Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
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| Police, TSR Job aspirants gather at Asta | AGARTALA, March 14 (TIWN): Police, TSR and few other Depts' job aspirants, who were selected after interviews long back but never got appointment letters, have gathered at Astabol stadium and few more at Circuit house in demand of their faster recruitment. | 13-Mar-2018 |
| Tripura Gramin Bank looted : Strong room | AGARTALA, March 14 (TIWN): Tripura Gramin Bank at Kanchanmala of Bishlalgarh subdivision was looted on yesterday night by miscreants. Many important and costly items were theft from the bank. | 14-Mar-2018 |
| Ratan Chakraborty’s oath taking a | AGARTALA, March 14 (TIWN): BJP MLA Ratan Chakraborty will take oath today as the pro-tem speaker at 10.30 AM. | 13-Mar-2018 |
| Follow Nalanda's mission to improve educ | Agartala, March 13 (TIWN / IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Tuesday underlined the need to improve the quality of education by following the model of the ancient Nalanda University. | 14-Mar-2018 |
| DSP Kalyan Sarkar’s murder myster | AGARTALA / DHARMANAGAR, March 14 (TIWN): Tripura’s upright Police officer DSP(Intelligence) Kalyan Sarkar and his bodyguard Nani Gopal Debnath was shot dead in broad daylight on Friday, March 22, 2002 morning in Dharmanagar. In a planned operation to chase smuggelers, DSP Kalyan Sarkar was leading a team of 15 Tripura Police officials including then SDPO Dilip Ray (current OSD to CM Biplab Deb). Apart from Tripura Police, a separate team of 6 member Meghalaya Police officials led by Inspector Pratap Chettri also joined to chase these smugglers cum millitants who kidnapped a girl Nayank Agarwal from Shillong on March 14. However, rather than Police teams capturing militants or rescue the girl as planned, suddenly few Tripura Police officials led by SDPO Dilip Ray opened fire killing DSP Kalyan Sarkar, Constable Nani Gopal Debnath and one Meghalaya Police official. | 14-Mar-2018 |
| NIT student suspended on ragging charges | AGARTALA, March 14 (TIWN): Like any-other previous case, this time also Agartala NIT has taken very strict action against final year B.Tech student after the College authority found his involvement in ragging activities. | 14-Mar-2018 |
| Tata Trust launches motorcycle rally for | Guwahati, March 14 (TIWN / IANS) With the northeastern states of India recording a high cancer prevalence rate, Tata Trust and the Cachar Cancer Hospital, in collaboration with several other organisations, have embarked on a motorcycle rally across the seven states to make people aware about the disease and sensitise the patients. | 14-Mar-2018 |
| CPI-M's damage control press meet : 'BJP | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): After around 40 hours have passed, CPI-M has called a press conference accusing BJP for keeping arms inside the CITU office of Nagerjala bus stand. | 13-Mar-2018 |
| 'It was a very peaceful polling, voting | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): "The polling in Tripura has been very peaceful", said CEO Sriram Taranikanri to media after the Election was over. | 13-Mar-2018 |
| ‘Everyone has Political knowledge | AGARTALA / MUMBAI, March 13 (TIWN): Tripura BJP State Observer Sunil Deodhar today while interacting with Mumbai press said, "In Tripura everybody is Political. Even each woman there has political knowledge". | 13-Mar-2018 |
| Tripura CM suspends Officers, Quality In | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): With a big blow, the newly appointed Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb today has suspended many Govt officers on spot following the 2 years of low qualities works under PWD. Chief Minister was visiting Dhalai Dist and after visiting Gandacherra, CM lost his temper seeing the pathetic road condition at there. However, CM before coming in power had visited the spot many times and today while interacting with the Govt employees, he mentioned, "No bus comes here, no truck comes here, but just because I will come today, a minimum repairing work was done anyhow, but still couldn't cover the gaps". The officers including quality-inspectors involved in the work were suspended and the company which was engaged in that work was blacklisted. The person certified the road known as quality-inspector, was also suspended. "No need of such officers ! Inquiry will be done later, but first suspend them", said Deb. Noteworthy, the day Chief Minister took charges warned the Govt employees to work properly and to develop 'work culture'. Addressing the employees via media CM said, "The people who are in Govt jobs, I like to tell you to do your duty rightly, be time-bound, come to office in correct time and also complete everyday's work in time". | 13-Mar-2018 |
| Tripura CM suspends four Govt employees | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): During Gandachera (Dhalai Dist) visit, BJP Chief Minister Biplab Deb has suspended many Govt employees on spot. | 13-Mar-2018 |
| TPSC Scam in Election Season : Agricultu | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): During the Election season TPSC took many interviews under the Agricultural Depts, which provided jobs to non-experienced candidates from Sanskrit and History Depts too. However, keeping all those issues in one side, for a particular job interview which was pending due to High Court's intervention since 2017 with Adv No. wpc1393-2017, a section of job aspirants have met the Agriculture Minister Pranajit Singha Roy disclosing the ongoing 'mess' in the name of interviews, which asked for 50 posts in Agriculture Depts. Meeting the job-aspirants, Pranajit Singha Roy asked them to come after 4 to 5 days and submit the matter as right now the Govt is busy with the formal works following immediate Govt formation. | 13-Mar-2018 |
| 'Re-install Lenin's statue' : Communist | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): 'The Confederation Indian Communists and Democratic Socialists' (CICDS) have come in protest after Lenin's statue was bulldozed at Belonia. | 13-Mar-2018 |
| Demands raised for verification of newly | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): With new Govt has assumed charges, pending demands have been raised by a section of teachers and also unemployed youths that the new govt must re-verify the teachers' B.Ed certificates, especially when the Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath is talking about 'Quality Education'. Ratan Lal Nath already expressed concerns about the teachers-crisis issue, whereas the rural schools are the worst sufferer, but at the same time when due to lack of B.Ed qualification many students couldn't appear in TET exam, on the other side many 'fake' B.Ed certificates were alleged time to time. Demand raised that the state govt must upload the teachers' details of qualification with College's names in Education dept's website who were appointed via TET. On that time, CPI-M Govt didn't bother about the demand but with the changing of Govt the resented people are raising their demands, hoping for rapid action. | 13-Mar-2018 |
| Traffic Police back on traffic posts as | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): Traffic Police are seen agian working on the traffic post as the newly launched traffic lights left non-functional. | 13-Mar-2018 |
| Proper Recruitment Board for Group-C and | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): As promised earlier, the present Govt is expectedly to abolish the walk-in-interview system including the Group-C and Group-D recruitment. | 13-Mar-2018 |
| CM inaugurates Faculty Induction Trainin | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): Chief Minister Biplab Deb has inaugurated 30 days Faculty Induction training programme at Tripura Central University today. | 13-Mar-2018 |
| New CM, wife visit Chief Minister's offi | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): Before starting journey inside Tripura Chief Minister's official residence, BJP Chief Minister Biplab Deb and his wife Niti Deb have made a visit at there today morning. | 13-Mar-2018 |
| 'Ragging inside NIT-Agartala is very unf | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): After Arunachal student was beaten up at the Agartala NIT campus, Kiren Rijuju has come with sharp attacks against the NIT authority. | 13-Mar-2018 |
| ‘They can’t bulldoze our Id | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): After yesterday’s police raid exposed CPI-M led violence of last 25 years, when CITU office at Nagerjala found with various local weapons, Tripura CPI-M’s much propagated Yechury’s comment turns as ‘Irony’ where he said, “The ideology can’t be changed, neither it can be bulldozedâ€. | 12-Mar-2018 |
| 35 arrested in Tripura for law breaking | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): Within 3 days police have arrested at least 35 persons for violating law following the election results. | 12-Mar-2018 |
| CPI-M penetrates Chief Minister’s | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): Tripura’s new Chief Minister Biplab Deb already stepped into CPI-M’s trap by appointing career communist TPS officer Dilip Ray into OSD Post in Chief Minister’s Secretariat on 11th March via a Govt order. OSD (Officer on Special Duty) to Chief Minister is a special post privy to Chief Minister’s confidential communications to various meetings on policy issues. TPS officer Dilip Ray’s TPSC selection itself was an unsolved mystery but this CPI-M family officer enjoyed all perks & privileges in various posts in and around Agartala over a decade. Dilip Ray known as extremely close to Gautam Das and Manik Sarkar, this CPI-M officer’s recruitment in this ultra-sensitive post shocked media and BJP followers. So the question raises how come out of hundreds of TCS, TPS officers Statewide, who influenced Biplab Deb to appoint this CPI-M spy into State Secretariat ? | 12-Mar-2018 |
| Blood donation camp conducted by Tripura | AGARTALA, March 13 (TIWN): Aimed to mitigate the ongoing blood crisis across Tripura blood banks, 'Tripura Hearts', a social organization in collaboration with 'Tripura Markfed' has conducted a blood donation camp in the recent days. | 13-Mar-2018 |
| Police warns 'Anti-Social' activists | AGARTALA, March 12 (TIWN): Since the election was ended and the law and order came under the state govt, DGP A K Shukla has been repeatedly warning the disturbing elements of the society. | 12-Mar-2018 |
| Over 80% votes cast for Tripura Assembly | Agartala, March 12 (TIWN / IANS) Over 80 per cent of the 36,793 electors cast their votes on Monday in the Charilam Assembly constituency in western Tripura, an official said. | 12-Mar-2018 |
| 'Nagerjala weapon-raid was based on secr | AGARTALA, March 12 (TIWN): Mentioning that law and order's responsibility is now totally under the state govt as the election is ended, DGP A K Shukla told media, "Police is determined to keep the law and order stabled and to control the crime rates. Today at Nagerjala the raid was based on a source. After being informed via source, police have raided the spot and also many other offices will be raided in coming days......", DGP said. "Anybody will try to breakdown the law and order, he or she can't escape from police's eyes. Police will nab the culprit by hook and crook", said DGP. Source said that the local auto drivers of the Battala have complained about the CITU office, where huge numbers of arms were collected since before the election. The CITU Office of Nagerjala has also been seized by Police. Police had also booked at least 4 persons on spot from CITU office for interrogation. Today with a horrifying experience, police found various deadly-weapons inside CPI-M party office (CITU) on the heart of capital city. | 12-Mar-2018 |
| After 7th Pay Commission's announcement, | AGARTALA, March 12 (TIWN): With the announcement of 7th Pay Commission's planning led by the BJP State Govt, lines of employees and pensioners have started before the Chief Minister's office. | 12-Mar-2018 |
| Police to submit chargesheets of all pen | AGARTALA, March 12 (TIWN): 2 days after the new Govt sat in power, Tripura DGP A K Shukla held meeting with all the SPs and asked them to check the pending cases. | 12-Mar-2018 |
| Road accident claims 1 life : 1 more cri | UDAIPUR, March 12 (TIWN): Critical accident claimed another left at Udaipur today on the Sabroom-Agartala National Highway. | 12-Mar-2018 |
| Advocates join BJP ahead of Bar Council | AGARTALA, March 12 (TIWN): Ahead of the Bar Council Election on 28th March, 47 advocates have joined BJP from Congress, CPI-M. | 12-Mar-2018 |
| Police booked CITU leaders from Nagerjal | AGARTALA, March 12 (TIWN): At least 4 CITU leaders were booked on spot at Nagerjala bus stand during raids were done into their offices. | 12-Mar-2018 |
| CPI-M, Sitaram Yechury, Manik Sarkarâ | AGARTALA, March 12 (TIWN): Proving once again Communists are the "sources of Terror & Violence", police and TSR today in a joint raid have recovered dangerous arms from Battala CITU Office, a wing of CPI-M. Not a single one, but many local arms which are enough to kill a person within 1 minute, have been recovered led by Tripura Police and TSR officials. CPI-M is everyday sponsoring rumours even after DGP's warning, totally misusing their social media page, BJP-attired CPI-M people are asking donations to malign BJP, but including CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury has also become a part of the commies led drama to create a tension just to increase 2023's Assembly Election vote banks. | 12-Mar-2018 |
| Amid 'model code of conduct' TPSC conduc | AGARTALA, March 12 (TIWN): Allegation has raised against the TPSC for violating model code of conduct by taking exams in election time and also violating High Court's order. A section of deprived youths have accused the TPSC for doing such activity aiming to manage jobs for own family members. After the scam was disclosed, questions raising, when at High Court a case is going on against a particular recruitment, how the same recruitment process can be conducted before High Court's final verdict ? Moreover when Election is going on what was the so urgency to finish the recruitment process amid model code of conducts ?In 2016, for 50 posts filling up under the TPSC an advertisement was published by TPSC but there was a violation of the reservation quota. In that situation a case was filed against the TPSC in the High Court with the case number wpc1393-2017. | 12-Mar-2018 |
| Tripura Police jumps into Rapid Action i | AGARTALA, March 12 (TIWN): Within few hours of the brutal murder incident of Manik Bhowmik at Agartala Siddhi Asram, Police have detained two persons under suspects. The arrestees are Khelan Bhowmik, wife of the deceases and her friend Krishna Das. "The arrestees have been detained under Amtali PS. Yesterday after long period she had visited her husband's house on instructions of Krishna. It is suspected that both may have planned the crime. Police will produce them before the court and seek police remand", SP West Abhijit Saptarshi said. | 12-Mar-2018 |
| Charilam Election : Voting begins at 7 A | AGARTALA, March 12 (TIWN): Pending Assembly Election at Charilam has started with the voting begins at 7 AM without any hurdle or any kind of EVM-problem faced by the polling officials at there. | 11-Mar-2018 |
| BJP's dream of 'birodhimukt Bharat' will | Agartala, March 12 (TIWN / IANS) CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday said all opposition parties would come together to defeat the BJP's plot of "birodhimukt Bharat" (opposition-free India). | 12-Mar-2018 |
| Tripura’s massive TCS,TPS recruit | AGARTALA, March 12 (TIWN): CPI-M’s 25 years corrupt era not only looted Central Funds and created 8 Lakhs unemployment but Manik Sarkar led Communist Party created Communist cadres family of TCS, TPS officials to control grassroots of State Bureaucracy. CPI-M’s 25 years organized corruption in TPSC produced massive number of TCS, TPS officials who are bound to remain loyal communists as they are from CPI-M families. Otherwise how come Manik Sarkar’s close aide Bimal Chakraborty selected in TCS, his brother Kamal Chakraborty selected in TPS, Communist family’s Panna Ahmed selected in TCS, followed by CPI-M Party spokesman Gautam Das relative Dilip Ray selected in TPS, then CPI-M Minister Badal Chowdhury’s elder brother Ranjit Chowdhury’s son Abhijit Choudhury selected in TPS, another Badal Chowdhury relative Uttam Kumar Bhowmik selected in TPS ??? | 12-Mar-2018 |
| Former 'School of Science' student cum R | AGARTALA, March 12 (TIWN): Rapist TCS officer Panna Ahmed’s capture by Assam Police in 2016 also raised suspicion on Tripura Public Service Commission(TPSC) on TCS/TPS selection process as Panna Ahmed cracked(?) tough TCS(Tripura Civil Service) exam in 2002. Criminals like Panna Ahmed, suspicious CPI-M cadres preferred enrolling in coaching center ‘ School of Science’ located at Agartala’s Shyamali Bazar. Not only that admission into ‘School of Science’ and alleged unholy nexus with TPSC honchos produced many undeserving TCS / TPS officers via backdoor corruption. When in 2016 the entire state is rocked with the issue of rape accused TCS officer Panna Ahmed who was arrested from Karimganj raised question on how a seasoned criminal passed TCS examination.Talking to TIWN correspondent, TPSC's 2016 era Chairman Alpana Sengupta said that Panna was selected through a protocol in a the year 2001 and at present there is no link of the board with Panna.It is to be mentioned here that Ex SDM of Sonamura Panna Ahmed passed TCS in the year 2002, when Bijoy Debbarma was the then chairperson of TPSC board in Tripura. However, it shows that Panna managed to pass TCS under the chairmanship of Bijoy Debbarma. | 12-Mar-2018 |
| Brutal murder rocks Agartala Siddhi Asra | AGARTALA, March 11 (TIWN): A brutal murder incident has shocked the capital city in the evening, amid heavy securities ongoing in the state following the poll result. Day after DGP A K Shukla had claimed the law and order is totally under control, the brutal murder incident has snatched the peace, generating turmoil among the citizens. The killed person has been identified as Manik Bhowmik, S/O-Manmohon Bhowmik, resident of Maitri Palli. The incident took place at Siddhi Asram, an area on the heart of Agartala. The victim was working at Nimbark in Agartala and on regular basis he travelled via that route. But whether the murder took place on that particular spot or not, nothing can be said now. Behind his head a major portion was cut with sharp weapon. Police is investigating the case. | 11-Mar-2018 |
| 'Return occupied properties' : Yechury | AGARTALA, March 11 (TIWN): The defeated CPI-M led by Sitaram Yechury today has claimed, "After BJP won the election, democracy has been lost and many properties of public, party were occupied by the BJP". | 11-Mar-2018 |
| Demand list expanding before BJP Govt : | AGARTALA, March 11 (TIWN): Just one day has gone that BJP Govt has assumed the charge and before the Govt 10323 teachers and fixed paid employees started to remind the govt about its pre-poll promises. With that RMSA's non-teaching staffs have now added their names in the demand-list. Tripura's terminated 156 laboratory assistants and computer operators recruited under Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyaan (RMSA) who since two and half years are protesting to get back their jobs, with the new govt has come in power led by the BJP, today hs called a press conference congratulating the BJP-Govt for assuming charges. But at the same time the terminated staffs have demanded their jobs back, which they had lost before two and half year under the CPI-M Govt. | 11-Mar-2018 |
| 'Tourism Industry to be one of the keys | UDAIPUR / AGARTALA, March 11 (TIWN): Tripura's newly appointed Tourism Minister Pranajit Singha Roy said on Sunday, the tourism will be one of the keys for the state's development. | 11-Mar-2018 |
| 'They can pull down Idols, but not the I | AGARTALA / BELONIA, March 11 (TIWN): After visiting Belonia College Square, where recently Lenin's statue was bulldozed, CPI-M General secretary Sitaram Yechury said, "They can pull down idols, but not the ideology". | 11-Mar-2018 |
| TJU welcomes CBI inquiry into journalist | AGARTALA, March 11 (TIWN): After much strives of state journalists, CBI finally to probe brutal murder cases of Tripura's young TV Journalist Santanu Bhaumik who was killed at Mandai and senior journalist Sudip Datta Bhaumik who was killed inside Tripura State Rifles Office. | 11-Mar-2018 |
| 'Our aim is Quality Education' : Minist | AGARTALA, March 11 (TIWN): Tripura Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath today said, the BJP led Tripura Govt's aim is not only Education, but 'Quality Education' will be the first priority. | 11-Mar-2018 |
| CPI-M alleges ragging inside NIT : stude | AGARTALA, March 11 (TIWN): Hitting Tripura's new BJP Govt, CPI-M's official page has published photo of a wounded boy of NIT, claiming he was being tortured during ragging inside NIT. | 11-Mar-2018 |
| BJP asks party workers to identify fraud | AGARTALA, March 11 (TIWN): Tripura BJP in a press note today has asked its activists to identify all kinds of frauds who are moving in BJP's attires. | 11-Mar-2018 |
| SC Terminated 10323 teachers sit in meet | AGARTALA, March 11 (TIWN): Supreme Court terminated Tripura's 10323 teachers have sat in a meeting at Rabindra Bhawan with a new banner, comprising all the divided 10323 teachers groups regardless left, saffron supporters. The huge room of Rabindra Bhawan also seemed small, for the gathering of the teachers under the banner of "All Tripura 10323 Victimized Teachers' Association". In the meeting the teachers aimed to review their actual-situation and future possibilities of getting their jobs back. The teachers are working now in ad hoc basis for 6 months, under the order of Supreme Court, whereas the teachers as regular employees had lost their jobs in December 31st, 2017. After that BJP had taken the responsibilities of the teachers career, saying after BJP comes in power, the Govt will try its best to save the teachers livelihood. | 11-Mar-2018 |
| Tripura Govt employees thank State Govt | AGARTALA, March 11 (TIWN): State Govt employees under 'Tripura Govt Employees Maha-Sangha' organized a rally here in Agartala, congratulating the newly formed BJP Govt for announcing 7th pay commission for the its employees. | 11-Mar-2018 |