting the troops, he also met ex-Assam Rifles servicemen and locals from the 16 villages of Vijaynagar, a defence press release informed. The Director General enquired about the problems and other issues unique to the location and assured the people that all possible help would be provided. He also announced a large number of welfare measures for the benefit of locals, the release informed. Khaute appointed Manipur DGP Imphal, January 2 (PTI): Manipur government has appointed L M Khaute, a 1985 batch IPS officer, as the new Director General of Police replacing Shahid Ahmed. The state government yesterday issued an order in this regard. According to another government order, S Ibocha Singh has been promoted to the rank of Inspector General of Police (IGP). State government also promoted three IAS officers - Shambhu Singh, Suhel Akhtar and J Suresh Babu - to the rank of additional chief secretary of the state with effect from yesterday, a government order stated. Four other IAS officers, R K Dinesh Singh, H Deleep Singh, M Lakshmikumar Singh and K Radhakumar Singh have been promoted to the rank of Commissioner, another order stated.
