AGARTALA, Oct 2 (TIWN): On the occasion of Maha-Saptami, rushes of devotees were observed in Agartala’s ancient Durga palace. From the morning, devotees rushed to the temple for Saptami prayers in clean clothes, carrying flowers, bhog etc. From children to elderly persons, all had participated in the festival.

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AGARTALA, Oct 1 (TIWN): Former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Saturday while addressing media in a blood donation camp program lamented over the poor economic situation in the state. Manik Sarkar said, except Govt employees and a section of rich community nobody has enough money to celebrate this Durga puja. “Businessmen are facing losses. They are seated in shops but no customer is available. On the other side, poor people have no work, MGNREGA works are at heavy shortage and the work which were done of very limited numbers and that amount of wage was also not paid to the workers”, said Sarkar.

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AGARTALA, Oct 1 (TIWN): Tripura’s unemployment rate is now 16.3 % but even after having sufficient sources of recruitment Govt has no hurry to complete the recruitment process. As Durga puja season did not bring any good news for the JRBT job aspirants, they demanded their recruitment immediately after the Durga Puja. Recently, JRBT job aspirants were arrested by police in Agartala JRBT office on Friday after they had gheraoed the JRBT office seeking immediate result of the JRBT led Group-C, Group-D interviews. It has been more than a year that JRBT exam was taken but so far the result has not been given. Agitating unemployed youths had gheraoed the JRBT Office seeking immediate results but police displayed brutality on the job aspirants.

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