Archive Detail
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| Water crisis leads to road blockade | UDAIPUR, August 5 (TIWN): Demanding eradication of drinking water crisis, the residents of East Gokulpur at Udaipur staged a road blockade Tuesday at Udaipur kalitola road area. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| MLA Anjan denied allegation of Congress | KAMALPUR, August 5 (TIWN): Anjan Das, CPIM Sub-divisional Secretary and MLA of Surma constituency denied the allegation of District Congress President Manoj Kanti Deb that he beat two rickshaw-pullers at Durai Shibbari on 29th July last. In a press meet arranged at Kamalpur CPIM party office last night Anjan condemned the allegation as ‘baseless and politically motivated’. The beaten rickshaw-puller father Arun Namasudra was also present in the press meet, which mumbled in denying the incident and at last resolved that not the MLA but his associates assaulted him a bit. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| Gas cut shuts down Monarchak power plant | AGARTALA, August 4 (TIWN): Powered by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) Tripura asset the North East Tripura's 100 MW gas-based Monarchak power plant in West Tripura district, about 50 km from here; has undergone complete shutdown yet again due to the gas cut, said official source. “We had to shut down the plant again as ONGC had failed to supply required gas for the plant causing a heavy damage to the plant,†he said. ONGC was supposed to resume its gas supply on July 26 but failed to do so as the ONGC could not discover the possibility of gas from its well. The official said, “Also the ONGC authority failed to ensure the gas supply in future and had not brought any commitment so far.†At present the Monarchak power plant is suffering from a hefty loss as the plant has undergone complete shutdown. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| 12 new railway lines being constructed i | NEW DELHI / AGARTALA, Aug 4 (TIWN/IANS): Work on 12 new railway lines with a total length of 1,248 km is being taken up in the northeast, an official statement said on Tuesday."Against a national average of 20 km per 1,000 sq km railway network density, the northeastern states have an average railway network density of 10.1 km per 1,000 sq km," Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on Monday. "Twelve new line works have been taken up in northeastern region having a total length of 1,248 km at a total cost of Rs. 38,416 crore (Rs.384 billion)," he said.According to the minister, Rs.2,279 crore was allocated in 2012-13, Rs.3,392 crore in 2013-14 and Rs.5,200 crore in 2014-15 for new lines, gauge conversion and doubling the existing lines in the region."An increased outlay of Rs.5,338 crore has been provided in 2015-16 for speedier execution of projects in the northeastern region," Sinha said. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| Cabinet amends Tripura Secretariat Servi | AGARTALA, August 4 (TIWN): Leaving no stone unturned and allegedly in view of getting chair for party workers the Tripura cabinet on Tuesday amending the Tripura Secretariat Service rules has decided to form separate state board for recruiting competent candidates for the Lower Division Clerk (LDC), Group-D and other such posts. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| City bus service: State govt. urges for | AGARTALA, August 4 (TIWN): The state government wants more five months to start bus service in the capital Agartala. The request was made in written by the transport department to high court on Monday citing series of problem. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| TECC to hold mass demonstration by Septe | AGARTALA, August 4 (TIWN): Tripura Employees’ Coordination Committee on Tuesday mentioned about the memorandum placed on July 25, 2015 to Chief Minister and said if a proper initiative has not been taken soon then the committee would be bound to raise protest in a press conference at Press Club. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| 'Naga accord: Others may follow will sui | AGARTALA, Aug 4 (TIWN/IANS): The signing of the peace accord between the central government and the NSCN-IM will encourage other militant outfits to begin peace talks with the government, a former terrorist-turned-politician said here on Tuesday. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| Tripura governor's removal sought over M | KOLKATA/AGARTALA, Aug 4 (TIWN/IANS): A city-based rights group on Tuesday wrote to President Pranab Mukherjee seeking the removal of Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy over his tweets on 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| TSECL Circle Office turned into a den of | KAMALPUR, August 4 (TIWN): TSECL Circle office or the office of the Additional General Manager at Kumarghat came under the serious allegation of prevalent bribery-raj. The staffs of the TSECL from different Sub-divisions and Divisions alleged about the prevailing situation in the office. Moreover, a highly placed source of that office also admitted the fact. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| Tripura Bamboo Mission on Capacity Build | AGARTALA, August 4 (TIWN): The Tripura Bamboo Mission is Initiative of the Government of Tripura to develop the bamboo sector in the state in a holistic manner. The mission aims to double livelihood involvement and the sector turnover in a span of three years. It aims to optimize the end-to-end value chain spanning from plantation & resource generation to marketing of value added finished products. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| Hospital in shamble, resentment brews | BELONIA, August 4 (TIWN): Patients are in queue in most of the Hospital under Belonia Sub Division. Doctors close their chamber and attended in the Hospital duty. Tribal patients stand in queue for long time fails to check up their health and return home. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| Independence Day preparation at Dharma | AGARTALA, August 4 (TIWN): To mark the auspicious occasion of the 68th Independence Day, the authorities of North District has decided to celebrate the day at the premises of the Dharmanagar Birbikram Institute. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| Nagar Panchayat road left in deplorable | KAMALPUR, August 4 (TIWN): The lane got a name “Swadhin Saraniâ€. But the zigzag narrow lane filled with ditches hardly provided the inhabitants any pleasure or freedom of plying on it. Moreover, when the road needed any renovation the locales did it and the Nagar Panchayat authority remained in slumber. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| HC directs 2 separate Doctors’ bo | AGARTALA, August 4 (TIWN): Tripura High Court on Monday directed the All Tripura Government Doctors’ Association and Indian Medical Association to withdraw the petition filed separately with the court over the private practise issue. The HC earlier directed the doctors’ body that until the state government issued a notification to continue the private practises in condition, the court’s order would be applied. However, it is to be mentioned here that the government doctors had stopped the private practises from August 1 following a high court order.The All Tripura Government Doctors' Association (ATGDA) and the Tripura chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) have opposed the ban and filed a review petition before the Tripura High Court separately. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| Govt. sees no odd at Pecharthal violence | AGARTALA, August 4 (TIWN): Four months and seventeen days passed by and the state Left front government finds no odd at Pechartha violence yet today despite it has received the Magistrate level investigation report being reported by the Unakoti DM much earlier. Besides, issuing another such alert to the REGA workers in and around the state the state Minister for RD department had recently said, “The situation turning worst due to the delay of payment by the Bank might trigger further such incidents.â€Despite the incident of police firing injured as many as REGA workers at Unakoti district this year in the month of April which also damaged the Pecharthal religious temple at large, the state government even though sought the investigation report from the concerned administration but had failed to offer a justice to the victims so far. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Mushrooming fake educational institution | AGARTALA, August 4 (TIWN):As the new academic session readies to start, state students are scrambling to get admission in various colleges across the country. Lack of availability of the quality higher educational institutes, especially, in technical education field forces thousands of students every year to go out of state to pursue their dream. North-east region in general and Tripura in particular is considered to be lucrative area for the educational institutes to do business. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Govt doctors adopt pressure tactics to r | AGARTALA, August 4 (TIWN): The unruly decision of the government leads the patients to suffer immensely in and around the state. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Mafia attacks truck drivers at Udaipur | UDAIPUR, August 4 (TIWN): Resentment brewed up among the creeper truck drivers when the local mafia’s of Udaipur Palatana area attacked the drivers on Sunday evening. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Doctor adopts illegal practice at Tripur | AGARTALA/ UDAIPUR, August 4 (TIWN): Despite of adequate availability of medicines in the pharmacy, Dr. Sushmita Paul of Tripura Sundari Sub Divisional Hospital prescribes medicine of another company and asks the patients to buy it from the private medical stores, confirmed sources. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Cantilever bridge left unused for long, | KAMALPUR, Aug 4 (TIWN): The sole cantilever bridge over the river Dhalai at Kamalpur long left unused and unpreserved. This bridge was the only means of communication between Kamalpur and Surma areas even merely ten years ago. Thousands of people used this bridge regularly to ply upto Kamalpur for different reasons. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Flyover construction work on track, pill | AGARTALA, August 3 (TIWN): Construction of underground foundation of pillar is completed for at least two pillars at Battala and frame structure for 1 pillar is already set up with the help of steel bars and cement concrete. With the ongoing days, the construction of the fly-over work is underway in full swing from Battala to Drop gate area with the aim to complete the entire work by 30 months as fixed by the Tripura government. However, the soil testing work is currently in progress at the mentioned route and is likely to take the stretch towards Fire brigade Chowmuhni very soon. The soil testing is already completed at Bordowali area and is going in full fleged manner at Milan Sangha area. At present the entrusted Nagarjuna Construction Company (NCC) has undertaken the soil testing work in at least 10 spots from Battala to Drop Gate amongst which 4 to 5 has been completed. | 04-Aug-2015 |
| No burning of dead | AGARTALA, August 3 (TIWN): Strikes have now touched the dead in Tripura.Those who had the misfortune to die on Monday in Agartala will rue it because they will not be cremated. Those involved with the cremation of the dead at Battala are on strike, demanding regularization of their jobs. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Northeast India varsities to offer skill | KOLKATA/AGARTALA, Aug 3 (TIWN/IANS): The National Skill Development Corporation and major universities in northeast India have inked deals to introduce skill-based training in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of educational institutes, a statement said on Monday.The move is to introduce skill-based training in undergraduate as well as postgraduate programmes of colleges/institutes/departments in these universities in a phased manner, the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) said in a statement. The universities' list comprises Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University, University of Guwahati, Dibrugarh University, Tezpur University (Assam), Sikkim Manipal University (Sikkim), Tripura University (Tripura) and Indra Gandhi Technological and Medical Sciences University (Arunachal Pradesh). The courses will be introduced in the second year of undergraduate programmes and cover four semesters in the second and third year of undergraduate programmes. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Dry oil pumps put Agartala in deep fuel | AGARTALA, August 3 (TIWN): The continuous heavy down pour in north-eastern region has plunged the state into a fuel crisis as only two oil pump in capital Agartala has stock. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Committees demand to regularize the mino | AGARTALA, August 3 (TIWN): Demanding to regularize the minority languages in Tripura, several committees of the minority language on Monday staged mass demonstration and placed a deputation to Directorate of Kokborok and other Minority language. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Students on rampage over HM’s tra | AGARTALA, August 3 (TIWN): Fumed at the government’s decision to transfer headmistress of Kathaltali Higher Secondary School,on Monday Akhil Bharatiya Bidyarthi Parishad along with the students of the school have boycotted classes in the school. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| New varsity for Tripura to boost higher | AGARTALA, Aug 3 (TIWN/IANS): The Left Front government has decided to set up a state university in Tripura and this will be taken up in the monsoon session of the assembly beginning on Friday, a minister said here on Monday. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Regular patrolling to begin at Girl†| KAILASHAHAR, August 3 (TIWN): Acting over the protest staged against the negligence of police under Kailashahar sub-division, Superintendent of police Jalsingh Mina assured to start police patrolling at the Girl’s School road area on Monday. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Villagers deprived of electricity for pa | SABROOM, August 3(TIWN): Its being about 40 years that power has not reached to Anandopara ADC village area. Truly an age of Golden Era-all the several tall claims made by the ministers turned to vain when such a pathetic scenario comes to our eyes. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Two youths raped a girl at Kamalpur | KAMALPUR, August 3 (TIWN): A tribal girl namely Pramita Debbarma (21) of Ramnagar area under Bishramganj police station got raped at her relatives’ house by two neighboring boys at Durai Shyamrai para under Kamalpur police station. She underwent the inhuman and brutal torture while she came on a trip to her relative with her father. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Utility of dumping station under scanner | KAMALPUR, August 3 (TIWN): The Nagar Panchayat authority here at Kamalpur often proclaimed of logic, rationality and scientific thinking. They also claimed and advocated for cleaner and greener surrounding and town. But the garbage management of the Nagar Panchayat authority proved complete controversy of the authority in works and words. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Dipa Karmakar wins Asian Gymnastics bro | AGARTALA, August 3 (TIWN/IANS): Indian artistic gymnast Dipa Karmakar clinched the women's vault bronze medal at the Asian Championships being held here on Monday. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Tripura doctors accused LF government of | AGARTALA, August 3 (TIWN): Beside, closing private practice from Saturday for indefinite period, the doctors of Tripura have accused the state government of cheating Medical Council of India (MCI) to get recognition of courses in Agartala Govt Medical College.The doctors alleged almost all the departments of AGMC have been running without proper faculties and basic minimum infrastructure over a decade. But every time government made false statement to MCI and showed senior doctors working outside as faculties of AGMC.Both Indian Medical Association (IMA) and All Tripura Government Doctors’ Association (ATGDA) has become unhappy with the state government over it’s inaction in upgradation of health infrastructure and service facilities. | 02-Aug-2015 |
| 50 road mishaps a month in Tripura (2015 | AGARTALA, AUGUST 3 (TIWN): The number of road accidents is scaling new heights in Tripura. Statistics stated by union Home Ministry’s National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 716 accident cases were reported in Tripura in 2014 and of which 188 were dead. In 2014, the north-eastern states recorded 9,885 traffic accident cases. Out of these, 7,825 cases were in Assam alone. Meghalaya 301 cases, Mizoram (95), Manipur (735), Nagaland (39), Arunachal Pradesh (112) and Sikkim (62) cases were reported. In the year 2013, Tripura registered 226 accidental deaths, NCRB stated. During the years (2009-10 and 2010-11) as many as 1748 road accidents took place that killed 453 persons. A total of 2573 persons were injured in the same period. In 2012, 291 persons were killed in 1015 road accidents. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Select Assembly Committee okays state s | AGARTALA, August 3 (TIWN): The select committee of Tripura State Assembly had recently tied a final nod to the state separate university bill restoring the loopholes tracked earlier in the assembly session. The meeting was held on July 31 and had readied the bill which is all set to be placed in monsoon session. The construction work of the university is currently underway at Maharaja Bir Bikram College campus.The meeting was attended by state education minister Tapan Chakroborty, PWD minister Badal Chowdhury, Power minister Manik Dey along with State Assembly Chief Whip Samir Deb Sarkar and opposition MLAs. The meeting has ended giving a final nod to the bill. The proposed university is planned to be named after the erstwhile Tripura ruler Maharaja Birbikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur. And the university will be set up centering the existing MBB College. | 03-Aug-2015 |
| Kamalasagar border haat: Local administr | AGARTALA, August 3 (TIWN):: BSF have stopped extra interference at Kamalasagar border haat, bringing to end of harassment on vistors . The vistors were able to enter the haat without harassments and marketed freely on Thursday. Bishalghar sub division took charge of issuing visitor’s cards and making entry in registers. Now BSF will frisk the visitors, earlier the visitors who used to for marketing was reportedly unnecessarily harassed by BSF in the name of security. After the opening of border haat , tussle between BSF and visitors have become a regular feature. The visitors from Indian side were unable to enter the haat for marketing. The vendors could not sell their things causing monetary loss to vendors. | 02-Aug-2015 |
| Police detains 8 gamblers from Agartala, | AGARTALA, August 3 (TIWN): Acting on a tip of secret source, west police on Sunday arrested 8 people in allegation of gambling from Battala Restaurant lane. | 02-Aug-2015 |
| Child goes missing from orphanage | UDAIPUR, August 3 (TIWN): Resentment brewed up when a child of 14 years of age went missing from Udaipur Khilpara orphanage area when he went missing from his way towards his school. | 02-Aug-2015 |
| NH 44 in deplorable condition, commuters | UDAIPUR, August 3 (TIWN): The Agartala-Sabroom National Highway 44 has been running deplorable for several years. Around one kilometre of road has been giving pathetic experience to the dwellers. | 02-Aug-2015 |
| Poor condition hits Agartala-karimganj r | AGARTALA, August 2 (TIWN): Awful condition has hit the Agartala-karimganj railway service. Only one train is there which travels between Agartala to karimganj and Karimganj to Agartala. With the beginning of the Broad-Gauge (BG) conversion work it is expected that the train service from Agartala to karimganj and Karimganj to Agartala will remain suspended from October 1. With only one train running from the two spot has resulted such crisis in the railway service. It is seen that people stands in long queue in front of the station to occupy seats in the train compartment. Starting from aged, young to pregnant ladies all waits for long hours to get inside the train. As there is less number of compartment in train the passenger’s rushes in hurry to occupy seats. Even the children run in hurry in the platform which may lead to accident at any moment. As there is only train from these spot, there is huge rush of passengers. MG Special pair passenger train starts from Agartala and Karimganj at 9.30 am everyday and it reaches to the destinations at 5.30 pm every day to facilitate movement of Tripura travelers in high terrine. | 02-Aug-2015 |
| ICA Department launches Advertisement Ma | AGARTALA, August 2 (TIWN): Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Bhanulal Saha inaugurated an Advertisement Management Software on Saturday at the Head Office of ICA department. | 02-Aug-2015 |
| Tripura University Bill: Select committ | AGARTALA, August 2 (TIWN): The select committee unanimously approved Tripura University Bill in a meeting held on Friday. The bill will be placed in assembly during the monsoon session commencing from August 7. The select committee meeting was attended by parliament affair minister Tapan Chakraborty, PWD minister Badal Chowdhury, Power Minister Manik Dey, RD minister Naresh Jamatia, tourism minister Ratan Bhowmick, finance minister Bhanu Lal Saha, chief whip Samir Deb Sarkar and three opposition members – Ratan nath, Gopal Roy and Jitendra Sarkar. | 02-Aug-2015 |
| Tripura HC slightly modifies order on la | AGARTALA, Aug 2 (TIWN/IANS): The Tripura High Court has slightly modified its order over the posting of Law Secretary Datamohan Jamatia, asking him to join as district and sessions judge on November 2 instead of earlier August 3, an official said on Sunday. | 02-Aug-2015 |
| Minister Bhanu Lal Saha calls for fecili | AGARTALA, August 2(TIWN): With the aim to eradicate poverty, Finance Minister Bhanu Lal Saha recently hold a meeting at Bisalgarh Panchayat Samiti hall. Speaking at the meeting he stressed on the issue to eradicate poverty from Tripura for the development of the state. | 02-Aug-2015 |
| Poor BSNL service irks the subscribers | GANDACHERRA, August 2 (TIWN): Locals of Gandacherra sub-division has been facing huge trouble due to the poor services provided by the telecommunication service provider of BSNL for last several weeks. Mobiles, broadband and landline services across Gandacherra sub-division remain non-functional, complained the locals. | 02-Aug-2015 |
| Discussion session to be held on the occ | AGARTALA, August 2 (TIWN): On the auspicious occasion of the 125th Birth Anniversary celebration of Dr. B R Ambedkar, a discussion session will be organized at the Chandraipara Higher Secondary School of Ambassa on August 5. | 02-Aug-2015 |
| Teliamura gears up for the Independence | AGARTALA, August 2 (TIWN): Just a few days left for the celebration of 15th August and to mark the celebration of 68th Independence Day in the state, a long programme will be organized at Teliamura Municipal council, confirmed officials. The entire state is gearing up for the celebration of the Independence with pomp and gaiety. | 02-Aug-2015 |
| New English medium school to be inaugura | AGARTALA, August 2 (TIWN): In order to make education easily accessible for all the interested student, an English medium school namely Sukanta Academy English Medium Higher Secondary School will be inaugurated at Nalgaria of Ranirbazaar on August 3, informed an official. | 02-Aug-2015 |
| Disaster Management Team clearing landsl | SABROOM August 2 (TIWN): Disaster Management Team headed by DCM Sajal Das clearing landslides to reach Chitabari,under Sabroom Sub Division. The village disconnected due to heavy rain and landslides today evening. As per the public and the panchayats concerned, the landslides that took place on July 30 had affected the people and students of Chitabari after heavy shower. | 02-Aug-2015 |