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Tribal hamlets face drinking water crisi | SANTIRBAZAR, November 2 (TIWN): Pure Drinking water scarcity looms large in remote place of Santirbazar Sub Division. Most of the villagers have to go to far- flung area to fetch drinking water. For the past two years remote poor Tribal People from Santirbazar have not received a modest drinking water. | 02-Nov-2014 |
Congress and the BJP are two sides of th | AGARTALA, November 2 (TIWN): The Congress and the BJP are two sides of the same coin, they are not for the common man, said Minister for Co-operation, Fisheries and Home (Fire service) Khagendra Jamatia while delivering the speech in the 36thseminar of Tripura State Co-operative Consumers Federation Employees Association (TSCCFEA) at MLA hostel here today. | 02-Nov-2014 |
Rabindra-Nazrul-Sukanta birth anniversar | Agartala, Nov 2 (TIWN): With the initiative of ward no- 16 of Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC), ‘Rabindra-Najrul-Sukanta’ birth anniversary and a veteran felicitation programme was organized at Swami Dayalananda Vidyaniketan, here today. | 02-Nov-2014 |
Narayanswami likely to visit Tripura thi | AGARTALA, November 2 (TIWN): The newly appointed AICC General Secretary Mr. V. Narayanswami is likely to visit the State in November. The final date of his arriving is yet to be fixed; working president of Tripura Pradesh Congress- Asish Saha informed this to TIWN on Sunday. However, a mass protest movement is scheduled to be organized by the Tripura Pradesh Congress against various ongoing issues from tomorrow. Speaking to TIWN, Saha informed that from Monday, PCC will launch mass protest against the scam, corruption and crime on women all over the state. It will be organized on the State level and all the sixty blocks. “This is the beginning. We will go for a massive protest to press the demandsâ€, he further added. On the other hand, Saha also alleged that many leaders and cadres of ruling CPI (M) are linked with the ongoing scam, corruption and torture on women. | 02-Nov-2014 |
TMC General Secretary Mukul Roy likely t | AGARTALA, November 02 (TIWN): All India Trinamool Congress General Secretary Mukul Roy would be visiting Tripura in the first week of December to take stock of the current state of affairs of the party, said Tripura Trinamool Congress Chairperson Ratan Chakraborty here today. | 02-Nov-2014 |
Ambassa : 4 years passed , Kulai new bri | AMBASSA, Nov 1 (TIWN) : Almost 30 years ago a devastating flood washed away the wooden bridge on the river Kulai at Kulai on Kamalpur-Ambassa road. On temporary and emergency basis the Border Road Organization (BRO) had built the present bailey bridge. | 02-Nov-2014 |
Kamalpur : TSECL officials are to tie up | KAMALPUR, Nov 2 (TIWN): After the factual coverage of TIWN, when the top brass of TSECL become keen to unearth the ransom looting and embezzlement at Kamalpur Division with a continuing process of Audit, then some TSECL corrupt officials are trying to tie-up with the Audit team to suppress all the outcome and to grab a clean chit. | 02-Nov-2014 |
Murasing Socio Cultural Festival to be c | Santirbazar, Nov 2 (TIWN): The Murasing Socio Cultural Festival will be celebrated on the occasion of Rash Purnima at Santirbazar sub-division on November 6. To mark the celebration of Murasing Socio Cultural festival, Sunday a Preparatory Meeting was conducted at Santirbazar Community Hall. | 02-Nov-2014 |
Tripura Power Minister overlooks Palatan | Agartala, November 2 (TIWN): Central government has snubbed Tripura state on sector of power supply in uniform manner to its citizens on various perspectives, said state Power Minister Manik Dey here today despite Centre’s developmental moves to improvise overall productivity of electricity with thumping plant of Palatana OTPC project lately. | 02-Nov-2014 |
Chandrapur brutal incident: TAPC seeks i | Agartala, Nov 02 (TIWN): After a span of 14 days in jail custody, all the accused persons (APs) into Chandrapur brutal incident would be produced before the CJM court tomorrow. According to the sources, under the immense pressure from all corners, police are trying to gather witnesses and evidences actively. Adding woes to the state government, the Tripura Police Accountability Commission (TPAC) on Saturday asked for the investigation report from the police on the alleged torture of Soma Majumder (Debnath) at Tata Kalibari area in Chandrapur. | 02-Nov-2014 |
Supreme Command conducts cleanliness dri | AGARTALA, November 2 (TIWN): Taking forward Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiative to rid the country of litter and rubbish, Supreme Command an NGO today cleaned the entire Vivekananda Stadium to spread the message of 'Swachh Bharat'. | 02-Nov-2014 |
Residents stage protest: Paschim Bhubanb | Agartala, Nov 2 (TIWN): The residents of Paschim Bhubanban area under 1 no. ward of Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) Sunday staged massive protest demanding drinking water facility, electricity and repairing of a brick soiling road which connects them to Airport road from their locality. | 02-Nov-2014 |
Udaipur Municipal Corporation and R K Pu | UDAIPUR, November 1 (TIWN): Udaipur Municipal Council and Radhakishore police were alleged of their partial role during demolition drive on illegal encroachments in New Town Road and Central Road area. Throughout the day both UMC and R K Pur police acted like bully on poor businessmen in some cases but neither UMC nor police dared to remove some illegally occupied places because of political influence and affluence. In the evening businessmen gheraoed Executive Officer N R Das and O C R.K.Pur police station for nearly one hour and under pressure from all corners both the authorities were compelled to bend down drive against illegal occupiers. | 02-Nov-2014 |
Chief Justice releases law journal CD | Agartala, Nov 1 (TIWN): Tripura High Court Bar Association Saturday launched a compact disc (CD) on law journal at High Court premises. Chief Justice of Tripura High Court- Deepak Gupta released the CD in a Bijoya Sammilani programme organized by the Tripura High Court Bar Association, this evening. | 01-Nov-2014 |
Hindi school stages cleanliness drive | Agartala, Nov 1 (TIWN): As part of countrywide ‘Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan’ campaign, the students Hindi Higher Secondary School Saturday conducted a vast cleanliness drive at Airport (VIP) road. Over 800 students of different classes including teachers of Hindi School have participated in the cleanliness drive. | 01-Nov-2014 |
SDM Sonamura, BSF joint operation destro | Sonamura, Nov 1 (TIWN):Today in a joint raid-operation of the Sonamura Sub-Divisional Administration and BSF Dhanpur BOP, spanning one and half hours from 3.30 pm till 5 pm, about 180 kg of dried cannabis worth Rs.9.00 lakh was recovered from Ledrabari area under Kathalia R. D. Block. Besides, two ganja plantations having around 1000 plants were destroyed, which would have valued in the market at about 25 lakh, taking the standard yield from each plant to be 500 gm of cannabis. | 01-Nov-2014 |
DWS Kamalpur Division in massive jolt : | KAMALPUR, Nov 1 (TIWN) : DWS Kamalpur division received a major jolt when, the ADM enquired the incident and departmental proceedings regarding the water tank collapse and death of a BSF jawan namely Sriramakrishna. | 01-Nov-2014 |
Kamalpur : Audit team visited TSECL agai | KAMALPUR, November 1 (TIWN): TSECL Kamalpur division is having a tough time to cop with the endless irregularities and embezzlement. And adding to it, once again the Audit team visited the office of the DGM and seized many documents. According to sources, the Audit team first enquired about two bills of 72,000 and 38,000 rupees respectively both of which were expensed as Office expenses. | 01-Nov-2014 |
Petrol price cut brings respite to peopl | Agartala, November 1 (TIWN): The Union Government yesterday decided to reduce the prices of petrol by Rs 2.41 per litre, the sixth reduction since August, this year and diesel price by Rs 2.25 per litre in following deflation at international oil market. Indian Oil Corporation, the nation's largest fuel trader announced the reduction in rates of petrol and diesel, which was deregulated for the first time in more than a decade, with effect from yesterday midnight. | 01-Nov-2014 |
Tourism Minister of Bangladesh to arrive | AGARTALA, November 1 (TIWN): A fifteen member delegation team headed by Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister of Bangladesh Rashed Khan Menon are arriving in the state on November 14 to boost tourism. | 01-Nov-2014 |
Tripura facing acute cooking gas shortag | Agartala, Nov 1 (TIWN): Acute Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinder crisis continuing in Tripura triggering huge backlog for last one month. The total number gas agencies are being increased to 46 while the main gas bottling plant in Bishalghar is unable to cope with the ongoing cylinder demands. Such at situation, the rampant black marketing of LPG cylinders have gripped the state alarmingly. | 01-Nov-2014 |
Tripura is assigned to experiment on Nee | AGARTALA, Nov 1 (TIWN): Tripura is assigned to conduct firm level experiment of the effectiveness of Neem extracts as bio-pesticide and bio-fertilizer, said head of Tripura Bio-Technology Anjan Sengupta. He said Institute of Pesticide Formulation Technology (IPFT) of Ministry of Chemical and Fertilizer has entrusted Tripura Bio Technology department and Tea Research Institute to experiment on Neem for next three years. | 01-Nov-2014 |
10323 teachers termination case; Will Go | AGARTALA,November 1 (TIWN): After the continuous attempts of lies from state govt and CPI(M) party since July over the ruling on 10323 teachers termination case , state govt is indeed in backfoot. Registrar of Supreme Court on 27th October declared that the case would be raised in the Supreme Court for Hearing on 9th January 2015. But now after the declaration of the School Education minister Tapan Chakraborty that state govt will file an ' Interlocutory Application' to the Supreme Court demanding 'Stay order' against the Division bench's ruling that 10323 teachers jobs will be terminated after 31st December 2014. Now from this statement it is clear that state govt was lying to the jobs holders as well as their families and the entire state. | 01-Nov-2014 |
World Bank aid Rs 8150 crore for power | Agartala, Oct 31 (TIWN / IANS) The World Bank would provide a major share of Rs.8,150 crore for improving power transmission system in six northeastern states, officials said Friday. | 01-Nov-2014 |
DWS Minister complains against Delhi's s | AGARTALA, November 1 (TIWN): "The central government is not providing sufficient funds to support the backward communities of Tripura", said Welfare of Scheduled Caste (SC), Public Works (Drinking Water and Sanitation) and Tourism minister Ratan Bhowmik while speaking in the special awareness cum loan distribution campaign at Lake Chowhumani, here today."We are trying to help the backward communities of Tripura but the Union Government is not helping us", the minister added. However attached CAG report shows that inept Govt of Tripura couldn't spend 28.74% of central fund on social welfare projects during the 2012-13 fiscal. Even though central govt pouring maximum amount of money to State, in addition through Central Govt schemes like RMSA, NHRM, MGNREGA but Manik's Ministers and trusted officials like BDO Bimal only learnt how to siphon off Central money to build their personal fortunes. | 01-Nov-2014 |
AMC’s private brokers play trick | Agartala, November 1 (TIWN): Panic has gripped a majority for a chunk of populace residing under North Zone Office of Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) over governmental contractor to privatize facilities of drinking water usage to be measured with modernized metre capacity. | 01-Nov-2014 |
Elite Heritage Park marked among anti-so | Agartala, November 1 (TIWN): Heritage Park, one of the elite refreshment sites in capital of Tripura is shaping up as location of filthy anti-social activities in state filled with poor maintenance of administrative supervision in spite of its newly fledged glamorous outlook. | 01-Nov-2014 |
Six day long inter-college drama competi | AGARTALA, November 01 (TIWN): The six day long inter-college drama competition was organized by Student Federation of India (SFI) state unit at Sukanta Academy here today. Well-known dramatist Sisir Deb along with Mayor of Agartala Municipal Corporation Dr Prafullajit Sinha inaugurated the competition. The competition will continue till November 6. | 01-Nov-2014 |
Belonia Jagannath Temple commercially ex | Belonia, October 31 (TIWN): Belonia Lord Jaganath Temple is running with many unholy activities.There is a complaint from many devotees like Nirmal Saha and others of Belonia against Sevait of Jagannath Temple of Belonia. | 01-Nov-2014 |
Manik breaks silence after 5 months over | AGARTALA / SONAMURA, November 1 (TIWN): After almost five months since the then Finance Minister Badal Chowdhury and Director Audit informed Chief Secretary and CMO office(on 19/05/2014), Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Friday broke his silence over the Rs 50 crore MGNREGA scam in Bishalgarh R D Block. Chief Minister said ," Whoever is guilty will be punished. The opposition is busy in miscampaign against the state govt." Interestingly only on 27th October two separate PILs were filed in the High Court by Congress and Trinamool demanding CBI investigation and soon after returning from Central Committee meeting in Delhi, Manik Sarkar too has smelt the rat and that might be the reason for him to break the silence. Chief Minister was addressing in the inaugural programme of Motor Stand at Sonamura on Friday. This delayed break of silence also due to pressure from CPIM Central Committee instructing Manik Sarkar to make his stand clear in public. | 01-Nov-2014 |
TSECL files case against Municipal Counc | AGARTALA, October 31 (TIWN): In a significant incident, Senior Manager of Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limited (TSECL) Shapan Nag has filed a case against Municipal Councilor Panna Deb of Indranagar area for misbehaving with government officials. | 01-Nov-2014 |
Toilets for women should be constructed | AGARTALA, November 1 (TIWN): “Necessary steps should be taken to construct the toilets for women in different public placesâ€- Chief Justice of High Court, Mr. Deepak Gupta had given instruction while the hearing of PIL on public sanitation for women recently. | 01-Nov-2014 |