Archive Detail
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Resentment over land acquisition, Minist | AGARTALA, August 23(TIWN): Unsatisfactory compensation by Railway authority to the land owners to set up Agartala-Sabroom railway line sparked resentment among the land owners. Concerned land owners raised the issue with the Minister for PWD and Health Badal Choudhury while Choudhury assured them that he will look into the matter. | 23-Aug-2014 |
TCS Association seems to seek affiliatio | AGARTALA, August 23 (TIWN): Days are not far when TCS Officers’ Association will seek affiliation from TGEA, HGB like other employees’ organization unless things changed immediately. | 23-Aug-2014 |
District Labour Office will be setup at | SANTIRBAZAR, August 23 (TIWN): District Labour Office will be setup at Santirbazar south Tripura District for smooth function of departmental works of South Tripura District. Till today Gomati Labour Office is functioning both Gomati and South Tripura District. | 23-Aug-2014 |
Offset Press Owners Asso. distributed fo | AGARTALA, August 23 (TIWN): The offset press owners association of Tripura distributed food, blankets and sport kits to Naba Prantik (An Ashram for orphanage, street children and destitute women) at Amtali here today. | 23-Aug-2014 |
Governor Acharya proposes teacher exchan | Agartala, August 22 (TIWN): Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya today proposed state government to extend national integration and value based education to schools and college education in rural areas of the state. | 22-Aug-2014 |
Tripura Govt issues caution for LPG cons | AGARTALA, August 22 (TIWN): The Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Public Distribution today issued caution to LPG consumers of the state and said in an official notification that the authorities wouldn’t be liable for denial of LPG cylinders to consumers who didn’t verify their blue-books. | 22-Aug-2014 |
Tripura RD Minister apprehends setback i | AGARTALA, August 22 (TIWN): The state government is apprehending low man-days generation and ebb in developmental activities due to scanty funds released from the centre under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MG NREGS).Speaking to reporters at the civil secretariat here this evening, RD minister Jamatia said that the central government continued with low release of funds for the NREGS activities in Tripura till date this year.Implementation of the national poverty alleviation scheme has continued anyway in brisk pace, the minister claimed. He said that 53 percent of available funds were implemented till August in the current financial year. | 23-Aug-2014 |
Governor visits Garia Academy School in | UDAIPUR, August 22 (TIWN): Governor Padmnabha Balakrishna Acharya and First Lady Kabita Chowdhury today visited Garia Academy , a CBSE affiliated school located in the remote tribal areas of Atharobhola, around 10km away from the centre of Udaipur. This hostel (for boys' & girls') cum school is a privately managed school runs by Baba Garia Mission. CRPF DIG Ravideep Singh Sahi, Jamatia Hada Akra Khanjanpada Jamatia were also present on this occasion. Baba Garia Mission's state president Rampada Jamatia presided over the programme. The Governor arrived at the school at 10am. Both the Governor and the First Lady were given a warm reception with traditional tribal dress. | 22-Aug-2014 |
Tripura Congress delegation meets AICC l | AGARTALA, August 22 (TIWN): The delegation of Tripura Pradesh Congress headed by opposition leader Sudip Roy Barman who left the state on Thursday to meet AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi met AICC leaders for official approval of the candidate for forthcoming Manu assembly by-election. | 22-Aug-2014 |
Naresh Jamatia visits Tuisingram, appeal | AGARTALA, August 22 (TIWN): Forest Minister Naresh Jamatia today visited Tuisingram under Promodenagar Assembly constituency under Teliamura forest division, where an elephant was found dead with tusks removed last Saturday. The minister interacted with the local residents and urged for cooperation to stop similar incidents in the future. | 22-Aug-2014 |
Vulture, a dwindling tribe in earth, rec | Agartala, Aug 22 (TIWN) Animal lovers in Tripura are now thrilled over the sight of a group of vultures, the scavenger birds which are dwindling very fast from the earth due to loss of habitat and food crisis. | 22-Aug-2014 |
State Employees certain to remain depriv | NEW DELHI / AGARTALA, August 22 (TIWN): Govt of Tripura is all set to declare Grade Pay to its employees and according to a top level CPI (M) state committee leader the decision is likely to be taken on 25th or 26th August in the Cabinet though the official announcement is yet to be made. In recent times even H B Road organization leaders under tremendous pressure from all Divisional Committees regarding deprivation on Grade Pay and Dearness Allowance compared to Central Govt employees (as per 6th Pay Commission). | 23-Aug-2014 |
Tripura University aims to develop knowl | AGARTALA, August 22 (TIWN): The Tripura University is looking forward to develop the knowledge bank on NE region and its culture, languages, traditions, Vice Chancellor Professor Anjan Kumar Ghosh said here today. Addressing the inaugural session of a two day national seminar on northeastern literature, culture, creativity and criticism at the Department of English in Suryamaninagar campus of the varsity this morning, Vice chancellor professor Ghosh said that the University Grants Commission (UGC) recently approved introduction of academic curriculum on linguistic studies of tribal languages from the region. | 23-Aug-2014 |
SDIEA to conduct 32nd Annual General Con | Agartala, Aug 22 (TIWN): The 2-day long 32nd Annual General Conference of Silchar Divisional Insurance Employees’ Association (SDIEA)is slated to be held here on Aug 23 and 24 at Muktadhara Auditorium. | 22-Aug-2014 |
City gears up for Ganesh festival | AGARTALA, August 22 (TIWN): The city sported a festive look on the eve of Ganesh Chaturthi. Colourful flowers, torans and decorative items flooded local markets that were chock-a-block all through Friday with enthusiastic denizens pouring in large numbers. Organizers at the Ganesh pandals were seen making last-minute preparations, paying special attention to security arrangements this time around. An estimated 2,000 Ganesh Deities are likely to dot various corners of Tripura this year. | 22-Aug-2014 |
Corruption rampant in Rajnagar RD Block | BELONIA / RAJNAGAR, August 22 (TIWN): According to eye-witnesses and other officials Rajnagar Block development officer (BDO) Crossed his limit for financial misdeeds particularly in MGNREGA, BADP Scheme. Financial transparency is missing in almost all Account BILLs/Bouchers. | 22-Aug-2014 |
INPT announces party candidate for Manu | AGARTALA, August 21 (TIWN): The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT) today announced Kirtimohan Tripura as party candidate for the coming by-election at 39 Manu assembly constituency. | 21-Aug-2014 |
OTPC scaffolding completed; G E Engineer | PALATANA / UDAIPUR, August 22 (TIWN): In less than 48 hours time, Engineers of BHEL and OTPC got the desired success in Scaffolding process, the preliminary stage before starting Major Inspection of Gas Turbine, which is scheduled to continue for 15 days. At 11.30am on Wednesday Complete Shutdown began in 726.6MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) Thermal Power plant in Palatana, a joint venture of ONGC Tripura Power Company. On Wednesday a team of 15 members experts of USA based General Electric (GE) Company, the manufacturing giant of Gas Turbine, arrived at the plant site. Another team of 16 specialist engineers including foreign experts from Phillipines arrived on Thursday morning in Palatana. | 22-Aug-2014 |
Addiction to drugs kills valuable human | UDAIPUR, August 21 (TIWN): "These days a large number of youths in India have already fallen in the deadly trap of drugs and this is a sheer wastage of country's valuable human resource. And in order to bring these youths back to the main stream of life everyone has to go through self thinking and those who are addiction have a crucial role to play," these words were uttered by Sister B K Kabita, the Chief Anchor of Prajapita Bramhakumari University's India and Bangladesh wings during the concluding session of three day long 'My Tripura, Addiction Free Tripura' in Killa Community. | 21-Aug-2014 |
Delhi, Dhaka vouch to fight terrorism | NEW DELHI / DHAKA/ AGARTALA, August 22 (bdnew24 / TIWN): India and Bangladesh on Thursday reiterated their commitment to fight against “violence†along the international border highlighting on the Meherpur incident where a Bangladeshi national was killed by the BSF.The first day of the border coordination conference between BSF and BGB discussed on trans- border crime, especially smuggling of narcotics and FICN (Faked Indian Currency Notes), action against the Indian Insurgent Groups and destruction of their hideouts. The first day of the border coordination conference between BSF and BGB discussed on trans- border crime, especially smuggling of narcotics and FICN (Faked Indian Currency Notes), action against the Indian Insurgent Groups and destruction of their hideouts. | 22-Aug-2014 |
CM seeks central intervention for better | AGARTALA, August 21 (TIWN): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today stressed on developing ties with Bangladesh for development of the NER states at the meeting of NE chief ministers with minister for DoNER General (Retd) VK Singh and said that the DoNER had frustrated and belied the expectations of the region during the last decade. | 22-Aug-2014 |
BJP denies NDA alliance to Grameen Congr | AGARTALA, August 21 (TIWN): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) denied entry to former Congress MLA and president of the Tripura Progressive Grameen Congress Subal Bhowmik as a partner in the National Democratic Alliance during this three day camp in New Delhi. The party suggested him to merge with BJP alongwith his party and supporters, party sources said. | 21-Aug-2014 |
Expenditure Observer arrives in South Tr | Sabroom, August 21 (TIWN): Today at 4 PM, Election Expenditure Observer Gopesh Das reached South Tripura. Yesterday CEO Asutosh Jindal visited Sabroom regarding bye election of Manu constituency. | 21-Aug-2014 |
Tripura receives Rs 179 crore in MGNREGA | Agartala, Aug 21 (TIWN): Govt. of Tripura received another installment of MGNREGA fund. This time central allocated seventy one crore and twenty nine lakhs rupees for the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act program. Initially central Rural Development ministry was released Rs 108 crore for the current financial year. After a long period central government allocated this amount in their second installment. | 21-Aug-2014 |
Disgruntled surrendered NLFT, ATTF milit | SANTIRBAZAR, August 21 (TIWN): Surrendered militants who were rehabilated in Lachi Camp under Birchandra Manu of Santirbazar Sub Division are now passing their life in deplorable condition. Miserable life after surrender isn’t what they thought of...so majority of them are planning to join militancy in order to support their livelihood. State Administration stopped looking after their welfare, also most importantly State intelligence machinery not keeping tab on their plans either. | 21-Aug-2014 |
Socio-economic problems attract minor gi | AGARTALA / UDAIPUR, August 21 (TIWN): In the absence of proper guidelines and Act to prevent incidents like prostitution , rose to an alarming proportion recently, police administration can not take any proper action even if women are caught red handed. Police too are now worried about the recent increase of involvement of a large number of minor girls in this profession. What is interesting to see is the total silent attitude of Woman Commission and its members. In recent days number of girls, mostly minors, have been caught by the police in different parts of the state from different hotels and rest houses. | 21-Aug-2014 |
Light vehicle movement in NH 44, workers | AGARTALA, August 21 (TIWN): Light and medium vehicles today plied over the National Highway 44 as workers are engaged in clearing the debris from a landslide that stalled all vehicular movement since Wednesday. The Assam-Agartala highway snapped as a massive bulk of mud blocked the road in a landslide at Phangsangbasti near Sonarpur in Meghalaya following incessant rainfall over the past few days. | 22-Aug-2014 |
Montessori workshop to be held on Aug 22 | AGARTALA, August 21 (TIWN): M. Montessori Teachers’ Training College, affiliated to International Montessori Teacher Training Institute, is going to organize a Montessori workshop here on Friday Aug 22 at T.B. Association hall. | 21-Aug-2014 |
Drug trafficking goes on unabated | AGARTALA, August 21 (TIWN): Smuggling of intoxicating drugs is going on unabated through various borders of Unakoti district Sadar and Indo-Bangla despite police tightening noose around couriers. Even after the recovering of intoxicating drugs, there is no arrest from the part of police brewing resentment among the mass. | 21-Aug-2014 |
Tripura Govt plans modern approach to pr | AGARTALA, August 20 (TIWN): The state government is eyeing to adopt a modern approach to promote eco-tourism, Tourism Secretary Ashutosh Jindal said here today.Speaking to reporters at the civil secretariat at Agartala this evening, Jindal said that a high level delegation from the Ministry of Tourism Affairs would be visiting Tripura from August 23 to suggest ways of augmenting the available facilities to attract tourists in eco-tourism sector. | 21-Aug-2014 |
CEO issues notification for Manu assembl | Agartala, August 20 (TIWN): The office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) today issued official notification for the upcoming by-election at Manu assembly constituency. | 20-Aug-2014 |
NABARD launches Financial Literacy Campa | Agartala, Aug 20 (TIWN): Synchronizing with the announcement of the total financial inclusion plan by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Independence Day, NABARD, Tripura RO, Agartala launched a new campaign of spreading financial literacy in the state by producing and airing jingles on banking products targeted towards the poor people. | 21-Aug-2014 |
CPIM State Committee conference to be he | Agartala, August 20 (TIWN): CPIM State Committee’s Conference will be held on the last week of February or last week of March. State Secretary Bijan Dhar informed this on a press meet at State Party Office on Wednesday. Spokesperson Goutam Das is also present in the press meet. | 20-Aug-2014 |
South Tripura District Administration, N | BELONIA, August 20 (TIWN): In a demolition drive, South Tripura District Administration, NF Railway authorities here pulled down several houses within the Manur Mukh near Belonia and evicted over 50 families in order to clear the passage for the construction of broad gauge tracks. The eviction drive, which began on Wednesday, will be continued till next Tuesday. According to the Railway authorities, the families were already informed earlier about the drive. DM South ,Dr Debasis Basu,IAS along with SP South Bhanupada Chakraborty were present while conducting Eviction Drive.The evicted families had earlier contacted political leaders after they received the notices and sought their intervention, demanding their rehabilitation in that area at Manur Mukh. | 20-Aug-2014 |
SDM Sonamura, BSF conduct raids, seizes | Sonamura, August 20 (TIWN): Acting on a tip-off, a joint raid involving the Sonamura Sub-Divisional Administration, BSF 158 Battalion and Kalamchowra P.S. was carried out on 19.08.2014 in Nutan Colony of South Kalamchowra Gram Panchayat under Boxanagar R D Block. The Raid, headed by Subhasis Das, SDM Sonamura, spanned about three hours, from 2.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. About 12 houses and adjoining places were searched during the raid, and about 800 kg of dried cannabis (ganja) was recovered, market value of which is estimated at rupees forty lakh. | 20-Aug-2014 |
ICAR Tripura organizes Farmers’ I | Khowai, August 20 (TIWN): ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Tripura Centre organized ‘Farmers’ Income Improvement Programme’ on 18th August, Monday, 2014 at Gopal Nagar Bazar, Purbo Bachaibari ADC village, Tulasikhar, Khowai, Tripura. | 20-Aug-2014 |
Convention held against torture on women | Kamalpur, August 20 (TIWN): A convention was held against torture upon women, bride murder, domestic violence, gambling and drug addiction at Kamalpur on Tuesday. The convention is jointly organized by DYFI, TYF and All India Women Federation Society KamalpurDivision Committee. | 20-Aug-2014 |
Tripura got 73 IAS, 50 IPS and 57 IFS in | New Delhi/ Agartala, August 20 (TIWN: With the amendment of Northeast Area (Reorganization) Act, Indian administrative service (IAS), police service (IPS) and forest service (IFS) officers are all set to be separated for Tripura and Manipur state cadres, as the union cabinet has cleared the nod of cadre bifurcation last week. | 21-Aug-2014 |
Tripura hikes wage rate for agricultural | AGARTALA, August 20 (TIWN): Tripura today hiked wages for agricultural labourers as a part of the plan to approach the central government to raise the wages allowed to unskilled workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MG NREGS), official sources said. | 20-Aug-2014 |
OTPC Palatana shutdown began from 11.30a | UDAIPUR / PALATANA, August 20 (TIWN): As expected technicians and engineers have shutdown production from the from OTPCs Palatana plant. The complete shutdown begins from 11.30am. Earlier a fifteen members team of experts of USA based General Electric arrived Palatana from Mumbai this morning.Under their supervision the BHEL engineers started reducing the load from 9am and at 11.30am complete shutdown started. At 9.30am transmission has been disconnected from North Eastern Power Grid, Bongaingaon.At this situation when OTPC is bound to go for complete shut down for fifteen days, one would easily imagine how much the northeastern states, especially Tripura will be affected by power cuts. Tripura gets 92-95MW from North Eastern Load Dispatch Centre (NERLDC) as its share of OTPC. | 20-Aug-2014 |
Mockery in the name of training, UGTs an | AGARTALA, August 20 (TIWN): The training for teachers in the state has turned to a farce. In the so-called golden era, the guidelines of RTE and NCTE are nothing but a hoax from the part of the government. | 20-Aug-2014 |
Tripura got 73 IAS, 50 IPS and 57 IFS in | NEW DELHI / AGARTALA, August 20 (TIWN):With the amendment of Northeast Area (Reorganization) Act, Indian administrative service (IAS), police service (IPS) and forest service (IFS) officers are all set to be separated for Tripura and Manipur state cadres, as the union cabinet has cleared the nod of cadre bifurcation last week.Official sources on Wednesday stated that Department of Personal and Training (DoPT) has already issued notice for re-allocation of IAS, IPS, IFS and other all India service officers from the existing joint Manipur-Tripura cadre between two states.Centre has decided the cadre bifurcation with the recommendation of the committee, had constituted a committed under the Chairmanship of Secretary DoPT in consultation with the respective state governments and hearing the officers concern to re-allocate them in Manipur and Tripura. | 20-Aug-2014 |
NIAM holds interaction with farmers, str | AGARTALA, August 20 (TIWN): Minister for Science and Technology Bijita Nath today urged for greater use of biotechnology in agricultural sector and said that the state government was working to popularize it in the past several years. Addressing the inaugural session of an interaction joint organized by the Directorate of Biotechnology and National Institute of Agriculture Marketing (NIAM) at Prajna Bhawan here this morning, Science and Technology minister Nath said that the state government has been jointly working with the national institute since the last four years to popularize biotechnological intervention in commercial agriculture. | 20-Aug-2014 |
India, Bangladesh border guards' to plan | Akhaura (India-Bangladesh border), Aug 19 (IANS) Border guards of India and Bangladesh have taken up an ambitious plan to plant millions of trees along the frontier to protect environment and to reinforce friendship among them, officials said Tuesday. | 19-Aug-2014 |
Northeast militants getting arms from Ch | SHILLONG, August 20 (TIWN) Militants in the northeastern region continue to receive "substantial quantity" of illegal arms and ammunition from China and Myanmar, a senior Border Security Force official said Tuesday."There are isolated instances of arms and ammunition entering into the country across the international border with Bangladesh, but a substantial quantity was coming from the international border with Myanmar and China," Sudesh Kumar, inspector general of BSF in-charge of Meghalaya frontier, told journalists."Unlike in the western frontier, where manning of the border is much easier due to the topography, guarding the eastern frontier is much more difficult owing to the hilly rugged and mountainous terrain as well as poor visibility (that) adds to the woes of our troopers," he said. Kumar, who looks after the 443-km International Border with Bangladesh, said his troopers give their best in guarding the border and prevent cross-border crimes and infiltration of militants from Bangladesh into India. | 20-Aug-2014 |
Cabinet denies to raise grade pay for em | AGARTALA, August 20 (TIWN): The state cabinet today denied the much expected allowance of stepping up of pay band or grade pay for state government employees under the pretext of risk possibilities of fund sanction from the 14th Finance Commission.Speaking to reporters at his office in the civil secretariat here on Tuesday afternoon, Finance Minister Bhanulal Saha said that the state government had had a tough experience from the Pay Review Committee recommendations of raising the pay band of government employees in January, 2009 since the 13th Finance Commission denied including any of the ensuing liabilities in its recommendations. | 19-Aug-2014 |
2100 MT foodgrains reach Tripura from As | AGARTALA, August 19 (TIWN): 2100 MT rice out of the 5000 MT foodgrain consignment scheduled to reach the state as a part of induction from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) reached FCI godowns in the state by Tuesday, Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Bhanulal Saha said. | 19-Aug-2014 |
Trinamool General Secy Mukul Roy likely | AGARTALA, August 19 (TIWN): All India Trinamool Congress general secretary Mukul Roy would be visiting Tripura in the first week of September to take stock of the current state of affairs of the party, Tripura Trinamool Congress chairperson Ratan Chakraborty said here today. | 19-Aug-2014 |
110 and 159 Bn BSF conducts tree plantat | Agartala, Aug 19 (TIWN): Troops of BSF Campus, comprising of Sector HQ, Panisagar, 110 BN BSF and 159 BN BSF today planted more than 1300 saplings in BSF campus at Panisagar. | 19-Aug-2014 |
CPIM picks surprise candidate for Manu(S | Sabroom, August 19 (TIWN):Prabhat Choudhury - Agricultural Sector Officer become the surprise candidate for CPIM party.80 % people of Manu does not like this candidate at all. Most of the people / his friend circle would not vote him not even his kith and kin - gossips going around in this assembly constituency. | 19-Aug-2014 |