AGARTALA, March 6 (TIWN): Opposition CPI-M likely to announce candidates' names for the upcoming ADC Election. To finalize the names, a crucial meeting has been started in the Melarmath party office. Although CPI-M convener Bijan Dhar earlier said that new faces, youths will be introduced in this ADC Poll, now it's to be seen how far the claims are real. The much awaited elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) will be held on April 4. Tripura State Election Commissioner M. L. Dey said that the polling to the 28-member TTAADC would be held on April 4 and counting of votes would be done on April 8. According to Dey, in all 8,65,041 voters including 4,28,490 females are eligible to cast their votes in the TTAADC, which has a jurisdiction of over two-thirds of Tripura's 10,491 sq km area and home to over 12,16,000 people, which has 90 per cent population as tribals.

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AGARTALA, March 6 (TIWN): Promising Rs. 2,000 Social Pensions from March 2018, BJP formed a Govt in alliance with IPFT in the year 2018 in Tripura but instead of increasing pensions, Social Welfare Dept is excluding names of beneficiaries mercilessly in Tripura. A 115 years old woman's pension was stopped by Biplab Deb Govt, claiming she is dead. In the same way, there are thousands of beneficiaries including physically challenged persons whose social pensions were stopped. Amid statewide slashing of social pension for around 50,000 of people, Tripura CM Biplab Deb continues his tall claims that no social pension was stopped in the state except ghost pensions.

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AGARTALA, March 6 (TIWN): Data Entry Operators are not getting salaries in GB hospital led them to go on strike today.

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