Archive Detail
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AMC Task Force continues eviction drive | AGARTALA, May 8 (TIWN): Task Force of Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) and Tripura Police jointly staged an eviction drive at old motor stand hereon Friday. | 08-May-2015 |
Tripura celebrates World Red Cross Day-2 | AGARTALA, May 8 (TIWN): Along with the entire world, Indian Red Society Tripura State Branch also celebrated World Red Cross Day-2015 on the theme of “Our Principals in Action†at Red Cross Bhavan here on Friday. | 08-May-2015 |
Udaipur Atharbola : Bad condition of roa | Udaipur, May 8 (TIWN): More than 6 months have already been passed, the road construction work of Atharobola to Jampui jala area was started. The work started with full enthusiasm but before 2 months the work was paused leaving it half done, and by giving it a dangerous shape. | 08-May-2015 |
State prepares to celebrate 154th Birth | Agartala, May 8 (TIWN): State prepares to celebrate 154th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore on May 9. To mark this occasion, several cultural functions will be organized by Information and Cultural Affairs Department. The cultural function organized by the State Government will be held at the premises of Rabindra Bhawan. | 08-May-2015 |
Baishakhi Mela to begin at Amarpur | Amarpur, May 8 (TIWN): A traditional fair is to start in Amarpur on May 9. It is called Baishakhi Melaâ€, where every year in Amarpur subdivision, near the Chandibari, people gather and enjoy the fair for 7 days. This traditional fair is used to inaugurate on the birthday of Rabindranath Tagore(Baishakh 25) and this year also on the 155th birthday of Tagore “Baishakhi†fair will be started. | 08-May-2015 |
Rampant gambling at Dharmanagar: Role of | DHARMANAGAR/AGARTALA, May 8 (TIWN): Gambling and illegal selling of liquor are relentlessly active in Longtorai Valley, police have been extorting money to cover up the issue. 'Teer' gambling has become a burning issue throughout the North district especially Dharmanagar. | 08-May-2015 |
10,323 teacher termination case: One yea | AGARTALA, May 8 (TIWN): One year has been passed after the High Court had terminated the service of the 10,323 teachers. On May 7th, 2014, Tripura High Court had issued an order for the termination of services of 10,323 teachers as the State government does not follow the justified process for their selection. After that the Government appealed to the Supreme Court to take proper action in the termination issue of the teachers.Till date, no solution is found by Govt. Uncertainty still continues among the job aspirants. During the time of first sitting regarding the judgment of High Court, to Supreme Court, Govt. had appealed to the Court to also put a stay order in the service of these teachers so that the employment of these above mentioned teachers should not fall under danger. In reply, Supreme Court mentioned that the case will be solved before the tentative date scheduled by the High Court of Tripura. | 07-May-2015 |
Kalpana Das murder case: Jiten and co. t | AGARTALA, May 8 (TIWN): Expelled CPI-M leader Jiten Das and his brothers and nephew who were arrested on charge of involved with Jiten’s wife Kalpana Das murder case would be produced before the court on Friday. However, according to a highly placed source of police, the SIT team of this case is still in dark with the case as no major breakthrough could be achieved so far.The source informed that as of now police has got no forensic report that consists of finger prints and others. Besides, he also informed that the forensic report of the two recovered weapons has also not yet reached to the police.Asked about if police would submit any chargesheet before the court on Friday, the source said that no chargesheet would be submitted because police has not yet got any relevant clues in this murder case.Besides, “It cannot be said now whether another suspect Shibu Das would be arrested or not, but if police manages to gather evidences against her than she will be arrested.†| 07-May-2015 |
Jiten shines in National Debate on GST i | AGARTALA/ NEW DELHI ,May 8 (TIWN):- Tripura MP Jiten Choudhury in Rajya Sabha TV Debate on Goods and Services Tax (GST) on Thursday evening said that this GST is no reform, and the Rajya Sabha must not pass itâ€. The BJP-led government was able to coin new words like "Cooperative Federalism", but moves like cutting central funds for various programmes has only "hurt the States", Jiten added. Jiten also accused the Centre of being biased towards corporate, while increasing the burden on the common man in form of taxes. If the government is determined to try and pass the GST on its timeline, in spite of its failure to convince its own state leaders to write a decent law, then the Opposition must stand up and prevent a Bill that may grievously hurt this country’s economy from being passed as-is. | 07-May-2015 |
Rain brings relief from scorching summer | AGARATLA, May 8 (TIWN): Rain brings certain relief from the scorchy summer on Thursday afternoon to night. High humidity levels made the sweltering heat unbearable for people.With that giving a sigh of relief to the tea planters, in various parts of the state. Though the downpour was accompanied with gusty winds damaging properties, it brought smiles on the face of the farmers of the region especially the tea grower. | 07-May-2015 |
Employees of Tripura Medical College on | AGARTALA, May 8 (TIWN): Employees of Tripura Medical College on Thursday staged protest against the cliiping of the services of 23 employees. Talking to TIWN, the leaders of the movement told that after the raising of wages, amongst the 123 persons employed are terminated from their service. | 07-May-2015 |
2nd phase of Mission Indradhanus Immuniz | AGARTALA, May 8 (TIWN): In the second phase of Mission Indradhanus, the immunization programme starts from Thursday and it will continue upto May 13 in the West, Dhalai and South Tripura. This phase will cover the pregnant mothers and children with age between 0-2 years, who had failed to get the benefit of the first phase. It is to be mention that the immunization is prevention against seven deadly diseases like Tetanus, Diptheria, polio, Tuberculosis, Whooping cough, measles and Hepatitis-B. | 07-May-2015 |
2643 REGA workers kept away from wages a | KHOWAI, May 8 (TIWN): A total of 2643 MGNREGA workers of Padabill ADC village under Khowai District are not getting their wages for the last two months. The workers on Thursday went to BDO namely Pradip Debbarma and urged him to look into the matter. | 07-May-2015 |
Negligence of horticulture department ad | UDAIPUR/AGARTALA, May 8 (TIWN): The condition of the Horticulture garden at Pholo Kumari Upajati Colony, under Udaipur sub-division is getting worse day by day due to negligence of the Horticulture department. | 07-May-2015 |
Bengaluru, Tripura zoos to exchange anim | AGATALA, May 8 (TIWN): Bannerghatta Zoo and National park in Bengaluru and Tripura's Sepahijala Zoo is likely to exchange animals from last week of May. | 07-May-2015 |
Decline in TTAADC vote share is worrying | AGARTALA, May 7 (TIWN): Everything happened as it was expected in the TTAADC election with Left Front sweeping the poll for the second consecutive time. The opposition could not win even a single seat in the hill election owing to the disunity among the opposition political parties here. But even the complete sweep of the ADC election is not making the ruling CPI(M) party happy enough. The decline in vote share in the strong bastion of the lefts is worrying the Melarmath party head office and the party has imposed a hidden ban on the celebration throughout the state.The result of the TTAADC election 2015 showed a 9.59% loss of votes for the ruling combine as compared to its share of 63.8% in the 2010 election. The party thinktanks are analysing the reasons for the decline in votebank overnight and have asked the local units throughout the hill areas of the state to submit explanations for the loss of votes, informs party insiders of melarmath party office of CPI(M) here. The left parties could altogether garner 54.29% of the valid votes to sweep the election and the sudden decline in vote share is the cause of much concern for the left combine specially the CPI(M), which is the big brother of the alliance.The failure in keeping the hill support base intact is being viewed through different angles in the political circle here. | 07-May-2015 |
Members of tribal district council to ta | AGARTALA, May 7 (TIWN): The newly elected members of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) is all set to take an oath on May 17 at Khumlwung ADC Head quarter, source said. | 07-May-2015 |
Churaibari Check Post: Gateway to Assam- | AGARTALA, May 7 (TIWN): Despite several necessary steps being taken by the police ,smuggling of timbers and other valuable products of forests has rampant here in the state Tripura with the smugglers continue to exploit forests for personnel gain. Churaibari Check Post is becoming a heaven to the smuggling of wooden timbers and other illegal products. | 07-May-2015 |
Uncertainty dogs over Indo-Bangla rail l | AGARTALA, May 7 (TIWN): The proposed India-Bangladesh railway project to connect the North East with Bangladesh likely to be delayed with another uncertainty prevails. According to the official source of the state govt. the central govt. is yet to release the fund for the land acquisition. Stating “No funds were allocated in the railway budget for 2015-16, even for land acquisition†the official source said that the state govt. has recently approached the Union Ministry of railways. As per the project India will build a 15km railway tracks linking Tripura's capital Agartala with Bangladesh's southeastern city of Akhaurah, an important railway junction connected to Chittagong port, resource-rich Sylhet and Dhaka. "The central government is yet to provide required funds for the project. The land acquisition and subsequent works for the railway project connecting Tripura with Bangladesh would be delayed," the official said. However it is to be mentioned here that several crucial meeting were held previous year where various pending issues relating to new Agartala-Akhaura rail link project were discussed. But uncertainty dogs in the project work as the state govt. is yet to get the fund for land acquisition. | 07-May-2015 |
TBSE to announce result of Madhyamik by | AGARTALA, May 7 (TIWN): Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) will announce the result of Madhyamik examination in first week of June this year. The result of Higher secondary exam would be announced later. | 07-May-2015 |
Poor BSNL service creates havoc among pe | BELONIA/AGARTALA, May 7 (TIWN): The pathetic customer service providing by BSNL, ushering many complaints as the customers are just paying the bill without utilizing the service. The authorities have turned a deaf ear to the customers’ complaints. | 07-May-2015 |
World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day to | AGARTALA, May 7 (TIWN): State gears up to celebrate World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day on May 8th. To mark the occasion, several programmes had been arranged by Red Cross Society in Tripura. As a part of the programme, on Thursday, a blood donation camp was also organized where Swami Hitakananda Maharaj was present as Guest of Honour. | 07-May-2015 |
Wrong Injection: Govt suspends two nurs | Agartala, May 7 (TIWN): Health department has suspended two nurses of Agartala Government College and GB hospital for negligence of duty after nineteen days of the incident. Both nurses – senior nurse Seema Gosh and contractual nurse Amrita Saha held responsible for pushng wrong injection to a patient. The newly appointed health director K L Bhowmik has issued the suspension order on Wednesday. | 07-May-2015 |
Lok Sabha takes up Bangladesh land accor | New Delhi / Agartala, May 7 (TIWN / IANS) The Lok Sabha on Thursday took up discussion on the bill concerning the land boundary agreement with Bangladesh, as External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj urged the house to pass it unanimously as it will send a good message to the neighboring country. | 07-May-2015 |
CBI chargesheeted Tripura’s DGP | AGARTALA / HYDERABAD / NEW DELHI, May 7 (TIWN): Tripura’s i/c Director General of Police (DGP) can be termed as the nation’s richest DGP with over Rs. 90 crores of property under his belt. Increasing rapes,murder, molestation of women, failing law & order are everyday scenarios across Tripura. Tripura’s “president colored†Police deserved those medals during the tenure of hardworking DGPs G.M.Srivastava, K. Salim Ali; however under the leadership of K.Nagraj , Tripura police is failing miserably in one case after another to convict the culprits. In recent high profile case of Rs 51 crore MGNREGA scam, due to police ineptness in filing a proper chargesheet within 180 days, scamster Bimal Chakraborty got out in bail. | 07-May-2015 |
Datamohan’s inept handling of Tri | AGARTALA, May 7 (TIWN): Jittered by the series of Tripura High Court rulings against the state Govt., the Manik Sarkar led Govt. is looking for replacement of Law Secretary Datamohan Jamatia if the Secretary sources are to be believed. Under tremendous pressure from various quarters, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar is in no mood to continue with the Tripura High Court salvo on his Govt. owing to the failure of his close confidant law secretary. The failure of Law Secretary Datamohan Jamatia in safeguarding the Govt. interest in the high court has compelled the chief minister to face criticism from his cabinet members, and a section of the ministry is demanding the law secretary’s ouster for the failure. It may be mentioned here that the Tripura High Court delivered hundreds of judgments and observations against the Manik Sarkar led state Govt. including the judgment cancelling the appointment of 10323 Govt. school teachers which is waiting the Supreme Court’s decision.Appointed to the post of Law Secretary in 2012, the alleged CPI(M) loyalist and blue eyed boy of CM Manik Sarkar could not rise to the expectation and his inept capacity to lead the state Law Department has put the Govt. in a fix and the series of failures in the Tripura High Court has damaged the much ballooned image of the Left Front ruled state Govt. | 07-May-2015 |
CEO greets people for peaceful poll: IPF | AGARTALA, May 7 (TIWN): CPI-M and its Left front Govt. has registered an easy sweep to the general elections to Tripura Tribal Areas and Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) with the nearest rival to the CPI-M are IPFT and BJP, said State Election Commissioner of District Council and Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) S K Rakesh on Wednesday. | 06-May-2015 |
Project for augmentation of road infrast | AGARTALA, May 7 (TIWN): Tripura Government demanded for the necessary action to be taken for the earlv approval of the Project for augmentation of road infrastructure in border areas for development of Tripura. In this regard a proposal was already sent to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.PWD Minister Badal Chowdhury requested Central Govt to help Tripura. | 06-May-2015 |
Preparation of Rajarshi fair at Udaipur, | UDAIPUR, May 7 (TIWN): Udaipur, erstwhile capital of Tripura is being decorated for celebration of Tagore’s 155th birthday at ‘Rajarshi Mukta Mancha’ in Old Royal palace, Udaipur. | 06-May-2015 |
Police seize Bangladesh bound contraband | AGARTALA, May 7 (TIWN): The Tripura Police in an anti-narcotic drive seized thousands of bottles of contraband cough syrup near Amtali being smuggled to Bangladesh. | 06-May-2015 |
Fishes dying in Amar Sagar Lake: Fisher | UDAIPUR, May 7 (TIWN): Fishes are often dying due to polluted water at Amar Sagar Dighi. Amar Sagar Dighi relates dates back to King’s reigning period. Amarpur’s traditional pond is Amar Sagar Dighi and is carrying messages to King’s reigning period. | 06-May-2015 |
Origin of IPFT and BJP is dangerous for | AGARTALA, May 6 (TIWN): With the opposition congress ducked and relegating the open political organisation of the outlawed NLFT outfit IPFT and BJP to distant second position in the elections to the 28 seats of Tripura Tribal Areas and Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) 2015, CPI-M State Secretary Bijan Dhar on Wednesday after the counting of votes ended claimed, “The emergence of IPFT and BJP would be dangerous to state and its peace and tranquility.†| 06-May-2015 |
Criminal Content Proceeding case against | AGARTALA, May 6 (TIWN): In the Criminal Content of Proceeding case against Law Secretary Data Mohan Jamatia, the name of the witnesses and the relevant documents were produced before the Court by Senior Advocate Pijush Kanti Biswas on Wednesday, who was being made Amicus Curiae of the High Court to deal will the legal procedures of the case on behalf of the High Court. After a thorough inspection, High court had instructed Law Secretary to present the witness and relevant documents on his behalf- as told by Advocate Pijush Kanti Biswas.Talking to TIWN on Wednesday Mr. Biswas further informed that, the Court had also instructed State Government to present their own views on the basis of the documents submitted by him. Because, most of the documents submitted belong to legal section, financial section respectively. Because most of the documents submitted belongs to legal section, financial section respectively.Though, Law Secretary claimed that the file was missing, but High Court wanted to know the view of State Government within May 23.However, Tripura High Court’s suo moto contempt of Court case against Law Secretary Data Mohan for his controversial note defaming the Chief Justice may lend up to the State Law Secretary in Jail if proved guilty. | 06-May-2015 |
Indo-Bangla international bus services s | AGARTALA, May 6 (TIWN): Indo-Bangla international bus services between Agartala and Dhaka were completely stopped after pitched political violence continued in Bangladesh despite efforts of reconciliation and enforcement. “We had to stop the Dhaka-Agartala bus service completely. There is no trace about when things could get back to normalâ€, a highly placed official of the Tripura Road Transport Corporation (TRTC) said.TRTC stopped its periodic Dhaka-Agartala bus service for nearly a month now. The Bangladeshi surface transport authorities stopped it last week. TRTC and Bangladesh authorities started the Agartala-Dhaka bus service in September, 2003. India and Bangladesh started the Kolkata-Dhaka bus service earlier in 1999. The Agartala-Dhaka bus service was run for four days a week. Growing preference of the ‘foreign’ route for commuting to Kolkata or the rest of the country through West Bengal en route Bangladesh led the authorities to consider increasing periodicity of the buses, the source said. He, however, said that bus drivers relented from continuing services in the wake of renewed phase of political violence as all efforts of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government to enforce peace seems falling apart. | 06-May-2015 |
Congress, BJP, TMC, IPFT ducks, CPI-M w | AGARTALA, May 6 (TIWN): Yet again despite tainted “Clean image†of Manik Sarkar the Left front on Wednesday cheers registering a massive victory in the Tripura Tribal Areas and Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) election held on May 3 unleashing the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) in second position. Till the stuff filed here in TIWN, the Left front has once again brought 28 seats in ADC under their rule, while the opposition parties including Congress, BJP, INPT are ducked relegating the IPFT to distant second position with a very tough battle with the CPI-M in some of the constituencies. This year the result of the voting to the TTAADC has brought a major change in the battle with CPI-M v/s IPFT. However but it is worthy to be mentioned here that after the passage of at least 48 hours that the voting to TTAADC was held, the Opposition Congress had piled a heat on Left front for misusing its administration to sweep the ADC poll this year yet again. MLA Ratan Lal Nath said, “Administration acted naked on behest of the Left party.†Citing an example to his allegation Nath said, “During the poll on May 3 a section of CPI-M backed Presiding Officers has forced the voters to vote for the ruling party.†Adding to that he claimed, “On at least 22 constituencies amongst the 28 the CPI-M managed to rig the booths taking the help of the state administration.†However, the counting of votes for the 28-member Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) started form 8:00 AM on Wednesday amidst tight security arrangements in and around the ADC areas of the state. | 06-May-2015 |
Left sweeps Tripura tribal council polls | Agartala, May 6 (TIWN / IANS) Tripura's ruling Left Front led by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Wednesday retained the 30-seat tribal autonomous body for the third consecutive term. | 06-May-2015 |
Heat waves starts blowing on the onset o | Agartala, May 6 (TIWN): Heat waves starts spreading its effect to prevail in Tripura on the onset of summer season. During the last couple of days, people of the State are experiencing terrible heat. According to the authorities of the MET Department, temperature will continue to rise in the next coming days and heat wave will prevail across the state along with other parts of the country. | 06-May-2015 |
Second border haat to be inaugurated in | AGARTALA, May 6 (TIWN): One more border haat and another Land Custom Station (LCS) along the Indo-Bangla international border are ready for inauguration at Kamalasagar under Shipahijala District. Taking to TIWN on Wednesday over telephone Sipahijala District Magistrate & Collector (DM) Prashant Kumar Goyal said that a meeting will with the Bangladesh Brahmanbaria District administration is likely to be held on the last week of May. DM Prashant Kumar Goyal further added that, though the meeting was scheduled to be held recently but due to the political unrest in Bangladesh and TTTAADC election here in the State the meeting was deferred to the last week of May. Earlier, Tripura Industries and Commerce minister Tapan Chakraborty said “The second border haat of the State, built at a cost of Rs 2.44 crore is ready at Kamalasagar, bordering the Brahmanbaria district of Bangladesh, about 28 km from here and an LCS at Srimantapur, bordering Comilla district of the neighbouring country, about 52 km from here are now ready for inauguration. We would soon invite Commerce and Industry ministers of Government of India and Bangladesh,†he added. | 06-May-2015 |
CPI-M defeats IPFT at Killa-Bagma Consti | UDAIPUR, May 6 (TIWN): With the Left front emerged victorious to all the 28 seats of the Tripura Tribal Areas and Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) to which the elections were held, the poll counting result on Wednesday has brought the CPI-M defeated IPFT at Killa-Bagma constituency and Mirja-Kathalia-Rajapur Constituency. | 06-May-2015 |
R.D. department constructs school buildi | KAILASHAHAR/AGARTALA, May 6 (TIWN): The problem of Chantail High School remained unsolved due to whimsical construction of the school building by Rural Development department. Sources said that Rs. 45.86 lakh was allotted to construct the two storied building with 8 rooms under RMSA Project at Chantail Madhyamik School. | 06-May-2015 |
Negligence of department flourishes expi | AGARTALA, May 6 (TIWN): Owing to the silent role of the State Food department and food test labs the shopkeepers across the capital city Agartala are on a spree flourishing their business by selling expired cold drinks at large. | 06-May-2015 |
Tripura High Court finds another loopho | AGARTALA, May 6 (TIWN): Continuing with the series of wrongdoings of the Manik Sarkar led state Govt., the Tripura High Court on Tuesday found out another loophole in the state Govt.’s rule. In a judgment passed by the Division bench of Tripura High Court comprising of Chief Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice S C Das, the court ruled in favour of the deprived PWD engineers and said that the new rule of promotion of the engineers on the basis of performance in the promotional examinations does not have any merit in this case and the engineers should be promoted or recruited based on the old rules. It may be mentioned here that the ST engineers in the state PWD department were kept deprived of their due promotion under the new promotion rule adopted by the state Govt. even after attaining the eligibility criteria for promotion. | 06-May-2015 |
Criminal Content of proceeding against L | AGARTALA, May 6 (TIWN): In the Criminal Content of Proceeding case against Law Secretary Data Mohan Jamatia and the name of the witnesses & the relevant documents will be placed before the High Court on Wednesday, May 6th. However Tripura High Court’s suo moto contempt of Court case against Law Secretary Data Mohan for his controversial note defaming the Chief Justice may lend up to the State Law Secretary in Jail if proven guilty- says senior Advocate Pijush Kanti Biswas. Advocate Biswas as Amicus Curiae of the High Court to deal the legal procedures of the case on behalf of the HC. Talking to TIWN, Mr. Biswas told that according to the schedule, the issue of Case Charge Frame against Law Secretary Data Mohan Jamatia was placed before the Court on April 25th. The charge was framed according to the Act 15 of the law contempt. On the other hand, Court had also instructed to submit the name of the witnesses and the necessary documents on May 6th. After that, on the basis of the witness and relevant documents, fate of Law Secretary will be further decided. However, in addition with the ongoing scams and corruptions, the case of Law Secretary has again pushed Chief Minister Manik Sarkar into a crisis. Data Mohan is believed to be one of the close aides of Manik Sarkar; Datamohan’s tangle with the Court has only added troubles for the Chief Minister. | 06-May-2015 |
Discontent among local medical faculties | Agartala, May 6 (TIWN): There are around 30 Professors in AGMC (including the present Principal Prof K K Kundu). Most of them barring a few are available at the station only 4-5 days in a month, Many of them are departmental Heads in different pre, para and clinical departments but they are not regularly taking classes for undergraduates and post graduates or overseeing their respective departmental works. | 05-May-2015 |
BSF-BGB celebrates Golden jubilee at Kai | KAILASAHAR, May 6 (TIWN): Border Security Force (BSF) on Tuesday celebrated its golden jubilee at Kailasahar with Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) officials invited here to take part in the celebration. | 05-May-2015 |
MP Jiten bats for more KVs, Novodaya Vid | Agartala/ New Delhi, May 6 (TIWN): Tripura Lok Sabha MP Jiten Chaudhury on Tuesday during proceedings requested Centre to release funds for more Kendriya Vidyalaya and Novodoya Vidyalayas in every district of Tripura. | 05-May-2015 |
Kailashahar Zilla Congress holds protest | KAILASHAHAR/AGARTALA, May 6 (TIWN): The Kailashahar Zilla Congress organized a protest rally regarding 11 point charter of demands and submitted a deputation to the BDO of Gournagar RD Block namely Anupam Chakraborty, here on Tuesday. | 05-May-2015 |
Amarpur sub-divisional hospital lacks su | AMARPUR, May 6 (TIWN): The Amarpur sub-divisional hospital lacks sufficient number of doctors and other modern healthcare systems for the last several years. The patients and patient parties of Amarpur sub-divisional hospital have been facing several terrible problems to get minimum hospitality for long period. | 06-May-2015 |
Agartala likely to be crowned as one amo | AGARTALA, May 6 (TIWN): Agartala likely to be crowned the Status of Smart city. According to the sources, the name of Agartala was included in the list of the cities which should be recognized as Smart City. The framework for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious project of developing 100 smart cities will be announced soon. | 05-May-2015 |
Tripura asks Centre to release NH-44 lan | AGARTALA, May 5 (TIWN): With the Agartala-Sabroom National Highway NH-44 double lane construction work droops, Public Work Department (PWD) Minister Badal Chowdhury requested Union Ministry of Roads and Transport to release the land acquisition fund as earliest as possible in order to take up the work.Minister Badal Chowdhury on Tuesday highlighting the discussion held at the review meeting at Guwahati with Ministry of Roads and Transport said, “Tripura PWD department had urged the centre for immediate release of fund to the respective authorities by the NHIDCL for early commencement of the improvement works of Agartala-Sabroom section.â€Interacting with the newsmen at the civil secretariat on Tuesday Chowdhury also said, “Despite taking the matter with the Union Minister, no fund has been released yet for the land acquisition whereas the state govt. here has already taken up the preliminary work assigning the agency.â€Concerning about the development of the NH-44 Churaibari-Agartala section, Minister said that the department had requested the centre to approve the state’s proposal at the earliest so that after observing all formalities the work for double lanning of the section can be taken up immediately after the monsoon. | 05-May-2015 |