Archive Detail
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| Chief Minister voices concern over incre | Agartala, Sept 30 (TIWN): A total of 664 persons died in 2237 road mishap from 2011 to August 2013 informed Chief Minister Manik Sarkar here on Monday. He was replying to a short – duration notice moved by Congress MLA Asish Kumar Saha. He stated that from January 2013 to August 31,a total of 146 persons have fallen prey to the road accidents. Altogether 3081 persons suffered injuries in 2237 road accidents during the period. | 30-Sep-2013 |
| Tripura to have more women police stati | Agartala, Sept 30(TIWN): Each police station in Tripura will have one woman sub - inspector and three women constables as par of enhanced policing measures in the backdrop of rising atrocities on women, informed an official of Tripura police. | 30-Sep-2013 |
| Tripura government to take action again | Agartala, Sept 30 (TIWN) The Tripura health minister Monday indicated to suspend seven medical staffs, including four doctors, for cutting open a patient’s lower abdomen and operated upon the urethra instead of conducting a biopsy of his mouth at the government medical college here recently.Tripura health minister Tapan Chakraborty said : “In view of the report of an inquiring committee, the health department has served show cause notices to four doctors and three health staffs.†| 30-Sep-2013 |
| Tripura to be the potential hub for trad | Agartala, Sept 29(TIWN) : Tripura is a fast growing economy in the North East Region, during last few years the trade volume has increased manifold and in current fiscal year the same stands at over Rs 340 crore per annum, Deputy Speaker Pabitra of Tripura Legislative Assembly, Pabitra Kar here on Sunday. | 30-Sep-2013 |
| Aided by USA’s ‘Smile Train | Agartala, Sept 29 (TIWN) Its jawans guard the India’s long borders in rain and shine, day and night. Now the troopers of Border Security Force (BSF) is touching the lives of people in the east and northeast in a rather unique way – aided by the US-based international medical NGO ‘Smile Train’ treating children with cleft lips and palates to bring smiles to their faces and eliminating the social stigma. | 30-Sep-2013 |
| IG BSF: 22 militants hide out exists in | Agartala, Sept 28 (TIWN): Twenty two militant hideouts still exist across Bangladesh border said Inspector General (IG) of BSF, Tripura Frontier R K Mishra. While speaking to reporters today at Salbagan, Frontier Headquarter he stated that five to six camps are located just 5km from Indo – Bangla border, most of them are in and around Chittagong Hill Track (CHT) in Bangladesh. | 29-Sep-2013 |
| “Friends of Bangladesh†mee | Agartala, Sept 28(TINW): A seven member delegate of “Friends of Bangladeshâ€, Dhaka chapter led by its vice- president Nasseruddin Yousuf arrived here on Saturday. In the evening the visiting delegates had a courtesy call with Chief Minster Manik Sarkar at civil secretariat conference hall. They had discussion to further strengthen existing cordial Indo – Bangla relation, besides boosting the economic ties. | 29-Sep-2013 |
| Science fair flourish and enriches know | Agartala, Sept 28 (TIWN): Finance Minister Badal Choudhury said arranging science fair is a significant step of educational institution through which an intensified effort is led to flourish and enrich the knowledge and skills on application of science of students. | 29-Sep-2013 |
| CPI-M’s student wing SFI triumpha | Agartala, Sept 28 (TIWN) Ruling CPI-M’s student wing Students Federation of India (SFI) has secured a land slides victory in the students’ council elections in all the 22 degree colleges in Tripura battering a humiliating defeat to the Congress’ student wing NSUI (National Students Union of India) candidates. | 29-Sep-2013 |
| World Bank aided project to help 300,00 | Agartala/Aizawl, Sept 28 (TIWN) Over 300,000 poor families of Tripura, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim would be supported by the World Bank funded project --- North East Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP), officials said Saturday. | 28-Sep-2013 |
| Government committed to resolve LPG bac | Agartala, Sept 27(TIWN): Minister for Food and Civil supply, Bhanu Lal Saha informed in Assembly today that the present average demand for LPG gas cylinder in the state is 172535. He stated that in last five month from April – August, 835986 LPG cylinders was supplied by Indian Oil in Tripura. | 28-Sep-2013 |
| Security tops Durga Puja plan in South | Agartala, Sept 27(TIWN): Administration of South Tripura district is taking no chance with regard to the security of the pandals for celebration of Durga Puja said Superintendent of Police, Sankar Debnath on Friday. | 28-Sep-2013 |
| Tripura launches initiative to boost to | Agartala, Sept 27(TIWN): Tripura Tourism Development Corporation has taken various initiatives to promote tourism and will create many modern facilities for tourists, said Tourism Secretary, Ashutosh Jindal here on Friday - Sept 27 is World Tourism Day. For boosting tourism, he said that government has already started the job of beautification of historical sites on modern lines. | 28-Sep-2013 |
| India’s northeast states against | Agartala, Sept 27 (TIWN) Tripura and few other northeastern states have raised objection against the ruling of the ‘National Green Tribunal’ (NGT), which banned sand mining across the country on river beds without the permission of union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MEF). Tripura forest and industries minister Jitendra Choudhury Friday said that the state government through the government’s standing council in New Delhi urged the NGT to remove its regulation immediately. | 27-Sep-2013 |
| Center grant one time test waive for rec | Agartala, Sept 27 (TIWN) Rejecting the Congress’ demand, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Center has given an one-time exemption from conducting a teachers eligibility test (TET) before recruiting of around 5,000 school teachers in Left ruled Tripura. | 27-Sep-2013 |
| Centre gives permission for admission in | Agartala, Sept 26 (TINW): After several rounds of talks, Union ministry of animal husbandry has permitted the State government to go ahead with admissions for graduate courses in the State Veterinary Science and Husbandry College. | 27-Sep-2013 |
| Monsoon session of Tripura assembly begi | Agartala, Sept 26 (TIWN) The monsoon session of the Tripura assembly begun here Thursday with a stormy note as the opposition Congress members have raised forceful objection against misrule of the government including recent ill-treatment in Gobinda Ballav Pant government medical college and hospital. | 26-Sep-2013 |
| After four years, Tripura to increase sa | Agartala, Sept 26 (TIWN) After four years, the Left Front ruled Tripura has decided to increase the salary of Chief Minister, Ministers, Opposition Leader and legislators by 50 percent. The second amendment bill proposing the increase of salaries, allowances and pensions of the chief minister, speaker, ministers, leader of the opposition, deputy speaker, chief whip, legislators and former members was moved in the Tripura assembly by the Tripura parliamentary affairs minister Tapan Chakraborty. | 26-Sep-2013 |
| Diwali festival at Udaipur to be held on | Agartala, Sept 25 (TIWN): The traditional Diwali festival at Tripureswari temple, Udaipur will be held on November 2 and 3, this year. A preparatory meeting was held on Tuesday at Matabari block conference. | 26-Sep-2013 |
| Museums are invaluable source of histor | Agartala, Sept 25 (TIWN) Good museums are also an invaluable source of history and heritage of a people and their civilisation, India’s Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari said here Wednesday after inaugurating the northeast India's biggest museum at 112-year-old Ujjayanta Palace, Tripura's royal mansion here. | 26-Sep-2013 |
| Tripura State Museum - Ujjayanta Palace | Agartala, Sept 25 (TIWN) Tripura State Museum - Ujjayanta Palace Inaugurated by Vice President of India Md Hamid Ansari. Vice President's convoy arrived at Ujjayanta Palace at 12.45pm - Welcomed by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, ICAT Minister Bhanulal Saha, Chief Secretary Dr. S.K.Panda and Govt. Officials. TRIPURAINFOWAY.Com's live webcast was seen by viewers around the world from India to USA - minute by minute updates and webcast snapshots are posted at Facebook page. | 25-Sep-2013 |
| Tripura's Royal Palace to house Northeas | Agartala, Sep 25 (IANS) In realisation of a century-old dream, the country's biggest royal mansion in the northeast, the Ujjayanta Palace, would now be home to the biggest museum in the region.Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari will formally open the museum Sep 25. | 25-Sep-2013 |
| Government will not tolerate corruption: | Agartala, Sept 24(TIWN): Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said that the state government would show zero tolerance to corruption or malpractice in the name of development activities on Tuesday. | 24-Sep-2013 |
| Special package launched for welfare of | Agartala, Sept 24 (TIWN): Minister for scheduled castes welfare department, Ratan Bhowmik launched a 24 – point special package for welfare of the scheduled castes communities of the state. | 24-Sep-2013 |
| Tripura assembly session from September | Agartala, Sept24 (TIWN): The three – day Tripura Legislative Assembly session will commence from September 26, informed a official source on Tuesday. The Business Advisory Committee ( BAC) which is met on Tuesday cleared the business of the house. | 24-Sep-2013 |
| Tripura CM at National Integration Counc | Agartala, Sept24 (TIWN): Chief Minister Manik Sarkar urged Union government of India and the various States to firmly deal with any communal disturbances in the country with strong hand within the existing legal framework. | 24-Sep-2013 |
| Tripura set an example in the implementa | Agartala, Sept 23( TIWN): Based on the successful implementation of two earlier special development packages to Scheduled Tribes of Tripura, it is proposed to launch another special package programme said Minister of Tribal Welfare, Aghore Debbarma. While addressing a press conference at civil secretariat on Monday evening the minister stated that the special package for welfare of the scheduled tribes to be implemented over a period of 5 years from 2013 -14 to 2017 -18. | 24-Sep-2013 |
| Special package to be launched for welfa | Agartala, Sept 23 (TIWN): Minority welfare minister, Sahid Choudhuri on Monday announced 29 point special development package for welfare of minorities in Tripura. While addressing a press meet at civil secretariat the minister said that rapid socio economic development of persons belonging to various minority groups has always been a matter of priority for Tripura Government. | 23-Sep-2013 |
| Meeting held at Dharmanagar in connectio | Agartala, Sept23 (TIWN): A law and order meeting was held today at Dharmanagar Town Hall, of North Tripura district to discuss the security arrangements in connection with the upcoming Durga Puja Festival. | 23-Sep-2013 |
| The name controversy of Tripura state mu | Agartala, Sept 23 (TIWN) "The government has decided that the name of the state museum would be Tripura State Museum, Ujjayanta Palace. A statue of the erstwhile king Radhakishore Manikya Bahadur, who built the palace in 1901 would also be set up before the museum," State Minister for Higher Education Bhanu Lal Saha said today | 23-Sep-2013 |
| Those guilty of communal violence will b | New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday expressed concern over the increasing incidents of communal violence and said those found involved "will be punished". "Government should do everything to act against those spreading communal violence, no matter how powerful they are. Anyone from any party found involved in such incidents will be punished," the prime minister said at the inauguration of the National Integration Council (NIC) meet here. | 23-Sep-2013 |
| Refugee repatriation from Tripura to Miz | Agartala, Sept 22 (TIWN): Amidst uncertainty, Mizoram government will begin a fresh initiative to take back the Reang tribal refugees from Tripura, said North District DM Dr. Prashanta Kumar Goyal. He informed that as part of fresh initiative 121 families from Naisingh para and Asha para is schedule to leave for their ancestral land at Mizoram’s Mammit district on September 30. “Around 37,000 Reang tribal refugees have been sheltered in six north Tripura camps since 1997 after they fled Mizoram following ethnic clashes with the majority Mizoram†said DM. | 22-Sep-2013 |
| 500 Congress men, 22 local leaders join | Agartala, Sept 22 (TIWN) Yet another blow to Tripura’s main opposition Congress, more than 500 Congress workers and 22 important local leaders Sunday joined newly formed Tripura unit of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), headed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. | 22-Sep-2013 |
| ‘Friends of Bangladesh’ fo | Agartala, Sept 22 (TIWN) Tripura chapter of ‘Friends of Bangladesh’ has been formed here recently to campaign against the fundamentalist forces in Bangladesh. In a gathering of intellectuals, academician, writers, poets, journalists, social activists, artists here at the Agartala Press Club, veteran citizen of Agartala, Professor Mihir Deb and social activist Mr Gautam Das, also the editor of Daily Desher Katha, a leading vernacular daily, have been chosen as president and convener of the Tripura chapter of ‘Friends of Bangladesh’. | 22-Sep-2013 |
| Dreaded killer nabbed with pistol by Tr | Agartala, Sept 21(TIWN): A dreaded miscreant and main accused of two sensational murder cases, Amitabh Ghosh alias Ankan was nabbed today evening by police. Officer – in – charge of East Agartala police station, S N Basu Ray Chowdhury informed that acting on secret information; a police team led by DSP (central) Rajendra Datta nabbed the dreaded miscreant from his house in motor stand, under East Agartala police station. | 21-Sep-2013 |
| Tripura to trade power to Bangladesh to | Agartala, Sep 21 (TIWN) West Bengal government firmly reluctant to share Teesta river water with Bangladesh, but Tripura keen to supply electricity to power-starved Bangladesh to further improve the India-Bangladesh ties. Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar Friday announced that the northeastern state willing to provide at least 100 MW of electricity to Bangladesh as the India’s lone Left Front ruled state would be power surplus state by February. | 21-Sep-2013 |
| Tripura Health minister condemns harassm | Agartala, Sept 20 (TIWN) Health Minister Tapan Chakraborty expressed serious displeasure regarding the misconduct of a senior doctor against Ratan Lal Nath. Talking to reporters here today at civil secretariat the minister said that he condemns the behavior and it is unjustified on the part of the doctor to misbehave an elected representative and former opposition leader. | 20-Sep-2013 |
| Haora: one of the grossly polluted mino | Agartala, Sept20 (TIWN): Haora River is the lifeline of Agartala city because it fulfills the major demand of drinking water as well as water for other purposes of the entire population of Agartala city.The quality of water of Haora river continue to deteriorate at alarming rate. Speaking about extent of pollution of Haora river chief executive officer of AMC, Milind Ramteke said “Central pollution control board has identified the river stretch along the city of Agartala for the Haora river to be one of the grossly polluted stretches in minor river basins in India and has recommended immediate conservation measures.†| 20-Sep-2013 |
| CM to inaugurate 21 MW gas turbine no. 9 | Agartala, Sept 20 ( TIWN): Chief Minister Manik Sarkar is scheduled to inaugurate 21 MW gas turbine unit no. 9 of Rokhia gas based thermal power project on September 20. | 20-Sep-2013 |
| Agartala Municipal Council to become Co | Agartala, Sept 19 (TIWN): The Council of Minster under the chairmanship Chief Minister Manik Sarkar took a series of decision in a meeting held on September 17 at civil secretariat. Speaking to media person Minister of Higher Education Bhanu LaL Saha on September 19 said that the Agartala Municipal Act 1994 will be amended for giving Corporation status to Agartala Municipal Council. In the earlier act it was mentioned for constituting a corporation the population should be more then 5 lakhs. | 20-Sep-2013 |
| Tripura MBBS Scam - Congress MP to lose | New Delhi, Sept 19 (PTI): Rasheed Masood, minister of health in the VP Singh government between 1990 and 1991, was held guilty of fraudulently nominating undeserving candidates to MBBS seats allotted to Tripura in medical colleges across the country from the central pool. Besides Masood, the court has convicted on similar counts former top bureaucrats Gurdial Singh and retired IAS official Amal Kumar Roy, the then secretary of Tripura chief minister Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar, in six and five similar cases respectively. | 20-Sep-2013 |
| Some members of Tripura’s ex-roya | Agartala, Sept 19 (TIWN) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar in a sensational revelation said some members of state’s erstwhile royal family had tried to merge the state with the then East Pakistan and later tried to unite the state with Assam. | 19-Sep-2013 |
| CM for Tribal Upliftment | Agartala, Sept 18(TIWN): Chief Minister Manik Sarkar directed the department of Tribal Welfare to hold a review meeting every month for development of tribes in the state. | 19-Sep-2013 |
| New initatives to make Agartala city cl | Agartala, Sept 18 (TIWN) The growing volumes of solid wastes are major threats to the environment and sustainable development of Agartala city said Chief Executive Officer of Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC), Milind Ramteke. He stated that daily on average 250MT of solid waste is being generated in the city which increases during the period of festivals such as Durga Puja, however the extent of industrial waste is almost negligible as there is no major industries inside Agartala city. | 19-Sep-2013 |
| Parliament, assemblies must run normall | Agartala, Sept 18 (TIWN) Expressing her deep dissatisfaction, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar said Wednesday that the Parliament and assemblies in the states must run smoothly with high standard of discussion and debate to accomplish the desire of the people. | 19-Sep-2013 |
| Tripura Legislative Assembly Celebrates | Agartala, Sept 18 (TIWN) Lok Sabha Speaker Meera Kumar arrived here today to inaugurate the Golden Jubilee function of Tripura Legislative Assembly.To mark the golden jubilee of the Tripura assembly, an all important seminar was organised on September 18 to highlight the transition of Tripura from princely rule to democratic governance. Lok Sabha Speaker Ms Meira Kumar was the chief guest at the seminar. | 18-Sep-2013 |
| CM bats for work culture | Agartala,Sept 17 (TIWN):Chief minister Manik Sarkar said government employees duty is to serve people, but its is observed that in the name of politics some employees are disrupting the work culture in the state. | 17-Sep-2013 |
| Dispute over TET holdup recruitment of 5 | Agartala, Sept 17 (TIWN) Recruitment of over 5,000 teachers in Tripura government’s schools continue to in a complicated loop over the debate of Teachers Eligibility Test (TET), which was made obligatory few years back. As per the guidelines of the Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, the TET was made mandatory across the country during recruitment of teachers to ensure good quality of teachers and teaching in schools in India. | 18-Sep-2013 |
| Tripura to have its first flyover at Ag | Agartala, Sept 16 (TIWN): Construction work of Tripura’s first fly over from Drop Gate to Old High Court premises is expected to kick start by end of the current fiscal year, highly placed official of PWD department confirmed on September 16. | 17-Sep-2013 |
| No body will be spared, Health Minster | Agartala, September 16 (TIWN) Health Minister of Tripura Tapan Chakraborty on Monday said that an enquiry committee has been set up for investigating the bizarre incident at GB Hospital – premiere health centre of the State. | 17-Sep-2013 |