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Prof. Gopal Mugeraya new NIT Director | Agartala, Sep16, (TIWN)Gopal Mugeraya, Professor in the department of Chemistry in NIT-Karataka has been appointed as the new Director of NIT, Agartala. | 16-Sep-2013 |
Preparation of Vishwakarma puja in full | Agartala, Sep16, (TIWN) Preparation of Vishwakarma Puja is in full swing in the state. Vishwakarma is considered as the deity of engineers. On the occasion, various manufacturing units will display tableaux and organize puja pandals across the city to mark the festival tomorrow. | 16-Sep-2013 |
Enquiry committee to submit report on G | Agartala, Sep16, (TIWN) Based on the complaint of one Jhulan Das as she alleged that her husband Ratan Das was wrongly operated by few doctors of Agartala Government Medical College and GBP Hospital, a three-member inquiry Committee has been formed to investigate the case by the State Health Department. | 16-Sep-2013 |
Police nabs youth with fire arms | Agartala, Sep16, (TIWN) Based on a secret information security personnel detained a youth along with fire arms from Khowai district today. | 16-Sep-2013 |
12-hour strike called over unfinished ra | Silchar(Assam)/Agartala, Sept 16 (TIWN) An apolitical socio-civic body led by academicians, intellectuals and social workers called for a 12-hour strike on Sept 24 in southern Assam, demanding early completion of ongoing rail projects in the northeastern India. | 16-Sep-2013 |
India's NorthEast to be linked to Trans- | Agartala, Sep 16 (IANS) Mountainous northeast India would be connected to the railway network of neighbouring Myanmar to link up with the ambitious 81,000 km-long Trans-Asian Railway Network (TARN), an official said. "To connect with the TARN, a 118-km railway track would be laid between (Manipur capital) Imphal and (border towns) Moreh and Tamu (the latter in western Myanmar)," Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) Chief Engineer (Construction) Harpal Singh told IANS. | 16-Sep-2013 |
PWD Minister Badal calls for innovative | Agartala, September 16 (TIWN): If every engineer works with a vision, the State can grow by leaps and bounds, said Mr. Badal Chowdhury, Finance & PWD Minister of Tripura at Agartala City Centre on September 15. Inaugurating a seminar on " Frugal Engineering - Achieving More with Fewer Resources" organised by the Institution of Engineers (India) state centre,as part of 153rd birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna awardee, M. Visvesvaraya. | 16-Sep-2013 |
Tripura Agriculture Graduates 7th bienni | Agartala, September 15 (TIWN) Tripura Agriculture Graduates Association organized their 7th Biennial Conference at Najrul Kalakshetra Auditorium, Agartala. TAGA donated Rs.50000/- to CM's relief fund. | 15-Sep-2013 |
Tripura Chief Minister for donation of | Agartala, September 15(TIWN): Calling upon new blood donors to donate blood generously, Chief Minister of Tripura Manik Sarkar on September 15 said the state has earned a very important position in the country when it comes to blood collection through voluntary blood donation camp. | 15-Sep-2013 |
Medicos Assaulted | Agartala,September 15(TIWN): A female doctor and a male nurse of Kakraban hospital located at Gomti district about 80 KM from Agartala was assaulted on 14 September around 9.30 PM. | 15-Sep-2013 |
Traffic unit to take special measures | Agartala, September 15 ( TIWN): Traffic unit of Tripura police during Durga Puja decided to take some special measures to prevent traffic congestion, a high official of traffic unit informed. | 15-Sep-2013 |
Tripura CM calls for social audit of MGN | Agartala, Sept 14: For maintaining transparency in various developmental works at rural areas Chief Minister Manik Sarkar of Tripura directed to constitute a social audit committee before Durga Puja. He was addressing a review meeting of State Employment Guarantee Council at civil secretariat conference hall here today. The chief minister said constitution of such committees will help to reduce corruption and speedy implementation of works, besides vigilance and monitoring meeting should held at regular intervals. | 15-Sep-2013 |
Doctors’ wrong surgery, police pr | Agartala, Sept 15 (TIWN) In a weird episode, doctors at a government medical college in Tripura conducted surgery at a patient’s lower abdomen and urethra instead of conducting biopsy at his mouth. | 15-Sep-2013 |
Tripura vetenary doctors association 6th | Agartala, Sept 14 (TIWN) Tripura vetenary doctors association today evening was organized their 6th annual convention in Umakanta Academy,Agartala.This function was innogarate by Chief Minister Manik sarkar,Govt.of Tripura.In presence of Agriculture minister Aghore Debbarma,Govt.of Tripura | 14-Sep-2013 |
Delhi will host North East Design Festiv | Agartala,Sep 14, (TIWN)It was indeed a long ‘due’. Over the last many decades,this region was developing a trend of its own,where fashion is concerned. This has ultimately ‘paid’. | 14-Sep-2013 |
Engineers’ Day observed with gra | Agartala,Sep 14, (TIWN) Three-day long programme has been taken by the engineering fraternity with a view to observe the 46th Engineers’ Day celebration in the state. As a part of the celebration a debate and extempore speech competition was held on Saturday at Tripura Institute of Technology. Secretary of Higher Education Kishore Ambuly graced the programme as Chief Guest. | 14-Sep-2013 |
ADB aided project to overhaul Agartala | Agartala, Sept 14 (TIWN) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) aided project would complete refurbish the half-a-century old water supply system in Tripura capital Agartala. Tripura’s urban development secretary Ashutosh Jindal told reporters : “The ADB had sanctioned the Rs. 130 crore project to entirely change the 408 km water supply underground pipelines, laid in 1960.†| 14-Sep-2013 |
High Court Judges take oath on Friday | Agartala, Sept 13, TIWN - Justice Subhasis Talapatra and Justice Swapan Chandra Das take oath as Judge on Friday in the High Court of Tripura | 14-Sep-2013 |
Northeast India’s biggest jail t | Agartala, Sept 13 (TIWN) Northeast India’s biggest jail with state of the art technology would be opened on October 2 – birthday of Mahatma Gandhi at Goutam Nagar in western Tripura’s Sipahijala district. Tripura’s Jail minister Manindra Lal Reang said Friday that the new jail built on 32.62 acres of land at a cost of Rs 62 crore would accommodate 975 prisoners, including 50 women and 25 VIP inmates. | 13-Sep-2013 |
Seminar to mark 50 years of Tripura ass | Agartala, Sept 13 (TIWN) To mark the golden jubilee of the Tripura assembly, an all important seminar would be organised on September 18 to highlight the transition of Tripura from princely rule to democratic governance. Lok Sabha Speaker Ms Meira Kumar would be the chief guest at the seminar. | 13-Sep-2013 |
SilkMark Expo-2013 was inaugurated in Ag | Silk Mark Expo-2013 was started in Agartala.Today this Expo was inaugurated by Industries & Commerce minister Jitendra Chaudhury.Expo will stay open upto 19th Sept.3013. | 13-Sep-2013 |
Northeast Festival to focus on Tourism, | New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) North East festival, a two-day event, will start in the capital Nov 8 and the focus will be on culture and traditional heritage of the eight states as well as entrepreneurship and security of northeastern students living here. | 12-Sep-2013 |
West Tripura District Administration hel | Agartala, Sept 12(TIWN): A meeting between warehouse owners and west district administration was held here today evening.. | 12-Sep-2013 |
Tripura Painters exhibit Art at Lalit Ka | Agartala, September 12, ( TIWN) Golden opportunity for young and energetic talents of the state. Mainly painters, this time. | 12-Sep-2013 |
Tripura to have vulture captive breedi | Agartala, Sept 11: Alarmed over the depleting number vultures in the state, captive breeding of the bird will be taken up at Sepahijala Wild Life Sanctuary. Talking with TIWN, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF) and Chief Wild Life Warden, Dr. A K Gupta informed. He said "Vulture population in the state has crashed to a serious level. | 12-Sep-2013 |
High Court of Tripura summoned the high | Agartala, Sep 11, (TIWN) High Court of Tripura asked the Chief Secretary Dr.S.K. Panda, Addl. Chief Secretary K.V. Satyanarayan, Health Secretary, Health Director, Principal of AGM College, Director Vigilance, MS of both GBP and IGM Hospitals to personally file affidavits for a case relating death of a patient due to negligence of treatment at GBP Hospital, few months back. | 11-Sep-2013 |
India-Bangladesh trade increasing, India | Agartala, Sept 11 (TIWN) India-Bangladesh trade and investment by Indian companies in Bangladesh are rising as New Delhi attached highest priority to develop border infrastructure, India’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pankaj Saran said here Wednesday. | 12-Sep-2013 |
Ancient Coins were discovered on Tuesday | Ancient coins were found on Tuesday at Brahmanunda in Simna by local laborers | 10-Sep-2013 |
Inauguration Program of Bharatchandra Na | Inauguration Program of Bharatchandra Nagar R D block in Belonia by PWD minister Badal chaudhury and Industry,Commerce & R D Minister Jitendra Choudhury. | 10-Sep-2013 |
Tripura Trinamool Congress to fight aga | Agartala, Sept 10 (TIWN) Top Congress leaders, who recently joined Trinamool Congress (TMC) headed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Tuesday declared to fight against both ruling Left Front and main opposition Congress to resolve the people’s miseries. | 10-Sep-2013 |
ONGC’s frequent pull back on gas | Agartala, Sept 10 (TIWN) After failing to commission its own power project, the ONGC’s repeated backtracked on its commitment to supply gas to NEEPCO’s second biggest thermal power project in northeast India’s Tripura put in an uncertain situation. | 12-Sep-2013 |
Broad Gauge Rail Service up to Agartal | Agartala, Sep 8, (TIWN) The Broad Gauge rail network is expected to reach up to Agartala by March, 2016. A team of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) headed by Harpal Singh, the Chief Engineer of Construction has visited some ongoing projects in Tripura and review the progress with local rail officials. The NFR wants to extend BG facility to Agartala by March, 2016 provided fund is available, Singh told reporters after meeting with state government officials here on Monday. | 09-Sep-2013 |
Palatana Thermal Power Project on Track | Agartala, Sep 8, (TIWN) Palatana thermal power project has generated 85 megawatt power on Sunday. It is expected that with the increase of gas supply, commission of power from the plant might increase, OTPC sources said. It is informed that after completion of earth link repair work both the steam and gas turbine was started day before Sunday while power generation was only 13 megawatt. | 09-Sep-2013 |
Science fair from September 28 | Agartala, Sep 8, (TIWN) State level Science fair, which would begin from September 28 next, would be held at Umakanta English Medium School. Decision was taken at a high level meeting held in Civil Secretariat which was chaired by Science and Technology Minister Bijita Nath. | 09-Sep-2013 |
Solar electrification in remote areas | Agartala, Sep 8, (TIWN) State government has decided to provide solar electrification facility to the remote area people of 23 villages across the state. The project would be being implemented by Tripura Renewable Energy Development Agency (TREDA). | 09-Sep-2013 |
India’s Tripura state announce v | Agartala, Sept 8 (TIWN) India’s Left Front ruled northeastern state of Tripura attained the first spot in literacy with 94.65 percent in the country thrashing Kerala (93.91 percent), Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar announced in Agartala Sunday. | 09-Sep-2013 |
Congress Dissidents shifted Political l | Agartala, Sept 08 (TIWN): Senior Congress leader and ex-minister cum MLA for 5 consecutive terms from the Ramnagar 6 Constituency, Surajit Datta; veteran leader and ex-minister cum portfolio Ratan Chakraborty and ex- minister of the same Congress party in the state Jwahar Saha shifted their political loyalty to Trinamool Congress formally at Kolkata today. Surajit Datta has been appointed as the State President and Mr. Ratan and Mr. Jwahar as the Chairman and Vice-Chairman, respectively. Responsibility of the ‘Working President’ post has been assigned to Dulal Das. | 08-Sep-2013 |
Painting exhibition at City Center Art | Agartala, Sept 08 (TIWN): Higher Education Minister Bhanu Lal Saha will inaugurate a painting exhibition at City Center Art Gallery on September, 09. | 08-Sep-2013 |
Tripura to launch generic medicines to | Agartala, Sept 8 (TIWN) The Left Front government in Tripura will soon introduce Rajasthan model to provide generic medicines to people to reduce their medical treatment costs. | 08-Sep-2013 |
Tripura Congress Leaders join TMC | Kolkata, Sep 8, (TIWN): Surajit Datta. One of the senior-most Congress leader of the state and Ex- Minister cum Ex-MLA for 5 terms,resigned from the Congress party and has joined Trinamool Congress as the State President.He is expected to return on Monday to the city from Kolkata | 08-Sep-2013 |
US led JPAC to excavate in Tripura to g | Agartala, Sep 7 (TIWN) An international organisation to be engaged by the Joint Prisoners of War and Missing in Action Accounting Command (JPAC) will excavate in northern Tripura to collect remains of soldiers and US military aircraft that crashed during World War II (1939-45). An official of Tripura’s home department said : “Six officials of the American government and JPAC have done an initial survey for two days (Thursday and Friday) at Dhumachara tribal village in hilly Longtharai Valley under Dhalai district in northern Tripura.†| 08-Sep-2013 |
Massive fire breaks out in City | Agartala, Sept 6, (TIWN) A massive fire broke out at Bhuturia in heart of the city at around 5.35 pm today. It is taking around 8 fire engines and over the last two and half hours to bring it completely under control. Engines from ONGC have also been deployed in the area. Administrative officials, police personals and TSR Jawans are keeping no stone unturned to bring fire under control. | 07-Sep-2013 |
US Officials conducting ‘studyâ | Agartala, Sep 6, (TIWN): The visit is ‘purposeful’ and obviously is having an international link. | 06-Sep-2013 |
Final voters list in January | Agartala, Sep 6, (TIWN): Following the schedule of Election Commission of India, Summary Revision of Photo electoral Rolls have started last Thursday onwards for all the sixty constituencies of the sate. And for this, January 01, 2014 has been taken as the base date. State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Asutosh Jindal has informed about this today at the state Secretariat. | 06-Sep-2013 |
14th Finance Commission team to visit s | Agartala, Sep 6, (TIWN): A team of the 14th Finance Commission will visit the state in November and meet the Chief Minister of the state, Finance Minister Badal Chowdhury told. The visit is having no definite agenda but will speak for related financial issues which are all connected with the state. Experts said, this visit will make the Chief Minister ‘speak negative’ about the ‘irrelevant’ decisions of the Central Government, regarding few recently taken ‘decisions’. | 06-Sep-2013 |
Wall collapse kills one, hurt three i | Agartala, Sept 6 (TIWN) One labourer was killed and three were seriously injured Friday when a boundary wall was collapsed in Tripura, police said. | 06-Sep-2013 |
Tripura Cong leaders’ meetings w | Agartala, Sept 6 (TIWN) Three top Tripura Congress leaders --- Surajit Datta, Ratan Chakraborty and Jawar Saha, all former ministers, holding a series of meetings with Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders in Kolkata to finalise their future plan in strengthening the TMC in Left ruled northeastern state. | 06-Sep-2013 |
Additional German aid to empower tribals | Agartala, Sept 5 (TIWN) Germany, which has provided a whopping Rs.1.4 billion financial aid to Tripura for empowering the tribals and people living in remote areas by utilising natural resources, may provide additional financial assistance to the northeastern state, forest Minister Jitendra Choudhury said here Thursday. | 05-Sep-2013 |
UPA government’s new pension bil | Agartala, Sept 5 (TIWN) Tripura finance minister Badal Choudhury said here Thursday that the new pension bill passed by the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government Wednesday is unconstitutional and against the interest of the workers and employees. | 05-Sep-2013 |
North East power crisis | Agartala, Sep 5 (TIWN): Power crisis has been a major issue in the North-East over the last many years. All the states have been suffering for this and the issue is now ‘national’. | 06-Sep-2013 |