Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| Boys outshine girls in top-ten in Higher | Agartala, June 7 (TIWN): Tripura Board of Secondary Education announced the results of Higher Secondary Examinations including Madrasa Fazil (Arts and Theology), this morning. The president of TBSE- Amitava Debroy declared the results in a press conference at board office, this morning. | 07-Jun-2014 |
| TPG to open 15 new branches in Tripura | Agartala, June 7 (TIWN): Tripura Gramin Bank (TGB) is going to launch 15 new branches in Tripura by the current financial year 2014-15. The Chairman of TGB- Upendra Sabar informed it in a press conference at Circuit House, here today. | 07-Jun-2014 |
| State Govt ordered magistrate-level enq | AGARTALA, June 7 (TIWN): Tripura home secretary B. K. Sahu on Saturday said the state government has ordered a magistrate-level probe into the BSF firing that killed two and injured nine others at South Ramnagar located two km from here last night. | 07-Jun-2014 |
| Magisterial level probe ordered into BSF | AGARTALA, June 7 (TIWN): The state government today ordered magisterial inquiry into the incident at South Ramnagar near here in which two persons, including a BSF jawan, were killed and ten injured during a clash between the border guards and villagers last night, officials said.District Magistrate of West Tripura district, Abhishek Singh, who visited the scene today said the magisterial level inquiry was ordered into the incident and the investigation started from today itself. | 07-Jun-2014 |
| Fertilizer Factory: Feasibility report s | AGARTALA, June 7 (TIWN): The Tata Consultancy Service (TCA) has already submitted its feasibility report on setting up Rs. 5000 crore fertilizer manufacturing company to the ONGC authority, official sources confirmed here today.“I have come to know that the TCA has submitted feasibility report to the ONGC management but I have not got opportunity to study the reportâ€, said ONGC’s Tripura Asset Manager VP Mahawar here today. | 07-Jun-2014 |
| Palatana back into action, yet state sta | Agartala, June 7 (TIWN): Even after the Project Guarantee Test (PGT) of the plant and switching on the Palatana thermal power unit-I, power crisis in the state has worsened along with the boosting demand of power. The power-starved north-eastern region has been hit by a severe electricity crisis. | 07-Jun-2014 |
| Terminated teachers start hunt for new j | Agartala, June 7 (TIWN): Failing to keep faith on the assurances of leaders and ministers, most among the terminated teachers have started hunt for new job. Besides, applying in other departments, they have resorted to take higher education. | 07-Jun-2014 |
| Boys outshine girls in top-ten in Higher | Agartala, June 7 (TIWN): Tripura Board of Secondary Education announced the results of Higher Secondary Examinations including Madrasa Fazil (Arts and Theology), this morning. The president of TBSE- Amitava Debroy declared the results in a press conference at board office, this morning. | 07-Jun-2014 |
| Bru refugee reparation to begin on June | Agartala, June 6 (TIWN): To push the repatriation of Reang refugees, a three-member team of Mizoram government headed by the Joint Secretary, Home Department today held meeting with District Magistrate, North district Sanjeeb K Rathod and sought logistic and security related support from the local administration. | 06-Jun-2014 |
| SEC convenes all party on June 11, admin | AGARTALA, June 6(TIWN): State Election Commissioner Y. Kumar today said an all-party meeting would be held here on June 11 to discuss the 'preparedness' of the panchayat elections, schedule to be held in July. Interacting with TIWN, Mr. Kumar informed that he would hold a meeting with the top brass of the district and block administration on June 8 (Sunday) to review the overall preparedness with regard to the panchayat polls. | 06-Jun-2014 |
| Transferred teachers violate orders | Agartala, June 6 (TIWN): The teachers and clerks who were transferred to ADC schools ahead of Lok Sabha polls have not yet joined the schools and they remain untraced. | 06-Jun-2014 |
| Two bodies recovered | Agartala, June 6 (TIWN): Two bodies were recovered including one unidentified newly born baby from two different places under Sedhai police station, today. | 06-Jun-2014 |
| Bangladesh to take back tribal refugees | Agartala, June 6 (IANS) Bangladesh has agreed to take back over 350 of its tribals who have been sheltering in the Indian state of Tripura since Monday following ethnic strife in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), an official said Friday. | 06-Jun-2014 |
| Two persons dead, nine injured as BSF ja | AGARTALA , June 6, Friday Night 11.45pm (TIWN): In a horrifying incident, two persons died while nine villagers were injured when BSF jawans opened fire indiscriminately at Dakshin Ramnagar, near Akhaura just 2 km from the capital town tonight triggering panic. Two deceased persons have been identified as Sandip Kumar, a BSF jawan and Ismaile Miah, an elderly villager. | 06-Jun-2014 |
| TSECL to rope in with NEEPCO | AGARTALA, June 6 (TIWN): Tripura State Electricity Corporation Ltd (TSECL) is contemplating to rope in with the Northeast Electric Power Corporation Ltd (NEEPCO) to enhance the power generation at two gas thermal power plants-Barmura and Rukhia.Currently, the Rukhia gas thermal plant has been producing 62 MW while the NEC sponsored Barmura gas thermal power project has been generating 42 MW power daily. | 06-Jun-2014 |
| Another CNG station to come up in Tripur | Agartala, June 6 (TIWN): Transport Minister Manik Dey would open the fourth CNG station at Bramhabari, Udaipur on Monday. | 06-Jun-2014 |
| Minister releases book on bee-farming | Agartala, June 6 (TIWN): Tripura Khadi and Village Industries Board today released a ‘Mou-Katha’ book on bee-keeping at the board office premises. The cover of the book was unveiled by the Minister for Industries Department- Tapan Chakraborty. | 06-Jun-2014 |
| Tripura to file petition at Supreme Cour | AGARTALA, June 6 (TIWN): In a face saving move after 4 member Govt team led by Law Secretary Data Mohan Jamatia returned empty-handed from New Delhi, Tripura will file Special Leave Petition (SLP) challenging the verdict of the High Court of Tripura which cancelled the recruitment process of 10,323 Graduate, Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate Teachers within August 05, 2014. | 07-Jun-2014 |
| Manarchak: Work in full swing to compl | AGARTALA, June 6 (TIWN):EIL engineers will arrive soon to provide technical assistance to local contractors to complete the unfinished work of gas pipe line for supplying gas to Manarchak power plant , said V. P. Mahawar Asset Manager of ONGC, Tripura Asset. He told TIWN on Friday that ONGC has memorandum of understanding (MOU) with EIL’s expertise spanning the complete range of services for offshore projects such as well head platforms, process and gas compression platforms, water injection & gas lift platforms and submarine pipelines.The NEEPCO has invested Rs. 623 crore to set up 101 MW power project at Monarchak. | 07-Jun-2014 |
| Udaipur – Sabroom double laning, | AGARTALA, June 6 (TIWN): Union Ministry of Surface Transport and Highway had finalized the tender of widening of NH -44 for double lane from Udaipur to Sabroom, said PWD sources adding that the tender for Agartala – Udaipur road will be floated soon. | 06-Jun-2014 |
| Tripura School Education minister snobs | Agartala, June 6 (TIWN): Tripura School Education minister Tapan Chakraborty today snobbed demands of regularization of contract teachers inducted under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Rashtriya Madhyamik Siksha Abhiyan (RMSA) in the state and said that the government didn’t contribute to Uniform Cadre Policy mandated by the National Executive Committee of MHRD earlier this year. | 06-Jun-2014 |
| Sabroom: Mentally disabled woman raped, | Sabroom, June 6 (TIWN) : In a case of horrendous crime against woman, a mentally impaired woman was gang raped, burnt to death at Harina Bazar,Sabroom on Thursday night 12.30pm midnight. Beside NH44 in Harina Bazar, adjacent to a door of a community hall, woman was gang raped, burnt to death by miscreants. Later after arrival of police and victim’s son Mridul Kanti Deb, woman was identified as Mrs Alorani Deb, her semi-burnt body was tied up and hanging off the grills of community hall window. | 06-Jun-2014 |
| Bangla refugee repatriation likely on Fr | AGARTALA, June 5 (TIWN): The repatriation of Bangladeshi nationals who had recently entered border areas of Dhalai district is expected to begin tomorrow in the presence of Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB), Dhalai District Magistrate Milind K Ramteke said today. | 06-Jun-2014 |
| Tripura School Education Minister angry | AGARTALA, June 5 (TIWN): Madhyamik results declared today by the Tripura Board of Secondary Education could have been better; we provided standard and good infrastructure in schools across the state, Tripura School Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty said here today.Interacting with the media at civil secretariat here today, the minister visibly disapproved average results of Madhyamik examination conducted by the TBSE and said the results could have been much better. | 06-Jun-2014 |
| Panchayat polls: SEC to review security | AGARTALA, June 5 (TIWN): Ahead of panchayat elections in the state schedule to hold on July, the state election commission (SEC) will review law and order and likely poll arrangements in a meeting with Chief Secretary, DGP and IGPs tomorrow at secretariat. | 05-Jun-2014 |
| Extremist arrested after 14 yrs in Nutan | UDAIPUR,June 5(TIWN) : Tipped by some authentic sources, Nutan Bazar Police Station led by IPS, Probationer (attached to Police Station) Sudipta Das , arrested a most wanted extremist namely Biraj Moni Jamatia from a hiding place in Shib Kumar Para area under Nutan Bazar Police Station early in the morning. | 05-Jun-2014 |
| Tripura minister lays stress on periodic | Agartala, June 5 (TIWN): The Department of School Education today laid stress on periodic inspection in schools by Inspector of Schools to ensure proper implementation of flagship schemes like the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA). | 05-Jun-2014 |
| Major promotion in police ahead of polls | Agartala, June 5 (TIWN) : A total of 23 Sub Inspectors of un-armed branch (Men) were promoted to the rank of Inspector while 7 Sub inspectors of armed branch (Men) were promoted to Inspector posts (under group-B-gazetted, non-ministerial), in an order issued by the office of the Director General of police (DHP), this evening. They have been placed against overall vacancy in Tripura Police Organisation. | 05-Jun-2014 |
| Action likely against zero pass schools, | Agartala, June 5 (TIWN): Minister for Education Tapan Chakrborty on Thursday expressed unhappiness on results of Madhyamik examination conducted by the Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) | 05-Jun-2014 |
| Fare Hike: Ratan for tripartite meeting | Agartala, June 5 (TIWN): Putting the blame on the state government over the tension centering over fare hike, former opposition leader Ratan Lal Nath today demanded to have a tripartite meeting to break the ice. | 05-Jun-2014 |
| TBJEE announces Joint Entrance results | Agartala, June 5 (TIWN): Tripura Board of Joint Entrance Examination (TBJEE) announced its results at 5 pm, at TBJEE office premises, this evening. In a press conference the Chairman of TBJEE- Dr. S Chakraborty declared the results of Tripura Joint Entrance Examinations. | 05-Jun-2014 |
| BSF recovers 40,100 bottles of Phensedyl | Agartala, June 5 (TIWN): In a joint raid operation, BSF and DRI recovered 40,100 bottles of Phensedyl from a mango loaded TATA truck at Teliamura market on NH-44, today. | 05-Jun-2014 |
| Tripura State Election Commission publis | AGARTALA, June 5 (TIWN): The Tripura State Election Commission (SEC) on Thursday published final voters’ list for the coming three-tier Panchayat election.Asked about latest situation of the electoral rolls, State Election Commissioner Yatendra Kumar said that preliminary data suggests that voter figures in the final rolls rest at 11 lakh 8 thousand 148 with a minor rise of 1,328 from the draft rolls published earlier in May. The draft list had 11 lakh 6,820 voters enrolled, slightly above the figures in final voters’ list of 2009 panchayat election. The figures are subject to minor change after final input arrives from all Block Development Officers (BDO) later in the evening, Kumar added. | 06-Jun-2014 |
| Madhyamik Results: NSV, Sishu Bihar shin | Agartala, June 5 (TIWN): The dominance of city based schools continues as students of Netaji Subhash Vidyaniketan and Sishu Bihar have bagged eight positions in the top-ten elite list in the this year’s Madhyamik examination results. | 05-Jun-2014 |
| Boys outshine girls in Tripura exams | AGARTALA, June 5 (TIWN): While there was a marginal improvement in performance, there was 1 percent decrease in the number of students who appeared for the Madhyamik (Class X) examinations of the Tripura Board of Secondary Education as was revealed when the results were announced here on Thursday. | 05-Jun-2014 |
| Merit list: Capital schools dominates in | AGARTALA, June 5 (TIWN): In the top ten merit list yet again Agartala schools dominated and only two sub division schools secured position in the merit list. This year all top ten merit list holders got ‘letter of distinction in all seven subjects’ | 05-Jun-2014 |
| India in touch with Bangladesh over trib | Agartala, June 5 (IANS) India is in touch with Bangladesh over the influx of more than 350 tribals into Tripura after ethnic strife broke out in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of that neighbouring country, an official said here Thursday. | 05-Jun-2014 |
| CM in Delhi to attend PB meeting | Agartala, June 5 (TIWN): Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today left for Delhi to attend CPM politburo meeting scheduled to be held tomorrow, party sources confirmed here today. | 05-Jun-2014 |
| Cabinet skips DA for employees | AGARTALA, June 4 (TIWN): Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today ruled out rumors of Dearness Allowance (DA) sanction from the cabinet. No such decisions were taken at meeting of the state cabinet held today, he said. | 04-Jun-2014 |
| Govt in a fix over next Chief Secretary | AGARTALA, June 4 (TIWN): With Chief Secretary SK Panda contemplating to leave the state on central deputation, the state government is in a fix to pick up a right candidate for the coveted post. | 04-Jun-2014 |
| Govt has informed centre about influx of | AGARTALA, June 4 (TIWN): Due to absence of barbed fencing along eastern border of the state Bangladeshi tribal’s have entered Tripura seeking refuge after ethnic violence erupted in their country, said Chief Minister Manik Sarkar while addressing a press meet on Wednesday at secretariat. | 04-Jun-2014 |
| CM blames MHA weakness in addressing fen | AGARTALA, June 4 (TIWN): Weakness of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to address issues relating to barbed wire fencing in the Indo-Bangla international border in Tripura resulted in repeated infiltrations, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here today.“Fencing construction agencies declined to construct fence at the common rate. We have approached the Ministry of Home Affairs to revise the rate but weakness of MHA to address the issue has led to repeated incidents of infiltrationsâ€, Sarkar said. | 05-Jun-2014 |
| ISI connected to arms deposit recovered | AGARTALA, June 4 (TIWN): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today said that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) had connection with the massive arms deposit recovered by RAB in Satcherri of Bangladesh on Tuesday.Speaking to reporters at the civil secretariat here today, the CM said that the base inside jungles of Satcherri under Habiganj district of Bangaldesh, where the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered over 200 rocket launchers among other heavy armaments, previously used to be base of the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF). | 05-Jun-2014 |
| Tripura cabinet introduces new healthcar | AGARTALA, June 4 (TIWN): The state cabinet on Wednesday gave nod to a new healthcare assistance scheme for people from the poor section. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today announced the Tripura Health Assistance Scheme for the Poor at the civil secretariat and said the scheme was designed as a unique scheme to assist high-end healthcare requirements of poor families. Benefits of the scheme would be extended to a maximum of three thousand patients every year, Sarkar said. | 05-Jun-2014 |
| TMSU members clash at Udaipur, stall lon | UDAIPUR, June 4 (TIWN): Transport ruckus shaped into new trouble on Wednesday as long range commercial bus service was entirely stalled in Agartala-Udaipur and Agartala-Sabroom route till late afternoon. Few buses operated by the Tripura Road Transport Corporation (TRTC) plied in both routes since this morning, resulting in steep downfall of passenger figures. The situation returned to normal only after the local administration intervened in the afternoon. | 04-Jun-2014 |
| Fresh Influx : BSF calls flag meeting wi | AGARTALA, June 4 (TIWN): In the wake of unrest at Bangladesh’s Khagracherri district, around 90 Bangladeshi families have crossed over the unfenced Indo-Bangla border and taken shelter at Tuichakma in Dhalai district, official sources confirmed here today.The families- mostly Chakma and Tripuri ethnic tribes are resident of Naraicheeri, Dakshin Baghaihaat, North Baghaihaat and Dewanpara in Khagracherri district of Bangladesh.Tension runs high at Khagracherri in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) following skirmish between United Democratic Front (UDF) and Bangladesh Border Guards (BGB) which has prompted the Bangla nationals to take shelter in Indian soil. | 05-Jun-2014 |
| Agartala-Akhaura rail project : Third me | Agartala, June 4 (TIWN): The third meeting of Project Steering Committee (PSC) for the Agartala-Akhaura railway project would be held at Agartala from June 17. The two day meeting is slated to discuss next course of action after the ongoing land demarcation and land acquisition for the project on both sides of the border is over, official sources said. | 04-Jun-2014 |
| West district to hold Lok Adalat on June | Agartala, June 4 (TIWN): Lok Adalat will be held on June 9 and 10 for resolving disputes relating to revenue and bank, said Abhishek Singh, District Magistrate and Collector of west Tripura. He said around 350 pending cases of three sub division – Mohanpur, Jirania and Sadar will likely to be resolved during two days of Lok Adalat which will held at west district office. | 04-Jun-2014 |
| 10,323 teachers’ termination : Go | Agartala, June 4 (TIWN): The mute role of state government regarding the continuation of jobs of 10,323 teachers which the High Court cancelled is increasing resentment gradually among the teachers. Even after the decision to submit leave petition in Supreme Court, the government is not taking any step that has raised questions among the party supporters. | 04-Jun-2014 |
| World Environment Day to be celebrated | Agartala, June 4 (TIWN): Tripura is slated to observe the World Environment Day (WED) on June 5. A series of sensitization and community participation programmes would be held as a part of the observance at Agartala on the day, official sources said. | 04-Jun-2014 |