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| Agartala wakes up on Sunday with Water L | AGARTALA, July 14 (TIWN): House to house water was observed in Agartala today. Heavy raining has been reported in Tripura, hit the capital city Agartala with massive water-logging. Since yesterday water logging started and on Sunday morning people opened eyes with water-logging across the city. | 14-Jul-2019 |
| Rain caused flood in Tripura, Assam | AGARTALA, July 14 (TIWN): Rain has created havoc in Tripura along with other Northeast states like Assam. | 14-Jul-2019 |
| CPI-M says, it is unable to spot locatio | AGARTALA, July 14 (TIWN): On being asked by journalists where the CPI-M will stage their “dharna†against poll violence on July 18 in Agartala, CPI-M spokesperson Bijan Dhar said that they are unable to fix a particular place for agitation as everywhere water-logging is existing. | 14-Jul-2019 |
| Weather experts predicted more rains ahe | AGARTALA, July 14 (TIWN): The northeastern states of India i.e. Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura have been experiencing reduced rainfall activity since the last two days. However, during the last 24 hours, weather activities increased slightly in parts of Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland, Skymetweather has reported. | 14-Jul-2019 |
| Police’s drive against drug-mafia | AGARTALA, July 14 (TIWN): Tripura Police have continued its battle against drug-mafias excect top heads in politics. Police are taking action in all fields but when it is about the political party’s political heads even though their involvements were time to time alleged, problems are erupting for police to take hurdle free actions. In last one week, from various places drug-smugglers were arrested along with lakhs of contrabands’ recovery. On yesterday, Assam Rifles caught a drug peddler at Chandrapur SBT.The arrested youth named Jayanta Debnath has been handedover to East Agartala Police station.Rs. 210 boxes of brown sugar have been seized from him.Assam Rifles was informed via sources about Jayanta Debnath and thus planwise they caught him red-handed on spot. Later, the drug peddler has been handed-over to East Agartala police.East Agartala PS OC-Jayanta Baidya said that 4.2 gram brown sugar has been recovered whose market price is 50,000 rupees. On July 6, two persons were arrested in North Tripura’s Churaibari with huge quantity of heroin, brown sugar in a special drive led by North District SP Bhanupada Chakraborty. | 14-Jul-2019 |
| Load-shedding problems worsened due to r | AGARTALA, July 14 (TIWN): Massive load-shedding problems have hit Tripura’s normal lives followed by monsoon. In normal weather also, load-shedding continued to trouble people for around 3 months here but now, with the monsoon has been started, the situation is more deteriorated. This weather has also halted hospital service as well as banking service across the state. Mostly the rural and ADC areas are the highest victims of such problems. However, there is no problem for the Ministers and equal VIP areas leading massive resentments. Govt has not declared any particular time period when the problems will be totally ended. Tripura has enough power-surplus according to TSECL and also Power Minister Jishnu Dev Barman. Tripura Govt is getting 63 MW from Rukhia, 42 MW from Baramura, 10 MW from Dumboor, 100 MW from Monarchak, 130 MW from central share and from OTPC 725 MW. | 14-Jul-2019 |
| Pradyot Manikya to accompany Laisa Debba | AGARTALA, July 14 (TIWN): Congress President, Royal scion Pradyot Manikya will remain present at Guwahati hospital on 25th July where Tripura girl Laisa Debbarma will undergo her eye treatment. | 13-Jul-2019 |
| Tree collapsed on car, 3 spot dead | AMBASA / KAMALPUR, July 13 (TIWN): Due to stormy weather, big branches of a tree has fallen on a vehicle snatching 3 lives on spot. | 13-Jul-2019 |
| 791 TET Qualified Teaching Aspirants lef | AGARTALA, July 13 (TIWN): Amid Govt’s attempt to increase the quality of education, teachers’ crisis has hit the schools in reality. Govt has decided also to transfer teachers from town areas to rural schools to mitigate the gaps. Education Dept has told media that 147 schools in Tripura having students bearing numbers of less than 10 students. In the contrary, the teachers crisis is not yet ended, neither the agonies of the B.Ed qualified, TET passed unemployed youths. At the same time, having a huge numbers of qualified people, Tripura facing towards massive unemployment rate at 26.2%. Around thousands of qualified job aspirants have expressed resentments about recruitment delays, which the Govt is unable to handle under unknown reasons. Tripura Govt has to focus on Teachers Recruitment as well as recruitments in other departments.Total 791 TET qualified B.ed holders are left jobless.Tripura has 147 schools where numbers of students are less than 10. Out of them 20 schools have been selected to serve the purpose.Around 700 teachers passed in TET waiting for appointments and also the situation for TPSC job aspirants are same. | 13-Jul-2019 |
| Drug peddler nabbed by Assam Rifles, han | AGARTALA, July 13 (TIWN): Assam Rifles caught a drug peddler at Chandrapur SBT. | 13-Jul-2019 |
| School teacher left serious in bike acci | AGARTALA, July 13 (TIWN): Santir Bazar, South Tripura District residence Alak Bhattacharjee, by profession a school teacher, left seriously injured in bike accident. | 13-Jul-2019 |
| 40 years old man’s hanging dead b | BELONIA (South Tripura), July 13 (TIWN): A 40 years old man’s hanging dead body was recovered from his own house today at Maichara, Belonia. | 13-Jul-2019 |
| 1092 voters joined Congress | AGARTALA, July 13 (TIWN): At last 1092 voter's of 315 families from various parties have Joined INC Under Kila Bagama Constituency. | 13-Jul-2019 |
| Indranagar bridge collapsed, Public vent | AGARTALA, July 13 (TIWN): State PWD’s corrupt machinery neglected proper maintenance of roads, bridges since years led a bridge to collapse in MLA Asish Saha's area. Followed by heavy rain and ongoing monsoon, lack of maintenance, Indranagar bridge in Agartala has been collapsed today, erupted massive frustration and anger among the loclas.One person has been injured after he fell from the bridge while travelling in a rickshaw. Another person fell with his bike, received light injury. This incident generated panic among the people at there. The injured person’s 3 teeth have broken and also received serious injured, immediately taken to GB hospital. Local people said, they were complaining about this bridge’s collapsing condition to the local authority time to time but no action was taken to repair it. They said since 3 years, the bridge is lacking maintenance. | 13-Jul-2019 |
| Tripura IPFT to meet Modi, Shah over sta | Agartala, July 13 : Leaders of the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT), an ally of the ruling BJP, will meet the Prime Minister, Home Minister and other central ministers in Delhi next week to press their statehood demand. | 13-Jul-2019 |
| DYFI felicitated chess star Arshiya | AGARTALA, July 13 (TIWN): DYFI, CPI-M’s youth wing today has met Arshiya, the chess champion of Tripura, who has won Gold as well as Bronze medals in the recently held Asian School Chess Championship. | 13-Jul-2019 |
| Lok Adalat organized in Tripura courts | AGARTALA, July 13 (TIWN): The West district administrations and other districts organized a special Lok Adalat in the premises of District Magistrate offices on Saturday. | 13-Jul-2019 |
| BJP targets 6 lakhs membership in Tripur | AGARTALA, July 13 (TIWN): BJP has started massive membership drive in Tripura, claimed receiving huge responses. | 13-Jul-2019 |
| Democracy defeated in Tripura local body | AGARTALA, July 13 (TIWN): BJP’s new style of autocracy via Terror defeated the whole purpose of Elections as 86% seats in Panchayat Elections to go uncontested. Followed by the footstep of previous local body elections held in September 2018, where BJP won 96% seats uncontested, this time BJP is all set to win the upcoming Election with 86% uncontested seats. This time, at first 82% seats were won by BJP as 18% seats were left without nomination submission by the opposition parties. However, many have withdrawn nominations after submission and thus total 5,652 seats are in grip of BJP out of 6646 seats including Panchayat, Jila Parishad and Samitis. Opposition parties have alleged, their candidates were bound to give up nominations and rest could not submit nominations in BJP’s pressures and attacks. Centering the election, however, various clashes erupted between ruling and the opposition parties. | 13-Jul-2019 |
| TIPS held awareness rally on Water Conse | AGARTALA, July 13 (TIWN): Tripura institute of Paramedical Sciences (TIPS) organized an awareness rally on Water Conservation today at Agartala. | 13-Jul-2019 |
| BJP’s Criminal MLAs' presence out | AGARTALA, July 13 (TIWN): In the vision of ‘Model State Tripura’ BJP’s black spots of the ruling party are visible, preventing state to be developed. | 12-Jul-2019 |
| Tripura Students deprived of admissions | AGARTALA, July 13 (TIWN): Although in everyday speeches, Education Minister Ratanlal Nath claims, the BJP-IPFT Govt has given most priority to the Education sector, but the higher education system left paralyzed in various means. SFI, DSO held protest on yesterday raising voice for HS passed students who have failed to take admission in Colleges yet although classes started before 5 days. Placing deputation to Saju Vaheed, Director of Education, SFI said, there must be a scientific way of admission and State Govt must take initiative to complete the admission procedure so that no student left deprived of higher education. | 13-Jul-2019 |
| CM held meeting with delegates of Land P | AGARTALA, July 12 (TIWN): Chief Minister Biplab Deb has met today with the delegates of Land Port authority of India. | 12-Jul-2019 |
| 13 convicted for torturing housewife by | AGARTALA, July 12 (TIWN): Finally, justice received by a victim housewife who back in 2012, before 6 years underwent barbaric social tortures at Bishalgarh sub-division under Sepahijala District by her husband and his family along with local people. | 12-Jul-2019 |
| Man drowned in river, search operation s | AGARTALA, July 12 (TIWN): 35 years old man is going missing in Tripura since he went to Muhuri river (also known as Feni) to collect woods. | 12-Jul-2019 |
| Tripura Capital’s Water-logging c | AGARTALA, July 12 (TIWN): Former Municipal Commissioner Kiran Gitte led CPI-M Era’s Unscientific drainage covering of Tripura’s capital city Agartala, covering of drains in the name of more footpaths, spaceless and compressed constructions without proper swaging system for decades has left the city unorganized and clumsy with unscientific building constructions. The city neither has left space for footpath, nor for drains and the drains anyhow in few places became footpath by covering them, which has further increased water-logging problems of the city. In this situation, even though Govt is determine to make Agartala city a smart city, but ground report says, it’s impossible to make smart city like metro cities with its unscientific constructions. However, project with new areas in Agartala can be developed as smart city gradually, but the existing city taking Battala, Post Office Chowmuhani, Orient Chowmuhani so far to remained as ‘shitty’ areas during monsoon. Indeed, almost in all areas where water-logging problems are highest, Govt can check, there is no ‘footpath’ existing. The footpaths which are used by public are just cover over city’s drains. | 12-Jul-2019 |
| Rain, water-logging disrupt public lives | AGARTALA, July 12 (TIWN): Heavy raining has been reported in Tripura, hit the capital city Agartala with massive water-logging. | 12-Jul-2019 |
| BJP organized State level meeting ahead | AGARTALA, July 12 (TIWN): BJP has organized a state level meeting ahead of Panchayat election at Agartala Town hall. | 12-Jul-2019 |
| 10 days long NCC training camp conducted | AGARTALA, July 12 (TIWN): 10 days long NCC training camp has been completed today at Bhagat Singh Yuva Awas. | 12-Jul-2019 |
| Rain hampers train services to Assam's B | Guwahati, July 12 (TIWN) Trains services to Assam's Barak Valley and Tripura were hampered on Friday due to incessant rains that have affected the railway tracks in the Lumding-Badarpur hill section of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), an official said. | 12-Jul-2019 |
| Murder of 23 years old youth hits Kailas | KAILASHAHAR (Tripura), July 12 (TIWN): A sensational murder of a 23 years old youth named Habijur Rahman has hit Kailashahar subdivisiosn. | 12-Jul-2019 |
| Tribal Engineers’ Society to orga | AGARTALA, July 12 (TIWN): Tribal Engineers’ Society to organize awareness programme on Swachh Bharat on 14th July. | 12-Jul-2019 |
| Inquiry against fake degree holder 14 te | AGARTALA, July 12 (TIWN): Not only teachers and job aspirants, but it was also a section of media’s demand that fake degree holders teachers’ certificates should be checked and accordingly after complaints were sent to Chief Minister Biplab Deb, Education Dept started investigation and booked 14 teachers. People have appreciated as 14 teachers in Tripura has been booked for fake degrees. Recently Govt via letters was informed about various teachers who are having fake degrees in B.Ed, Graduation and also marksheets.Education dept has investigated the teachers’ background. Now Police have registered FIRs against these teachers and will inquire them.Earlier, many teaching aspirants had given up jobs / interviews after Govt warned against fake degrees, but these teachers have not. As a result, now FIRs were lodged against them. When action against powerless accused persons are appreciated, questions are raising, will the Govt or Election Commission be much neutral so that they can dare to scan ruling party leaders’ degrees who are holding constitutional posts ? Krishnadhan Das is BJP MLA from Bamutia constituency. | 12-Jul-2019 |
| After malaria, now Japanese Encephalitis | AGARTALA, July 12 (TIWN): Tripura could not yet overcome the dangers of malaria outbreak and Japanese Encephalitis outbreak which has hit Assam, concerns Tripura. | 12-Jul-2019 |
| 14 teachers in Tripura booked for fake d | AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, July 12 (TIWN): 14 teachers in Tripura has been booked for fake degrees. | 12-Jul-2019 |
| Shocking : Amarnath Pilgrims tortured in | AGARTALA, July 12 (TIWN): In a shocking event, passengers of Humsafar express have alleged brutal tortures by RPF Jawans after they demanded their reserved seats from a group of passengers, who belong to CRS officer's family. In a video, one tortured passengers named Swami Jotirmoyananda said, “On behalf of Bharat Seva Asram, we are returning with 9 devotees after completing our Amarnath Yatra. But we are heavily disturbed by an unfortunate event happened with us. This incident has shocked us and made us afraid, ashamed. In the 13 number bogie, 26 and 28 number seats were occupied by two invalid passengers Mehenas Rahaman and more three women. At around 3 PM when we asked them to leave our seats, we faced dire consequences. One of those woman’s husband is high official of IRS. When we were in Uttar Pradesh, they started abusing us verbally and threatened us, but we mitigated the situation for then. But again at night 12 her IRS husband with RPF jawans started brutal tortures on us, and catching our collars they pushed us from the train and dropped us on the platform. Two women who were with us, who were also not spared and the RPF jawans physically attacked them too". | 11-Jul-2019 |
| Tripura Police continues anti-drug drive | AGARTALA, July 12 (TIWN): Amid everyday raids of Tripura Police under ‘Nesha Mukt Tripura’, the drug-addiction has continued to grip the state. Recently a news was flashed where a woman is found involved in drug-peddling at Ambasa who is a BJP leader which is however noway shocking, as state Tripura amid anti-drug drives continues to be den for narcotic and youths are spotted consuming contrabands which are collected from local sources at very easy way. The arrested woman at Ambasa was a ruling party leader which raises fingers again at BJP’s top layer’s leaders whose family is involved in drug-smuggling in Dhanpur. Police’s drives are praiseworthy but allegedly could not even curb 5% of the actual drug empire and without ratting the drug-den nurtured at the top-layer, the police can not end the drug-mafias. Police’s failure lies in its inactiveness to take action against BJP leaders as Pratima Bhowmik even after she threatened an IPS Officer Kiran Kumar on face to kill him saying, “Tereko hum abhi maar dalegaâ€. | 12-Jul-2019 |
| Minister Mebar Jamatia blasts Tripuraâ | AGARTALA, July 11 (TIWN): IPFT Minister Mebar Kumar Jamtia calling media along with IPFT President, Minister N C Debbarma has slammed few media houses of Tripura for propagating fake news and taken the name of “Headlines Tripuraâ€, a local Bengali news channel. | 11-Jul-2019 |
| Modi’s ‘Act East’ Po | AGARTALA, July 11 (TIWN): Central Govt’s initiatives along with NFR & State Govt’s plans, railway expansion continue in full swing across Tripura. After Chief Minister Biplab Deb’s meetings with Central Ministers, Railway Ministry is planning on making double lane from Lumding to Agartala. Via two MPs in the Parliament, Tripura CM has raised various issues including double line and also renovation of railway stations.CM has mentioned in his recently delivered few addresses that without infrastructure no state can progress and thus since the beginning either it’s Feni river bridge or Railway, Biplab Deb has focused on connectivity. In all speeches, CM mentions about HIRA, i.e. H for Highway, I for Iways, R for Railways and A for Airways. Via MPs, Tripura has also demanded an express train from Silchar in night hours. It can be mentioned here, Govt also is going to start more city buses, to ease the movement. | 11-Jul-2019 |
| Silchar-Agartala passenger train blocked | AGARTALA, July 11 (TIWN): The Silchar-Agartala train was blocked in Tripura’s Panisagar for hours by rail workers in protest of attack on a worker. | 11-Jul-2019 |
| INPT met Governor in protest against CAB | AGARTALA, July 11 (TIWN): Indigenous people based party INPT has placed deputation to Tripura Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki in the interest of indigenous people’s development and existence. | 11-Jul-2019 |
| Review meeting held at Tripura Universit | AGARTALA, July 11 (TIWN): Addressing a national level review meeting of NAD held at Tripura University, Suryamaninagar, Tripura the experts from the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the National Securities Depository Limited explained the process of getting registered with NAD and outlined its advantages to students, employers and academics. The meeting organized under the directives of UGC / MHRD, was preceded by the Vice Chancellor (VC) of Tripura University with the Registrar of the University, witnessed participation from various universities of Tripura and Mizoram including NIT-Agartala, NIT-Mizoram, ICFAI University, MBB University, Tripura Board of Secondary Education, Mizoram State Council for Technical Education among others. In this program, the CoE, Prof. K. N. Jena, Registrar, Prof. M. K. Singh and Prof. Sukanta Banik and Prof. C. B. Majumder were also present with the representatives of UGC/NAD and Securities Depositories. The CoE welcomed all the dignitaries by offering flower bouquet on the dais. Dr. Nikhil Kumar, Education Officer UGC explaining the nitty-gritty of NAD stated that the NAD is established by the Government of India as an endeavor to bring administrative and academic reforms. It is a 24X7 online storehouse of all academic certificates, diplomas, degrees and mark sheets etc, which are digitized and lodged by academic institutions. It not only ensures easy access to and retrieval of an academic award but also validates and guarantees its authenticity and safe storage. The experts pointed out that students were no longer required to carry their original certificates and mark sheets everywhere for job interviews and recruitments. Hence, they urged educational institutions to come forward and take advantage of NAD. | 11-Jul-2019 |
| Children urge Tripura Govt to renovate C | AGARTALA, July 11 (TIWN): Miserable conditions gripped Agartala Joynagar area located children’s park. | 11-Jul-2019 |
| BJP, Congress leaders jointly planted tr | AGARTALA, July 11 (TIWN): Valuing Chief Minister Biplab Deb’s move for ‘Green Tripura’, BJP MLA Asish Saha has joined in van Mohotsave festival. | 11-Jul-2019 |
| 33/11kv sub-station inaugurated in Jute | AGARTALA, July 11 (TIWN): 33/11kv sub-station inaugurated in Jute Mill, Amtai in Agartala | 11-Jul-2019 |
| Tripura’s young generation under | AGARTALA, July 11 (TIWN): Since few years, yaba tablets have become Tripura’s most seized contrabands, results of massive illegal border business. In a successful drive, Ranir Bazar Police Station recovered 40,000 numbers of YABA Tabletstand 24,000/- cash depending on relievable information from their sources at around 4:30 AM from Madhab Bari Inter State Truck Terminus. Police said, three persons namely Manir Hussain (28), Alek Hussain (30) & Pritam Bhowmik (25) were arrested in this connection with their private vehicle bearing registration No. TR 01 AZ 0657 (Dustan) from the spot. The approximate value of the narcotics is around INR 40.00 Lacs (Forty Lacs). The raid was headed by SDPO Jirania Suman Majumder and OC Ranir Bazar Police Station Soumen Das along with their team.This narcotics recovery and arrest at Madhabbari Inter State Truck Terminus is another success of Tripura Police.But what worries is that amid massive seizers, the drug peddlers are uncontrolled, continued unafraid jobs in contraband dealing. | 11-Jul-2019 |
| IPFT to demand special Recruitment Drive | AGARTALA, July 11 (TIWN): IPFT leaders soon will visit Delhi and meet Prime Minister Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah with various demands including ‘Special Recruitment Drive’ for ST youths in Govt depts. | 11-Jul-2019 |
| Foundation day of TMSU observed | AGARTALA, July 11 (TIWN): Along with several other parts of the state, foundation day of Tripura Motor Sramik Union (TMSU) observed at Agartala office and also at Nagerjala today. | 11-Jul-2019 |
| More CNG Stations by 2020, February in T | AGARTALA, July 11 (TIWN): Many more CNG stations will be introduced in Tripura by February, 2020. | 11-Jul-2019 |
| Agartala-Kolkata-Dubai flight service fr | AGARTALA, July 11 (TIWN): International flight service under Air India Agartala-Kolkata-Dubai will be started from July 16, a local news report has said. | 11-Jul-2019 |