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Tripura's massive de-forestation, rubber | AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, June 4 (TIWN): Whereas under Tripura Govt. state has seen massive de-forestation, rubber plantation which has damaged Tripura's weather in last few years, the central govt. is trying to pass the Compensatory Afforestation Fund law in the next House session. The proposed Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Bill to pave the way for speedy utilisation of funds realised for forest land diverted to non-forest purposes in a transparent manner would be passed in the forthcoming session of the parliament next month, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday. "CAF Bill got passed in the Lok Sabha. We expect the Bill to be passed in the Rajya Sabha in the next session. In this session it could have been passed if there was some cooperation," Goyal said. "Four months could have been saved. In four months, more tress could have been planted. But then it's ok, it's better to be late than never," the minister said here releasing an NTPC coffee table book on bio diversity. If passed, the CAF Bill will also help unlock nearly Rs.41,000 crore earmarked for forest land which is lying unspent for about four years. Underlining the need to restore the forest cover through tree plantation, Goyal also urged state-run generator NTPC to increase its tree plantation target and keep a proper record reflecting ownership of the activity. | 03-Jun-2016 |
Mizo Repartition : MHA Northeast India | AGARTALA, June 3 (TIWN): Hope is there for the repartition of Brus soon, as Satyendra Garg, Joint Secretary in Northeast India Division of MHA, arrives in Tripura to held discussion on Mizo repartation on Friday. He is also Scheduled to visit refugee camps in Kanchanpur of north Tripura where over 30,000 Brus are presently housed since they fled Mizoram in 1997. | 03-Jun-2016 |
TMC will form government in 2018 Assembl | AGARTALA, June 3 (TIWN): Coming on a one day visit in the state, TMC Leader Mukul Roy claimed that TMC will form government in the next 2018 Assembly election. | 03-Jun-2016 |
TMC on its way to oust Left in Tripura i | Agartala, June 3 (TIWN / IANS): The Trinamool Congress (TMC) will defeat the ruling Left Front in Tripura in the 2018 assembly polls and form the government, party Vice President Mukul Roy said here on Friday after meeting seven disgruntled Congress MLAs. | 03-Jun-2016 |
BJP to start ‘Democratic Movement | AGARTLA, June 3 (TIWN): Protesting against the CPI-M ‘Cadre-Raj’ prevails in state BJP is going to organize mass rallies in various subdivisions of Tripura, State BJP President told media in a press meet on Friday. | 03-Jun-2016 |
AAI strategy to start the modernization | AGARTALA, June 3 (TIWN): Even after the state government has handed over the land to the AAI authority by spending an amount of RS 38 crore now the AAI authority is delaying the project of modernization work of Agartala airport. | 03-Jun-2016 |
‘Industrial meeting to develop (?) | AGARTALA, June 3 (TIWN): An industrial meeting which is scheduled to be held in Tripura on June 4, with the joint Initiative between Tripura Govt. and The Association Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) may bring rapid development for the state. | 03-Jun-2016 |
More 21,656 pass outs welcomed in World | AGARTALA, June 3 (TIWN): Although passing Madhyamik examination gives a pleasure to the students and the families, but all these are temporary-happiness as every years thousands and thousands of students across Tripura are passed in Madhyamik Exam, but very few of them get a chance to do any job due to lack of industry, business and govt.’s unwillingness to fill up vacancies. | 03-Jun-2016 |
Bribery- raj prevailed at District Educa | KAMALPUR, June 3 (TIWN): The so-called dynamism and cleanliness of the present state government virtually reached its stake. Not a single office of the sub-divisional as well as District administration remained without irregularities. And the scenario prevailed in the District Education Office of the Dhalai district. | 03-Jun-2016 |
Three injured in BJP-CPI-M clash in Trip | Agartala, June 3 (TIWN/IANS) At least two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters and a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) member were injured in a clash in South Tripura district, police said on Friday. | 03-Jun-2016 |
Tripura ranks 4th highest unemployment i | AGARTALA, June 3 (TIWN): Tripura’s massive unemployment developed as serious problem as 7 Lakhs unemployed youths have no place to search jobs other than enrolling names as CPI-M cadres in party offices. With the increase in number of pass out students, the number of unemployed is also spiked high as Tripura ranked 4th highest employment in country. According to the recent Govt data released the total number of unemployed youths nearly 7 Lakhs. Tripura’s lameduck Chief Minister acting like a dictator due to 22 years CPI-M rule, as CM is least bothered about the fates of 7 Lakhs youths so Manik Sarkar has chosen to appoint a retired tainted IAS officer S.K.Panda to head all important ‘National Skill Development Mission’. Manik Sarkar quite successfully turned Modi Govt’s noble mission of ‘national skill development’ by appointing useless tainted officers so that Tripura’s unemployment problem spikes further high. As of 31st January 2016 data released by Tripura Govt, total number of unemployed youths remain at 7 lakhs approx. | 04-Jun-2016 |
CPI-M’s brutal attack on BJP at B | BELONIA / AGARTALA, June 3 (TIWN): One day after ruling CPI-M cadres brutal attack on BJP Vice President Subal Bhowmik and other BJP supporters, BJP President Biplab Deb, Vice President Subal Bhowmik held a press meet at Agartala to announce the ‘BJP’s ‘democratic movement’ which to be started after this ghastly incident. Addressing the press meet BJp President Biplab Deb said that, “ former Tripura Chief Justice Dipak Gupta before leaving the state told media about the rising violence in state, and his words are becoming true as Tripura once again facing lawlessness after CJ’s departure†Recalling the ‘Attack on Judge’ incident, BJP President told media that that the same attackers, who attacked on the Magistrate on September 2nd, 2015, is relishing the ‘CPI-M Mafia-Raj’ under Minister Badal Chowdhury’s patronage at South Tripura. BJP Vice president Subal Bhowmik also said that one of the chief accused in ‘Judge Attack Incident’ is Triloket Sinha, who was spotted on Thursday night at Amzadnagar. | 04-Jun-2016 |
Big blow to CM Manik Sarkar and his trus | AGARTALA, June 3 (TIWN): Delivering a massive blow to Manik Sarkar led CPI-M Govt and Tripura's scam tainted Principal Secretary RD, GSG Ayyangar, Joint Secretary of Union Rural Development Department Aparajita Sarengi on Thursday praised West Bengal for the implementation of 100 days MGNREGA work in the state. Union R D Ministry conducted review meeting on the MGNREGA implementation work across the country on 1st June and 2nd June in New Delhi. After this meeting on Thursday Joint Secretary of Union R D Ministry Aparajita Sarengi called West Bengal Panchayat Minister Subrata Mukharjee in her office and informed him about the success of West Bengal in MGNREGA. West Bengal's stellar performance in MGNREGA is a lesson as Tripura's abysmal performance of a mere 36.4% MGNREGA work completion rate during 2015-16 FY (Financial Year) a dark contrast for GSG Ayyangar led MGNREGA's false claims in Tripura. | 04-Jun-2016 |
Mizo Repartition : MHA Northeast India | AGARTALA, June 3 (TIWN): Hope is there for the repartition of Brus soon, as Satyendra Garg, Joint Secretary in Northeast India Division of MHA, arrives in Tripura to held discussion on Mizo repartation on Friday. He is also Scheduled to visit refugee camps in Kanchanpur of north Tripura where over 30,000 Brus are presently housed since they fled Mizoram in 1997. | 03-Jun-2016 |
Mamata beats Manik on straight bat on Ce | KOLKATA / AGARTALA, June 3 (TIWN): The West Bengal government has set an initial target to generate 19 crore person days under the rural job guarantee scheme this year and has got fund assurance from the central government for pending liabilities and funding the ongoing process, an official said on Thursday."We have set an initial target to generate 19 crore person-days in this year as per approved labour budget under the MGNREGA scheme. The target for the year is set on the basis of performance till January. Last year, we generated 28.66 crore person days surpassing the target set for the last year," said state Panchayat and Rural Development commissioner Dibyendu Sarkar.A 12 member team of central officials led by Rural Development Department Joint Secretary Aprajita Sarangi has been reviewing the progress of the 100-day rural job scheme for last two day in the state, mainly in Bankura, Nadia and West Midnapore districts. | 03-Jun-2016 |
Modi Govt's 'Act East'Policy to restrict | AGARTALA / DHAKA, June 3 (TIWN): Modi led Central Govt on Thursday set a deadline of one year to completely seal the 223.7 km Indo-Bangladesh border in Assam and hoped the entire exercise will be completed by June 2017. | 03-Jun-2016 |
Peace talks with northeast militants pos | AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, June 3 (TIWN / IANS) The peace talks between the Centre and several militant outfits in the northeastern region are moving positively and peace would be restored in the whole region soon, a top official of the Ministry of Home Affairs said on Friday. | 03-Jun-2016 |
Commencement of Express train to bring r | AGARTALA, June 3 (TIWN): The distinct advantage of having a broad gauge rail destination at Agartala would be that it will not only serve as a railway junction for further expansion of network in the region but would, in the later stages, also help in supplementing the rail connection with neighbouring countries, particularly Bangladesh. In addition to improving the transport infrastructure in the region, this would also be an adjuvant to India’s “Act East†policy. | 02-Jun-2016 |
Poor education system and political domi | AGARTALA, June 3 (TIWN): Only because of the poor education system and political dominance in the school have lead to such poor structure of results in the TBSE Madhyamik. TBSE has announced the academic result for 2014-15 Madhyamik sessions on Thursday. In the last year whereas the score was 66.41 % this time it has been come down more with 66.14 %. | 02-Jun-2016 |
‘Dowry’ claims 1 more life | AGARTALA, June 3 (TIWN): Once again a housewife’s brutal murder has hit the whole Gomati District. Talking to Ratan Das, SDPO Udaipur, it has been known that the incident occurred at Udaipur Radhanagar, under Kakraban and the victim has been identified as Rohia Bibi. | 03-Jun-2016 |
7 persons injured by CPI-M cadres brutal | BELONIA, June 2, 11 pm (TIWN): 7 BJP supporters injured by sudden brutal attack by CPI-M cadres at Belonia. | 03-Jun-2016 |
CPI-M cadres brutally attack BJP Vice-Pr | AMZADNAGAR, BELONIA, June 2, 11 pm (TIWN): State BJP Vice President Subal Bhowmik narrowly escaped from the attack of more than 50 workers in Belonia when he was returning to Agartala after attending a party rally. It was around 8.15pm . The incident took place at Amzadnagar area , a CPI-M den. This afternoon Subal Bhowmik attended a party rally at Amzadnagar , where 50 CPI-M families joined BJP . During the last one week Subal Bhowmik has been campaigning in various places in Belonia giving heavy blows to CPI-M in its hunting ground. Since May more than 3000 CPI-M supporters and supporters have joined BJP. This has certainly enraged the CPI-M. And today's attack is an indication that CPI-M is worried with BJP's rising strength. It is learnt that Subal Bhowmik's car was attacked by a group of 50 CPI-M cadres. They were armed with lethal weapons. Subal Bhowmik could guess what might have happened and thus he somehow escaped from the spot. But his car was badly damaged by the cadres. Failing in their attempt CPI-M cadres then attacked the supporters who joined BJP on Thursday. | 04-Jun-2016 |
Congress celebrates Ambedkar’s 12 | AGARTALA, May 2 (TIWN): Congress leaders and workers in Tripura celebrated the 125th birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on Thursday at Congress Bhawan, where PCC Chief addressed the media and Congress members about the importance of Ambedkar’s socio-economic policy still in India. | 02-Jun-2016 |
Trinamool Leader Mukul Roy arrives in Tr | AGARTALA, May 3 (TIWN): West Bengal Trinamool leader Mukul Roy arrives in Agartala on Friday morning for 1 day visit. | 03-Jun-2016 |
TBSE Madhyamik results declared: Srestha | AGARTALA, June 2 (TIWN): Srestha Deb, students of Sishu Bihar School topped the Madhyamik Examination conducted by TBSE board adding a golden feather to name of Sishu Bihar School. | 02-Jun-2016 |
Black marketers relishing LPC price hike | AGARTALA, June 2 (TIWN): The black market business in LPG is once again at a rise and businessmen are enjoying the double price of cylinders in Tripura. | 02-Jun-2016 |
Tripura’s political chaos before | AGARTALA, June 2 (TIWN): The political disorder which has recently emerged in Tripura, just before 1 year of the Assembly Election, is the prime focus of public across the state. | 02-Jun-2016 |
Tripura Madhyamik Exam's lackluster resu | AGARTALA, June 2 (TIWN): TBSE Madhyamik results brought shame on CPI-M ruled Tripura's education system as TBSE Board President Mihir Deb couldn't hide his frustration on massive failure of 34% candidates in TBSE Madhyamik examination. Mihir Deb while talking to TIWN on Thursday said, "I am extremely unhappy with result, question doesn't arise for happiness when 34 % students failed under a State Board" Just after the publication of TBSE result for Madhyamik 2016, TBSE President Mihir Deb expressed utter displeasure on poor results Statewide. Even though TBSE Board President was careful not to annoy his CPI-M bosses in Melarmath and CM Manik Sarkar, but it is quite evident how cadre-raj can destroy a State’s education system. Tripura’s education system deteriorated beyond repair as every school, teachers are forced to turn as CPI-M cadres to fill up CPI-M rallies statewide. Ruling CPI-M govt. shamelessly claim for highes literacy rate in state, but in realty such poor results depicts the poor quality of Education in Tripura.CPI-M’s wrong policies, cadres, SFI dominated school environments have destroyed education system which resulted poor teachings in schools, party politics spoiled education scenario. | 02-Jun-2016 |
Madhyamik result 2016 again disappointed | AGARTALA, June 2 (TIWN): With another major jolt for the Education Dept of Tripura, TBSE has announced the academic result for 2014-15 Madhyamik session on Thursday. The passing percentage has once more reduced with 66.14 %. In the last year whereas the score was 66.41 % this time it has been downed more with 66.14 %. | 02-Jun-2016 |
Private tuition business dominating Trip | AGARTALA, June 2 (TIWN): Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) is following all other standard boards’ system, even in the evolution process, mark sheet making and grading system. | 02-Jun-2016 |
Left front held protest rally slamming c | AGARTALA, June 2 (TIWN): DYFI organized massive rally at Agartala against the price hike of cooking gas, petrol and diesel. | 02-Jun-2016 |
DCM Office is closed for more than two m | KAMALPUR, June 2 (TIWN): The office was opened with much hurly-burly and with the promises of providing the commoners with much ease to attain administrative facilities. But after a sort of service the facilities for some time, the services remained ceased for last two and half months. And even after repeated requests and knocking, the commoners failed to find any remedy. The situation prevailed at the DCM Office set up at Salema under Kamalpur sub-division. | 02-Jun-2016 |
Black marketers relishing LPG price hike | AGARTALA, June 2 (TIWN): The black market business in LPG is once again at a rise and businessmen are enjoying the double price of cylinders in Tripura. | 02-Jun-2016 |
Kamalpur: Pathetic condition of road con | KAMALPUR, June 2 (TIWN): The PWD(R&B) Kamalpur division turned so hyper active (!) that as single breaking of the road could not be remedied within a year. And that breakage which remained ever widening, used to cause damages to vehicles and commuters. | 02-Jun-2016 |
Price hike hits consumers hard | AGARTALA, July 2 (TIWN): Tripura seeing steep increase in Vegetable Prices, as continuous raining has brought huge losses to the market. | 02-Jun-2016 |
Tripura to celebrate ‘World Enviro | AGARTALA, June 2 (TIWN): The ‘Save Howarh’ slogan forgotten with the year has moved. In the year 2015, the World Environment Day was celebrated for more than a month where the main voice raised for Howrah river’s life and to save it from pollution. | 01-Jun-2016 |
Tripura’s chain business in petro | AGARTALA, June 2 (TIWN): With the petrol and diesel prices have gone high, there is no more ‘Petrol-Crisis’ prevails in the state. | 01-Jun-2016 |
NEEPCO Monarchak 101 MW Plant under full | AGARTALA, June 2 (TIWN): Tripura’s power generation scenario hitting further obstacles as Power Minister Manik Dey to ONGC authorities chosen to ignore the ground realities. Due to ONGC’s erratic gas supplies, NEEPCO Monarchak 101 MW gas based Power Plant left with no other option than shutting down plant over 10 days. ONGC reduced gas supply without any prior information, which causing NEECPO power generation infeasible. NEEPCO General Manager Samar Ranjan Biswas while talking to TIWN said, “We are just sitting as the project heads, but nothing is in our hand. “Unless and until ONGC will start gas supplying, we cannot do anythingâ€, he said.Asking about the permanent solution in this issue, he said, “We can hope for a permanent solution, but there is no hope presently as ONGC is not confirming anything, neither they are interested to talk in this issue with enough patience. | 02-Jun-2016 |
Eastern India focal point of my developm | AGARTALA / BALASORE, June 2 (TIWN): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said eastern India has remained economically backward but his government has focussed its development plan to uproot poverty from the region. | 02-Jun-2016 |
OTPC helpers planning strike soon !!! Su | UDAIPUR / PALATANA, June 2 (TIWN): After tolerating the continuos unbearable attitude of Vice President Sudin Chattopadhyay for the last few months OTPC helpers and workers are now planning to create a deadlock by calling a strike in the plant soon. According to a highly placed source in OTPC it is learnt that ever since assuming the post of Vice President Sudin has been working quite arbitrarily with all the workers , helpers and even with the technical staffs . Being furious with this type of attitude workers once met with Power Minister Manik Dey and Labour Minister Shahid Choudhury . But both the ministers are said to have responded negatively with them and virtually turned down their requests to listen to their problems; rather it is learnt that Manik Dey spoke in favour of Sudin Chattopadhyay defusing the claims of the helpers. TRIPURAINFOWAY published a news item about the irregularities being perpetrated by the Vice President Sudin in recruiting his relatives and close aids in various important posts depriving the qualified persons of Tripura. | 02-Jun-2016 |
Modi’s ‘Act East’ Po | AGARTALA/ NEW DELHI, June 1 (TIWN): Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) General Manager H.K Jaggi visted Agartala Railway Station, visited Broad Gauge (BG) tracks on Wednesday to take stock of ongoing BG express train service preparation beween Agartala to Silchar sector. NFR Railways already started goods train service from Agartala to Silchar sector, trial run of passenger trains scheduled to begin from June’16 itself. Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu likely to inaugurate BG Express Train service if BG line works gets done as per schedule. Agartala- Silchar sector, Lumding area railway tracks need more work as incessant rains collapsed tracks in multiple places. Modi government has commissioned 1,780 km of rail lines and also completed over 6,000 km of highways in 2015-16 period, the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement on Monday.Another NFR official told that the prime minister was scheduled to lay the foundation stone of the Agartala-Akhaura (Bangladesh) railway project and flag off regular passenger train service from Agartala to Sealdah, and Agartala to Silchar on the newly-laid broad gauge line. But these events likely to be held in June in Agartala. | 01-Jun-2016 |
Union Govt to focus on Cricket's develop | AGARTALA / SHILLONG, June 1 (TIWN): Modi Govt focused on overall development of sports in NE region. Ignored for the past many years, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has finally woken up to the country's northeast. It is mulling to form a combined northeast team, which will participate in all national-level tournaments conducted by the board across all age groups.Newly elected BCCI President Anurag Thakur, who visited the Under-16 and Under-19 BCCI-National Cricket Academy (NCA) camps in Dimapur and Shillong on Wednesday, said the board is also planning to set up a cricket ground and an indoor cricket facility in all the northeastern states.Thakur, who was accompanied by BCCI's new area development programme chairman Avishek Dalmiya and other officials, said: "The BCCI is committed to handhold northeastern states and bring them to the mainstream. I am extremely happy with the two camps organised by the BCCI at Shillong and Dimapur.""We have exciting talent coming through and the BCCI will give them a platform to excel. We have taken steps that will lay a solid foundation for cricket development in the northeast," he added. | 03-Jun-2016 |
Indo-Bangla railway track to be complete | AGARTALA, June 1 (TIWN): Work on Indo-Bangla Railway track will be started, once the inauguration is done. | 01-Jun-2016 |
'Agartala-Kolkata train service, work on | AGARTALA, June 1 (TIWN / IANS): A regular train service from Agartala to Kolkata via Guwahati on the newly-laid broad gauge line as well as work on a new India-Bangladesh railway project would start third week of June, a top railway official said on Wednesday. | 01-Jun-2016 |
CM alerts NE region for earthquake | AGARTALA, June 1 (TIWN): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Wednesday during a meeting with the Disaster Management Dept. alerts the people of Tripura against high chances of earthquake in NE region. | 01-Jun-2016 |
BG Express train likely to commence by m | AGARTALA, June 1 (TIWN): Finally the countdown begins for the commencement of the BG express train as NFR GM HK Jaggi has set the deadline that if Union railway minister Suresh Prabhu is available on time the formal inauguration will be done by the mid of June. After a long period finally the laying and constructing of Broad Gauge (BG) Railway tracks of Mega Block conversion from Badarpur to Agartala has already been completed. Adding another milestone in the history of Tripura, the land-locked state has finally made its entry in the BG Railway map of the country.Once the BG express train service begins in the state it will bring relief from the crippled NH 44 which has recently taken bad shape due to the moderate rainfall over past few days in the state. Once the train service begins in the state on a regular basis it is expected that the load will come down on NH 44 and people will start boarding train service. Commencement of BG train in Tripura on regular basis to stabilise the flow of goods into the state and will also meet an end to the rise in price of the goods.It is also expected that BG express train will also drop down the flight fare and people will get tickets in moderate rates. | 01-Jun-2016 |
Udaipur Administration sealed Rose valle | AGARTALA/UDAIPUR June1 (TIWN): In a major drive on Wednesday the Udaipur administration sealed the Rose valley and warris chit fund office, keeping the depositors in jeopardy. | 01-Jun-2016 |
Central Ministry is concerned towards th | AGARTALA, June 1 (TIWN): Addressing the valedictory function of the 2 day long NERCPA meet at Tripura Assembly on WednesdayGovernor Tathagata Roy said that central ministry is truly concerned towards the holistic development of entire North East regions. | 01-Jun-2016 |
CM alerts NE region for earthquake | AGARTALA, June 1 (TIWN): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Wednesday during a meeting with the Disaster Management Dept. alerts the people of Tripura against high chances of earthquake in NE region. | 01-Jun-2016 |
State BJP launched door to door awarenes | AGARTALA, June 1 (TIWN): On completion of 2 years of BJP government under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi at the central, state BJP on Wednesday hold a door to door awareness campaign at Abhoynagar area for making people familiar with the schemes launched by the PM Modi for the benefit of the people. | 01-Jun-2016 |