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Agartala gears up for Durga Puja | AGARTALA, September 18 (TIWN): Puja Pandals are busy round the clock to complete decoration, finishing touches. To create a magnificent experience for Durga Puja pandal hoppers of the state this year Sanghati Club at Sankar Chowmuhani will depict a kalpanic mandir decorated with glass. | 18-Sep-2014 |
Clash between two communities : Tensed s | AGARTALA, September 18 (TIWN): Clash between Hindu and Muslim communities created a tensed atmosphere at Bishalgarh’s Ragunathpur Munsibari under Sepahijala District. Five persons got injured. Police and TSR Jawans covered the whole area.Local Police Sources informed that on Thursday morning for the upcoming Durga Puja, Hindu Community people started building Puja Pandal at MunshiBari Idga Field. At that local Muslims tried to disrupt them. Argument and counter argument started and a time occurred when two communities involved in clash. As a result 5 people got seriously injured and were shifted to Bishalgarh hospital. | 19-Sep-2014 |
CM devises Internal Assessment Cell for | AGARTALA, September 17 (TIWN): The union government’s education policy will do nothing but protect the interest the capitalists of the country. “This will pave the way for the capitalists to get workers at cheap rateâ€, remarked Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, today, while speaking in the General Body meeting of the Sarva Siksha Aviyan’s (SSA) state mission at state Secretariat. | 17-Sep-2014 |
SFI-NSUI fight: FIR filed against 26 stu | AGARTALA, September 17 (TIWN): The aftermath of the yesterday’s SFI-NSUI tussle has made the National Students Union of India’s (NSUI) state President Bapi Das lodge FIR against leftist student wing Student Federation of India’s (SFI) eight activists. | 17-Sep-2014 |
Police investigation on Education Depart | AGARTALA, September 17 (TIWN): "Arrest of School Education Department Cashier made it absolutely clear that the complaints that have been raised time to time by the opposition parties about the looting of Central RMSA funds by the organized corruption are absolutely true. Even many news items published about many scams and now it is the responsibility of the State Govt to ensure proper investigation if some amount of transparency is still left. Only a separate investigation committee led by a sitting judge of a High Court can unearth the truth," with these words Trinamool Congress Chairman Ratan Chakraborty slammed the State govt. Ratan Chakraborty added ," Truth should be unveiled. This RMSA scam is a tip of the iceberg." | 18-Sep-2014 |
TUEP puts Govt in a state of self contra | AGARTALA, September 17 (TIWN): Having no farsightedness to utilize the existing resources in an optimum way, the state government is doing the task of lip Service in a well mannered way to befool the people facing financial constraints. No works, worth yielding something good, are there for the government’s ambitious Tripura Urban Employment Programme (TUEP) yet the wages of the TUEP workers have been hiked by the government. The increased wage of Rs. 155, as informed by Minister Bhanu Lal Saha, after a cabinet decision of yesterday, equals the payment of Rural Employment Guarantee Act (REGA).At the initial phase, it was declared that 50 days work would be provided to the unemployed labourers of urban area. In the Financial Year (FY) 2009-10 only 14 days of works were allotted. Singing the song of central government deprivation the government uttered a story that the TUEP project would entail 75 days of works and no funds scarcity would be there. And the song and the story enabled the ruling party top leaders to pass over the Municipal and Nagar Panchayat election. | 18-Sep-2014 |
CM reviews SSA progress, forms special b | Agartala, September 17 (TIWN): In an act of admission of poor quality of education in public schools, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today formed a special committee to monitor quality and effectiveness of education imparted to students in schools. | 18-Sep-2014 |
Tripura to lose its glory as 2nd largest | AGARTALA, September 17 (TIWN): Tripura is going to lose its glory as second largest producer of rubber. Recently the cost price of rubber gradually went down from Rs 150 per kg to 80 per kg. The cultivators were demoralized about earning their livelihood through rubber cultivation. | 17-Sep-2014 |
Construction work for Feni bridge suffer | Agartala, September 17 (TIWN): Construction work of the proposed Indo-Bangla bridge over River Feni is yet to start as the Public Works Department of Tripura repeatedly failed to finalize tender process, official sources said. | 17-Sep-2014 |
Faulty planning of central jail, CAG rep | Agartala, September 17 (TIWN): Faulty planning and arbitrary decision of the state government to abandon the work after completion upto plinth level for recreation hall cum library at the new Central Correctional Home at Bishalgarh resulted in additional useless expenditure of Rs. 1.01 crores, a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India said. | 17-Sep-2014 |
Tripura brings onion, potato under Essen | Agartala, Sep 17 (TIWN / IANS) The Left Front government in Tripura has decided to bring onion and potato under the Essential Commodities Act (ECA), 1955, to check the rise in prices of these two commodities, a minister said here Wednesday. | 17-Sep-2014 |
Multi crore RMSA scam; police raids the | AGARTALA,September 17 (TIWN ) : After the arrest of Cashier Arnab Chakraborty multi-crore RMSA Scam took a new turn as police raided the houses of the then Addl Director of School Education Department Biswarath Debbarma, Addl State Mission Director(RMSA) D K Debbarama and Dy Director cum Branch Officer of RMSA Ambalika Datta. Acting on Arnab Chakraborty's statement regarding the multi-crore RMSA scam, police to took the permission of search warrent from 1st Class Magistrate on Tuesday. 1st Class Magistrate(Court no-4) issued Search Warrant against three officials -the then Addl Director of School Education Department, Addl State Mission Director D K Debbarma and Ambalika Datta the Dy Director cum Branch Officer of RMSA. Accordingly, police made a long raid from 7.30am to 12.30pm. | 17-Sep-2014 |
Tripura celebrates Vishwakarma Puja | AGARTALA, September 17 (TIWN): Alongwith rest of the nation the Biswakarma Puja is being celebrated across the state and specially in capital the spirit of the Biswakarma Puja has turned the day into a holiday as most of the shops, business establishments , government offices , private organizations, media offices and the prime streets of the capital were seen worshiping the god of mechanism Biswakarma. | 17-Sep-2014 |
More weapons found in Satchharhi forest | AGARTALA / DHAKA, September 17 (TIWN / bdnews24):The Rapid Action Battalion has seized them from an area where the base of the now-weakened All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) was located . The Rapid Action Battalion said more weapons have been found from Satchharhi forest in Sylhet’s Habiganj.RAB-9 Srimangal Camp Commanding Officer Mosabbir Hossain said they recovered the weapons from a bunker at the forest’s Tripura Palli. After the latest seizures, Hossain said, the elite force intensified their operation in the area on Wednesday morning to ferret out more weapons that might be concealed there. RAB media spokesperson Wing Commander Mufti Mahmud Khan will provide details at a press briefing in Satchharhi at noon. Earlier, the elite police unit on Sept 2 said they found small weapons and ammunition in a container buried underground in the jungles that falls under Habiganj’s Chunarughat.RAB then said the hardware in the Satchharhi hills were similar to those from the 10-trucks haul and to an earlier arms recovery at Bogra in 2003. | 17-Sep-2014 |
DONER to push for rail link in NE states | NEW DELHI/GUWAHATI (TIWN): Department of North Eastern Region (DoNER) will assist the North Eastern Frontier Railway(NFR) to set up rail connectivity in the north-eastern region with Bangladesh. While divulging the performance of the NDA Govt for the first 100 days DoNER Minister Gen(Retd) VK Singh told," My ministry will help NFR to set up railway connectivity in the region with Bangladesh." | 17-Sep-2014 |
Malaria kills one more, death toll reach | Agartala, September 16 (TIWN): Malaria outbreak continued to escalate with one more reported from the parasite attack at Sabroom in South Tripura district. | 16-Sep-2014 |
CM asks PWD to prepare DPR of Agartala - | AGARTALA, September 16 (TIWN): Quality of works must be ensured in constructing road and other government establishments and facilities, directed Chief Minister Manik Sarkar to the officials and authority concerned. | 16-Sep-2014 |
SFI-NSUI faceoff: Inaction of Police fue | AGARTALA, September 16 (TIWN):Clashes between NSUI and SFI turned the MBB college area into battlefield, today. Three SFI supporters and 5 NSUI supporters got injured. Police and TSR rushed to the spot. The area remains tensed. NSUI and TMCP blockade the road in protest of this incident at Math Choumuhoni.When SFI candidates were heading towards for scrutiny of nomination, NSUI activists were there to obstruct them. In such a situation the Police did not initiate any action to mitigate or control the likely clash.Meanwhile, some of the local shopkeepers and residents complained to TIWN reporters that every year the clash between two students group destroy their properties and stands as threat to their live and homes. “We don’t belong to any community or group, we are the common peopleâ€, shouted one trader. | 17-Sep-2014 |
Police seized 400 liters of country-made | AGARTALA, September 16 (TIWN): Police seized 400 liters of country-made liquor and 159 bottles of foreign liquor at central road here this afternoon. | 16-Sep-2014 |
First Border Haaat Inauguration may dela | Sabroom / Srinagar, September 16 (TIWN): Though there is a huge enthusiasm of whole Srinagar area under South Tripura as the first border 'haat' (market) will be functional at Indo-Bangla boundary at Srinagar in South Tripura - scheduled to be inaugurated in the third week of October to boost bilateral trade, Tripura Industrial Development Corporation (TIDC) officials said. | 16-Sep-2014 |
All Tripura NGOs Association holds sit-i | AGARTALA, September 16 (TIWN): A five hour long sit-in-demonstration was organized by All Tripura NGOs Association against the sentimental decision taken by the Tripura Board of Secondary Education for the madhyamik drop-out S.T. students near Swami Vivekananda ground here this afternoon. | 16-Sep-2014 |
Journey from a Rigging Master to School | AGARTALA,September 17 (TIWN): Even from the very beginning of Arnab Chakraborty's Rs 5 crore RMSA scam questions started to raise about the suspension order against Dy Director Ambalika Datta, who was accused of not following due diligence before giving instruction for procuring books from RMSA funds and also for not attending the audit team . But according to a police official during the preliminary investigation Arnab Chakraborty confessed that he drew money from different bank accounts by forging the signatures of Director, Joint Director, 2 Addl Directors and one Dy Director. A top level police official told TIWN on Tuesday night," Today a special interrogation was done with Arnab in presence on high level officials like Inspector General (Law & Order) Anurag Dhyankar. At present we can't say anything specific as the interrogation is in its early stage. However, we are hopeful that within few days we can bring out the truth.". | 17-Sep-2014 |
Can Assam push BJP's northeastward thrus | KOLKATA, September 16 (TIWN / IANS):From Mamata Banerji in West Bengal to Manik Sarkar in Tripura, not to speak of Assam's hat-trick Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, a host of regional chieftains are under fire in the east and the northeast. This could make the BJP's task of penetrating the region much easier than what many would imagine. | 17-Sep-2014 |
No state reservation policy for central | AGARTALA, September 16 (TIWN):Government of Tripura, once again, has faced a setback when the High Court of Tripura (HC) in a recent judgment declared that the medical seats (MBBS) allotted under central pool are to be awarded following the central reservation policy. 5 seats were allotted this year, to the state under the central pool. As the state government resorted to distribute the sears according to state’s own reservation policy, a student named Olivia Dasgupta (5th rank holder in PCB group) filed a writ petition in HC.The division bench of Chief Justice Deepak Gupta and S.C.Das in the final verdict pronounced yesterday, stated that no state reservation policy can be followed. The bench further made it clear that out of five central allotted seats four seats will go to Unreserved (UR) category and one will be reserved for Schedule Caste (SC) students. | 16-Sep-2014 |
RMSA/Education Department scam: Arnab us | AGARTALA, September 16 (TIWN): More secrets have been unearthed while investigating the biggest ever scam of Education Department in Tripura. Accused cashier Arnab Chakraborty successfully used fake marksheet of Madhyamik Examination for getting the Government Job. It is to be mentioned here that after the death of Arnab’s father he got the job through die-in-harness consideration, apart from the backing of a Minister. But in order to acquire this job, a Madhyamik Certificate was an absolute necessity. Arnab had no such certificate. In the meantime, he came in contact with another fraudster Rajiv Dasgupta. With the help of Rajiv, he arranged a false marksheet as well as a computer operator certificate. It also came under notice that with the help of his relative he also got the certificate by local MLA. However, Arnab Chakraborty did not have minimum qualification for the aforesaid post. | 16-Sep-2014 |
Unique initiative for disaster awareness | Agartala, September 16 (TIWN): The state disaster management authority is planning a unique move to promote awareness on disaster management in Tripura. Five animated books on stories for sensitization and awareness generation would be inaugurated at a state level workshop on flood and earthquake scheduled to be held on September 19 at the Rabindra Shatabarshiki Bhawan here, Revenue Secretary Swapan Saha said. | 16-Sep-2014 |
JICA workers living in sheer uncertainty | AGARTALA, September 16: Despite of disbursement of huge corpus of fund by the overseas funding agency for the socioeconomic development of the weaker sections of the society, nothing worthwhile is being taken place. Tripura Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Project, which he aims and objectives of the include restoration of degraded forests and to provide sustainable livelihoods to the forest dependent communities through Joint Forest Management Committees, is funded by Japan. | 16-Sep-2014 |
Riverbed erosion: State yet to get flood | Agartala, September 16(TIWN): With embankments along most major rivers of the state old and feeble, the state is yet to get a proper flood, erosion and socio-economic study of the rivers done, official sources said. | 16-Sep-2014 |
ONGC hands over 7000 mosquito nets for d | Agartala, Sep 16 (TIWN): With the intention to prevent spreading of Malaria in Tripura state and in response to request from Minister of Health, Shri Badal Chowdhary ONGC stood by its commitment and today flagged off a truck load of 7000 medicated mosquito nets for the worst affected Dhalai district of the state, from ONGC base complex at Badarghat. | 16-Sep-2014 |
Tripura Cabinet decides to increase the | Agartala, Sep 16 (TIWN): Cabinet decided to increase the rate of wages of workers under TUEP project. The wage under the project increased from Rs 135 to Rs.155. Giving this information cabinet sources said that the decision will be implemented within few days . Besides 19 vacant posts for store keeper created under ARD department according to decision of the cabinet. The State Government will donate Rs. 1 crore rupees for flood effected people of Jammu and Kashmir. | 16-Sep-2014 |
Remote areas suffer from inadequate wate | Agartala, Sep 16 (TIWN): In Chief Minister Manik Sarkar’s so-called golden era, water scarcity yet looms large in remote tribal populated areas of the state and the government has failed to sort out the problem. | 16-Sep-2014 |
Minority Welfare Department to send 150 | Agartala, Sep 16 (TIWN): Aiming at imparting free higher education to minority students, the Minority Welfare Department this year provided opportunities for higher education to a total of 150 minority students, stated Moslem Uddin Ahmed, Joint Director of Minority Welfare Department. | 16-Sep-2014 |
Auto fares hiked by 100 per cent: Govt i | AGARTALA, September 15 (TIWN): Though the issue of boarding passengers has been fixed but now the auto drivers has resorted to tyranny by charging fares according to their convenience. Within a span of couple of months the auto drivers have hiked the fares by 100% where the reason for this atrocity, as cited by the drivers, is as the number of passengers have been reduced, the fare would be doubled. Neither the government nor any other concerned authority has made any increase in the fare. Still, the passengers are being charged more than the existing rates. This practice of taking excess fares has been going on since last June 30, complaining the passengers travelling from and to different routes in the city Agartala. | 15-Sep-2014 |
Mega Corrective surgery camp in Unakoti | Kailashahar, Sept 15 (TIWN): District Disability Rehabilitation Centre ,North Tripura in association with National Institution for the Orthopedically Handicapped , Kolkata , Govt . of India and State health department is going to organize first ever “Mega corrective Surgery camp†in Tripura | 15-Sep-2014 |
Murderer Amit Ghosh sentenced to lifetim | AGARTALA, Sept 15 (TIWN): Most notorious criminal Amit Ghosh is sentenced to lifetime imprisonment on Monday. CJM Court today sentenced the punishment for this notorious antisocial on Anil Gan Murder case. Earlier on Friday, Chief Judicial Magistrate convicted him guilty and declared that the punishment would be announced on September 15th. Likewise he is subjected to lifetime imprisonment today. | 15-Sep-2014 |
Preparation complete for counting Hall a | Sabroom, Sept 15 (TIWN): The preparation for Counting Hall already completed for 39-Manu (ST) according to Returning Officer for 39-Manu(ST, Rajib Dutta. | 15-Sep-2014 |
OTPC Unit-II: Decision for trial run to | UDAIPUR / PALATANA, September 15 (TIWN): OTPC and BHEL top level officials, engineers and technicians will have a high profile meeting later this week to finalise the date for trial run of the Unit-II of 726.6MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine(CCGT) Thermal Power Plant. According to TIWN sources in OTPC, BHEL officials are now taking extra interest in the entire process. A three members team of BHEL from Hyderabad will bring necessary equipments and spare parts that are required for the Unit-II. Once they return the final date of trial run will be announced, said our OTPC sources. However, the sources add that it is still unlikely that OTPC can start Commercial Generation from Unit-II before Durga Puja. | 15-Sep-2014 |
Arrest of Arnab, RMSA 5 Crores Scam : Wh | AGARTALA, September 15 (TIWN): School Education Department Cashier, who is involved in forgery and misappropriation of RMSA fund of more that Rs 5 crore, has been sent to 7 days of police remand. Today police produced Arnab was produced before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Sanjit Majumdar. On 14th Sptember Arnab was brought here at Agartala from Kolkata on transit remand by a special Tripura police team. During past few years Arnab Chakraborty has been pocketing the public funds allotted under Rashtriya Madhyamik Siksha Abhiyan (RMSA), without any tracking. Arnab's misdeeds have been fuelled by two of the most influential ministers of state government, reported a highly placed sources. It is most unlikely for a cashier to have committed such a serious monetary irregularity without the involvement of the top notch officials and political personalities. | 15-Sep-2014 |
Mystery deepens over two school girls ha | AGARTALA, September 15 (TIWN): Three days after two girls (name changed to hide identity) Risha Debbarma and Raima Debbarma were found hanging from a tree in the Ganya Mara gram sabha, the Takarjala Police is yet to make any arrests. On Sunday, the parents of the two girls, along with 30 villagers, demanded that the culprits should be found without delay.In an incident that reminds one of the Badaun sisters who were found hanging in the plains of UP, Risha Debbarma and Raima Debbarma were found hanging deep in a forest, their bodies facing each other. Both girls were students of class 10 at a nearby boarding school, about 27 km from Agartala. The police is yet to confirm if it is a case of suicide or rape. What they could indeed confirm is that the nooses were made by ripping the t-shirt that one of the girls was wearing and tying the strips together to form two small ropes. | 15-Sep-2014 |
Mass Rally on the eve of 47th Engineers | AGARTALA, September 15 (TIWN): Commemorating the birth anniversary of iconic engineer M.Visesvaraya, a mass rally today walked on the main streets of the capital city. The birthday of one of the most influential engineers from the history of contemporary India, Sir M Visvesvaraya is also observed as Engineers Day across the nation. The rally lead by forest minister Naresh Jamatia started from City Centre where engineers from various government offices, educational institutions persons of eminence and common men participated to celebrate the spirit of 47th Engineers Day. | 15-Sep-2014 |
INPT demands more power for TTAADC | AGARTALA, September 15(TIWN): The Indigenous Nationalist Part of Twipra (INPT) organized a massive gathering at Agartala demanding more power for the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) here today. | 15-Sep-2014 |
DYFI, TYF, SFI and TSU hold sit-in-demon | AGARTALA, September 15 (TIWN): Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), Tribal Youth Federation (TYF), Students Federation of India (SFI) and Tribal Students Union (TSU) organized a two hour long sit-in-demonstration demanding work for everyone and education for everyone at ONGC second gate here today. | 15-Sep-2014 |
Ambassa School Children demands basic am | Ambassa, Sept 15 (TIWN): School Education Dept’s extreme mismanagement forced the students of Satyaram Choudhury Para Higher Secondary School to block the NH-44 on Sept 12. ADM Dhalai promised them to provide basic necessities of schooling and hostel life. But even after 72 hours, their fate remained the same as ADM Dhalai and School Administration did nothing. | 15-Sep-2014 |
TSR holds mega blood donation camp | AGARTALA, September 15 (TIWN): A mega blood donation camp was organized by Tripura State Riffles (TSR) 1st battalion at Gokulnagar here today. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar inaugurated the blood donation camp. | 15-Sep-2014 |
Davis Cup: Inspired Somdev puts India le | Bangalore, Sep 14 (TIWN / IANS) Playing the match of his life that his captain wanted him to, tennis star Somdev Devvarman pulled off a brilliant five-set win over higher ranked Serb Dusan Lajovic to put India level at 2-2 in the Davis Cup World Group Play-off tie here Sunday. | 15-Sep-2014 |
Tripura Cong to move SC over SLP on teac | Agartala, September 15 (TIWN): The Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee would be moving shortly with he Special Leave Petition (SLP) challenging the verdict of High Court of Tripura terminating the entire recruitment process of 10,323 graduate, post graduate and under graduate teachers’ jobs since 2010. | 15-Sep-2014 |
National Highway stalled against murder | Agartala, September 15 (TIWN): Local residents of Kathaltali in Assam crossed the Tripura-Assam boundary and stalled vehicular movement on the National Highway 44 at Churaibari for three hours today. | 15-Sep-2014 |
Transfer of teachers affecting studies | Agartala, Sep 15 (TIWN): Frequent transfer of teachers caused dismay in various government run schools. Education system in the schools is deteriorating day by day and students have been deprived of quality education. | 15-Sep-2014 |
Nature's mystery stunned people for one | UDAIPUR,September 14 (TIWN): It was at 11 in the morning. People were busy inside the houses as being a Sunday morning. Suddenly a shrill cry of 'Ulu' (uttered by women usually on a holy occasion) filled the sky and all on a sudden people came running out of their houses fearing that it was an earthquake. | 14-Sep-2014 |
RMSA /Education Dept Multi Crores Scam : | AGARTALA, September 14 (TIWN): Scamster cashier Arnab Chakraborty after being arrested in Kolkata, O.C of Capital Complex P S Subrata Chakraborty, Sub Inspector Rajib Malakar and Sub Inspector Himadri Sarkar brought him to Agartala at 4.30pm on Sunday. While speaking to TIWN, an official of West PS informed that the cheque fraud scamster would be produced before the court tomorrow. On being asked about any revelation made by Arnab, the official said: “He has just been brought to the Police Station, we would interrogate him shortly.†A cashier in education department Arnab had withdrawn Rs. 5 crores from state cooperative bank through 56 forged cheques. In addition Arnab Chakraborty was also one of the active land mafias operative in the capital. | 14-Sep-2014 |