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| 88 percent turnout in Tripura by-electio | AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN / IANS): Around 88 percent of the 38,270 voters on Saturday cast their ballots in the by-election to the Amarpur assembly seat in Tripura, an official said. The polling, which was totally peaceful, started at 8 a.m. amidst tight security and ended at 5 p.m without any interruption. The counting will be on February 16. "No untoward incident has been reported so far and polling was completely peaceful and smooth. Around 88 percent votes were recorded when polling ended at 5 p.m.," Additional Chief Electoral Officer, Debashish Modak told IANS. There were 51 polling stations. Of the total 38,270 eligible voters, 18,807 are women. Though there were seven candidates in the by-election, the main contest was likely to be between ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) nominee Parimal Debnath, Congress's Chanchal Dey and Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Ranjit Das. There are four other aspirants from local parties. The by-election was necessitated following the resignation of CPI-M legislator Manoranjan Acharjee after he was alleged to have molested a minor girl.Acharjee, who was elected in 2008 and again in 2013 from the constituency, has denied the charges. The CPI-M expelled him on charges of wrongdoing. | 13-Feb-2016 |
| Kanchanpur VC Election : CM arrives at N | KANCHANPUR, Feb 13 (TIWN) : CPIM mass people rally was organized at Kanchanpur for ensuing ADC Vllage Committee Election. Invoking the slogans of development and peace under the regime of left front, CM Manik Sarkar kicked off his first election campaign at Kanchanpur to woo votes ahead of Bi-election slated to be held on February 24. | 13-Feb-2016 |
| Vote rigging alleged into Amarpur bi-ele | AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN): Whether by rigging, snatching or scattering votes, or provoking voters, the riggers used a variety of vote-rigging tricks to interfere with voting process and disrupted the smooth conduct of the election in many wards as alleged by the common mass on Saturday during the poll hours of Amarpur bi-election. | 13-Feb-2016 |
| 34th Agartala Book Fair: Preparation und | AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN): Keeping eye on the ensuing 34th Agartala Book Fair, various stall owners has already begun with the shifting to books at the stalls of Umakanta Academy. | 13-Feb-2016 |
| Massive fire broke out at Dharmanagar, N | AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN) : 4 shops located in a densely populated locality Dharmanagar town were gutted in a fire on Saturday early morning, causing losses of around Rs 14 lakhs. | 13-Feb-2016 |
| VC election: Preparation on peak, campai | AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN): Just ahead of the election, the political head has already started visiting the village areas to promote the party candidates and to earn votes for their party. | 13-Feb-2016 |
| Saraswati Puja : Rampant use of hook lin | KHOWAI, Feb 13 (TIWN) : State Tripura which is presently suffering from huge power crisis, but rampant use of hook lines has hit the whole state. | 13-Feb-2016 |
| Amarpur bi-election begins amid tight se | AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN): The much talked Amarpur bi-election began on Saturday amidst tight security. | 13-Feb-2016 |
| First monthly Lok Adalat observed at Aga | AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN): Altogether 3400 cases of traffic chalan have been produced before the first monthly Lok Adalat on Saturday at District Court. | 13-Feb-2016 |
| CPM leader accused of land grab in Tripu | AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN) : Five times winner from Sonamura Constituency MLA Subal Rudra has accused of for capturing government land which was allotted for homeless people at Melaghar. | 13-Feb-2016 |
| Negligence in Pilling work of flyover co | AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN): Streets were transformed into canals after water pipe burst left a busy junction of Battala flooded on Saturday morning. Commuters faced transport chaos as they tried to travel through Battala this morning after the burst pipe sent a torrent of water down residential streets. Several residents could be seen trying to wade through the water. Water supply was disrupted in some parts of the city owing to the breakage of the water pipe at Battala tri-junction while the flyover construction works was being carried out on the stretch. The pipe burst occurred around 9am on Saturday during the flyover piling works. According to sources, pipe bursts are a common occurrence along the stretch during the works. However, those associated with the flyover construction work alleged that this because of the failure of the authority to give them a clear list of the places where the pipes have been laid on this stretch of the road.Following the pipe burst, the area witnessed water logging, leading to disruption in the movement of vehicles. | 13-Feb-2016 |
| Unseasonal rain damages crop in rural Tr | AGARTALA, FEB 13 (TIWN): Farmers in the rural Tripura have been driven to despair by the untimely rains which extensively damaged the vital vegetables. This rain recently has hindered the growth and development of vegetables and watermelon cultivation in the remote location of the state. Hundreds of small farmers are juggling to survive as unpredictable weather hits their only source of income. | 13-Feb-2016 |
| Modi's look-east policy in action : Nort | AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, Feb 13 (TIWN): With Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcing the “Startup India†initiative in January, the eight north-eastern states are set to become the destination of startup ventures in the country, union Minister of State for Development of the Northeastern Region (DoNER) Jitendra Singh said on Friday.“The northeast will be developed into a key destination for young entrepreneurs and startups,†the minister said while inaugurating a three-day Destination Northeast festival here.The festival is being organised by the DoNER ministry to showcase the inherent economic, social and cultural strength of the northeastern region at the national level.Stating that his ministry now has a venture fund, Singh said: “Any youth who goes to the northeast will have the support of the venture fund.†As for connectivity, he said that the introduction of a direct flight from Delhi to Dimapur in Nagaland was a major step in making the northeast more accessible. “The rest of India needs to be connected with the northeast in a meaningful way,†he added.He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was taking keen interest in the development of the northeast. | 13-Feb-2016 |
| CPI-M-Congress alliance will be a mistak | AGARTALA / KOLKATA, Feb 13 (TIWN): Lashing out at efforts to cobble up a Congress-Left Front alliance in the coming West Bengal assembly polls, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday dubbed the proposed tie-up as a "mistake" and "devoid of any ideology" and said it would come a cropper."The (Left Front spearhead) Communist Party of India-Marxist used to abuse the Congress. They used to call Rajiv Gandhi 'Bofors Gandhi' (a reference to the alleged Bofors scandal which broke out during Gandhi's prime ministerial stint when various members of the Swedish and Indian governments were accused of receiving commission from Swedish gun supplier A B Bofors with regard to the purchase of 155 mm howitzer field guns)."The CPI-M used to call Indira Gandhi autocrat and painted pictures depicting her in poor light on the walls. The very same CPI-M is now making a volte face. They now want to team up with the Congress. And the Congress leaders are also dancing to the CPI-M tune and welcoming the idea," Banerjee said at a Trinamool Congress programme here.She said even if the alliance comes into being, it would not dent her party's prospects at the hustings. | 13-Feb-2016 |
| Reckless driving by rogue youths left li | AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN) : Festivals & celebrations now-a-days have lost their real values in state with the increasing number of lunatic young drivers leading accidents in Tripura. | 13-Feb-2016 |
| Locals expressed resentment over poor ma | AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN): Despite of several tall claims by the Agartala Municipal Corporation to keep the city clean, after asking for several times also the outlets are not cleaned. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Water scarcity hits interior parts of st | AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN): Despite of several complaints regarding water scarcity made by the locals of the interiors part of the state, the concern authority is least bothered to look in to the situation. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Churaibari to Lowerpoa turns into a deat | AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN): Even after several doldrums faced by the truck drivers and passengers, the so-called responsible authority could not manage their valuable time to take a notice of the miserable condition of the Assam-Agartala National Highway.The leaders and ministers have surveyed the road a number of times, but they don’t pay much attention towards the issue. The 10 km long road has turned hazardous at present. Owing to the dilapidated condition, the government of Assam and Tripura opened the alternative National Highway of the state which has completely turned into a dead zone. Lack of repairing of the NH44 road especially from Churaibari to Lowerpoa has left the road in poor condition. The particular road has not undergone any permanent renovation till now and the initial repairing of the road has left the road in critical condition.If the road is not repaired in the dry season the road will be left totally paralysed in the coming days, as a result the vehicles have to travel through such terrible route. Alleged negligence of Assam government has paralysed the National Highway 44 from Lowerpoa of Assam’s Karimganj district up to Churaibari Assam gate is laying in a terrible state. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Bimal Sinha murder case: Few days to pub | AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN): As the days are coming close, Counting days is left for the release of the much awaited suspense over the Bimal sinha murder case. After HC has notified to public the Yusuf Commission report within 6 weeks, and just few days are left for publishing the Yusuf Commission report. Tripura High Court (HC) has given the last date to publish the yusuf commission report on the then state health minister Bimal Sinha murder case in next 6 weeks but question arise will the state government submit the report or it will once again get delayed by few more months.The report of the Yusuf commission was not made public by the state government yet today even after the passage of 15 years from the day the commission had submitted the report before the state home department. Sinha and his younger brother Bidyut Sinha were gunned down by the militants of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) on March 31, 1998.The Yusuf commission being constituted by the state Left front government under the pressure of the opposition party. The Yusuf Commission report has not been released yet today furnishing suspicious causes by the state govt. here. The CPI-M and its Left front govt. had washed their hand from the murder incident case because they too were involved in the brutal murder of Bimal Sinha. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Dipa Karmakar felicitated by Krishnanaga | AGARTALA, Feb 12 (TIWN) : Dipa Karmakar, the golden girl of Tripura, has been felicitated on Friday by Krishnanagar club for her achievements in gymnastic filed. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Dual murder case: Accused sent for 5 day | AGARTALA, Feb 12 (TIWN): For further investigation of the dual murder case of East Dukli, Court on Friday sent both the arrested accused to 5 days of police remand. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| CPI-M members to speak up on allying wit | AGARTALA, Feb 12 (TIWN / IANS) Should the CPI-M ally with the Congress in West Bengal assembly polls? All CPI-M politburo and central committee members will give their views on the subject, a party leader said on Friday."All members of the PB (politburo) and CC (central committee) will convey their personal opinion," Bijan Dhar, a central committee member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, told reporters here. The two policy making bodies of the CPI-M are scheduled to meet next week in New Delhi -- the politburo on February 16 and the central committee on February 17-18. The former has 16 members and the latter 101. "The PB and CC will also finalize the electoral strategies of the CPI-M in the (coming) Bengal elections," said Dhar, who is also the secretary of the CPI-M Tripura state committee.He said the 21st Party Congress of the CPI-M held in Vishakapatnam in April last year decided to maintain equal distance from both the BJP and the Congress.But it also decided that the party can form electoral alliances with "secular, democratic and pro-people" parties to fight "communal, undemocratic and anti-people parties", Dhar said. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| CPM facing jolt on 'tie-up' issue | AGARTALA, Feb 12 (TIWN) : On the alliance controversy CPM Polit bureau members and Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar are busy in attending West Bengal state Committee meeting along with Prakash Karat and other senior leaders of Party. The tie-up issue of West Bengal pushed the entire Party into a jolt within the party. South lobby of CPM led by party hardliner Karat and ESR Pillai referred the decision of Party Congress and stood against any tie-up with Congress in anywhere. Bengal leaders of CPM initiated the tie-up approach with the help of some Congress leaders against the ruling Trinamool Congress in the Assembly Election. On contrary Congress ranks from Kerala and Tripura oppose the move and knocked the door of High Command to mount pressure on those leaders of Bengal who actually carried the proposal forward to Delhi. By maintaining its own characteristics, Tripura CPM till today kept mum on this issue but its rank and file are watching the situation keenly. CPM Central committee called three days emergency meeting on 16th of February to address the whole situation. The leaders of several states would discuss the matter over the resolution and recommendation sent by state committees. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Puja fervour: Saraswati Puja observed al | AGARTALA, Feb 12 (TIWN): With puja fervour in the air, people all across the state enthusiastically celebrating Saraswati Puja in most of the houses of the state including schools and colleges. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Deplorable condition of Silachari - Natu | AMARPUR, Feb 12 (TIWN): Many Roads under Amarpur Sub Division particularly Silchari Natunbazar Road are pathetic shapes irked the misery of the common people. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Rain wreaks havoc : Sudden climatic chan | AGARTALA, Feb 12 (TIWN) : When the people of Tripura was in festive mood and celebrating Sawraswti Puja, lives in many places of the state had been disrupted with the sudden arrival of rains. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Tripura reels under huge debt of around | AGARTALA, Feb 12 (TIWN): On the one hand Tripura government finalizes to supply 100MW power to Bangladesh but a bitter truth is that TSECL is about to pay crores of money to the power plants in Tripura and no major initiative is taken to clear the bills. It is seen that Tripura is under huge debt of total 100 crores, which is yet to be paid to the power plants based in Tripura. Although Tripura Govt. gave lands to Palatana Plant, but due to this debt of crores, TSECL is dumped with various problems. Now question arises, when Tripura is under such huge debts, then how Manik government will continue to keep its promises to Bangladesh. Centre in consultation with the Tripura government had decided to sell 100MW power after the Bangladesh government allowed free transhipment of heavy turbines for the 726.6MW Palatana thermal power plant. Reportedly, the 100 MW power will be dispatched to Bangladesh from Suryamaninagar power sub-station at the outskirts of Agartala and for transmission of 100 MW power, the works on transmission lines is completed on 400 KV double circuit transmission lines. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| New chairperson of Tripura Commission fo | AGARTALA, Feb 12 (TIWN): Manika Dutta Roy has been appointed as the new chairperson of the Tripura Commission for Women, confirmed sources on Friday. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Sabroom : Demand of “Twipra landâ | SABROOM, Feb 12 (TIWN): In wake of Village Council election a total of 36 Indigenous People’s Front of Twipra (IPFT) voters from 13 families at Bishnupur joined CPI-M. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Poll preparation on peak: Amarpur bi-ele | AGARTALA, Feb 12 (TIWN): State is all set to hoist the bi-election to Amarpur constituency on Saturday. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| VC Election : CPM in full strive to win | KALYANPUR, Feb 12 (TIWN) : CPM party in Tripura is in full strive to occupy the seats in ADC VC election. CPM is covering all the subdivisions by its active campaigns. Rallies, door to door campaigns and conference have been kicked off fully in hills. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| South Tripura: Paikhola Post Office und | BELONIA, Feb 12 (TIWN): After the Non Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) fiasco rocked Tripura; the post office at Paikhola in Belonia Sub Division of South Tripura District came under scanner after the officials concerned failed to return at least 15 Lakhs money of customers and Babul Paul Post Master I/C flew away. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Youth tortured by 158 BSF Battalion : vi | KAMALASAGAR / BISHALGARH, Feb 12 (TIWN) : Youth tortured by 158 BSF Battalion at Kamasagar. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| ‘Candle March’ failed to d | AGARTALA, Feb 12 (TIWN) : The 14 years tribal girl who was brutally raped and tried to commit suicide by taking poison has now become one of the major issues of discussion among political parties and similar organizations. BJP has already donated Rs 1 lakh to the victim and announced it via press conference and candle march of Wednesday has become the hit story in capital city, but Tripura CM is still silent over the issue. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Dharmanagar : CM slams IPFT for violen | AGARATLA, Feb 12 (TIWN) : With the ADC VC Election has come closer, Tripura CM coming out everyday of his Civil Secretariat to urge votes from the village people. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Frequent load-shedding hits Tripura: Sta | AGARTALA, Feb 12 (TIWN): Despite of several tall claims by the ministerial authority of the state saying that with the commencement of Palatana and with the extension hand of the other power plants of the state, Tripura will be a load-shedding free State, till day the civilians are facing unscheduled load shedding frequently. Where the State Government claims to make the capital a smart city on the other hand they fails to provide the basic necessity that is a load shedding free State. The people of the capital where has to face prolonged hours of load shedding, in the interior parts there are people who are continuing their life in dark for several days. Unscheduled load-shedding running into hours has landed the people across the State in dire straits.Allegedly, Tripura is facing serious load-shedding problem due to drop of supply from within state. Life and business has been largely affected due to power cuts enforced for hours every day. 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. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Regular traffic congestion hits the comm | AGARTALA, Feb 12 (TIWN): Day by day with the progress of the flyover construction work from Dropgate to Fire brigade Chowmuhani, the commuters are facing huge traffic congestion every time. | 11-Feb-2016 |
| Kailashahar gets 3 one-way roads | KAILASHAHAR, Feb 12 (TIWN) : To avoid the hefty traffic jam, Kailshahar’s 3 main roads have been announced as one way lane line. This has been announced through a press conference held by Vice Chairperson Mnaish Saha on Thursday. | 11-Feb-2016 |
| Tripura’s 1st flyover constructio | AGARTALA, Feb 12 (TIWN): The construction work of the first ever flyover of Tripura has gained momentum as the work has began in full swing at all the spots.Looking forward to complete the fly over construction in the given deadline, the work is progressing in full swing. However, with the completion of the basement work at Battala the work is extended towards bordowali. Heavy equipments and machineries are piled up at the spot to carry out the pillaring work at Bordowali followed by the other works at the same spot. The pilling work for the construction of fly over at Bordowali has begun in full swing. Although the construction work is underway at several spots but however, the agency has now also began with the work at Melarmath. It is to be mentioned here that one part of the flyover will end at Melarmath and the other will end at Firebrigade chowmuhani. The suddenly gained progress in the work culture shows that the agency is now worried to finish the work in the given deadline. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| Parimal Saha murder case: Court agrees t | AGARTALA, Feb 12 (TIWN): In another major breakthrough, court has finally agreed to treat the copy of certified post-mortem report of Parimal Saha as evidence into the case on Thursday. However, as a part of the hearing of the case, the accused were interrogated in the court under section 313. Reportedly, the copy of certified post-mortem report is recovered into the case which is expected to reveal several hidden truth behind the murder case. After the Public prosecutor in court demanded to produce the report as a part of testimony to precede the level of the case, court his agreed to put up it as evidence. It is to be mentioned here that four witnesses have recorded their statement on January 25 into the sensational Parimal Saha murder case. Although some miscreants have threatened a key witness of pathetic consequence, however, the prime witnesses have recorded their statement amidst strict security.Charilam Congress MLA Parimal Saha was murdered in 1983 under the then Left Front regime of Tripura. | 11-Feb-2016 |
| Unruly behavior of auto drivers continue | AGARTALA, Feb 11 (TIWN) : Resentment had been brewed among the auto passengers when an auto driver bearing number TR01D2149 tried to take extra money from the passengers. | 11-Feb-2016 |
| State gears up to celebrate Saraswati pu | AGARTALA, Feb 11 (TIWN): Decked up in their best, residents of Tripura have plunged into festivities and merriment, ahead of Saraswati Puja – the biggest festival for school and college students. Chants of Bag Devi Saraswati to reverberate across the state with every city, small town and village joining in the fervor as the five-day festival got off to an electrifying start. | 12-Feb-2016 |
| The Agartala Doctrine’ by Eminent | AGARTALA, Feb 11 (TIWN): For the first time Tripura, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) former Eastern India Bureau Chief and Eminent Journalist Subir Bhaumik's much waited Book "The Agartala Doctrine" published by world renowned OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS has been released on Thursday at Sukanta Academy. | 11-Feb-2016 |
| 'Destination North East' starts in Delhi | AGARTALA, Feb 11 (TIWN / IANS) 'Destination North East 2016' festival begins in the national capital from Friday in an effort to bring the rest of India closer to the northeast region. | 11-Feb-2016 |
| Information and Cultural Affairs Ministe | AGARTALA, Feb 11 (TIWN): Altogether 121 stalls are expected to set up in the 34th Agartala Book Fair scheduled to be organized on February 14 at Umakanta Academy. | 11-Feb-2016 |
| Highway woes for Tripura: People continu | AGARTALA, Feb 11 (TIWN): Tripura continues to experience major fuel crisis as the regular movement of vehicles has been badly hampered due to the dilapidated condition of the National Highway 44 in Lowerpoa in Assam. | 11-Feb-2016 |
| Puja fervour: Price hike hits the market | AGARTALA, Feb 11 (TIWN): Just before the Saraswati Puja to commence, steep hike in price of fruits and other items has offended the common mass of the state. | 11-Feb-2016 |
| East Dukli dual murder: two arrested, on | AGARTALA, Feb 11 (TIWN): In a major breakthrough, Tripura police on Thursday arrested two accused over the dual murder case of mother and son at East Dukli. According to the police sources, both the accused have accepted about the murder and also had demonstrated how they murdered both the deceased. Tripura police on Thursday visited the spot and investigated about the dual murder of mother (Gouri Chakranorty) and son (Debabrata Chakraborty). However, from the spot the police has recovered glass of wine and packets of snacks. According to the reports, both the accused namely Roop Das and another who is a resident of Bangladesh has accepted their crime. The accused mentioned that altogether they were three persons are involved in the murder case. Besides, the accused has also demonstrated how they have murdered deceased Debabrata Chakraborty.Besides, another accused is yet absconding and the knife is not yet recovered by the police, with which the accused has murdered both the mother and son. | 11-Feb-2016 |
| Manik claims about development, yet many | KAILASHAHAR, Feb 11 (TIWN): According to the reports of District Industrial Centre, more than five hundred youths of Kailashahar are yet unemployed under the regime of Manik’s Government.Chief Minister Manik Sarkar where claims about the fastest development in the state, several youths all across the state are yet unemployed. It is to be mentioned here that around five hundred youths of Kailashahar under various Government schemes has placed application for loans. Reportedly, among the entire five hundred applicants only seventy names are selected. Interestingly, the bank is going to choose the eligible candidates for sanctioning loan through a exam. If the concern candidates clears the exam than only they will get loan for any kind of business.Now the question arises if the other are not selected or could not clear the exam will they have to spend their life without any earning? Reportedly, more than thousand of candidates queue up to grab a post among over every vacancy in the Government Departments from morning. | 11-Feb-2016 |
| Countdown begins! Vote cast on Saturday | AGARTALA, Feb 11 (TIWN): Countdown begins for the much propagated bi-election to Amarpur assembly constituency which is scheduled to be held on February 13. | 11-Feb-2016 |