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| 5 years jail to 4 persons for attacking | UDAIPUR, July 1 (TIWN): Under CPI-M's continued misrule, graduate teachers recruitment 2013 raised huge resentment at that time, within the unemployed’s youths mind who had been deprived from Govt job, as the govt. didn’t follow the recruitment rules while appointing teachers. Tripura High Court cancelled Teacher's recruitment in July'14 and termed the recruitment illegal. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| ICAR Tripura organized training and dist | LEMBUCHERRA, June 30 (TIWN): With the initiatives of ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Tripura Centre located in Lembucherra, women farmers, who share a major activeness in agriculture along with men, have given training and 690 newly developed chicks were given to them to inspire them to be self dependent by keeping interest in farming and agriculture. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| BJP successfully managed to secure secon | AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN): Bharatiya Janata Party successfully managed to secure second position by beating the Congress in the both 13-Pratapgarh and 46-Surma Assembly seats in West and Dhalai District of Tripura by-elections results on Tuesday. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| Union Minister Nitin Gadkari lays founda | AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN): Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on June 30, Tuesday laid the foundation stone for double-lane construction work of Agartala – Sabroom National Highway in presence of State Chief Minister Manik Sarkar. The main programme was held at Agartala Amtali near the by-pass road. Agartala-Sabroom national highway would be converted into double lane highway and the union government had already sanctioned the project. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, PWD Minister Badal Chowdhury and Principal Secretary, PWD Lok Ranjan would remain present in the foundation stone laying programme.However, on Tuesday laying the foundation stone here at Agartala Amtali Union Minister Nitin Gadkari declared that the road connecting Sabroom with Kukital and Teliamura to Sabroom via Amarpur would be brought under the National Highway project.The Agartala-Sabroom road would be double lane having width of 10-meter excluding pavement. The 73 km Udaipur-Sabroom road will require Rs. 450 crore while 48-km Agartala-Udaipur road will need Rs. 462 crore to get double lane. According to the official, the Centre has already sanctioned fund to face lift the Agartala-Sabroom via Udaipur road which has tagged with NH-44.Besides, during the foundation stone laying in ceremony CM Manik Sarkar admitting the poor transportation system of the state in presence of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari had criticised the previous UPA-II government for failing to eye on Tripura in regard of better transportation system. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| Tripura Govt issues major administrative | AGARTALA June 30 (TIWN): In a major re-shuffle the state government on Tuesday issued 16 transfer orders of TCS officers in an administrative level in Tripura. Acting on a major reshuffle, the state government transferred Usha Jen Mog, TCS Gr-I, SDM, Jampuijala and is posted as OSD, the Minister Agriculture. Sankar Chakraborty TCS, Deputy Secretary, Revenue transferred and posted as OSD of the minister Revenue. Nirmal Adhikari TCS Joint Director School education is transferred and posted as OSD for ministry of Education (school). Joint Director of Panchayat Rajib datta is transferred and posted as OSD for Ministry of Transport. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| CPI-M sweeps Tripura by-elections, BJP d | AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN): On yet another momentum of the growing support for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here in the state, the Tripura CPI-M and its Left front yet once again won the both the Pratapgarh (SC) and Surma (SC) Assembly seats in the recently by-elections. In a massive mandate, candidate for 13-Pratapgarh Constituency Ramu Das of CPI (M) defeated his nearest BJP candidate, Mousami Das by a margin of 17,326 votes whereas in Surma, CPI-M candidate Anjan Das defeated his nearest rival from BJP, Asish Das by a margin of 15,309 votes. Bypoll was necessitated in Pratapgarh due to the death of CPI-M veteran and former minister Anil Sarkar and in Surma due to the death of sitting MLA Sudhir Das. In total 44,365 polled votes among 50,004 voters comprising 25,512 male voters and 24,492 female voters of Pratapgarh assembly constituency, CPI(M) candidate Ramu Das got 27,555 votes, Mousumi Das of BJP got 10,229 votes, Congress candidate Ranjit Das got 5187. The winning margin of CPI-M candidate is 17,326 votes from his nearest rival BJP candidate Mousumi Das. In the 46-Surma (SC) reserve assembly constituency, CPI (M) candidate Anjan Das got 23,275 votes and his nearest rival BJP candidate Ashish Das got 7966 votes and Congress candidate Nagendra Chandra Biswas got only 2528 votes. The winning margin of CPI (M) candidate is 15,309 votes from his nearest rival BJP candidate Ashish Das.It is to be mentioned here that, this is for the third time in a row that BJP has consecutively secured the second position in the Panchayat Election, TTAADC election as well as the Tripura by-election. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| Bangladesh, China ink treaty for tunnel | DHAKA/ AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN/IANS): Bangladesh on Tuesday signed an agreement with China to build a tunnel under the Karnaphuli river in Chittagong, a media report said on Tuesday. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| Chief Minister Manik Sarkar attends the | AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN): Helping the poor, making people self-sufficient by extending helping hands to them should be our aim in life, says Chief Minister Manik Sarkar in a secretariat conference hall on Monday. Addressing the review meeting organized by State Rural Development Department, under the initiatives of National Rural Livelihood Mission and NE Rural Livelihood Project Chief Minister Manik Sarkar further said that a representative team is to be constituted who will look after the possibilities of elevating poverty from the state. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| CPI-M retains Tripura seats, BJP is seco | AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN/IANS): Tripura's ruling CPI-M on Tuesday retained by huge margins both the assembly seats where polling took place on Saturday, but the BJP edged out the Congress to take the second spot. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| Surma bye-election: CPIM candidate Anja | KAMALPUR, June 30 (TIWN): The process of bye-election for two assembly constituencies in the State ended with the counting and declaration of results today. As per popular speculations, the CPIM candidate Anjan Das grabbed a huge victory of 15, 309 votes over his nearest candidate from BJP, Asis Das. BJP emerged here as the second largest party. And the plight of Congress continued as the party slipped to the third place. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| NSUI demands Smriti Irani’s resi | AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN): NSUI on Tuesday demanded Smriti Irani resign as HRD minister after a trial court took cognizance of a complaint about her educational qualifications. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| All India People’s Forum organize | AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN): All India People’s Forum, a joint platform of different human rights organization on Tuesday organized a mass demonstration at Orient Choumuhani. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| Fire breaks out in Chief Minister Manik | AGARTALA/JIRANIA June 30(TIWN): Just a day ahead of the 66th State based Van Mahotsav, fire broke out at the temporary rest house of Chief minister Manik Sarkar at Champabari ADC village under Jirania on Tuesday early morning. Keeping an eye on the chief minister Manik Sarkar’s visit at champabari under Jirania the concerned authority has constructed a temporary resting place for Chief Minister but unfortunately fire broke out in the resting place resulting panic among the authorities. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| Golaghati Martyr Memorial project work i | AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN): Urging to complete the different undergoing projects of Golaghati Martyr Memorial in Bhoktothakur Para of Dayaram Para ADC village under Jampuijala Sub-division within the current financial year, recently Information and Cultural Minister Bhanulal Saha in a meet at Anganwadi centre of Bhoktothakur Para asked the concern department to keep a regular follow up of the work progress. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| Co-operative society ensures self suffic | AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN): Any work under joint scheme through co-operative society earns success which also ensures self sufficiency to the poor people, says Tourism Minister Ratan Bhowmik during an inaugural programme of a General Meet of Udaipur Primary Marketing Co-operative Society, recently. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| Dilapidated condition of Borkathal Prima | AGARTALA/ MOHANPUR, June 30 (TIWN): The infrastructure of the several Government primary schools in the state when running in pathetic condition, the Borkathal Primary School of Kulibari under Beermohan Bari ADC village is a proof of the administrative negligence in providing education, which is a basic right and the only way to remove poverty in the state. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| Kamalpur: Locale blocked road demanding | KAMALPUR, June 30 (TIWN): Within the completion of polling and on the eve of the counting which would surely be the magnificent victory for the CPIM candidate, the notion of ‘golden regime’ staggered here at Jamthum under Surma assembly segment this morning. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| Centre wants social security for more no | GUWAHATI / AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN / IANS) The central government wants social security schemes like EPF and ESIC to cover more and more people in the northeastern region, Union Labour and Employment Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said here on Tuesday. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| TIWN news impact : Administration locks | KHOWAI / AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN): On yet another twist to the Kolkata based Chit Fund Company being set up at Tripura, Khowai Sub-Division it has been reported that the company named as “Make Life Banijya Private Limited†had engaged a large section of youths who earlier worked at the state’s biggest chit fund company Rose Valley. Besides, after TIWN had published the news for the first time here in Tripura on June 28 following which the Khowai District Administration staffs comprising of District Small Saving Officer Santanu Ghosh, Marketing Development Officer Abhijeet Das on Monday morning conducted a raid at the company office and locked it finding no legal documents with the Chit fund company.TIWN (Tripura Info Way News / tripurainfoway.com ) on June 28 unearthed fraud business of the “Make Life Banijya Private Limited†Chit fund company at Khowai sub division. TIWN also unearthed the Kolkata based company has been marketing illegal in exchange of hefty profit here in Tripura for the few months cheating several numbers of youths. The company is engaged selling some foreign products in a open market here. | 30-Jun-2015 |
| AAP, CPI-M lose credibility after fake | AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, June 30 TIWN): Questions being raised about moral downfall of CPI-M Party - “If the CPI-M in Delhi can demand the resignation of HRD Minister Smriti Irani over fake degree row, than how come Chief Minister Manik Sarkar being a politburo member back tracked from taking action against the fake degree holder MLA Keshab Debbarma ? " In a pointer to a possible political realignment, a commentary on Delhi in a CPI-M journal has endorsed the AAP line that its problems with Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung are engineered by the BJP.A write-up on Delhi in the "People's Democracy" also says that another reason the AAP government was facing multiple troubles was because of its move against "various kinds of corruption in the city".As long as Prakash Karat was the general secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, it kept a distance from the Aam Aadmi Party citing its lack of ideological vision, particularly an economic line.From the commentary in the latest "People's Democracy", which reflects the thinking in the CPI-M leadership, it seems this may be changing after the replacement of Karat by Sitaram Yechury.However, interestingly the role of the communist party here in the state as well as Delhi had proved the party emerged with a “double standard politicsâ€. According to the political analysis the role of the ruling CPI-M here in Tripura towards the Keshab Debbarma fake degree row has brought a jolt in the entire political attire of the CPI-M.The commentary -- "Delhi turns into a battleground for Centre-State relations" -- said the BJP was gripped by "unbounded frustration and blinding rage" after being "so soundly and comprehensively routed" in the February assembly election in Delhi by the AAP. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Youth Congress stages protest rally dema | AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN): After the Tripura Left front Government got to cancel the fake Scheduled Caste (SC) certificate of former CPI-M leader Partha Das during the year 2012 another fake degree row here in Tripura after Delhi HRD Minister Smriti Irani has once again brought a major setback to the politics of the communist party here. CPI-M MLA Keshab Debbarma is accused for pursuing fake educational degree. Empowered by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to move to the High Court the Tripura Youth Congress Committee on Monday staged a protest rally across the capital city demanding for the resignation of CPI-M MLA Keshab Debbarma. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Ganja Plantation worth Rs.5 lakh destroy | AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN): Recently, in a joint operation led by Kalamchaoura Police, TSR along with other officials destroyed massive ganja plantation worth Rs. 5 lakh at Putia and Manikya Nagar under kalamchaura police station of Boxonagar RD block. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Minor trafficking rampant in Tripura | AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN): Human trafficking in Tripura along Indo-Bangla border especially in Dharmanagar is on a rise. Porous International Border along Indo-Bangladesh not only provides safe corridors to traffickers but also acts as easy gates for human trafficking, especially minors. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Tripura AAP's futile attempt to garner s | AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN): Expressing dissatisfaction to the irresponsible attitude of the Union Government of India towards the corruption and impropriety where four of its senior leaders were actively involved, the Aam Aadmi Party, Tripura division demonstrated on Monday at Orient Choumuhani went for a deputation. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary and Banner | AGARTALA, June 30 (TIWN): On it’s another momentum for the Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary the State Forest Department had managed to bring one pair of clouded leopards from Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC), Kaziranga in Assam, recently. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Platform construction work of Agartala | AGARTALA, June 29 (TIWN): Construction of new platform at Agartala railway-station is in full swing and it is expected that the railway track at the Agartala railway station would be laid by October. The long awaited dream of Broad-gauge conversion works are going in full swings at various railway tracks of Agartala. The old platform has been broken and measures are adopted for the construction of the new platform at Agartala railway station. In a move to ease congestion and to accommodate more number of trains, a new platform is undergoing construction at Agartala railway station. After the successful BG (broad gauge) trial run of a diesel engine from Lumding to Silchar the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is working hard at much more faster pace to bring Agartala under the country’s Broad Gauge Network by March 2016. The successful run of the trains on the broad-gauge track will bring sync with those in the rest of the country and Tripura is gearing up for faster connectivity and communication with several parts of the nation. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| NSCN-K militant involved in Manipur ambu | GUWAHATI/NEW DELHI, June 29 (TIWN/IANS): The NIA on Monday said it has arrested a self-styled regional commander of Naga militant outfit NSCN-K who masterminded the June 4 ambush on an Indian Army convoy in Manipur. According to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Khumlo Abi Anal of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) was arrested from Chandel district of Manipur. Eighteen army personnel were killed when a convoy of 6 Dogra Regiment was ambushed on June 4 by militants in Paraolong village in Chandel district bordering Myanmar.A statement issued by the NIA said this was the first arrest in its investigation into the killing. "The accused Khumlo Abi was initially arrested by Manipur Police on June 11. Today (Monday), the NIA arrested him and produced him in the court of the Special NIA judge in Imphal. The judge sent him to nine days NIA custody till July 7," said an NIA official.The statement said investigation into the attack revealed that Khumlo Abi Anal alias Ambison was a "senior functionary of the outfit and he was extensively involved in the conspiracy to attack the army personnel". | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Bhagat Singh statue uprooted at Battala | AGARTALA, June 29 (TIWN): The statue of Bhagat Singh has been uprooted from Battala area on Monday morning during the construction work of fly-over work in the Battala city. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Agartala cinema hall locked after failin | AGARTALA, June 29 (TIWN): The District Administration on Monday had locked another cinema hall at Agartala city center after the management failed to pay rent in due time as per the agreement between Society for Management of City Center and the movie hall management. However, a total of Rs. 1 crore 45 lakhs remained pending with the management of the hall to pay. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Pathetic condition of the national Highw | AGARTALA, June 29 (TIWN): The deplorable condition of National Highway 44 continues. The only road connectivity that links mainland India with the eastern part of Meghalaya, Barak Valley in Assam, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura has for a long time now remained in a harrowing experience for helpless commuters. Due to the critical condition of the road following incessant rain, no commodity truck has arrived in the Churaibari check post on Sunday. All though the passengers’ vehicles have somehow taken the risk to travel on this Jumpy-bumpy road, but no commodity truck arrived here in at Churaibari check post. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Unakoti District Jail to be completed by | KAILASHAHAR, June 29 (TIWN): The remaining work of the Unakoti District Jail at Jaruntali Panchayat has been under construction since 2014 and will be completed by June 2016, said PWD Engineer Goutam Rai on Monday. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Citizen should pay the tax regularly, sa | AGARTALA, June 29 (TIWN): Finance Minister Bhanulal Saha, while addressing an inaugural programme of an awareness camp organized for the tax payers recently, stated that every tax payer like a responsible citizen should always pay the tax, within the mentioned time period. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Assam trainers at Sepahijala Zoo :Traini | AGARTALA, June 29 (TIWN): With an aim to train the 7 years old human imprint developed wild elephant recently captured by the Tripura Forest Department, as per the schedule the 3 members’ team trainers from the neighbouring state Assam had recently arrived here at the state Sepahijala Zoo. The elephant would be trained and later is expected to be used as for tourist safari at Sepahijala Zoo under Bishalgarh sub-division of Tripura. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Negligence of Panchayat Officials left a | AGARTALA/ MOHANPUR, June 29 (TIWN): After appealing for continues three years, till day a family of Mantala village deprived from the handicapped allowance for their son. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Bangladeshi thief arrested a Mohanpur | MOHANPUR, June 29 (TIWN): In a bizarre incident, recently the local publics have caught hold of one Bangladeshi thief from Mohanpur Harinakhola and Fokiramura village area. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| 55-year old man died being attacked by | BELONIA, June 29 (TIWN): A 55-year old farmer died after being attacked by a swarm of bees outside his house on Sunday mid-night. | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Tripura's rising drug problem: 455 perce | AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, June 29 (TIWN): Tripura's soaring tea garden shaped massive GANJA (Cannabis) plantations, organized drug smuggling, ruling party and corrupt official assisted narcotics production, rampant smuggling pushing state's young generation to uncertain future. Drugs, amphetamine, cannabis plant, cocaine, ephedrine, ganja, hashish, heroin, ketamine, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), acetic anhydride soaring business fueling politicians to policeman's pockets in every part of Tripura. India has witnessed a five-time (455 percent) increase in drug hauls over three years - 2011 to 2013 - according to data released by the government in parliament.Officials have seized 105,173 tonnes of illegal drugs over this period, a reminder of a growing Indian problem on the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit trafficking, observed on June 26 by the UN.With nearly 18 percent of the world’s population in the 15-64 age-group, India is a prime market for illicit opiates originating in both Southeast Asia and Southwest Asia, according to the World Drug Report 2014.Mizoram, Punjab and Manipur are among the states where people are most vulnerable to drug abuse. One reason could be their proximity to porous international borders and international drug-trafficking zones, such as the Golden Triangle (Myanmar, Thailand and Laos) and Golden Crescent (Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan). | 29-Jun-2015 |
| Kolkata's new Chit Fund Company targets | AGARTALA / KHOWAI, June 29 (TIWN): Despite Tripura Left front Government had banned fund collections by the Chit fund companies in state but another such company named as “Make Life Banijya Private Limited†at Khowai sub-division is being found engaged to chain marketing and selling foreign products in exchange of hefty fund without prior approval of the state government. “Make Life Banijya Private Limitedâ€, a Kolkata based Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) found to have standing tall with its illegal business of selling foreign products like China made cell phones and Ayurvedic medicines in an open market here at Khowai sub-division., “The inaugurator of the company is Chief Whip Samir Deb Sarkar and was inaugurated on June 8, 2015†using the sign board the company managed to fraud a large number of youths of Khowai sub-division. But interestingly asked about the matter local CPI-M leader denying this said, “Samir Sarkar has not inaugurated such NBFC company here at Khowai.â€It has been learnt that MLA Samir Deb Sarkar had inaugurated UCO bank branch at Khowai earlier during the year 2013 and the same banner used by the bank staffs during the inauguration programme is being used by the Kolkata based NBFC company. Surprisingly asked about licence the Chairman cum Managing Director of the NBFC company Sujan Sarkar said, “We have already go the trade licence from the state government†but reportedly the company got no approval from the state govt. here. | 28-Jun-2015 |
| Air-connectivity downs in Tripura despit | AGARTALA, June 29 (TIWN): Despite the Tripura Left front Government had reduced the value-added tax (VAT) on aviation turbine fuel (ATF) by four percent previous year, the state has lost the tendency of frequent air travel from the Agartala airport planned to be extended and make international standard. As compared to the year 2012, the air transportation has declined for the last 2 years the tendency remains the same this year even after several persuasions to the Ministry of Civil Aviation. As a result hundreds of people flying to Kolkata and Delhi from Agartala and vice versa have been badly hit, said the state government official here. The official informed that despite seeking more flights to run in this region the MoCA has not taken any necessary steps to meet the growing population of the passengers. According to the official here during the year 2014 the figure of the total air passengers rested at 9 lakhs which increased compared to the year 2013. Recently the Jet air company has withdrawn its flights from Tripura region and other parts of the North Eastern region except Guwahati. More than eight lakh people travel from Agartala to Guwahati, Imphal, Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad every year. Air traffic has been heavy because of lack of other means of transport. | 28-Jun-2015 |
| Journalist Madhabi Majumdar passes away | Agartala, June 29 (TIWN): In a sudden shock to Tripura's journalist community, Mrs. Madhabi Majumdar, Senior Journalist of Daily Desher Katha passed away at 9.45 pm in Agartala's AGMC Hospital. | 28-Jun-2015 |
| Missing 16 yrs old girl raped by a pries | KHOWAI, June 29 (TIWN): A 16-year-girl was missing from June 25 from her house at Sonatala Village, under Khowai P.S. After searching a lot, duly on June 26 her father Amar Tati lodged a missing diary at Khowai P.S. Police immediately started the investigation and getting information from sources successfully reached out the girl on Saturday night at 8.30 Pm, who was kidnapped by a priest namely Swapan Gour and kept her at Ramchandraghat Bazaar. The girl was already raped and forcefully married by the him. | 28-Jun-2015 |
| Dire condition of Tourist spots at Old R | UDAIPUR, June 29 (TIWN): After feeding the money to the tenders, in the name of development of Old Royal Palace, the state govt. is failed to save this heritage of Tripura. | 28-Jun-2015 |
| Northeast insurgency : Two militants kil | Agartala / Shillong, June 29 (TIWN):​ Two militants were killed in a joint operation by the army and police and four militants were nabbed with a cache of explosives in two incidents in Meghalaya on Sunday, police said. | 28-Jun-2015 |
| Tripura prepares for by-poll counting on | AGARTALA, June 29 (TIWN): Tripura prepares to count the fate of the by-election aspirant on Tuesday amidst the vote ‘rigging’ as alleged by the opposition congress just after the polling for 13-Pratapgarh and 46-Surma constituency ended peacefully on June 27 without any report of untoward incidents, according to the official of the state election commission. Security deployed in front of the strong room at Agartala Umakanta School.The securities comprising of the central paramilitary forces, BSFs and others are deployed to guard the fate locked EVMs here at Agartala Umakanta School. The counting of votes would be carried out on June 30, Tuesday when the votes of total 50004 voters at 13-Pratapgarh and the votes of total 42,142 voters at 46-Surma constituency would be unlocked to decide the fate of the aspirants.As many as 50,004 voters, of which 24,492 are women, went for exercising their franchise in 13-Pratapgarh SC reserved constituency while 42,142 voters, including 20,541 women, went to cast vote in 46-Surma SC reserve assembly constituency on Saturday.With 85 percent in Pratapgarh and 78 percent in Surma constituency of the electorate having cast their votes on for the first time used Electronic Voting machines (EVMs) in which candidates' photographs have been displayed to avoid confusion among the voters, the by-polling had ended peacefully on June 27. | 28-Jun-2015 |
| Fake degree row hits Tripura : Judicial | AGARTALA, June 28 (TIWN): Delhi’s Smriti Irani's fake degree row has come out to be an inspirational lesson for the Tripura ruling CPI-M party which is found to be playing a ‘double standard politics’ here in Tripura as well as in Delhi. The communist party of India demands the resignation of Irani for her fake degree in respect of her education and the same has come up here in Tripura where the MLA Keshab Debbarma, who managed to contest the 2008 and 2013 Loksabha election with his fake educational degree being under the banner of the ruling CPI-M here and its Left front government. Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee has recently unearthed Keshab’s fake educational degree and later empowered by the Election Commission of India the congress takes up a plan to move to the High Court against the fake degree row. Barman recently unearthed another surprising issue saying, “The non-matriculated after being accused for his fake degree had collected back-dated non-judicial stamp paper from the Bishalgarh court to file an affidavit and had tried to use the power of some judicial officers and the notary public.†Keshab using the party power had approached to the judicial officers ant the notary public for filing another affidavit to curtain his fake degree row,†adding Barman urging those judicial officers and the notary public said, “Do not step forward helping Keshab in filing the affidavit who had already been trapped with because this would bring a death trap for those officers engaged to the judicial services.†| 28-Jun-2015 |
| No more ads by Govt.’s money exce | AGARTALA, June 28 (TIWN): Supreme court’s recent verdict, which will be effected in state Tripura too, has banned the publication of images of chief ministers and governors in state government ads due to which Ministers and any other such persons are no more able to propagate their own personalities, as well as their own “good deeds†on behalf of any political party. This is going to bring a change the scenario of the state, where anywhere any person, uses government’s money to show off their own credits. | 28-Jun-2015 |
| Tripura prepares for by-poll counting on | AGARTALA, June 28 (TIWN): Tripura prepares to count the fate of the by-election aspirant on Tuesday amidst the vote ‘rigging’ as alleged by the opposition congress just after the polling for 13-Pratapgarh and 46-Surma constituency ended peacefully on June 27 without any report of untoward incidents, according to the official of the state election commission. Securities are deployed infront of the strong room at Agartala Umakanta School, where the fate of the aspirants is locked inside. | 28-Jun-2015 |
| Modi’s foreign investment policy | AGARTALA, June 28 (TIWN): Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Sunday addressing the blood donation camp at Agartala Press club organised by the Tripura Protibandi Adhikar Mancha said that the handicaps are not mentally handicapped but they are physically handicapped, therefore they are not meant for any kind of deprivation. “The handicapped people of the state need not knock the door of the ministers for employment,†adding Sarkar said, “The only way to get the employment is to face interview under several posts reserved for the handicapped people.†| 28-Jun-2015 |
| 32nd Annual General Meeting of Tripura S | AGARTALA, June 28 (TIWN): The 32nd Annual General Meeting of Tripura State Cooperative Bank Ltd. has been held at Netaji Subhash Vidyaniketan, Agartala on Sunday at 11 AM. Bhanulal Saha, Minister of Finance, Food & ICAT, Khagendra Jamatia, Minister of Fisheries and Cooperation, Krishna Dulal Chowdhury, IAS Promode Debbarma, IAS, R.K.Debbarma, General Manager, NABARD Haripada Chakraborty, Chairman of Tripura State Coop Bank Ltd were presented in the meeting. | 28-Jun-2015 |
| Demand for dowry left a housewife to suf | UDAIPUR/BELONIA, June 28 (TIWN): Once again Udaipur has been trembled with a dowry-episode, which hurled a woman on the deathbed of Gomati Dist. Hospital. The victim has been identified as Gori Debnath (21), resident of Dhajanagar, Udaipur who was married to Sanjay Debnath of Radhanagar, Belonia in 2013. | 28-Jun-2015 |