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| Bharat Ratna A.P.J. Kalam Block is to be | AGARTALA, August 13 (TIWN): The year long celebration of Golden Jubilee Festival is to be ended with the closing ceremony programme. The programme will be held on Friday morning in the presence of Governor Tathagata Roy as the chief guest. | 12-Aug-2015 |
| State Public Information Officer appoint | AGARTALA, August 13 (TIWN): Altogether new State Public Information Officer and State Assistant Public Information Officer have been appointed. | 12-Aug-2015 |
| Govt. silent probing opposition’s | AGARTALA, August 12 (TIWN): Despite a serious misappropriation of money and massive irregularities at Agartala Government Medical College and Agartala GB Pant Hospital unearthed by the opposition in the recent past the state Left front government sees no odd in it. The government has so far failed to probe the allegation rose against the AGMC through its internal audit report, though Health Minister Badal Chowdhury confirmed that the health directorate had formed a committee to review the audit report. PCC President and Opposition Leader Sudip Roy Barman on July 22 unearthing the multi-crore scam alleged that the preliminary internal audit report on the accounts of the Medical Superintendent at AGMC and GBP Hospital have found serious misappropriation of money for the period from April 1, 2010 to November 30, 2014. However, in view of this the state health directorate had formed a committee to take a stock of the situation and were asked to submit the report with the directorate, but interestingly the committee had so far failed to act accordingly. | 12-Aug-2015 |
| Consumer blocked National Highway, Prote | AGARTALA, August 12 (TIWN): Irritated by prolonged LPG crisis and unscheduled delivery, consumer of Ashirbadh Agency on Wednesday blocked the National Highway at Dhaleshwar raising protest against the acute crisis of LPG cylinder.Fed-up with the crisis of LPG cylinder issue and not getting cylinder from the month of June, the consumers on Wednesday staged protest from morning 8 am. The protest continued for around 3 hours throwing traffic out of gear in large parts of National Highway. The protestor demanded to change the owner of the agency. They further alleged that the staffs of the agency ask the consumers to buy cylinders from black market which will cost around Rs. 1300 or more. They consumers alleged that as the staff of the agency is getting some commission from the black market as for which they are asking to take LPG cylinder from the black market. The consumers further said that the Government has been repeatedly claiming that every house will get 12 LPG cylinders in a year but the present scenario is different. Neither is the supply of LPG cylinders are adequate nor the Government is taking any initiatives to improve the LPG crisis. | 12-Aug-2015 |
| Tripura Governor urges for preservation | KAILASAHAR, August 12 (TIWN): Governor Tathagata Roy in a visit to Unakoti on Wednesday, an ancient place with huge rock-cut images and stone idols of Lord Shiva urged for preservation of archaeological sites in the district. | 12-Aug-2015 |
| CM criticizes central govt. at the gold | AGARTALA, August 12 (TIWN): Addressing the closing ceremony of golden jubilee of Women’s college at Matangini Pritilata hall on Wednesday Chief Minister Manik Sarkar alleged that the central ministry doesn’t provide required money to the state for the development of the education. | 12-Aug-2015 |
| SSA, RMSA teachers demands regularizatio | AGARTALA, August 12 (TIWN): When the state government is grappling after the termination of over 10,323 teachers in different categories, hundreds of SSA and RMSA teachers marched the streets demanding regularization of their service and gave deputation to U.K. Chakma State Project Director Rajya mission. | 12-Aug-2015 |
| 2083 FIR lodged in past 8-month | AGARTALA, August 12 (TIWN): A total of 2, 083 FIR has been lodged in the past eight months and 83, 878 Non-FIR, informed in the last day of the Monsoon Assembly on Tuesday. | 12-Aug-2015 |
| BSF plants four lakh saplings in 30 minu | AGARTALA, Aug 12 (TIWN/IANS): The BSF on Wednesday planted around four lakh saplings in just 30 minutes all along the Pakistan and Bangladesh borders to mark Independence Day. | 12-Aug-2015 |
| Passport Seva Kendra to open soon in Aga | AGARTALA, August 12 (TIWN): A full-fledged Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) is likely to be set up in Agartala before December this year, the assembly was informed here on Tuesday. While replying to a notice moved by MLAs Shyamal Chakraborty and Sudhan Das, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said a five member MEA team headed by Joint Secretary Pardeshi visited the state on August 10. | 12-Aug-2015 |
| Dipa Karmakar to get Arjuna award | NEW DELHI/AGARTALA (TIWN): The Arjuna awards are given to Indian sports persons to recognize their outstanding achievements in their respective sports. | 12-Aug-2015 |
| Two traffic barricades long unused kept | KAMALPUR, August 12 (TIWN): Once upon a time vehicles plied on the bye-pass road due to one-way traffic. Then two traffic barricades were set in front of the Govt. English medium school for the protection of the students and to make the vehicles cross the school in speed limit. But this system became obsolete almost six months ago. | 12-Aug-2015 |
| MGNREGA scam: 59 employees deprived of t | KHOWAI, August 12 (TIWN): After gigantic loot of MGNREGA fund which came under limelight, Workers across the rural state have been alleging irregularities in MGNREGA salary and wages. Nevertheless now a total 59 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) employees of Mungaikami RD Block under Khowai District are not getting their wages from the last two months. | 12-Aug-2015 |
| Tripura records 3 farmers’ suicid | AGARTALA, August 12 (TIWN): Just after 24 hours passed by with Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar admitted in the ongoing monsoon assembly session that so far at least three farmers were recorded committed suicide, he had come out playing very wise saying, “There is no report of farmers’ suicide in the state as compared to other states in the nation.†The statement has come up just after Sarkar was being asked the reason for the suicides.Talking to the media persons on Tuesday at the secretariat Sarkar said, “There is no report of farmers’ suicide in the state as compared to other states in the nation.â€Just after the assembly session was being informed recently that the state government has recorded at least three suicides being committed by the farmers Chief Minister Manik Sarkar acting wise with the media persons had clarified that the farmers who committed suicide were not deprived from the government’s aide.Sarkar told media, “All the three farmers who were reported committed suicide were suffering from illness whereas another who was tempted towards consuming alcohol had committed suicide as he was drunk". | 11-Aug-2015 |
| Sponsoring of nursing students: Manik S | AGARTALA, August 12 (TIWN):In the wake of surfacing alleged scam regarding sponsoring students for various nursing courses at unrecognized institutes, the state government today said it would look into the allegation and take stern action against those found involved. The issue was raised in the Legislative Assembly by opposition leader Sudip Roy Barman who expressed concern about the functioning of two ministers of Manik Sarkar’s government and demanded a tough action against the higher ups who are involved in the irregularity.Drawing the attention of state Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty said no institution involved in irregularities should be spared and a strong action must be taken by the government to ensure that no more students are cheated in future. Roy Barman said that the students those are sent for nursing courses in Bangalore all are fake institutes and openly violating the state government guidelines. Maximum nursing institutes have no their own hospitals which is mandatory as per state government guidelines. Besides, the students are forced to led a pathetic life.He claimed that some two ministers and some high official of the government have unholy alliance with some of the fake nursing institutes. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| Rs 30,12,215 deposited in govt. excheque | AGARTALA, August 12 (TIWN): Tripura Assembly on Tuesday discussed on the issue that so far a hefty amount of Rs 30, 12, 215 is being deposited under the exchequer of the state government from the violators of two-wheeler rider by the traffic department. MLA Gopal Chandra Roy in the 3rd day Tripura monsoon session of assembly on Tuesday stated the traffic department has fined an amount an Rs 30, 12, 215 after they pulled off the bike riders for not wearing helmets, and not being able to show the proper documents and for violating the traffic rules. In allegation of not wearing helmets, not carrying the driving license, disobeying the traffic rules, the traffic department has fined an amount of Rs 30, 12, 215 from 12,830 bike riders between January1, 2015 to 15 April 2015 and has submitted the money in the govt. exchequer. Accordingly, the traffic police collected the money through challans in the mentioned given period. A per the documents, Rs 41, 100 is collected from 89 two-wheelers at Dhallai district, Rs 1,64,100 from 397 bike riders at North Tripura district Rs 2,57,700 from 621 two-wheelers at Unakoti District, Rs 2,53,250, from 667 two-wheelers at Sipahijala district. | 12-Aug-2015 |
| Assembly discusses on cyber cell in Trip | AGARTALA, August 12 (TIWN): Discussing about the gradual increase of cyber crime in the state at the monsoon assembly session on Tuesday, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said that 42 officials have been recruited to tackle the cyber crime in the state. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| Students locked the school in deprivatio | KAMALPUR, August 12 (TIWN): The real saga of so-called ‘model education system’ of this highly trumpeted ‘golden era’ started to reveal at different parts of the state as well as Dhalai district. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| Veteran Congress leader Durjoy Chakrabo | KAMALPUR, August 12 (TIWN): In a massive jolt to the staggering Congress party in the State a veteran leader and sincere worker of the party in Dhalai district Durjoy Chakraborty breathed his last today. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| AIDWA demands to provide job to the poor | AGARTALA, August 12 (TIWN): All India Democratic Women’s Association Dukli Divisional Committee staged rally in front of the Agartala Municipality Corporation on Tuesday and placed deputation to Mayor Dr. Prafullajit Sinha. | 12-Aug-2015 |
| Massive Response to Tripura Conclave , m | AGARTALA, August 11 (TIWN): The recently held Tripura Conclave that focused on the prospects of the state's IT industry has already elicited enthusiastic response.Not only are entreprenuers in the Northeast fired up with the prospects of going for Internet start-ups, but even IT majors have started enquiries about Tripura as an investment destination.Guwahati-based Kunal Saikia saw the report about the Conclave in 'Economic Times' and wrote back to Conclave convernor Subir Bhaumik ."My dream of going for an Internet start-up in the region was looking like falling through when I read the story about the Conclave. This has rekindled my hopes to set up an Internet start-up," said Saikia in a e-mail to Subir Bhaumik.Bhaumik directed him to his co-convenor Saumen Sarker, who is Vice President (IT) in Bank of America. Saikia has sought Sarker's advice after that.Like Saikia, many small to medium businessmen in Northeast want their exclusive products to reach a larger market through e-commerce which will only be possible if fast internet becomes a possibility . Remote Xinjiang in China's troubled northwest has been marketing its special wines through Internet -- so that can happen in Northeast with Agartala likely to emerge as an IT hub.Besides such ventures, IT majors like Hinduja are taking interest after the Tripura Conclave. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| Tripura connected to 772.5 MW of power, | AGARTALA, August 11 (TIWN): Despite the northeastern states of Tripura is being connected with several power projects of the state and the plants from other northeastern states the power situation has grimed in the state followed by daily load shedding and people has got no respite from it yet today even after the introduction of state’s biggest power plant Palatana installed at Tripura Gomati District. Currently Tripura is getting a total of 772.5 Mega Watt (MW) of power from its several power plants being installed in the state, the assembly was informed recently. Power Minister Manik Dey replying to the question moved by the opposition MLA in the house informed that at present the state is getting 560 MW of power from Palatana OTPC Power plant whereas on an average of 30 to 42 MW of power from Baramura thermal power plant. The Monarchak power plant under Sonamura Sub-Division has not yet started commercial generation power from its plant, he said. Besides, the Monarchak power plant which is currently in tussle with the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is scheduled to resume its power generation from August 21 again.Talking to TIWN in this regard on Tuesday a reliable source from Monarchak plant infirmed that currently the plant is getting the supply of gas from ONGC but there is a chance of disruption in the supply following which the Plant is expected to resume its power generation from August 21. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| NBFCs: 101 people arrested, amount defal | AGARTALA, August 11 (TIWN): Since 2010, one hundred thirty eight NBFC cases have been registered in the state admitted chief minister Manik Sarkar. Laying the statement in assembly today he stated that the state government on 12th May, 2013 requested Centre for entrusting the investigation of thirty seven NBFC cases to CBI. The centre accepted transfer of investigation in respect of five NBFC cases to CBI. Informally it was communicated that cases are not of such nature that warrant investigation of by CBI. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| Assam's NRC issue debated in Tripura ass | AGARTALA, Aug 11 (TIWN/IANS): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Tuesday said government departments would be asked to issue necessary documents and certificates related to the ongoing process of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| CM inaugurates two-day long ‘Bachi | AGARTALA, August 11 (TIWN): Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Monday inaugurated the two-day long programme of Bharat-Bangladesh Bachik Utsav and the 3rd Annual programme of Shruti, a cultural organization at Rabindra Shatabarshiki Bhawan. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| 9031 families were allotted with 1117.0 | AGARTALA, August 11 (TIWN): Speaking at the second day of the three long Monsoon session of the Tripura Assembly on Monday, Revenue Minister Badal Choudhury said that altogether 9031 families were allotted with 1117.09 Acre of land in the 2013-14 and 2014-15 financial year, said an official here on Tuesday. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| Tripura militants have camps in Banglade | AGARTALA, Aug 11 (TIWN/IANS): Terrorist outfits of Tripura have camps in Bangladesh, though they have no hideout in the state currently, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| Death anniversary of Khudiram Bose obser | AGARTALA, August 11(TIWN): 108th death anniversary of Indian freedom fighter Khudiram Bose was observed in the state. Khudiram Bose was born on 3 December 1889 in the village of Keshpur in Midnapore district of West Bengal. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| LPG crisis hits state, people worried | AGARTALA, August 11 (TIWN): Food, Civil supplies and Consumers Affairs Minister Bhanu Lal Saha accepted the situation in the assembly session that the demand of Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) cooking gas cylinders in state is not meeting the supply from Bisalgarh gas bottling plant. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| ONGC to organize state level bi-cycle ra | AGARTALA, August 11 (TIWN): To mark the ONGC day the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Tripura Asset like every year will organize a state level bi-cycle race championship on August 14 this year. The programmed will be flagged off by ONGC Asset Manager S C Soni at 6: 30 morning on the very day. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| Locales blocked national highway demandi | KAMALPUR, August 11 (TIWN): Scarcity of drinking water had long been a great problem of the locality. Often the departmental water tapes provided them with nothing but air. But for last 10 to 15 days, the problem became more acute. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| Student unrest gripped another school | KAMALPUR, August 11, (TIWN): The surging wave of SFI-led students’ unrest took another school of the Kamalpur town under its grip. The students of Girls’ SB School adjacent to SDM office and Nagar Panchayat office at the heart of the town organized an hour’s seat and demonstration in front of the school premise today. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| Police negligence escapes accused from j | AGARTALA, August 11 (TIWN): On yet another negligence of police left accused person escaped from jail on August 9. The incident occurred at Khowai Mungiakami Police Station. The accused identified as Rakesh Debbarma (24) who was put in jail on charge of torturing his wife on Sunday allegedly managed to attack the police constable who was in duty at night and later he escaped from the police station. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| Two new rail sections in Northeast inaug | AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, Aug 11 (TIWN): Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Monday inaugurated two new railway sections in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh that have been converted into broad gauge and flagged off a number of new train services.At a function held at Rail Bhavan at New Delhi, Prabhu flagged off the new train services between North Lakhimpur and Murkongselek in Assam and between Balipara in Assam and Bhalukpong in Arunachal Pradesh, an official statement said.The programme was organised through video-conferencing between Rail Bhavan, Murkongselek and Bhalukpong.Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal was present in Murkongselek, while Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju was in Bhalukpong.Prabhu also inaugurated the daily Guwahati-Murkongselek Intercity Express and the Dekargaon-Bhalukpong Passenger.The Rangiya-Rangapara North Passenger was extended up to Dekargaon, while the Dekargaon-Harmuti Passenger was extended to Murkongselek.Stating that it was a "golden day" in the history of Arunachal Pradesh, as the state got its second broad gauge connectivity with the commissioning of the Balipara-Bhalukpong gauge conversion, Prabhu said state capital Itanagar was provided with rail connectivity with Delhi through a direct train earlier this year."I am sure this rail connectivity will bring prosperity in the lives of people of this state. | 11-Aug-2015 |
| Northeast sees 40 percent more foreign t | NEW DELHI / AGARTALA, Aug 11 (TIWN) Despite deterrents such as poor connectivity and lack of decent hotels, foreign tourist flows to northeastern states jumped nearly 40 percent in 2014 over the previous year, even as efforts are on to promote the sector there, parliament was informed on Monday.In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Tourism Mahesh Sharma said the number of foreign tourist arrivals in the eight northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura in 2014 was 118,552 compared to 84,820 in 2013 -- marking a 39.76 percent increase. In 2012, the figure was 66,302."Some of the factors responsible for poor tourist inflow to the destination are lack of connectivity, non-availability of reasonably priced hotel accommodation, absence of tourism infrastructure and carrying capacity of the destination."He said the government has included the northeast in two new tourism schemes that have been launched.Apart from the Northeast Circuit under the 'Swadesh Darshan' scheme, two other circuits under the scheme - Buddhist Circuit and Himalayan Circuit - can be linked to the region.According to the minister, Kamakhya in Guwahati has been identified under the Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation Drive (Prasad) scheme.In 2014-15, the ministry allocated Rs.144.68 crore (Rs.1.44 billion) from its Rs.1,100-crore budget in 2014-15 or 13.15 percent of the total budget. In 2013-14, it was Rs.149.16 crore out of Rs.980 crore and in 2012-13, it was Rs.113.72 crore out of Rs.950 crore. | 10-Aug-2015 |
| Tripura Left front govt. gets nod from a | AGARTALA, August 11 (TIWN): Finally the state Left front government had got the nod from the state legislative assembly to set up the proposed separate state university in Agartala in view of getting the state educational infrastructure expand. The ongoing monsoon assembly session on Monday passed the pending bill of the state university. “Our main aim for setting up separate state university is to expand the state educational infrastructure and also to ease the work of existing central university,†said State Higher Education Minister Tapan Chakroborty on Monday.Talking to the reporters on Monday evening Chakroborty said that to achieve a long term pending goal of the state government, the bill of separate state university was passed on Monday at the assembly after several examination of the bill by a select committee comprising legislators. | 10-Aug-2015 |
| Tension grips Kamalasagar Border haat | AGARTALA, August 11 (TIWN): Instead of arresting suspects and handing them over to the police for investigation, Border Security Force soldiers are often accused of harassing the common people at the Kamalasagar Tarapur second border haat. | 10-Aug-2015 |
| Bishalgarh Central jail to observe Indep | AGARTALA, August 11 (TIWN): To mark the celebration of the Independence Day, the prisoners will also be remaining a part of the programmed. | 10-Aug-2015 |
| Youth congress encircled Udaipur DM offi | UDAIPUR, August 11 (TIWN): Tripura Youth Congress on Monday afternoon held a massive rally and encircled Gomoti DM office to mark their deputation for 6 charters of demands. | 10-Aug-2015 |
| 1lakh saplings to be planted all around | KAILASHAHAR, August 11 (TIWN): To mark the auspicious occasion of the birth anniversary of Former Chief Minister Dasarath Deb, altogether 1 Lakh saplings will be planted all around the state, said State Secretary of CPM Bijan Dhar. | 10-Aug-2015 |
| Security squad conducted search operati | KAMALPUR, August 11 (TIWN): Like other parts of the State, police adopted stringent measure to prevent any untoward incident regarding the ensuing Independence Day here at Kamalpur also. | 10-Aug-2015 |
| Fire breaks out at Udaipur petroleum pum | UDAIPUR, August 10(TIWN): The people of Udaipur narrowly escaped death when fire broke out at a petrol pump.Tension prevailed for some hours in Udaipur town of Gomati district on Monday afternoon when fire broke out at Kiran Petrol pump situated opposite to Udaipur UBI bank triggering panic among the people of the area at the petrol pump. Three people identified as Samir Das, Papiya Debnath and Bishal Das sustained severe injuries while some damage has been caused due to the fire that broke out in the car inside the petrol pump. However, the fire altogether gutted two bikes on the spot and a car in the petrol pump spreading horror among the people of the area. The car from which the fire sparked off was immediately rushed near a lake to spread the explosion at the petrol pump. According to the eyewitnesses, the newly wedded couple who were moving to their house from Belonia to Gandacheera entered to the petrol pump for refilling petrol and the fire spread in the petrol pump from the flame of the earthen lamp in the car. The eye witness also said that the fire broke out due to the oil leakage from the car. Getting alarm about the fire incident huge police force of RK Pur police station along with 3 fire service crew reached the spot and after several attempts brought the fire under control. Fortunately the fire fighters reached the spot on time and contained the fire that prevented the flames to spread to the filling station. | 10-Aug-2015 |
| Bangladesh Internet bandwidth export to | AGARTALA, August 10 (TIWN): Bangladesh will begin exporting bandwidth -- 10 gigabits per second - to India's northeastern state of Tripura within the first week of September, officials in Dhaka told "Daily Star".Bandwidth prices will also come down in the local market with effect from September 1, as decided by Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company at a meeting on Saturday.For bandwidth export, the Submarine Cable Company has already established necessary connectivity up to the international border in Akhaura, Brahmanbaria, officials of the company said at a press conference in Dhaka on Sunday. However, the Indian side is yet to build necessary infrastructure, which is delaying the export, said Monwar Hossain, managing director of Submarine Cable Company. (TIWN correspondent says : The delay is caused by the BSNL's failure to expedite the work at the Tripura end). In addition to that Tripura's IT Minister Tapan Chakraborty yet to learn the baby steps of IT, computers and importance of IT Industry in poverty ridden Tripura. Tripura's IT allergic Chief Minister made sure that IT Industry is headed by someone like Tapan Chakraborty who doesn't know basics of IT Industry.Bangladesh has a 200 gbps capacity, but only 33 gbps is consumed locally; consumption may rise to 90 gbps by 2016, according to an estimate by the company. | 10-Aug-2015 |
| Indo – Bangla border fencing: 115 | AGARTALA, August 10 (TIWN): Even as almost 92 per cent of the fencing along the India-Bangladesh border has been completed, work at several places has been hampered by delayed land acquisition, pending wildlife clearance and protests by locals. | 10-Aug-2015 |
| NBFCs and Chit Fund: SIT investigating 7 | AGARTALA, August 10 (TIWN):Special Investigation Team ( SIT) in investigating 75 cases of money laundering by various Non Banking Financial Companies ( NBFCs) and chit fund organisations state chief minister Manik Sarkar in assembly today. Replying to a question raised by opposition MLA Ratan Lal nath, it was stated that all the cases are investigated by IG ( Admn) heading a team of 46 members | 10-Aug-2015 |
| Tax of ATF need keen eyes, says MLA Gopa | AGARTALA, August 10 (TIWN): On the second day of the three long Monsoon session of the Tripura Assembly, MLA Gopal Chandra Roy on Monday raised the issue of the enormous increase in the fare of Airlines. | 10-Aug-2015 |
| Tripura Assembly: No more out post at T | AGARTALA, August 10 (TIWN): On the second day of the monsoon session of the Tripura assembly Chief Minister Manik Sarkar stated that no more outpost will be set up at Teliamura sub-division and there is no further plans of the state govt. in the future to build any outpost in the mentioned sub-division in future. | 10-Aug-2015 |
| BSF Tripura Frontier conducts 2 days Pen | AGARTALA, August 10 (TIWN): To redress the grievances of pensioners who retired the Tripura Border Security Force (BSF) Frontier, Shaalbagan organised a 2 days Pension Adalat from Monday for the all the pensioners or the retired persons of Northeastern states of the country. BSF, Tripura Frontier DG D S Bhatia on Monday inaugurated the two day long programme. | 10-Aug-2015 |
| Ganja plant worth over Rs 3 crore destro | AGARTALA, August 10 (TIWN): Ganja plants worth Rs 3,01,50,000 was destroyed by security forces from January till July 2015, informed chief minister Manik Sarkar who is holding the charge of Home Department . Replying to a question raised by opposition MLA Ratan Lal Nath in assembly today, Sarkar said during the period 24,67, 800 ganja (marijuana ) plant was were uprooted, most cultivation are done on khasland and forest land area. | 10-Aug-2015 |
| TFSU demands for regularize the workers | AGARTALA, August 10 (TIWN): Tripura Farm Sramik Union on Monday placed deputation to the Director of Animal Resource Development Department Dharmeswar Das at the department office. | 10-Aug-2015 |