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Govt. to utilize barren land for small t | Agartala, May 18 (TIWN): The government plans to utilize ‘barren land’ falls beyond barbed wire fencing along the Indo-Bangla border to promote small tea growers in a big way. | 18-May-2014 |
OTPC: Complete shutdown began at 11.30pm | UDAIPUR, May 17(TIWN) : OTPC's 726.6mw Combined Cycle Gas Turbine(CCGT) Thermal Power Plant is all set for Performance Gurantee Test as the engineers of BHEL have gone for a 'Complete Shutdown' of the 1st Unit of the plant from 11.30 pm on Saturday night in the build up of Performance Guarantee Test(PGT). | 17-May-2014 |
TSECL ensures additional power supply | GUWAHATI/ AGARTALA, May 17 (TIWN): The Tripura State Electric Corporation Limited (TSECL) has managed to ensure supply of an additional amount of 50 MW of power at the cost of Rs. 1.75 crore from NTPC and PTC to meet the power demand partially during the peak-load hours for a week, with effect from Saturday said Manik Dey, Minister for power.Briefing media persons on Saturday at secretariat the minister said that the maintenance shutdown of the Palatana Gas-based Thermal Power Station for about a week has resulted in an additional shortfall of around 85 MW in power supply for the State during the peak-load hours. | 18-May-2014 |
Akhaura-Agartala rail link: Project prop | AGARTALA, May 17 (TIWN): Project proposal for land acquisition of 4.3 km Agartala – Akhaura rail link has been submitted to Tripura government, a top railway official source said here on Saturday. The remaining 700 meter project proposal will be submitted once the survey is completed. | 18-May-2014 |
Palatana: BHEL engineers begin shutdown | Agartala, May 17(TIWN): To conduct Project Guarantee Test (PGT), the Palatana power plant would be placed under complete shut down from today midnight, according to official sources. From today midnight, the plant would place under complete shut down for conducting necessary test and the PGT would start from May 20, said an official of OTPC. | 17-May-2014 |
Bajuban upset over Left’s show | Agartala, May 17 (TIWN) : Veteran Marxist leader and seven-time MP Bajuban Riang today admitted the Left Front poor show in the recently declared Lok Sabha result especially in West Bengal would send wrong message to the people on the party’s ideology. | 17-May-2014 |
World Telcom Day : Better Internet servi | Agartala, May 17 (TIWN): To make works easier and reducing time for any effort, Broadband network plays a vital role, said Industries and Commerce (IT) Minister-Jitendra Chowdhury in a seminar at Muktadhara auditorium, this evening. | 17-May-2014 |
Jiten lays Foundation stone of tea proce | AGARTALA, May17 (TIWN):Jitendra Chaudhury, before resigning as Minister for Industries and Commerce from Tripura council of minister will lay the foundation stone of a new tea processing factory for small tea growers on May 20 morning at Brahmakunda under Mohanpur sub-division in West Tripura district. | 17-May-2014 |
11 IAS, 2 TCS officers transferred | AGARTALA, May 17 (TIWN): In a major reshuffle of administration, Tripura Government on Saturday transferred 11 IAS officers, including 2 TCS officers. | 17-May-2014 |
Strike withdrawn, LPG refilling at Bisha | Agartala, May 17 (TIWN): The crisis of LPG cylinder seems to be neutralized shortly in Tripura as production began at Bishalgarh Gas Bottling Plant this morning, according to official sources. The plant remained shut down for the past four days following strike by the LPG Bulk Association demanding immediate release of payment. | 17-May-2014 |
Congress' northeast bastion crumbles, BJ | Agartala/Guwahati, May 17 (IANS) Northeast India, considered a stronghold of the Congress with five of the eight states currently being ruled by the party, is about to fall into the lap of the BJP and its allies following the unprecedented Lok Sabha results, experts say. | 17-May-2014 |
TGEF to file case in HC against state go | Agartala, May 17 (TIWN): Tripura Government Employees Federation (TGEF) is likely to file case in the High Court against the state government here on June 16 against deprivation of employees, said federation sources. | 17-May-2014 |
Rapist arrested after 22 years | Belonia, May 17 (TIWN): After a long 22-year, police finally netted a gang-rape accused from Kathalia area under Jatrapur police station at around 10 pm, yesterday. The arrested rapist was identified as Dipak Dey (52), a resident of Beltilla under Belonia sub-division. | 17-May-2014 |
The 'NaMo wave' failed to influence vote | AGARTALA, May 17 (TIWN):When the communists are almost decimated in their red bastions in Kerala and West Bengal, Tripura considered to be the last resort of the communists did fairly well in the general elections by retaining all the two parliamentary seats and defeating their nearest rivals by huge and record margin. | 17-May-2014 |
Bangladesh permits Tripura Food supplies | AGARTALA, May 17 (TIWN): Food grains from mainstream India will arrive in Tripura across internal water system of Bangladesh, said Dr. Debasish Basu, Director of Food and Civil Supplies.Talking to TIWN today, he said that the Bangladesh government has permitted transportation of 10,000 MT food grains to Tripura through Ashuganj river port on river Meghna in Comilla district of Bangladesh. “The barge containing the food grains will sail from Haldia port in West Bengal for Ashuganj port in fifteen days. The food grains to be unloaded at Ashuganj river port will arrive in Tripura on trucks by road, “says Dr. Basu. | 18-May-2014 |
Congress' northeast bastion crumbles, BJ | Agartala/Guwahati, May 17 (IANS) Northeast India, considered a stronghold of the Congress with five of the eight states currently being ruled by the party, is about to fall into the lap of the BJP and its allies following the unprecedented Lok Sabha results, experts say. | 17-May-2014 |
Publication of electoral rolls for panch | AGARTALA, May 17 (TIWN): The State Election Commission, Tripura will issue voter list of all wards of gram panchayats on May 19, while stating this here today, the state election secretary Prasenjit Bhattacherjee said that voter list of the gram panchayats would be prepared by taking data of the relevant part of Lok Sabha electoral rolls finally published on January 1, 2014. | 17-May-2014 |
Good governance, able leadership helped | Agartala, May 17 (IANS) Despite the Left parties' devastating defeat in West Bengal, the CPI-M, a dominant partner of the Left Front, held on to its two Lok Sabha seats in Tripura, thanks to good governance and an able leadership in the state. | 17-May-2014 |
CM: Anti-UPA wave benefits BJP | Agartala, May 16 (TIWN): Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today said that electorates of the country straightway rejected Congress-led UPA alliance in recently concluded nine-phase Lok Sabha elections. He said the voters rejected Congress out of total frustration and anguish for its anti people policies during the UPA regime. “We had been campaigning against the anti-people policies of the Congress led UPA government in all states. | 16-May-2014 |
BJP gained out of anti-incumbency wave: | AGARTALA, May 16 (TIWN): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Friday evening said the BJP's sweeping victory in the Lok Sabha polls was largely due to the anti-incumbency factor against the ruling Congress across the country. | 16-May-2014 |
NOTA counts 1.2 % in Tripura | AGARTALA, May 16 (TIWN):Significantly, NOTA has registered 23,738 entry in this election, which counts about 1.2 percent of total casting of votes in just concluded Loksabha poll in Tripura. At national figure NOTA registered 53,31,733 votes, which is about 1.1 percent of the total casting. After a long fight, ECI introduced NOTA in the EVM last year onwards in the elections though it is not influence the result. | 16-May-2014 |
Seven Defective EVMs prevents ECI to dec | AGARTALA, May 16 (TIWN): Election Commission of India (ECI) could not announced the result of both the seats of Tripura till late evening because of technical problem in three EVMs in West Tripura and four EVMs in East Tripura. | 16-May-2014 |
Manik urges Modi not to be like UPA | AGARTALA, May 16 (TIWN): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar while congratulating the electorates of Tripura, urged upcoming Narendra Modi led BJP government at the centre not to pursue anti-people policies like Congress.Talking to media Sarkar said CPI-M nominees in Tripura has won the election with a record margin, which was not ever found in the result in the history of the state. | 17-May-2014 |
Manik appears to be sole sentinel of CPI | AGARTALA, May 16 (TIWN): Leaving aside the left front’s main architects in West Bengal and Kerala, veteran Chief Minister of Tripura Manik Sarkar shines as sole sentinel of Left Front’s last bastion in crucial 2014 Loksabha poll.By assuring the massive victory of CPI-M candidates of both the Loksabha seats in Tripura with record margin, 66 yrs old Manik Sarkar triumph again in the country.After assuming office as Chief Minister in March 1998, Manik Sarkar led the party in 16 major elections and in all the occasions, the party secured a brilliant victory pushing off the opposition to minority from state assembly to village Panchayats. | 17-May-2014 |
CM : BJP gained out of anti-incumbency w | AGARTALA, May 16 (TIWN): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Friday evening said the BJP's sweeping victory in the Lok Sabha polls was largely due to the anti-incumbency factor against the ruling Congress across the country. | 17-May-2014 |
Modi’s victory worries CPM | AGARTALA, May 16 (TIWN): CPM leader Samar Adhya expressed apprehension over Narendra Modi is being the Prime Minister of the country. “He is known as Hindu hardliner which might be a threat of the country’s secularism believe. Even the good relation with Bangladesh might be affected in the days to come. And if it is happened, Tripura will be the great loserâ€, he added. As a Member of Parliamentary, I will raise the state’s unfulfilled demands in the Parliament and get them materialized, said Sankar Prasad Dutta, who secured a landslide victory in the West Tripura Lok Sabha seat. | 17-May-2014 |
Left wins both seats in Tripura | AGARTALA, May 16 (TIWN): As expected, the ruling Left Front won both- West Tripura and East Tripura Lok Sabha constituencies giving a bash to its arch rival- Congress. While Left nominee Sankar Prasad Dutta, who contested in the prestigious West Tripura Lok Sabha seat, secured 6, 67,086 votes, Congress candidate Prof Arunoday Saha bagged only 1, 67,226 votes, according to the results declared by the Election Commission on Friday. The winning margin stood 4, 99,860 in the West Tripura Lok Sabha constituency. Left nominee for the East Tripura Lok Sabha constituency Jitendra Chowdhury won the battle of ballots by bagging 5,94,006 votes while its arch rival Congress’s Sachitra Debbarma got only 1,33,458 votes. | 16-May-2014 |
CPI-M wins Tripura's two Lok Sabha seats | Agartala, May 16 (IANS) CPI-M candidates Friday won the two Lok Sabha seats in the Left-ruled Tripura, defeating the Congress candidates by a record margin of votes, official said here. | 16-May-2014 |
Sense of jubilation at BJP headquarter i | AGARTALA, May 16 (TIWN): The mood was festive at the BJP state headquarters here after BJP led NDA on way to gain absolute majority for the 2014 general polls. Several youngsters were seen dancing to the beats of drums and congratulating each other. | 16-May-2014 |
CPI (M) candidates set to win by record | Agartala, May 16 (TIWN): The ruling CPI-M took huge margin lead over the Congress in the two Lok Sabha seats in Tripura, officials said here. | 16-May-2014 |
CPI-M leads in Tripura : Early lead of 5 | AGARTALA, May 16 ( TIWN): The ruling CPI-M took a massive early lead of 50000 plus votes over Congress in the both Lok Sabha seats in Tripura as counting results came off at 9.21am. | 16-May-2014 |
Vote counting : Central Observers inspec | AGARTALA, May 15 (TIWN): ECI Counting Observer Veena Ghanekar along with Returning Officer Abhishek Singh, Superintendent of Police Bijoy Nag and Asst Returning Officer Manik Lal Das today visited the Counting Halls at UK Academy and Umkantana English Medium School. | 15-May-2014 |
OTPC shutdown from 10pm on May 17: State | UDAIPUR ,May 15(TIWN) : Tripura along with some other North-Eastern states residents may not be fortunate enough to watch TV for the latest updates of national politics after the declaration of the 16th Lok Sabha Poll results as the planned shutdown in OTPCs 726.6MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine(CCGT) Thermal Power Plant in Palatana will start from 10pm on Saturday.BHEL engineers and experts will begin the Performance Guarantee Test(PGT) of the First Unit(363.3MW) of the plant, said a very high level TIWN sources in the OTPC on Thursday. | 15-May-2014 |
Monarchak : Unfinished pipeline work ge | AGARTALA, May 11 (TIWN): The fresh work for the unfinished pipeline work of NEEPCO powered Monarchak power project work gets underway, said an official of source of ONGC. It was informed that machines have been mobilized at the working site on Thursday and the unfinished pipe line work is likely to be completed by next 45 days. | 16-May-2014 |
LPG Crisis: Opp leader writes to Centre | AGARTALA, May 15 (TIWN): Worried by the LPG crisis in Tripura, opposition leader Sudip Roy Barman today urged the Secretary of Ministry of Food and Public Distribution to take up all necessary steps to solve the problem without further delay. | 15-May-2014 |
Palatana PGT likely to last 3 days | AGARTALA, May 15 (TIWN): The Performance Guarantee Test (PGT) of ONGC Tripura Power Company (OTPC) Palatana thermal power plant likely to take three days instead of week long said official sources. | 15-May-2014 |
Tripura DGP reviews law and order | AGARTALA, May 15 (TIWN): A review meeting of senior police officers was convened today in the police headquarter to discuss the details regarding handling of law and order problem before, during and after the counting of votes on May 16, police sources said. | 15-May-2014 |
Congress organises protest rally | Kumarghat, May 15 (TIWN): Based on the verdict of High Court about the cancellation of 10, 323 post-graduate, graduate and under-graduate teachers’ job, the Congress party today organised protest rallies in the different places of Kumarghat sub-division. | 15-May-2014 |
ECI Observer visits UK counting halls | AGARTALA, May 15 (TIWN): Counting Observer Veena Ghanekar along with Returning Officer Abhishek Singh, Superintendent of Police Bijoy Nag and Asst Returning Officer Manik Lal Das today visited the Counting Halls at UK Academy and Umakanta English Medium School.The visit was aimed to oversee the preparation for the counting of votes scheduled to begin tomorrow amid tight security, according to official sources. | 15-May-2014 |
Tripura BJP accuses ECI of misleading po | AGARTALA, May 15 (TIWN): At a time when, exit-poll predicted Modi led government at the centre, BJP Tripura State unit makes pitch high against Election Commission of India (ECI) and Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Ashutosh Jindal in poll rigging case of Tripura. BJP reaction comes, soon after framing the charge against a teacher in poll malpractice case who had been performed duty as Presiding Officer in a polling booth of Bishalgarh in West Tripura. | 15-May-2014 |
Palatana PGT: TSECL to buy addl power | AGARTALA, May 15 (TIWN): In the wake of the proposed weeklong shut-down of Palatana power plant, the Tripura State Electricity Corporation Ltd (TSECL) has envisaged a contingency plan to meet the shortfall in power supply. | 15-May-2014 |
Tension prevails on Bangladesh border in | Agartala, May 15 (IANS) Tension prevailed since Wednesday along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura as Bangladeshi nationals, accompanied by border guards, prevented Indian farmers from cultivating their lands, officials said Thursday. | 15-May-2014 |
TPGC calls for counting boycott | Agartala, May 15 (TIWN): Tripura Pragatishil Gramin Congress (TPGC) today called to boycott the Lok-Sabha poll counting on tomorrow for allegedly manipulation in the by-gone poll process. TPGC convenor- Subal Bhowmik said in a press conference, here today. | 15-May-2014 |
NSUI summer coaching camp ends | Agartala, May 15 (TIWN): The free coaching camp in the summer vacation concluded at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial School today which was organised by the National Students’ Union of India. | 15-May-2014 |
Police nabbed five gamblers | Ambassa, May 15 (TIWN): After a long chase, police of Ambassa police station finally netted five gamblers including various gambling articles from Vaoualia slum area on Tuesday. | 15-May-2014 |
HC Verdict : Communist faction demands a | AGARTALA, May 14 (TIWN): Adding woes to embarrassment of Left Front government in Tripura, another communist faction CPI (ML) Liberation demanded action against the Cabinet members and top Officials of the administration who had formulated the employment policy of the state.CPI (ML) Liberation argued that 10,323 teachers have fallen victim of the faulty policy of the government. | 15-May-2014 |
NLFT Case : HC acquits Three Costal Proj | AGARTALA, May 14 (TIWN) : Three officials of a private construction agency- Coastal Projects Ltd- Shanik Moulali , Beerappa Parameshwari Ravi and Chandraskekharan Nair have got acquitted from all charges including waging war against the state levelled against them by the investigating agency.Based on intelligence inputs, police chased a vehicle coming from Radhapur and intersected it near Lake Chowmuhani area on June 17 night, 2012. In course of search, cops recovered Rs. 25 lakh in cash from Dhanu Kalay, one over ground agent of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT). | 15-May-2014 |
Udaipur: Administration completes its pr | UDAIPUR ,May 14 (TIWN) : After the marathon 9 phases of 16th Lok Sabha Poll with a record percentage of voters' turn out to the polling stations across the country when the entire nation is waiting for the much expected results ti be declared( though Exit Polls of various channels predicted landslides victory of NDA and Narendra Modi) Udaipur Sub-Divisional administration too is not lagging far behind in the counting procedures of EVMs now sealed in Strong Room of Udaipur Ramesh H S School. Counting of votes for the four Assembly Segments under the West Tripura Parliamentary Constituency will begin in the Counting Hall of Udaipur Ramesh Higher Secondary School (the Venue for the Counting Centre). The EVMs are now sealed in two Strong Rooms in the said venue under the supervision Central Reseve Police Forces(CRPF). This is informed by the SDM Udaipur Ajit Debnath in a Press Conference held in his chamber on Wednesday afternoon. | 14-May-2014 |
Kamalpur : Minor girl bids to marry snak | Kamalpur, May 14 (TIWN): In a bizzare incident of superstition by a minor girl's family and subsequent propaganda of this "holy event" by a local Cable Channel that a minor girl will be married to a snake(as Lord Shiva wanted her), thousands or curious onlookers gathered at Maracherra. Due to heavy influx of people , local administration deployed TSR to control crowd. At least 20 people were injured in lathi charge conducted by police to control crowd on Wednesday afternoon. This minor girl was starved by her guardians which caused her to fall unconscious. Some eye witnesses also complained that girl was looking drugged by her guardians. | 14-May-2014 |
CPI(M) organizes protest against the vi | AGARTALA, May 14 (TIWN):CPI (M) here on Wednesday organized state wide protest against the violence and rigging in West Bengal. Speaking at a protest rally, party state committee secretary Bijan Dhar claimed that the last phase of elections for 17 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal has been marked by widespread violence, capture of more than a thousand polling booths, polling agents of opposition parties being driven out and physical attacks on people going to vote in various places. | 14-May-2014 |