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North Tripura Gas Based Urea Fertilizer | DAMCHHERA, PANISAGAR, September 5 (TIWN): A storm of controversy has risen between Panisagar Sub Divisional administration and the local tribals of Halam community living in 1.693 hector of land under Damchhera R D Block. This is the place where the proposed Gas Based Urea Fertilizer plant is scheduled to be built. Purely depending on Jhum Cultivation these families are unhappy with the current state govt attitude towards them and now they are stubborn to fight till death in order to protect their household. Already the Halam Community has formed Ranlong Youth Association (RYA) with Jabosh Ronglong as its President and Joy Chiang Thang as Secretary. | 05-Sep-2014 |
Unruly situation prevails in Udaipur ove | UDAIPUR, September 4 (TIWN): Udaipur witnessed unruly situation simply due to the whimsical attitude of the Health Department regarding the shifting of the patients, equipments from Tripura Sundari Hospital to District Hospital Tepania. On 3rd September, replying to a question of MLA Pranajit Singha Roy in the Assembly session, Health Minister Badal Choudhury told "Tripura Sundari Sub Divisional Hospital, Gomati District Hospital will operate simultaneously and independently with facilities as per their category." But on that very date when the Health Minister made his statement, Health Ministry simply cheated the people of Udaipur. Under protection from police all the necassary equipments and almost all the patients ( baring 11 pregnant patients and 5 new born children) were shifted to the District Hospital. But the way the authorities shifted the paitients had crossed all the limits of humanity. It is learnt that the master mind of this blue print is Medical Super Dr Debasish Roy. | 04-Sep-2014 |
CM's visiting Udaipur on 6th Sept : PWD | UDAIPUR, September 5 (TIWN): Chief Minister Manik Sarkar is visiting Udaipur to inaugurate the multi-cultural complex Rajarshi on 6th September. All of a sudden PWD officials came out swiftly to repair the roads in Udaipur to make a good impression before CM. Since Tuesday such repairing works began and still it continues. This afternoon workers were seen doing the repairing on the main road leading from Bridge Corner to Old Motor Stand with road roller giving the finishing touch. It is really surprising g that throughout the year and even last year as no maintenance was done on this road, going through the heart of District Headquarter. | 04-Sep-2014 |
Manu By-Election : 2nd Randomization of | Sabroom, Sept 4 (TIWN): Second Randomization of EVMs and Third Randomization of pollling personal of Bye Election Manu Election completed today in present of General observer and Expenditure observer and also in presence of all political parties. | 04-Sep-2014 |
Srinagar Border haat meeting at Chagall | Sabroom Sept 4 (TIWN): For Functional Srinagar border haat in Sabroom sub-division along Indo-Bangla international border at Tripura, a vital meeting was held at Chagalniya under Feni Destrict Bangladesh Panchayat, here on Thrusday at 10 AM. To boost the bilateral trade between India and Bangladesh, the foundation stone was laid for this border haat few months back.During the meeting, several decisions were taken in connection with the border haat. | 04-Sep-2014 |
BSF comes under attack at Khowai | AGARTALA, September 4 (TIWN): In an unprecedented turn of events, jawans of the Border Security Forces (BSF) today came under attack from villagers at Ashabari Border Out Post (BOP) in Khowai district. The BSF jawans tried to intercept an attempt of smuggling following which the villagers started attacking the jawans with bamboo sticks and country made weapons, a source in the BSF claimed. | 04-Sep-2014 |
Malaria kills one more, fresh infection | AGARTALA, September 4 (TIWN): Malaria outbreak continues to haunt the state with the death of one more child from Manu in Dhalai district. A highly placed source in the Department of Health and Family Welfare today said that Anjali Sabar (6), daughter of Manindra Sabar from Sabarpara, Machli in Dhalai district, died at the Manu Community Health Centre (CHC). | 04-Sep-2014 |
Tripura to drop cases against ex-guerril | Agartala, Sep 4 (TIWN / IANS) The Tripura government has decided to withdraw court cases against surrendered militants, except those of crimes committed against women, an official said here Thursday. | 04-Sep-2014 |
Al Qaeda announces South Asia wing : Cen | New Delhi/London, Sep 4 (TIWN / IANS): Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has announced the creation of a South Asian branch of his group to "raise the flag of jihad" in the Indian sub-continent, causing concerns. | 04-Sep-2014 |
Complaint filed against 64 Govt departme | AGARTALA, September 4 (TIWN): Complaints were registered against sixty-four Govt departments of the state government at the Information Commission, official sources said.A highly placed source in the state government today said that 15 thousand 548 applicants filed RTI applications in different departments of the state government till August 15, 2014.629 applicants, who were unsatisfied with response pertaining to their applications or were denied from availing a response, lodged complaints against the concerned departments at the Tripura State Information Commission, the source staed. | 04-Sep-2014 |
US denies plot to unseat Hasina, destabi | DHAKA / CALCUTTA, September 4 (TIWN / bdnews24): Reacting to a story "Major US operation to oust Hasina", the Dhaka embassy spokesperson Monica Shie said Thursday the news report quoting Indian intelligence has been “discussed internallyâ€."There is absolutely no truth to this story,†she said in an emailed response. “As you know, the United States and Bangladesh enjoy a strong friendship and close cooperation on a wide range of issues including countering violent extremism, building our trade relationship while improving worker safety, and enhancing regional economic engagement. â€However, she didnt mention any of the current covert operations being run by CIA in Bangladesh and North Eastern India. | 04-Sep-2014 |
Malaria Epidemic : Anopheles baimaii mos | AGARTALA, September 4 (TIWN): An baimaii, an Anopheles species, was mainly responsible for the massive outbreak of malaria in may this year in Tripura – a disease that cost 87 lives till date, a report submitted by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) said. | 04-Sep-2014 |
Landslides in Longtarai valley: Rail lin | AGARTALA, September 4 (TIWN): Landslides in Longtarai Valley disrupted rail link in Tripura. The traffic is completely disrupted and has less chance to improve till evening- says Station master. Tough time of passengers who got stuck in the middle of nowhere. There was a long queue of the passengers in the reservation counters to get the refund. | 04-Sep-2014 |
Workshop on Co-ordination among line dep | AGARTALA, September 4 (TIWN): A one-day workshop on co-ordination among line departments for protection of children and women in Tripura was organized by Tripura Commission for Women in collaboration with child line Agartala at Pragna Bhavan here this morning. | 04-Sep-2014 |
Security beefed up ahead of Durga Puja | AGARTALA, September 4 (TIWN): Security was beefed up in the state ahead of the Durga Puja police officials said. The Tripura government has made unprecedented security arrangements in all urban areas including the state capital to ensure peaceful Durga Puja festivities in the state. | 04-Sep-2014 |
Udaipur : Shifting of District Hospital | UDAIPUR, September 3 (TIWN): Amidst protests and deputation from Congress and BJP, District Hospital of Gomati has been shifted to its new building in Tepania practically making the Tripura Sundari Sub Divisional Hospital a pure crematorium. Indeed cheating with the people of Udaipur administration has simply crippled the Sub Divisional Hospital in the name of shifting the District Hospital to Tepania. And almost the entire health care services have been closed in the Tripura Sundari Hospital . On Wednesday only 6 patients in the Maternity Ward are seen in this hospital and one new parties has been admitted. All the patients have been forcefully shifted to Tepania District Hospital. Up to 10.30pm machineries and equipments from Tripura Sundari Hospital are being transported to Tepania under tight police protection. | 04-Sep-2014 |
All India State Government Employees Fed | AGARTALA, September 4 (TIWN): Tripura is going to host the national seminar of All India State Government Employee’s Federations (AISGEF) National executive Committee on 12-13th September. This is the 2nd time that such national level seminar of Government Employees is going to held in Tripura- says TECC’s secretary Ashim Paul. | 04-Sep-2014 |
Reshuffle in Police Department before up | AGARTALA, September 4 (TIWN): A minor reshuffle occurred at Police Department before the upcoming Durga Puja. Superintendent of Traffic Arindam Nath had been transferred and shifted as the Superintendent of special branch (SB). The position has been taken over by Smriti Ranjan Das. | 04-Sep-2014 |
Al Qaeda announces South Asia wing : Cen | New Delhi/London, Sep 4 (TIWN / IANS): Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has announced the creation of a South Asian branch of his group to "raise the flag of jihad" in the Indian sub-continent, causing concerns. | 04-Sep-2014 |
Major US operation to oust Hasina ; But | AGARTALA / DHAKA / CALCUTTA, September 3 (TIWN Exclusive):Indian intelligence has unravelled a US funded move to topple Sheikh Hasina's government in Bangladesh and 'adversely impact' on the Left regime in Tripura. West Bengal's ruling party Trinamul Congress , which is said to have been hugely funded by the US in its oust-Left drive in West Bengal between 2009-2011, has transferred millions of dollars to its fundamentalist associates in Bangladesh .A Central intelligence report accessed by TIWN says Trinamul MP in Rajya Sabha Ahmed Hassan Imran and another Maulana Asif Khan (originally from Teknaf) have been sending huge amounts of money to Jamaat and BNP over the past six months."The whole idea is to foment unrest on a large scale that would involve killing of Awami League leaders and activists and public disorder ," said a top Central Intelligence official. | 04-Sep-2014 |
Huge gold haul on India-Bangladesh borde | NEW DELHI / DHAKA, September 3 (TIWN /bdnews24):In a major breakthrough, the Border Security Force (BSF) have seized gold biscuits worth Rs 33 million Indian rupees and fake Indian bank notes (FICN) worth 1.29 million from along the India-Bangladesh border during the last 24-hours. Two persons were also apprehended in this connection.“We got specific information regarding the smuggling of gold from Bangladesh to India,†said the official.Giving this information to the bdnews24 a senior BSF official said that troops of 40 Battalion stationed at Kalyani border out posts (BOP) in Nadia district seized the huge consignment of gold biscuits approx. 13.3 kg valued at 33 million Indian rupees. The BSF patrolling party tried to intercept a motor cycle on the Kalyani –Haridaspur road. But as the troops approached , the rider of the motorcycle fled away living behind the bike bearing registration number WV-26J030307. | 04-Sep-2014 |
State Governments forms a committee to f | AGARTALA, September 3 (TIWN): State Government formed a committee to finalize fare of auto rickshaws. Recently the committee inspected the distance measures of various roads to finalize the fare. | 03-Sep-2014 |
Govt plans to raise remuneration for med | Agartala, September 3 (TIWN): Opposition MLA Birajit Sinha today proposed pay structure for medical officials in the state. | 03-Sep-2014 |
Fire accidents can be avoided by shift i | Agartala, September 03: Most fire accidents can be avoided if expenses incurred in post-accident relief are utilized for preparedness and preventive measures, Additional Sub-Divisional Magistrate (Mohanpur) Rajesh Kumar Das said. | 03-Sep-2014 |
BSNL employees 6th joint circle conferen | AGARTALA, September 3 (TIWN): The 6th joint circle conference of BSNL employees union, Assam, NE-I and NE-II will be held at Agartala from 6th to 8th September, said General Secretary Swapan Chakraborty here this evening. | 03-Sep-2014 |
Food inflation rocks Tripura assembly | AGARTALA, September 3 (TIWN): Tripura assembly expressed serious concerned over price rise of essential commodities and ever highest consumer price index (CPI) of vegetables and other food items on Wednesday.While food and civil supplies minister Bhanu Lal Saha admitted that CPI of vegetables and food items in Agartala is equivalent to Delhi, opposition alleged due to failure of the government to regulate the market and install price control mechanism, CPI has reached to 20.6 ever highest in the country.“The CPI of Meghalaya follows Tripura at 13.4, Nagaland 10.3, Mizoram 9.8, Assam 8.1 and Manipur 4.5 while average CPI of the country ranges between 9 and 10,†opposition legislator Ratan Lal Nath stated. | 03-Sep-2014 |
Tripura MLAs demand wage hike | Agartala, September 3 (TIWN): The MLA’s of Tripura Legislative Assembly drawing least wages in comparison with the other States of India. | 03-Sep-2014 |
Assembly passes bill for luxury tax hike | AGARTALA, September 3 (TIWN): The Tripura legislative assembly today passed the Tripura Tax on Luxuries in Hotels and Lodging Houses Bill amidst protests from the opposition benches. The Bill, which aimed at raising luxury taxes on a list of sixty hotels of the state, was moved in the House by Finance Minister Bhanulal Saha on the last day of monsoon session of the 11th state legislative assembly.Leader of the opposition Gopal Chandra Roy protested the Bill and said in an observation that the state government was trying to increase revenue by imposing additional taxes on every possible sector.“There is no step to increase new assets to be harnessed, rather the government is busy in expanding its revenue base by increasing tax rates on everythingâ€, Roy said. | 03-Sep-2014 |
State readies team to screen ebola suspe | Agartala, September 3 (TIWN): The state government is taking a set of preventive and precautionary steps against any possible outbreak of ebola virus in the state. | 03-Sep-2014 |
Mock poll held for Manu assembly by-elec | AGARTALA, September 3 (TIWN): Poll personnel appointed for by-election at 39 Manu assembly constituency were engaged in the first phase of mock poll drills. The authorities are currently engaged in commissioning Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) for the polls, Chief Electoral Officer Ashutosh Jindal said today. | 03-Sep-2014 |
Cancel directive on Modi address: CPI-M | New Delhi, Sep 3 (TIWN) The CPI-M Wednesday urged the government to cancel its directive to schools asking students to listen to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address on Teachers Day Friday."The CPI-M strongly protests against such an unprecedented directive/instruction and demands that the Modi government immediately rescind this," it said in a statement. | 03-Sep-2014 |
Track conversion to hit food supply to n | Agartala, Sep 3 (IANS) The transport of foodgrains and other essentials to Tripura, Mizoram and other northeastern states "would be severely affected" following a 'mega block' of railway services from October, a Tripura minister said here Wednesday. | 03-Sep-2014 |
352 schools lack in toilet facility for | AGARTALA, September 3 (TIWN): Focusing on the lack of toilets especially for girls in at least 352 schools throughout the state, The Central Ministry for Human Resource Development (MHRD) has undertaken a project- Swachhya Vidyalaya, Swachhya Bharat and as many as 10,000 schools in the entire country was placed on target under the project. | 03-Sep-2014 |
Students gears up to celebrate Teacher's | AGARTALA, September 3 (TIWN): All the students of the state are busy and gearing up to celebrate Teachers’ Day on Friday. Students are designing attractive greeting cards embossed with touching quotes and messages to baking cakes and choosing big bouquets of flowers, students are aslo coming up with ingenious ways to make the day memorable for their teachers. Most of students are gearing up for a role reversal on Friday. | 03-Sep-2014 |
Power cut: Consumers face harder times, | AGARTALA, September 3 (TIWN): Electricity consumers are in for harder times as the solution to the prevailing epileptic power supply being witnessed in the state since long time is not yet in sight. Normal life of people turned intolerable due to scorching heat and frequent load shedding. On the other hand, the officials of TSECL are disconnecting illegal electricity transmission lines at town areas of Gandacherra, while power supply through hook line became a regular practice at rural areas. | 03-Sep-2014 |
Three Schools of city will be awarded as | AGARTALA, September 3 (TIWN): Three Schools of Agartala will be awarded as the best Schools on the occasion on teachers day on September 5th and the these awards will be given by the state government, a high level source from education department here this morning. | 03-Sep-2014 |
OTPC Palatana: Problem in Purge Valve so | PALATANA, UDAIPUR, September 3 (TIWN): For the first time OTPC plant achieved the full-load generation of 363MW. This is the base load of Unit-I. Earlier maximum generation was 350-353MW. At 7.30am this morning an OTPC engineer told TIWN over phone , " At 6.30am this morning our plant achieved the full load. Now the plant is running at 363MW. First time we have achieved the target of 363MW. Actually during this shut down of 12 days due to Major Inspection of Gas Turbine, we have done some maintenance in the Steam Turbine. It resulted in the improvement of power generation. Naturally a jubilant atmosphere among all the OTPC staffs as well as GE experts and Sojex Oman India Pvt Ltd team. | 03-Sep-2014 |
Vested interest groups active to stop ge | AGARTALA, September 3 (TIWN): Some vested interest groups are acting to stop generic medicines from gaining ground in Tripura, Health and Family Welfare minister Badal Choudhury said. Speaking in response to a calling attention notice moved by Chief Whip of the assembly Samir Deb Sarkar and MLA Biswabandhu Sen, health minister Choudhury today said that a section of vested interest groups are trying hard to stop generic drugs from gaining ground in the state.He said that a large section of pharmaceutical drug suppliers are trying to create disillusionment among generic drugs owing to which proper procurement is becoming tough as well. The government decided to promote generic drugs in the state and the effort will continue unabated, the minister added. | 03-Sep-2014 |
CM & CS Book Purchase Scam: Important fi | AGARTALA, September 3 (TIWN): A top level govt official told TIWN over phone on Tuesday night, "Two gazetted officers close to Melarmath have taken over control of the entire episode and through them instructions are being sent to top officials of School Education Department to deal with the situation tactfully. After the news published in TRIPURAINFOWAY.com, two files have already been removed (one in which contained Debananda Dam's letter addressing Principal Secretary K Rajeswar Rao and D K Debbarma issuing order of procurement of books and the other about the recommendation of Departmental Procedure on Arnab Chakraborty, the Cashier). After the suspension of Deputy Director Ambalika Datta, another official Dilip Kumar Debbarma is the target of Director and Principal Secretary. As of now these two officials are now in touch with Melarmath and if positive signals are given, Addl Director D K Debbarma too may face suspension soon. " | 03-Sep-2014 |
BOD levels alarmingly high in Kalyansaga | AGARTALA, September 3 (TIWN): A report of Bio Chemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) of the pond water at Kalyansagar Lake, holy waterbody of Tripurasundari Temple, one of the 51 Hindu Shaktipithas of the country, indicated shortage of oxygen in the water, Minister for Science, Technology and Environment Bijta Nath said today. | 02-Sep-2014 |
Police fails to rescue abducted persons, | AGARTALA, September 2 (TIWN): The Dhalai district police administration as well as police personnel of Gandacherra Police Station failed to rescue yet the two jhum cultivators, who were kidnapped by National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) insurgents from Kalyan Singh TTAADC village of Joychandra Para under Raishyabari Police Station of Gandacherra sub division here on Aug 09. | 02-Sep-2014 |
CPIM MLAs caught napping in Assembly : S | Agartala,September 2 (TIWN): All for people or Sleep for people ??? CPIM MLAs Haricharan Sarkar, Padma Kumar Debbarma was found napping during question-answer session of Tripura Assembly on Tuesday. | 02-Sep-2014 |
NFR team visits state, says mega block t | Agartala, September 2(TIWN): A high level delegation of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) led by General Manager (Constructions) RK Singh and General Manager (Operations) RS Virdhi today visited the state and met Chief Minister Manik Sarkar to discuss on the forthcoming mega block. | 02-Sep-2014 |
Tripura to arrange for Modi's Teachers' | Agartala, Sep 2 (TIWN / IANS) The Left Front government in Tripura would make arrangements so that school students can listen to the live telecast of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to pupils on Teachers' Day, a state minister said Tuesday. | 02-Sep-2014 |
City gears up for Durga Puja | AGARTALA, September 2 (TIWN): With pandals at every nook and corner the city is gearing up to celebrate the up comming Durga Puja in full swing. The devotees in the city are eagerly waiting for their Maa Durga. The festive spirit has gripped the entire city. | 02-Sep-2014 |
Kamalpur :Police to play vital role for | AGARTALA, September 2 (TIWN): With the aim to ensure safe and sound atmosphere in the ensuing Durga Puja and maintain law and discipline, Kamalpur sub division police administration held a meeting in the conference hall of Kamalpur Police Station. | 02-Sep-2014 |
9 Manu (ST) By-Poll campaign gains momen | AGARTALA, September 2 (TIWN): The 39 Manu (ST) By Poll campaign gains momentum at last moment as no candidate withdrew nomination. | 02-Sep-2014 |
RAB finds huge weapons cache in Satchhar | DHAKA, September 2 (TIWN /bdnews24):The Rapid Action Battalion has unearthed another large weapons silo at Sylhet’s Satchharhi reserve forest.Many Light Machine Guns (LMG), Sub Machine Guns (SMG) and Self Loading Rifles (SLR) and a large amount of ammunition were found, RAB Additional Director General Col Ziaul Ahsan said on Tuesday morning. RAB-9 was continuing operations in the Satchharhi forest in Habiganj’s Chunarughat Upazila, he said. | 02-Sep-2014 |
Peace rally attempts to understand peopl | AGARTALA, September 2 (TIWN):In the name of peace rally against War on Monday, Left Front government in Tripura has virtually demonstrated their strength on street across the state to estimate the public anger on Manik Sarkar led government.The pre-planned street show led to unauthorised closure of public offices, prevented traffic movement and killed half-day of ongoing monsoon session of assembly by cutting short the scheduled businesses. Hospital services were disrupted after 1 pm and all other office staff including the school children has been allegedly forcefully brought to join the rally during scorching sunlight across the state. | 03-Sep-2014 |
Hasina for concerted counter-terrorism d | DHAKA, September 2 (TIWN/bdnews24): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for joint and coordinated efforts to combat the 'multi-dimensional terrorism' the world faces now."The kind of security challenges that confronts mankind now cannot be faced alone by any country," she said Tuesday while inaugurating the 7th Asia-Pacific Intelligence Chiefs Conference in Dhaka. | 02-Sep-2014 |