Archive Detail
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| IDA to organize 16th Annual Dental Confe | AGARTALA, Jan 4 (TIWN): Indian Dental Association of Tripura branch has schedule to hold 16th Annual Dental Conference onJanuary 8 at Nazrul Kalashetra. | 03-Jan-2016 |
| Moderate intensity earthquake hits Tripu | AGARTALA, Jan 4 (TIWN): Tripura awakened up with a moderate intensity earthquake at 4.37am on Monday early morning. An earthquake of moderate intensity rocked India's northeastern states and adjoining Myanmar, Bangladesh and Bhutan on Monday morning , officials said.There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to property."The quake, measuring 6.7 on the Richter Scale, occurred at 4.37 a.m and had its epicentre in Manipur's Tamenglong district bordering," said an official of the regional seismological centre here in Meghalaya.The earthquake was felt in parts of Manipur, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram and Tripura . India's northeast is considered the sixth major earthquake-prone belt in the world.Guwahati, Shillong and Agartala are the three Northeast Indian cities at highest risk of being devastated by an earthquake, with 36 other cities in areas prone to earthquakes, according to government data.Guwahati and Agartala fall in what is called “very severe intensity zoneâ€, or zone V, the highest-risk earthquake zone.A strong intensity earthquake early Monday hit India-Myanmar border, ripples of which were felt in West Bengal, apart from Manipur, Tripura, Bangladesh, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.The tremor occurred around 4.37 a.m. and people felt earthquake even in Kolkata rushed out of their homes.India pushes northeast into Asia at roughly 5 cm every year, causing subterranean stresses that are released in the form of earthquakes every now and then. | 04-Jan-2016 |
| Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh assure | Guwahati, Jan 4 (TIWN / IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday assured of all central assistance to the north-eastern states in the wake of an earthquake in Manipur early morning. | 04-Jan-2016 |
| Mega block conversion work speeds up to | AGARTALA, Jan 3 (TIWN): With the aim to complete the BG conversion work in the given deadline, the workers are engaged in the last hour of the conversion work at Agartala Railway station. Tripura would create a history on January 13, when the BG engine will touch the soil of the Agartala Railway station for the first time. Chief Engineer (Construction), NFR Harpal Singh in a meeting said that the NFR is all set to run the BG engine in the newly converted BG track up to Agartala Railway station. The conversion work is underway in full swing and there are no hurdles in the way to obstruct the run of the BG engine in the track on January 13. The NFR has decided to run the BG engine of the Badarpur-Agartala track in two phases because there were some problems in the tracks. However, the work has gained momentum and the track laying work is almost completed the trial run of the engine will be done on January 13. However the rolling of the engine will be completed once it touches the soil of Agartala. Keeping in mind the roll of the engine upto Agartala by the mid of January the workers are engaged in completing the work of laying tracks and the other essential works at the Agartala railway station. After the successful run of the engine upto Agartala, NFR is scheduled to run the ballast train. The NFR is also likely to conduct CRS inspection on the newly converted BG rail track for safety clearance followed by the final run of the BG passenger train in February. | 03-Jan-2016 |
| Tripura police week begins at Monoranjan | AGARTALA, Jan 3 (TIWN): Like every other year the five day long police week began of Sunday at Monoranjan Debbarma Memorial Stadium. | 03-Jan-2016 |
| TPWCC urged to strengthen the organizati | AGARTALA, Jan 3 (TIWN): Keeping eye on the upcoming village committee election, Tripura Pradesh Women Congress Committee on Sunday hold a State Conference to strengthen the party. | 03-Jan-2016 |
| Traffic police tighten vigil against err | AGARTALA, Jan 3 (TIWN): The traffic Police on Sunday has launched its efforts to nab the auto rickshaw drivers who charge in excess of fares and are plying with more number of passengers. | 03-Jan-2016 |
| Shadows of corruption in construction-wo | KALYANPUR, Jan 3 (TIWN) : The construction of an open auditorium which had been started nearly 8 months ago, near Kalyanpur’s motor stand is not completed till day although the time allotted for completion of the work was only 2 months. | 03-Jan-2016 |
| Border Fencing Gate for the benefit of I | BELONIA, Jan 3 (TIWN): Poor farmers of Ramkrishna Colony Belonia appealed to Sub Divisional Magistrate Belonia for Border Fencing Gate. Most of the poor farmers of Ramkrishna Colony use to live near Bridge No 3 and reportedly most of them belong to BPL families. | 03-Jan-2016 |
| Airport expansion may take a lift in Feb | AGARTALA, Jan 3 (TIWN): The much awaited project of Airport expansion work may take a lift in the middle of February this year. After the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has given clearance to the plan of setting up new terminal building at Agartala Airport, Airport Director further claimed that the work might gain progress by the mid of February. Talking to TIWN correspondent on Sunday Airport director said that at present the work is nearly stopped and it may gain progress by the middle of February. He also said that arranging tender for engaging Project Management Consultants to carry out the Rs. 338 crore projects in underway and if everything moves on accordingly the work might begin from February. He also stressed on the issue that until the tender is clarified nothing can be done regarding the construction. It is worthy to be mentioned here that the state government has already handed over required land for facelift work of the Agartala Airport. However, the much awaited expansion project includes extension of runway to successfully accommodate wide bodied aircraft and to improve the passenger’s amenities. Four aero bridge provisions are likely to be there in the new terminal building, so that it can handle 1000 passengers on both departure and arrival at a time. | 03-Jan-2016 |
| Police arrested 4 gamblers at Kalyanpur, | KALYANPUR, Jan 3 (TIWN): Atleast 4 gamblers were arrested by police in Saturday afternoon Kalyanpur and recovered stake money from them. | 03-Jan-2016 |
| Gangrape in train: 2 BSF( Gokulnagar BSF | GUWAHATI /AGARTALA, Jan 3 (TIWN): Six days after a 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang raped in a military coach of Howrah-Amritsar Express, the railway police have arrested two BSF personnel from Guwahati who were brought to Howrah Saturday. | 02-Jan-2016 |
| Weather forecast predicts minimum temper | AGARTALA, Jan 3 (TIWN): Though there was slight relief from the winter in Tripura over past few days, however, the weatherman on Saturday predicted that the minimum temperature to fall in the coming days. | 02-Jan-2016 |
| Installation of set top box extended by | AGARTALA, Jan 3 (TIWN): Common mass of Tripura has been given more two months to install set top box in their houses. | 02-Jan-2016 |
| Rural Development Minister Naresh Jamati | AGARTALA, Jan 3 (TIWN): Rural Development Minister Naresh Jamatia inaugurated the 11th ‘Saras Fair’ on Saturday at Agartala international fair ground in Hapania area in the presence of other dignitaries. | 02-Jan-2016 |
| KDCC demanded to take legal action again | KAILASHAHAR, Jan 3 (TIWN): With an aim to develop the Kailashahar sub-division in all the way, District Congress Committee on Saturday staged six hours long sit and demonstration in front of the District Congress Bhawan. | 02-Jan-2016 |
| Hours after the transformer burst, elect | UDAIPUR, Jan 3 (TIWN): Hours after one died and 5 people left critically injured from a transformer burst incident on Friday late night, the electricity department finally on Saturday afternoon moved to a village in Amarpur sub-division for the maintenance of the electric wires. | 02-Jan-2016 |
| NSUI and Youth Congress demanded to tak | AGARTALA, Jan 3 (TIWN): Demanding to take legal action against the alleged excessive charge of the set top box in the State, members of NSUI and Youth Congress on Saturday staged protest in front of the office of DM (West). | 02-Jan-2016 |
| BG conversion work at Agartala Rly Stati | AGARTALA, Jan 3 (TIWN): With the aim to conclude the facelift work before the arrival of the BG engine at Agartala by the mid of January, the works are engaged in the last touch of the facelift work at Agartala Railway station. It is to be mentioned here that the first BG engine rolling is completed upto Dharmanagar from Badarpur and it will continue up to Agartala after January 15. However the rolling of the engine will be completed once it touches the soil of Agartala. Keeping in mind the roll of the engine upto Agartala by the mid of January the workers are engaged in completing the work of laying tracks and the other essential works at the Agartala railway station. After the successful run of the engine upto Agartala, NFR is scheduled to run the ballast train. The NFR is also likely to conduct CRS inspection on the newly converted BG rail track for safety clearance followed by the final run of the BG passenger train in February. Along with the work progress of laying the BG railway track the Agartala Railway station is all set to get facelift. Construction of platform work is going on in full-swing at Badarghat Railway station. Days are not so far when Tripura will be connected with the map of Broad-gauge railway network system. | 03-Jan-2016 |
| Porous India-Bangladesh border in Assam | GUWAHATI / AGARTALA, Jan 3 (TIWN / IANS): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday visited Karimganj sector of the India-Bangladesh border in Assam and said the porous border will be sealed in 2016. The home minister, who arrived in Assam on Sunday on a two-day visit, said inspected the Stemerghat Border Out Posts (BOP) in Karimganj district. He said the porous border should have been sealed long time ago. Singh was accompanied by union Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs Sarbananda Sonowal, who hails from Assam, some Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and a delegation of the All Assam Students' Union (AASU), including its chief adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya, president Dipank Nath and general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi during the visit to the border. | 03-Jan-2016 |
| 10th Biennial State Conference: ATEA urg | AGARTALA, Jan 2 (TIWN): All Tripura Engineers Association on Saturday organized 10th Biennial State Conference at Nazrul Kalashetra with reference to records and information produced for the purpose of audit. | 02-Jan-2016 |
| NFR set target to run BG engine to Agart | AGARTALA, Jan 2 (TIWN) : Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is all set to finish trail run of train engine on broad gauge track between Badarpur and Agartala within next two weeks, official sources said. | 02-Jan-2016 |
| Slow Progress of Indo-Bangladesh border | BELONIA, Jan 2 (TIWN): Theft cases on a rise in Belonia town border area as this portion of the border is left unfenced. | 02-Jan-2016 |
| Patients suffer as elevator remains non- | UDAIPUR, Jan 2 (TIWN): The only lift at the Gomoti District Hospital left out of order since many days causing troubles for the patients. Over thousand patients come to the Hospital daily so the out- of- order lift created a big problem for them. | 02-Jan-2016 |
| Kamalpur: PMGSY embezzlement saga contin | KAMALPUR, Jan 2 (TIWN): The embezzlement and corruption in the PMGSY roads continues at this sub-division and such an instance got found at Lambucharra area here at Kamalpur. | 02-Jan-2016 |
| Two unidentified bodies recovered | AGARTALA, Jan 2 (TIWN): Despite the authority claims that the crime rate has decreased in the State, on yet another bizarre incident body of two unidentified bodies have been recovered on Saturday from the embankment of Howrah River near to the Jirania SDM office. | 02-Jan-2016 |
| India's 3rd Internet Gateway : formal in | AGARTALA, Jan 2 (TIWN): Days are not so far when the woe of the common man regarding poor condition of Internet is likely to meet an end. Talking to TIWN, DGM (CFA) U.C. Bhowmick said that the optical fibre laying work is already completed and is just waiting for the response from the higher authority regarding the inauguration ceremony of the internet Bandwidth. He further said that although they have not yet received any notice regarding the inauguration but mostly it will be held in the second week of January. The much awaited dream of Tripura to emerge as the third internet gateway after Mumbai and Chennai is not far away as BSNL DGM (CFA) U C Bhowmick said that the formal inauguration of the internet bandwidth is likely to be held in the mid of January 2016. DGM (CFA) U.C. Bhowmick also said that work is complete and all the equipments have reached Agartala and is ready for the inauguration. Once the internet bandwidth is inaugurated, Agartala, Tripura's capital city, would be the third international internet gateway in India after Mumbai and Chennai. The agreement is initially signed for four years and India will gain 10 Gbps (gigabits per second) bandwidth in the first year with a provision for this to go up to 40 Gbps per second in the subsequent years. India has purchasing this surplus unused bandwidth from Bangladesh to develop the IT industry in Northeast. | 02-Jan-2016 |
| Flyover construction poses risky for the | AGARTALA, Jan 2 (TIWN): Construction materials left open in various flyover project site poses danger for the passerby and the residents over there. | 01-Jan-2016 |
| SpiceJet Asked to Pay Rs 60,000 for losi | NEW DELHI / AGARTALA, Jan 2 (TIWN): The apex consumer court has asked SpiceJet airline to pay compensation and penalty of Rs 60,000 to a Tripura resident for losing his luggage in one of its flights.Justice J M Malik asked the air carrier to pay the compensation amount to Agartala resident Dr Atanu Ghosh whose one out of five registered 'check-in' baggages was lost during his flight and could not be found. | 01-Jan-2016 |
| Kamalpur: Villagers knocked the CEC for | KAMALPUR, Jan 2 (TIWN): In a major move to end the long discrimination of the non-tribals in a non-tribal dominated ADC village, the villagers appealed to the Chief Election Commissioner of India to postpone the ensuing Village Committee votes for that ADC village. The villagers mailed the application to the CEC on the first day of 2016. | 01-Jan-2016 |
| 10,323 Teachers Termination : Education | AGARTALA, Jan 2 (TIWN): A year has been passed by, but uncertainty still looms large over the fate of the 10,323 teachers whose job was terminated because of faulty appointment process based on unconstitutional employment policy of the state govt. With the arrival of 2016, the deadline for the hearing of the 10,323 terminated cases has come much closer. Just counting days are left for deciding the fate of the 10,323 teachers. Counting days are left to decide the fate of the much talked 10,323 terminated teacher’s case in Tripura. Uncertainty looms over the fate of 10, 323 teachers as the next hearing to be done in the mid of January by 13 most probably or on January 17 at the Apex court, said Minister Tapan Chakraborty. Talking to TIWN correspondent Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty said that the decision will be now taken by the Apex court after the hearing in the mid of January. He also said that as per scheduled programme, the case will be placed in the registrar’s bench of the Apex Court. Her further said that the case will be placed before the Apex court in the mid of January for the next hearing of the case. However, it is to be mentioned here that Gopal Singh, standing counsel of Tripura in the apex court is scheduled to represent the state government. | 02-Jan-2016 |
| Team to reach in Tripura to take mortal | RANCHI / AGARTALA, Jan 2 (TIWN) : A seven-member team would take the urn containing the mortal remains of 1971 war hero, Param Vir Albert Ekka, from Agartala to Jharkhand, according to sources in the government. | 02-Jan-2016 |
| Government Departments to pay above Rs. | AGARTALA, Jan 2 (TIWN): Despite of stunning figures of power bill remains pending in various government departments and offices, State Government is least bothered to pay the huge amount to the Tripura State Electricity Corporation Ltd (TSECL). Talking to TIWN correspondent, Senior Manager of Revenue Department Falguni Biswas stated that till the month of November, 2015 a total bill of Rs. 60 crore has been figured out by the department. Besides, she mentioned that the Department has forwarded a detail copy of the pending bills to all the Government Department whose electricity bill crosses the limited line Rs. 1 lakh. All the Government Departments whose bill had crossed Rs. 1 lakh, the department has been sent the bill details. Besides, it has been mentioned that accept Public Sector Undertaking companies all the other Departments under State Government were sent the bill details. It is to mentioned here that Chief Minister Manik Sarkar had spent crores of rupees for the election campaign but when it comes to clear up the bill of the TSECL no response comes from the Government Departments. However, this amount should be recovered on priority basis and if the institutions fail to pay, strict action should be taken against them.Despite the stunning figures of pending bills; the power connection to the departments cannot not be disconnected as most of their services come under the emergency category. | 01-Jan-2016 |
| KUM demanded to renovate the entire road | KAILASHAHAR, Jan 2 (TIWN): Demanding to renovate the entire road from Kailashahar Old Dakbanglow – Kumarghat, Kailashahar Unnayan Mancha on Friday staged a road blockade at Kailashahar Girls School road. | 01-Jan-2016 |
| CM Manik Sarkar inaugurated the new buil | AGARTALA, Jan 1 (TIWN): Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Friday inaugurated the new building of the Purbasha emporium at THHDC complex. | 01-Jan-2016 |
| HFT organized urges the people to take v | AGARTALA, Jan 1 (TIWN): Hepatitis Foundation of Tripura on Friday organized an awareness programme at Rabindra Satabarshiki Bhawan. | 01-Jan-2016 |
| Forest department introduces elephant ri | AGARTALA, Jan 1 (TIWN): Under the initiative of the forest department on Friday, the new dawn of the year 2016 was marked with inauguration of the elephant ride and butterfly park in Sepahijala wildlife sanctuary. | 01-Jan-2016 |
| Indo-Bangla rail link yet to make any ma | AGARTALA, Jan 1 (TIWN): Although the BG conversion work in Tripura has gained a momentum with the trial of the engine on the Agartala-Badarpur railway track, but no major progress is witnessed in the extension project of the Indo-Bangla rail link so far. Talking to TIWN correspondent on Friday, Transport Secretary Samarjit Bhowmik said that centre has sanctioned money for acquiring land and for laying of five km long tracks on the Indian side. However it is to be mentioned here that earlier the state government could not undertake land acquisition process as the centre had not placed funds but even after sanctioning funds of Rs.580 crores, no progress is made in the indo-bangla rail link so far. The Indian government has sanctioned around Rs 1,000 crore for a 15-km India-Bangladesh railway project, the source informed. It is to be mentioned here that the Union Government has recently communicated to Tripura that it had sanctioned Rs 580 crores to lay the rail tracks and acquire required land in Tripura, Transport Secretary Samarjit Bhowmik said.On the other hand the external affairs ministry earlier agreed to provide Rs 400 crore to lay the new tracks and to acquire land in Bangladeshi territory. Indian and Bangladeshi governments have decided to start a new rail link to ease surface transport. India will build a 15-km railway tracks linking Tripura’s capital Agartala with Bangladesh’s southeastern city of Akhaura, an important railway junction connected to Chittagong port, resource-rich Sylhet and Dhaka. | 01-Jan-2016 |
| Registration process of the shops in the | AGARTALA, Jan 1 (TIWN): In exercise of the power conferred by Section 25 of the Tripura Shops and Establishment Act, 1970 and Rues framed, the shopkeepers of Abhoynagar Market on Friday were urged to apply for the registration of their shops. | 01-Jan-2016 |
| Directorate of Elementary Education inau | AGARTALA, Jan 1 (TIWN): Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty on Friday inaugurated the Directorate of Elementary Education at the premises of the state project Director, SSA Rajya Mission. | 01-Jan-2016 |
| Reckless driving lead to accident on New | AGARTALA, Jan 1 (TIWN): As the State celebrates the New Year, some of the families in the capital started the year on tragic note. | 01-Jan-2016 |
| Final electoral roll for VC polling stat | AGARTALA, Jan 1 (TIWN): Preparation for the village committee election gained momentum after the State election commission has published the draft electoral role of polling station which is scheduled to be held in 2016. | 01-Jan-2016 |
| Farmers arranging irrigation for cultiva | KAMALPUR, Jan 1 (TIWN): The vast stretch of land at Duraicharra under Durai Shibbari Panchayat here at Kamalpur remained out of the reach of irrigation. And the continuous victory of the leftists, made the supporters and workers here fed up with the situation as the words of the late Health Minister Bimal Sinha remained beyond reach till date. | 01-Jan-2016 |
| KDC to call for six hour sit and demonst | KAILASHAHAR, Jan 1 (TIWN): Aiming for the development of the Kailashahar, with the initiatives of the District Congress a six hour sit and demonstration will be organized on January 2. | 01-Jan-2016 |
| Kailashahar aerodrome lying dead till d | AGARTALA, Dec 31 (TIWN): Kailashahar aerodrome has now turned into barren land after it was left unused due to lack of government intervention and maintenance. Kailashahar aerodrome, located at Durgapur area under Kailashahar sub-division which was established in the 60th century with small aircraft service, now remains closed for many years due to lack of passengers and especially due to lack of intervention from the government. Way back in 2011, Airport Authority of India had visited the Kailsahar airport with an aim to re-open it, however, after passage of years no upgradation is reported in the airport rather is has become a spot for the cattle’s to graze. The sources also said that the District Magistrate and Collector (DM) Mrinal Kanti Nath have sent a proposal to the state Transport Department in regard of the acquisition of 70 acres of land but so far no initiative has taken by the state government to re-open the airport at Kailashahar . And unfortunately, the state government is also maintaining silence over this issue. If Kailashahar airport is made operational, Unakoti district will have direct connectivity with Kolkata, Guwahati, South Assam and many other parts of the Northeastern region. It will also reduce pressure on Agartala airport. According to the sources, after the visit, the AAI team had noticed that the existing runway required to be expanded to almost double than its present length and all modern safety equipment need to be installed in the airport. | 03-Jan-2016 |