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| Tension at AGMC and GBP hospital after | AGARTALA, January 19 (TIWN): Tension prevailed at Agartala Government Medical College and GBP hospital here on Sunday night after an in-patient of the hospital died on evening. | 19-Jan-2015 |
| Bangladesh Minister arrives in Tripura: | AGARTALA, January 18 (TIWN): To develop the existing 50.78 kilometer long Akhaura Ashuganj road at earliest, a total of Rs. 35 crore will be allocated by the Bangladesh government while Rs. 1565.08 crore will be provided by the Government of India. Speaking to the reporters at Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Akhaura today Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaiqul Quader said that the Government of India is providing Rs. 1565.08 crore and the Bangladesh government will provide Rs. 35 crore to develop the existing 50.78 kilometer long Akhaura Ashuganj road at earliest.Minister for Transport Manik Dey said that Minister Obaiqul Quader expressed a very positive attitude towards our proposal and said Bangladesh had decided to allow other countries to use the ports for mutual interests. India had stressed for better connectivity through the neighbouring country for the people living in the north eastern states of the country. | 19-Jan-2015 |
| Installation of BG tracks in full swing | Agartala, January 18 (TIWN): In order to make the Agartala Railway Station as perfect station, different works including extension of platforms, creation of new platforms and installation of new BG rail tracks have been started few days back, said a railway source over telephone today. As part of Mega block, the BG conversion works are also going on in full swing in Agartala railway station, he said. | 18-Jan-2015 |
| Tripura: Pulse polio immunization drive | Agartala, January 18 (TIWN): Along with the whole country Pulse polio immunization programme is going in full swing at Tripura here today. As part of National Pulse Polio immunization programme, with the initiative of West District Chief Medical Officer’s office, Pulse Polio Vaccination drives is being conducted on January 18 and next drop will be administered on February 23, next covering kids between the ages zero to five year. | 18-Jan-2015 |
| Seminar on improving relationship betwee | AGARTALA, January 18 (TIWN): Seminar on improving relationship between people, police and media to combat crime was organized by Dainik Sambad at Rabindra Shatabarshiki Bhavan, here today. | 18-Jan-2015 |
| Baptu Chakraborty gets new responsibili | Agartala, January 18 (TIWN): Ahead of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) election, to reinforce the organizational strength in Agartala, member of Pradesh Congress Committee- Baptu Chakraborty formally got new responsibility here today. | 18-Jan-2015 |
| Patients being deprived of availing gen | Agartala, January 18 (TIWN): Even with the huge availability of common generic drugs in the stores, patients are being deprived of availing generic medicines as a section of doctors are allegedly maintaining to prescribe ‘branded’ medicines in the government hospitals till date. | 18-Jan-2015 |
| Cruel father's attempt to bury his own d | AGARTALA, January 18 (TIWN): Tripura Pradesh Woman Congress President Kalyani Roy today visited the 10 year girl, whose father had brutally attempted to bury her alive a few days before in the Juvenile Home today along with a team of PCC Delegates. The team comprising Pradesh Woman congress Vice President Smt Basana Debnath, Councilor cum General Secretary of TPWC Himani Deb Barma, General Secretary Shikha Gupta, Secretary Ratna Debnath, PCC Member Mujibar Islam and other members of Sonamura District Congress Committee, reached the place of occurrence at around 12.30pm. The team at first met with the grandfather and grandmother of the victim and the neighbours. Talking to the TPCC delegates both the grandfather and the grand mother said that they too demand examplery punishment of their cruel son. Kalyani Roy told TIWN over phone," We want to stand by the family of the victim especially the panic stricken girl and her mother. We also appeal to all the neighbours to record their statement before the police without being motivated by others ad incidents like this are indeed harmful for the entire society." The team also meets the mother, brother of the victim's mother. | 18-Jan-2015 |
| Tripura Employment Co-ordination Commit | Agartala, January 18 (TIWN): Tripura Employees’ Co-ordination Committee held a meeting at TRTC Complex, Agartala. Secretary of Tripura Government Employees’ Federation, Samar Roy and other dignitaries were present at the meeting. | 18-Jan-2015 |
| Kalyan Samity stages Shisu Utsav | Agartala, January 18 (TIWN): Five-day long Shisu Utsav- 2015 was inaugurated followed by various competitive events today at Bardowali with the initiative of Kalyan Samity, a social, cultural and sports organization. The Shisu Utsav would be continued till January 22. | 18-Jan-2015 |
| National Voters Day to be observed in Tr | Agartala, January 18 (TIWN): National Voters’ Day will be celebrated in the state on January 25. The day will be celebrated to facilitate the new voters to avail a scope of enrolling as eligible voters in the electoral rolls. | 18-Jan-2015 |
| Apollo hospital launches comprehensive | AGARTALA, January 18 (TIWN): Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals has recently launched comprehensive consultative, diagnostic and therapeutic services for patients with illnesses that affect the lungs and respiratory system. This all inclusive service, which is a pioneer of sorts in Eastern India, offers a 360 degree solution for treating all kinds of respiratory disorder, said Dr Sushmita Roy Chowdhury senior consultant Pulmonologist. | 18-Jan-2015 |
| CAG reveals unfruitful expenditure of Rs | AGARTALA, January 18 (TIWN): Lack of adequate planning and timely decision on agreement related issues by the Public Works Department (Water Resources) coupled with non-initiating timely action for rescinding the agreement and geeting the remaining work executed by another contractor at the risk and cost of erring contractor resulted in unfruitful expenditure of Rs. 2.17 crore.According to the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India the Executive Engineer (EE), water resource division No. VI, Kailashahar executed (October 2005) an agreement for Rs. 8.32 crore against the estimated cost of Rs. 6.82 crore for construction of Left bank Manu Canal (Main Canal) from ch 20,030 m to ch 21,700 m under Manu Irrigation Project with a stipulation that the work was to be completed by November 2006. Subsequently (November 2007), the completion time was extended to March 2010 by a supplementary agreement. | 18-Jan-2015 |
| ONGC to introduce heavy rigs to improve | AGARTALA, January 18 (TIWN): On another fresh initiative, the central owned Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) of Tripura to introduce heavy duty rigs across the state to facilitate its well drilling in future. At least two heavy rigs will be hired from an open tender with costs of Rs. 580 crore, and the ONGC Delhi based management has already approved the rigs to arrive here in the state Tripura, said ONGC Asset Manager V P Mahawar today.Talking to TIWN today Mr. Mahawar added that with its new initiative the ONGC has planned to induct heavy duty rigs to facilitate the well drilling for its better future. The rigs will arrive here at the state by 6 to 8 months and it costs Rs. 580 crore, said Mahawar. | 18-Jan-2015 |
| Rs. 61.69 lakh incurred by Rural Develo | AGARTALA, January 18 (TIWN): The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India revealed failure in planning by the Department led to non-completion of nine staff quarters in Mungaikami RD Block even after five years from the scheduled date of completion and the expenditure of Rs. 61.69 lakh incurred on them had become wasteful.According to the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, under the state plan major works in 2008-09, the rural development department placed (July 2008) Rs. 30 lakh with District Magistrate and Collector, West Tripura for construction of nine staff quarters during 2008-09 under Mungaikami RD Block against the tentative requirement (May 2008) the amount with the Block Development Officer (BDO), Mungaikami RD Block. Subsequently, the Department placed Rs. 35 lakh under state plan for maintenance and minor works during 2009-10. | 18-Jan-2015 |
| IPFT again calls for implementation of t | Kakraban/Shilghati/Udaipur, January 17(TIWN): Ahead of ADC election IPFT has once again raised the flame of separate Twipra land declaring that unless or until the tribal communities get this demand fulfilled, IPFT will continue its struggle. This issue was raised in a massive rally held at Shilghati Bazaar at Kakraban on Saturday. The rally was organized by the Indigenous Peoples' Front of Twipra (IPFT). With this rally IPFT has officially begun its campaign for TTAADC Election. | 18-Jan-2015 |
| Pending cases in Tripura High Court like | Agartala, January 17 (TIWN): Pending cases has now been reduced to 7 percent within a span of less than two years after formation of the High Court of Tripura, said Chief Justice Deepak Gupta in a felicitation programme here today. Speaking in the programme, he further said, “Pendency of cases is likely to be dropped at zero by March-April in the High Court of Tripura.†The works of the Bar members are extremely good and the junior lawyers are doing best jobs, added Chief Justice. In a programme, the Tripura High Court Bar Association today felicitated to Justice Ruma Paul (Retired) and Justice AK Ganguly (Retired) of the Apex Court at the conference hall of the High Court of Tripura. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| Congress ST cell holds meeting to discu | AGARTALA, January 17 (TIWN): Just ahead of the TTAADC election Tripura congress ST cell organized a crucial meeting to discuss the issues related to TTAADC election at Congress Bhavan, here today. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| Huge cache of gunpowder seized in Indo- | AGARTALA / DHAKA, January 17 (TIWN / bdnews24 ): Border guards recovered 33 kg gundpowder from Chapainawabganj Indo-Bangla border village.Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has recovered a huge amount of gunpowder from a bordering village in the northern district of Chapainawabganj.9 BGB Battalion CO Lt Col Abu Zafar Sheikh Mohammad Bazlul Haque said that 33 kg gunpowder was found from Johorpurtek. A BGB patrol challenged a few suspicious looking people on the border and they fled leaving behind four packages.The gunpowder were found in the packages, said the BGB official."The gunpowder was brought in from India to make bombs and spread trouble ," said Lt Col Haque. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| Crackdown in gambling racket: 9 arrested | Agartala, January 17 (TIWN): Altogether nine persons were booked with the charges of indulging in gambling and stake money of Rs. 13,500 in cash, 13 notebooks were seized from at Battala market, heart of capital city Agartala this morning. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| 37th Kokborok Day to be celebrated from | AGARTALA, January 17 (TIWN): State is all set to celebrate the 37th Kokborok day from January 18. a two-day long programme is slated to be observed on January 18 and 19 respectively to mark the Kokborok Day. The programme will be inaugurated through a seminar to be held at Dasarath Deb Upajati Sanskriti Bikash Kendra at 9 a.m. on January 18. Besides a quiz competition will be organized during the evening on the very day. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| State government failed to ensure minimu | AGARTALA, January 17 (TIWN): While the state government is busy with structuring several multi-storey buildings in different government hospitals to amaze the people of the state, even in so called golden era (!), the patients and patient parties are experiencing an elegiac situation to get healthcare services in different hospitals across the state. Though the Health Department is utilizing huge centrally sponsored funds to set up a number of attractive multi-storied buildings, but failed to introduce modern and developed medical facilities to the patients till date.According tohospital sources, due to lack of specialist doctors, insufficient treatment infrastructure and irregular and inadequate visit of doctors at main referral hospital of state- GBP hospital, the total number of refer case to the outside of the state is rapidly upward. A section of patients admitted at GBP hospital have alleged that some of the senior doctors referring patients to outside of state without performing their duty for the lure of commissions. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| CAG reveals financial loss of Rs. 14.10 | AGARTALA, January 17 (TIWN): The report of the comptroller and auditor general of India revealed financial loss of Rs. 14.10 crore in the Public Works Department (Roads and Buildings). It is to be mention here that the concerned authorities are in deep slumber regarding the issue.According to the report of the comptroller and auditor general of India, for the state of Tripura the government of India sanctioned 26 projects under Non Lapsable Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR) (estimated cost Rs. 122.69 crore) and 1 project (estimated cost Rs. 195 crore) under North Eastern Council (NEC) during 2008-13. Out of the 26 projects , the project proposals of 23 projects were sent during 2004-05 by the government of Tripura. The approved Non Lapsable Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR) projects mainly consisted of replacement of existing semi-permanent type bridges with reinforced cement concrete bridges (23) and improvement /widening of roads (3).The performance audit was conducted between May and September 2013 and covered the implementation of ‘Roads and Bridges’ projects under NLCPR and NEC during 2008-09 to 2012-13. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| State Advisory Council (SAC) re-constitu | AGARTALA, January 17 (TIWN): In order to implement the provisions of the Rights of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act- 2009 in effective manner, State Advisory Council (SAC) was re-constituted with 15 members.According to a gazette notification vide- F.31(3-60)-SE/GL-I/2011(V-11) undersigned by Addl. Secretary- PK Chakraborty, in pursuance of section 34 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act-2009 and Rule 19 of the Right of the Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules (Tripura)- 2011, the Governor was pleased to re-constituted the SAC for next three years. The 15-member council was formed as- School Education Minister (Chairperson), Director of School Education (Member Secretary), Executive Member (Education) of TTAADC (Member), Principal Secretary of School Education (Member), eminent educationist Dr. Brajagopal Roy (Member), | 17-Jan-2015 |
| ICA hold meeting regarding Republic day | AGARTALA, January 17 (TIWN): With a view to organize culture programme at various venues on the eve of Republic day celebration in the State, a meeting was held in the conference hall of Directorate of information and cultural affairs with the press photographers to discuss about the coverage of various programmes of Republic Day, here today. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| Indian housewife murdered under Bishalg | AGARTALA, January 17 (TIWN): Indian housewife brutally murdered allegedly by her Bangladeshi husband Akhtar Hussein. The incident occurred at Dakhin Koiadaba area under Bishalgrah Police Station on Friday evening. Killing his wife Safia Khatun, the accused husband fled to Bangladesh, said police. Talking to TIWN today the Bishalgarh Police said the accused husband chopped off his wife’s face and left the sharp cutter aside. However later police recovered the cutter but failed to arrest the husband as he fled away to Bangladesh killing his wife, said Police. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| Abducted minor girl recovered: Youth bo | Agartala, January 17 (TIWN): A youth was arrested today in connection with abduction of a minor girl from her house of Jagaharimura. The minor girl was recovered from Matinagar bordering area along Indo-Bangla border, outskirt of capital city Agartala this morning. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| Cruel father booked for attempt to bury | AGARTALA, January 17 (TIWN): On yet another bizarre incident recently a callous and a hardhearted father has been arrested on charge of attempt to bury his 10 years old daughter alive at the backyard of his residence along the Indo-Bangla border under Kalamcherra Police Station. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| Tripura: Srinagar border haat to start f | AGARTALA, January 17 (TIWN): The first border 'haat', or market, along the Tripura-Bangladesh frontier at Srinagar in south district of the state will start its journey from January 20, said DM & Collector of South Tripura District, Belonia Debasish Basu. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| Two day long International seminar conc | AGARTALA, January 17 (TIWN): The two day long international seminar at Kabi Nazrul Mahavidyalaya in Sonamura Sub Division came to an end today. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| Minority welfare dept siphoning off fun | Agartala, January 17 (TIWN):Youths belonging to minority community are reportedly been cheated by the department of Minority Welfare and State Minority Welfare Nigam. Government funds are siphoned off in the name of imparting free job oriented vocational training to minority youths. After completion of training providing job by the department is a distant dream for the youths, even they are deprived of from the monthly stipend. No certificates are issued by the department, the corrupt officials are siphoning of the stipend. All the irregularities are coming to light after the trainee youths started raising their voices against the irregularities. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| Petrol and CNG crisis hits state; suffer | UDAIPUR, January 16 (TIWN): In less than five months, state is again undergoing sheer crisis of Petrol, diesel, CNG. From Sabroom to Dharamanagar- same miserable situation prevails everywhere. Whenever, the Transport Minister or any officials in the Transport Department are asked about the ongoing crisis, they are saying almost the same words," Now I am busy in a meeting. You call later on" or "administration is doing its best to solve the crisis." But during the last four days in almost all the petrol pumps of the state a signboard is hanging throughout the days and night," No Petrol"/ "Diesel Nai (No Diesel)". Quite naturally long queues are now found in front of all the petrol pumps. Interestingly during the last four days only one petrol pump operator is selling petrol or diesel each day. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| Powered sound system pollutes capital ci | AGARTALA, January 17 (TIWN): Paying no attention to the sound pollution at large at the capital city Agartala that has become a matter of concern recently, the concerned entitled administration seems to have failed to detect any clubs, organization and the bazzar committees, busy playing high powered music system during the night hours. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Tripura seeks more flights on civil Avi | AGARTALA, January 17 (TIWN): With the burning issue of the spontaneous flight cancellation here in the state, Tripura seeks for 16 flights for daily operation here in Agartala airport, during a Ministry of Civil Aviation meeting at New Delhi. Tripura Resident Commissioner Delhi, Tripura Bhawan J K Sinha represented the meeting from Tripura at New Delhi. The meeting was chaired by Ministry of Civil Aviation, Govt. of India. Tripura state Transport Secretary Samarjit Bhowmik recently said that Tripura has demanded at least 16 daily flights for Agartala airport during the meeting. | 17-Jan-2015 |
| Ambassa: Road safety week; two accident | AMBASSA, JAN. 16, (TIWN): Among the much hyped celebration of Road Safety Week, the incidents of accidents are increasing day by day. Besides the negligence of drivers and passengers the activity of the traffic unit is not above the question. In every case, however, the sufferer is the common man who has to compromise with the guilt of others. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Unemployment is a major concern in India | AGARTALA, January 16 (TIWN): Enormous people without a job is on the rise in India as economic slowdown and slower business expansion activities cast a shadow on employment generation, said Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today. Addressing in the Army recruitment rally at Dasarath Deb Stadium Manik Sarkar today said that unemployment not only has financial impact but also has many social impacts like increase in cases of theft, violence and other criminal activities. And not to forget poverty which is directly linked with unemployment as well as inequality. Job creation is vital for the growth of the economy which means that majority of India's population will be out of poverty, he added.With Population of 122 crore in our country the unemployment rate is increasing day by day. The problem of unemployment is rising, he mentioned. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Forward Block calls for de-classify Neta | Agartala, January 16 (TIWN): All India Forward Block, Tripura state committee would observe the 119th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose throughout various programme across Tripura on January 23. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Tripura to establish e-district across t | AGARTALA, January 16 (TIWN): In the state wide roll out phase Government of Tripura will implement e-District in all 8 districts of Tripura. Through e-District Government of Tripura envisages providing several G2C services efficiently by the district administration. The initiative will have provisions for seamless integration of various offices like Tehsils , Circles, Block, SDM and DM. for providing services to the citizens through a common delivery interface. E-District is one of the 31 Mission Mode Project (MMP)s under National e-governance Plan (NeGP), with the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India as the nodal department, to be implemented by State Government or their designated agencies. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Problem in Palatana’s Unit-I: Pr | AGARTALA / UDAIPUR, January 16 (TIWN): Problem arose in the generation of power from Palatana Unit-I from Thursday night which had stopped production of the Unit. As a result, frequent load sheddings returned to haunt the people of Tripura with over power cut in morning and evening for past few days. Load shedding in Tripura has made life miserable as Tripura’s own power generation is down to its half of total capacity during past few days.However the concerning authorities were unable to inform about the actual time for the full maintenance of the unit. Earlier from Tuesday sudden trip at Palatana causes frequent load shedding in the whole State. An official source of TSECL stated over telephone that Palatana and Rukhia power plants were unable to meet the state’s power demand during past few days. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Multi-crore MGNREGA scam: Court conducts | Agartala, January 16 (TIWN): To start the trial into multi-crore MGNREGA scam of Bishalghar RD block, the Addl. District and Sessions Court, West district today conducted a commit session. Among 9 surrendered or arrested persons into this sensitive case, 8 accused persons appeared before the Court today, said a police official. On the other hand, the High Court of Tripura Wednesday granted conditional bail to Tushar Kanti Sen (Panchayat Secretary) who was earlier arrested for his involvement in this case, he said. According to police, the preliminary investigation has proved misappropriation of Rs 50000 against Tushar and he has also admitted the same. Already Tushar has spent 39 days in police custody and judicial custody. As a result, the High Court of Tripura granted conditional bail to Tushar, said police. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Sepahijala sanctuary: Exchange of anima | AGARTALA, January 16 (TIWN): To draw more tourists and visitors at Sepahijala wild life sanctuary the authority has decided to introduce golf cars and elephant ride, informed by K.G Bhowmik, director of the sanctuary. He said, “A proposal has been sent for having two 11 – seat golf cars and talks are on with ONGC to have it from next financial year. The golf cars will be used by tourists and visitors for sightseeingâ€. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| NH-44 maintenance work under process: T | AGARTALA, January 15 (TIWN): The maintenance work of the National Highway (NH-44) is under process here in Tripura with the entire stretch from Churaibari till Sabroom including Manu-Simlung segment is likely to be taken up by the next financial year from the BRO, said PWD Engineer in chief Sunil Bhowmik here at the Civil secretariat. Speaking to the reporters here at the civil secretariat the PWD engineer in Chief Sunil Bhowmik said that the state PWD department would take up the maintenance work of another 94 Km from the BRO by April, 2015. “Therefore the handing over of note from BRO to PWD is under processâ€, said Bhowmik. PWD authority is currently engaged in developing the 104 Km stretch of National Highway from Agartala till Churaibari that recently came under the jurisdiction of the state government from Border Roads Organizations (BRO), said Bhowmik. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Recruitment of Information Officers in | Agartala, January 16 (TIWN): Information officers have been recruited in the Governor Secretariat. According to the Act 2(H), 19(1), 5(1), 5(2) of the Information Right Act, 2005 the officers were recruited in various schedules. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Road mishap claims two lives, left seve | AGARTALA, January 16 (TIWN): In a shocking road mishap, two passengers died and seven passengers were critically injured at Kashyamongal area under Teliamura police station, here today. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Fire broke out near Howrah market | AGARTALA, January 16 (TIWN): In the wee hours of Friday, a fire broke out near Howrah market under Battala Out Post. No damaged was caused due to fires, said police. Police said that the fire might have risen to be a major disaster but promptness on the part of the fire tenders extinguished the fire in time. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Tradition triumphed over modernism: Ritu | KAMALPUR, JAN. 16, (TIWN): The vibrant popularity of e-books or other sophisticated gadgets fails to curtail the hobby of book reading even among the youths. The fast foods and fusion foods cannot put a restrain to the tastes of traditional Indian foods. Likewise, the tremendous spread of modern Indi-pop, hip-hop or jazz fails to overcome the appeal and eternity of traditional Indian folk music. On the day of Makar Sankranti, the people from all strata of the society and of every age group prove it once more here, in Dhalai district. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Alignment fixed for Feni bridge construc | AGARTALA, January 16 (TIWN): Tripura Public Work Department (PWD) issued a reminder to the Industry and commerce Department that act as a nodal agency to the state for the proposed four-lane bridge on Feni River in Tripura that would connect the state's South district with Chittagong division in Bangladesh. The alignment and the survey for the construction of the proposed bridge over the River Feni is all set fom the Indian side, said state PWD Engineer in Chief Sunil Bhowmik recently. Talking to the reporters at the civil secretariat recently the PWD Engineer in Chief Sunil Bhowmik said that the Indian side has finished with the survey and the alignment has been fixed for the construction of the proposed four lane bridge over the River Feni at the South District. The official said that the Direct Project Report (DPR) will be ready by the last of this month. Adding to that he said that the DPR was supposed to be readied by January 15 but the delay in conducting the survey has delayed the DPR. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Tripura flyover preface work likely from | AGARTALA, January 16 (TIWN): Tripura PWD department geared up for the preface work of the construction of first ever flyover in Tripura. the pre-bid meeting is likely to be held on January 29 with the work order, agreement sign and other preliminary works likely to start from this Financial Year (FY), said PWD Engineer in Chief Sunil Bhowmik. The construction work of the first ever flyover in Tripura will be taken up from Agartala Dropgate to Fire Brigade Chowmuhni via Battala.Speaking to the reporters here at the civil secretariat the state PWD (Public Work Department) Engineer in Chief Sunil Bhowmik informed that the preliminary work for the construction of the flyover in Tripura is likely to start from this Financial Year (FY) with the pre-bid meeting likely on January 29. The pre-bid meeting will be held for the contractors to visit and examine the site. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Husband kills his wife in Kakraban; Extr | UDAIPUR, January 15 (TIWN): Yet another incident of domestic violence on women and once again a housewife has been killed by her husband. It is learnt that Mousumi Bhattacharjee(Chakrabory) of Kishoreganja under Kakraban Police Station was killed by strangulating with a pillow by her husband Sanjay Chakraborty at dead of Wednesday night. Ever since her marriage Mousumi was tortured mentally and physically by her husband San Jay, father-in-law Sunil Chakraborty and mother-in-law Dipa Chakraborty. Last night when Mousumi was sleeping , Sanjay was alleged to have killed her and at dawn he brought Mousumi to Kakraban Hospital but the doctors declared to be dead. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Assam Rifles holds lecture cum weapon di | Agartala, January 15 (TIWN): Living up to its true spirit of ‘Friends of the Hill People’ the 4th Battalion of Assam Rifles (Manipur) under the aegis of HQ 21 Sector Assam Rifles on the occasion of Army Day organised a lecture cum Weapon display programme at Assam Rifles Ground. | 16-Jan-2015 |