Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
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| Traditional Kharchi Puja begins, securit | Agartala, July 5 (TIWN): Amid tight security, 7-day long traditional Kharchi Puja began this morning and it would continue till July 11 at the iconic Chaturdasha Devta temple premises in Khayerpur, outskirts of Agartala. To mark the occasion a large fair would also organized on the occasion at the temple premises from today. | 05-Jul-2014 |
| Techno India Group announces launch of e | AGARTALA, July 5 (TIWN): The Techno India Group today announced launch of under-graduate courses at its upcoming Maheshkhola campus starting next month. Addressing the media at Agartala Press Club here this afternoon, Director designate of the institute Professor Tarit Kumar Majumder said that the state government arranged 2 acre land for the new technical institute. | 05-Jul-2014 |
| Violation of recruitment procedure, Appo | AGARTALA, July 5 (TIWN): To evade any legal action and court case, 4 faculties were appointed in the College of Agriculture without appointment letter violating recruitment procedure. The faculties hailing from outside the state were appointed only on the basis of offer. In absence of the Principle of College of Agriculture, Arun Debbarma, Joint Director of Department of Agriculture who remained in charge of the college as O.S.D was allegedly involved in the illegal appointment of the 4 faculties. | 05-Jul-2014 |
| Government craving to put Jute Mill unde | AGARTALA, July 5 (TIWN): Government is taking a grab of the land owned by Jute Mill and taking initiative to put Jute Mill under lock, alleged Jute Mill Karmachari Mancha. General Secretary of Jute Mill Karmachari Mancha Pabindra Sukla Baidya and former MLA Nakul Das raised the allegations. They stated that once the Jute Mill used to acquire a land of 72 acre. Few parts out of the 72 acre land were given to By-pass, Amtali Police Station, International Fair Ground and NGO. | 05-Jul-2014 |
| Security forces, copter in service to cu | Agartala, July 5 (IANS) Central paramilitary and state forces, along with health workers, have fanned out in Tripura while a helicopter has also beeen pressed into service to control malaria. | 05-Jul-2014 |
| Congress meets State Election Commission | AGARTALA, July 4 (TIWN): A five-member delegation of the Tripura Pradesh Congress on Friday met State Election Commissioner Yatendra Kumar and sought Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) for poll duty in the coming three-tier Panchayat election.The delegation led by Opposition leader Sudip Roy Barman comprised of MLA Gopal Chandra Roy, MLA Jiten Sarkar, Balai Goswami and PCC spokesperson Prabir Chakraborty. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| TCS officers fuming over IAS nomination | AGARTALA, July 4 (TIWN): Tripura Civil Service (TCS) officials are fuming over the Left Front government’s initiative of providing IAS nomination to one cadre service officer and two non-cadre officers, sources said.To fill up three IAS vacant posts during 2014, the state government has initiated an administrative process to prepare a list of potential candidates. In course of the exercise, Dr. Manash Deb, a TCS officer, who had to face eight vigilance probes for his corrupt practices, appeared to be front runner for this year IAS nomination. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| NH-44 resumes operation | Agartala, July 4 (TIWN): The National Highway 44 on Friday became functional after total disruption of vehicular movement for the past 48 hours. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| 750 bottles Phensidyle and 60 litres ill | Sonamura, July 4 (TIWN): In a joint anti-drug raid operation, Jawans 29 Bn BSF Kulubari BOP, customs department and local police led by the Sub Divisional Magistrate, Sonamura- Subhasis Das, recovered 750 bottles Phensidyle and 66 litres illegal kerosene oil from room no 8, 19 and 13 of Sonamura bazar, today. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| Woman convicted for killing her sister-i | UDAIPUR, July 4 (TIWN): District & Session Judge Asish Pal on Friday convicted a woman for her alleged involvement in the murder of her sister-in-law by setting fire on her body at dawn(at 3.30am) on 1st June 2011. The incident took place in Mirza under Kakraban Police Station where one Sefali Ghanta forcibly set fire on Saraswati Debnath(Ghanta) , W/O- Mantush Ghanta . Sefali and Saraswati were sisters-in-law. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| Congress, BJP and TMC to make a mark | Agartala, July 4 (TIWN): With the upcoming Panchayat poll to be held on July 15, the opposition parties- Congress, BJP and Trinamool Congress have formed a common stage to make a mark in the three –tier Panchayat elections in Kumarghat subdivision. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| Panchayat poll: Political parties start | Agartala, July 4 (TIWN): With the Panchayat poll drawing nearby, election campaign gained ground in 34 Panchayats under Salema and Durga Chowmuhani block of Kamalpur. Political parties are hectic with organizing door to door campaign. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| Tripura Congress meets State Election Co | AGARTALA, July 4 (TIWN) A five-member delegation of the Tripura Pradesh Congress on Friday met State Election Commissioner Yatendra Kumar and sought Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) for poll duty in the coming three-tier Panchayat election. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| Tripura seeks 3 months PDS buffer stock | AGARTALA, July 4 (TIWN): Tripura today sought at least three months’ buffer stock of commodities distributed through the Public Distribution System (PDS) from the Union Ministry for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution before Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) authorities totally stalled rail connectivity with the state for upgrading connectivity in Silchar-Agartala route to broad-gauge. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| Air dropping of medicines, doctors start | Agartala, July 4 (TIWN): Air dropping of doctors and anti-malaria drugs in distant areas of Tuipuibari and Gobindabari in Dhalai district started today. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| Land acquisition, alignment complete fo | AGARTALA, July 4 (TIWN): Alignment for double laning in the National Highway 44 in Udaipur-Sabroom route is complete, Engineer-in-Chief of the state Public Works Department Sunil Bhowmik said here today. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| Tripura cut-off by road from rest of cou | Agartala, July 4 (IANS) The land-locked Tripura was cut-off from the rest of the country by road as a large portion of National Highway-44 (NH-44) was damaged in Assam due to the rains, a minister said here Friday. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| Five including BSF jawan injured in clas | Agartala, July 4 (TIWN): At least five persons including a BSF jawan were injured when a BSF team challenged smugglers at Rahimpur under Kalamchoura police station this morning. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| AMC starts anti mosquito spray | Agartala, July 4 (TIWN): The Agartala Municipal Corporation started spraying of anti-malaria medicines in all 35 wards of the corporation area to combat any possibilites of outbreak in the city area. Malaria positive reports recently came from areas as close to the city as Jirania, Mohanpur etc. Malaria infected patiets are currently being treated at the GB Hospital. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| BSD, JD(U) jointly submits memorandum to | Agartala, July 4 (TIWN): Bahujan Samajwadi Dal (BSD) and Janata Dal-U (JDU) today jointly visited and submitted a memorandum to the new Tripura Governor- Vakkom B. Purushothaman at Raj Bhawan concerning over some emergence issues in the state. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| TCS officers fuming over IAS nomination | Agartala, July 3 (TIWN): Tripura Civil Service (TCS) officials are fuming over the Left Front government’s initiative of providing IAS nomination to one cadre service officer and two non-cadre officers, sources said. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| UNIT-2 of OTPC likely to start operation | UDAIPUR, July 4 (TIWN): In a new development to the OTPC's 726.6MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) Thermal Power Plant the unit-II is likely to be operational by the 1st week of August. And once the operation begins it will take almost a month before power generation starts from the Unit-II, said a top level OTPC official to TIWN over phone on Thursday night. The Unit-I is now going through its full-fledged generation. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| N-Nigricans turtles- foreign experts sub | UDAIPUR, July 4 (TIWN): Major steps are likely to be taken to save the N-Nigricans turtles soon after the completion of the three-tier Panchayat election, confirmed a high level TIWN source on Thursday night. It is learnt that the foreign experts [namely Peter Praschag, Director, Turtle Research and Conservation, Austria, Mercy Vaughan(turtle expert), Thad Stewart(Construction Engineer cum Environmentalist) Shannon DiRuzzo(turtle expert) - all from USA along with India Environmentalist Rupali Ghosh ,who came to Matabari on 11th of June to have a practical view of the ongoing situation of the rare species N-Nigricans turtles found in Kalyan Sagar, submitted their observatory reports to the Forest Department, Govt of Tripura. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| Food officer detained for asking bribe f | Udaipur, July 3 (TIWN): A shop-keeper handed over an officer of health department to the police for allegedly asking bribe at Jamjuri bazar of Udaipur in Tripura, here today. | 03-Jul-2014 |
| NH 44 stalls, 40 mt patch develops depre | AGARTALA, July 3 (TIWN): National Highway 44, usually described as the lifeline of Tripura, was stalled as a patch of 40 mt of the Highway ‘sunk’ or developed depressions due to still-unknown geological reasons, Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department (PWD) Sunil Bhowmik said here today. Speaking to reporters at the civil secretariat, the official said that the depression in the National Highway was found in Lowerpua area in Assam, around 3 Km northward from Churaibari. | 03-Jul-2014 |
| Tripura seeks full GST compensation | AGARTALA, July 3 (TIWN): Tripura today sought full Goods and Services compensation for at least five years from the date of implementation of GST as given to the states in VAT regime.Finance Minister Bhanulal Saha on Thursday placed the demand of appropriate compensation at par with the projected growth in VAT revenues at a meeting of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley with Finance Ministers of states held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi today. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| Tripura reiterates demand of central for | AGARTALA, July 3 (TIWN): The State government today reiterated the demand of central forces for the coming three-tier Panchayat election with the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Resident Commissioner of Tripura Bhawan, New Delhi, had a meeting with the Joint Secretary of MHA. Sources inside the Home Department said that the Joint Secretary was almost convinced with the demand to release at least 17 training companies of the Border Security Forces (BSF) for election duty in the state. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| Congress announces statewide agitation o | AGARTALA, July 3 (TWIN): The Tripura Pradesh Congress on Thursday announced a statewide agitation on July 07 demanding official announcement of health disaster and said that the state government was misguiding the state over the malaria outbreak that killed 59 till Wednesday. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| One more killed in malaria epidemic, dea | AGARTALA, July 3 (TWIN): One more child was reported dead from malaria on Thursday raising the cumulative death toll to 60. Over 1,400 patients were freshly diagnosed with malaria parasite across the state today. The final figures of malaria infected population crossed 20 thousand today, an official communiqué from the Health Department said. | 04-Jul-2014 |
| Centuries-old puja transforms Tripura's | Puran Habeli (Tripura), July 3 (IANS) Colourful marquees, illuminations, religious rites and the chanting of 'mantras' amid the beating of drums will turn Puran Habeli, the erstwhile capital of Tripura around 12 km east of present capital Agartala, into a divine dreamland during the centuries-old Kharchi festival that begins Saturday - a spectacle that will be witnessed by hundreds of thousands of devotees from India and abroad. | 03-Jul-2014 |
| Tripura seeks anti malaria drug assistan | AGARTALA, July 3 (TIWN): Tripura Health Minister Badal Choudhury on Wednesday wrote to Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Varhan seeking central assistance for more critical malaria treatment drugs. Speaking to reporters at the civil secretariat, the minister said that a letter was written to the Union Health Minister for approving second generation anti-malaria drugs for Tripura. | 03-Jul-2014 |
| Malaria: Chopper to be pressed into serv | AGARTALA, July 3 (TIWN): With the deadly disease- malaria spreading in newer areas, the North and Dhalai district administrations have decided to press chopper into service to tackle the situation in far-flung areas, official sources confirmed today. Keeping in mind of prevailing situation in some tribal hamlets, the district administration has decided to send special medical team to some ‘vulnerable’ hamlets, said DM, North Sanjiv K Rathod over telephone from Dharmanagar today. | 03-Jul-2014 |
| AMC anxious at spiking solid waste gener | AGARTALA, July 2 (TIWN): The Agartala Municipal Corporation is expecting to operationalize its first solid waste plant at Debendra Chandra Nagar in the outskirts of the city by the end of July, a highly placed official in the Corporation said here today. | 03-Jul-2014 |
| Panchayat: CM starts campaign on July 5 | AGARTALA, July 3 (TIWN): Chief Minister Manik Sarkar would kick start Left Front’s campaign trail for the three-tier panchayat elections from Charilam in Bishalgarh subdivision, according to party sources. | 03-Jul-2014 |
| DM Dhalai directs to deposit fire-arms | Agartala, July 3 (TIWN): To make the three-tier Panchayat election violence free in Tripura, the District Magistrate (DM) of Dhalai district- Dr Milind Ramteke in an order directed to deposit the licensed fire arms to avoid any kind of violence pre-election and during the forthcoming three-tier Panchayat polls. | 03-Jul-2014 |
| Irregularity in power substation constru | Agartala, July 3 (TIWN): Centering round the irregularities in construction of 33 KV substation of Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limited (TSECL), allegations were raised against the CMD of TSECL and concerned AGM. | 03-Jul-2014 |
| AIMSS criticizes statement of TMC MP CPI | Agartala, July 3 (TIWN): The All India Committee of All India Mahila Sanskritik Sangathan condemned the statement of Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul as reported by the media, wherein he has threatened to shoot down his political opponents and called upon his boys to rape the CPI (M) workers, if anything happens to their mothers or sisters or his political workers by CPI (M) party workers. | 03-Jul-2014 |
| Health Department contemplates to includ | AGARTALA, July 2 (TIWN): The state Health Department is considering to include Patient Party Management as a subject in the MBBS curriculum of Agartala Government Medical College (AGMC) and the Tripura Medical College (TMC) as a part of the initiative to build congenial relation with relatives of patients undergoing treatment. | 03-Jul-2014 |
| SEC reiterates issue of central force fo | AGARTALA, July 02: State Election Commissioner Yatendra Kumar on Wednesday reiterated the demand of central forces for the coming three-tier Panchayat election with the state Home Department and sought 17 training companies of the Border Security Forces (BSF) stationed in Tripura at the least for election duty. | 03-Jul-2014 |
| 68 percent students pass in Tripura Univ | Agartala, July 02: The Tripura University on Wednesday announced results of under-graduate courses including distance education under the 1+1+1 system with an average of 68.29 percent pass percentage in Humanities, Commerce and Science streams. The aggregate included honours and general degree courses from all three streams, an official communiqué from the University said here today. | 02-Jul-2014 |
| Sudip calls people to vote for Cong | Agartala, July 2 (TIWN): With barely two weeks to go for the three-tier Panchayat elections, opposition leader Sudip Roy Barman today visited Belonia Congress Bhavan and held meeting with senior party leaders on the party’s preparation for the ensuing polls. | 02-Jul-2014 |
| International doctors to check malaria o | Agartala, July 3 (IANS) Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), an independent international medical humanitarian organisation, has extended its help to control the outbreak of malaria in Tripura, where over 60 people have died due to the disease and thousands have fallen ill in the past one month, an official said here Thursday. | 03-Jul-2014 |
| Trinamool Congress stages protest rally | Agartala, July 2 (TIWN): Ahead of three-tier Panchayat election, Tripura Trinamool Congress supporters conducted a protest rally against the Centre and state government in Agartala, here today. The rally started from the Agartala Press Club and traversed different city roads. | 02-Jul-2014 |
| Two more killed in malaria epidemic, dea | AGARTALA, July 2 (TIWN): Two more were killed across the state in henmalaria epidemic on Wednesday, raising the death toll to 59.Out of 9,136 patients who underwent blood tests across the state today, 1,435 were confirmed to have contacted malaria. The final figures of infected population was found to have crossed 17,121, Healh Minister Badal Choudhury said here today. Speaking to reporters at the civil secretariat here this evening, the minister said that John Philip Reang (2) from Joymanipara of Kanchanpur and Anjali Reang (15) from Hamsapara of Khedacherra in North Tripura district were reported to have died from malaria on Wednesday. | 03-Jul-2014 |
| Decks ready to celebrate traditional Kha | AGARTALA, July 2 (TIWN): The 7-day long traditional festival Kharchi Puja will start on July 5 and would continue till July 11 at the iconic Chaturdasha Devta temple premises in Khayerpur, outskirts of Agartala. | 02-Jul-2014 |
| Cops in hectic process to enhance convic | AGARTALA, July 2 (TWIN): Dogged by the sharp criticism, the police have initiated various measures to increase the conviction rate in the state. While the conviction rate at the national level stands at 38-40 percent, the CBI handled cases have 60 percent conviction rate and the figure here is horrible- only 18 percent. To improve the conviction rate, the police have already taken some steps to address the problems.“We have stated collecting court verdicts on different cases for examining what went wrong leading to acquittal of rapists or killers. If we find somehow the accused person or persons has/have got acquitted from serious charges even after sufficient evidences against him/ them, we will appeal in the higher court for review the judgment/ judgmentsâ€, said a senior police officer on condition of anonymity. | 02-Jul-2014 |
| Panchayat Polls: Cong, BJP, TMC join han | AGARTALA, July 2 (TIWN): Sidelining the national level political compulsion, the opposition parties- Congress, BJP and Trinamool Congress have formed a common platform to make a mark in the three-tier panchayat elections in Kumar subdivision. As part of mutual understanding, three political parties have ‘jointly’ fielded candidates to retain and capture some Gram Panchayats under Kumarghat RD Block. | 02-Jul-2014 |
| TUEP to start avenue and roadside planta | AGARTALA, July 2 (TIWN): The Tripura Urban Employment Programme (TUEP) is expected to initiate avenue plantations and institutional plantations in city areas among other projects this financial year, a highly placed source in the Department for Urban Development said here today. | 02-Jul-2014 |
| Doctors' Day : Low turnout irks CM | AGARTALA, July 1 (TIWN): Coming down heavily on thin turnout of doctors in the Doctors' Day function, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today said only good human being could deliver the best service to the patients as physicians."The low turnout of doctors shows where we have stood today. If you go around the capital town you will find that almost all private clinics are opened and doctors are busy with patients in their private clinics. Now, the time has come to undergo self introspection", he said."If doctors don't turn up to such on Doctors' Day, what is the purpose of organizing such programme? We must self introspect on whether we are discharging our duties or not", he said. | 02-Jul-2014 |
| SFI, TSU jointly launched 8-day long soc | Agartala, July 1 (TIWN): Ahead of three-tier Panchayat election, to mark the 25th Martyr Day of former SFI state committee member- Arun Deb, Students’ Federation of India (SFI) and Twipra Students’ Union (TSU) today jointly launched 8-day long state wide organisational and social programmes across the state. The Martyr Arun Deb was recalled across the state, today. | 01-Jul-2014 |