Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
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| Police continue interrogation of pistol | AGARTALA, Dec 1 (TIWN): The prime accused Naresh Chakma who was sent to three days of police remand by a local court on Sunday, police continue interrogation to nab if any other culprits are engage in the business. | 30-Nov-2015 |
| Deplorable condition of school infrastru | KAILASHAHAR, Dec 1 (TIWN): Where Chief Minister Manik Sarkar busy in attending rallies as a part of campaigning on Monday, number of students are studying under roofless building. | 30-Nov-2015 |
| Election campaign continues in full-fled | AGARTALA, Dec 1 (TIWN): Just when the civic poll is knocking at the door, all the political parties have bulked up their activities as a part election campaign. | 30-Nov-2015 |
| 30 died of HIV infection in Tripura in 2 | Agartala, Dec 1 (TIWN): Altogether 30 people died of HIV infection in Tripura in 2014 15, officials said on Monday. | 30-Nov-2015 |
| Preparation for the civic poll is on pea | AGARTALA, Nov 30 (TIWN): Keeping eye on the ensuing civic poll, State Election Department are carrying on with the preparation on full fledged manner. | 30-Nov-2015 |
| Kamalpur: Manik continued the demands of | KAMALPUR, Nov 30 (TIWN): Whether its election time or not, the ‘golden era’ famous CM Manik Sarkar and his colleagues used to trumpet the claims of glaring development in the state. They also went to the extent of claiming that, the development in Tripura remained in scalable for other states in the country. But when it came to the matter of reality the reports of the different departments stated the saga of failure in achieving aims as set in previous years. Such failure revealed in the Annual Reports of DWS department for two consecutive years and the failure got admitted in the Annual Reports for 2013-14 and 2014-15. More interestingly, the failure not even spared the Dhalai district which remained under the direct surveillance of the CM. | 30-Nov-2015 |
| World AIDS Day to be observed | AGARTALA, Nov 30 (TIWN): Aiming to curb the rising HIV, various initiatives has been taken up by the Tripura AIDS Control Society on World AIDS Day to be held on December 1. | 30-Nov-2015 |
| Connectivity through Dhaka to boost cros | AGARTALA, Nov 30 (TIWN): Connectivity by road, rail, river, sea, transmission lines, petroleum pipelines and digital links will lead to tremendous economic activities and provide a real boost to cross-border trade between Bangladesh and Northeast India. It will usher in a never-before win-win situation for all, particularly the landlocked Northeastern region, which will help India connect further to Southeast Asia and even southwestern China. | 30-Nov-2015 |
| Agartala – Guwahati bus service s | AGARTALA, Nov 30 (TIWN): With much of enthusiasm the Tripura Road Transport Road Corporation (TRTC) has launched the Agartala – Guwahati bus service before Durga Puja.Talking to TIWN correspondent Transport Secretary Samarjit Bhowmik said that due to some technical faults the bus service has been stopped on the route and initiatives are underway to resume the bus service in the route. However, according to report, the new AC bus procured by TRTC for the route hardly gave service twice to Guwahati after its inauguration and since then the service was stopped. The service is allegedly stopped after getting complains from passengers, as the so called deluxe bus is not fit for journey in the route. The bus lacks journey facilities as AC was fitted in normal bus. The passengers need comfortable bus seat while travelling long journey but it is seen that the seat arrangement in the bus is unscientific and passengers did not find any comfort. For this the passengers are not willing to travel by the bus. As a result, passengers have to travel by double fare by private buses and other vehicles. Although the TRTC authority are aware of the issue and despite of knowing everything they are not taking any action for the renovation of the bus.The Agartala – Guwahati bus stopped on October 16 and after two months the bus service did not resume. | 30-Nov-2015 |
| Only Rs.10,000 is the benchmark for the | AGARTALA, Nov 30 (TIWN): When only Rs 10,000 is set as the benchmark per candidate for the election expense it is seen that the political parties are spending lakhs of money to organise a single election campaign, now question arises from where is the parties like CPI-M is getting such huge money to organise such lavish campaigns in the state ? Talking to TIWN correspondent Election commissioner G.K.Rao said that only an amount of Rs 10, 000 is allowed per candidate but the party campaigns shows that lakhs of rupees are spent for organizing such huge campaigns. On the one hand Chief Minister Manik Sarkar claimed that the Left Front is a poor people government then from where is Manik’s government getting such bag full of money to organize such campaigns? Only to brainwash the mind of people ahead of election and woo the people for votes in favour of left front, Manik Sarkar himself is attending rallies to woo the voters. | 30-Nov-2015 |
| Manik doesn’t allow dynamic Minis | AGARTALA, Nov 30 (TIWN): Doesn’t matter how much Manik Sarkar is screaming at his election-rallies about the “rapid progress of Tripura in comparison to any other states of India, but his own colleague Minister Badal Chowdhury while talking to TIWN about the work of NH-44 repeatedly said, “No-way it can be denied that NH-44 is in bad-shape which is bringing only miseries to common peopleâ€. Talking to Choudhury on Sunday evening, Minister said the NH-44 is in pathetic state not only at Churaibari road but it includes the capital city too, whether in comparison, the road towards South Tripura is in better shape.However it’s to be mentioned here that whether Manik Govt's priorities in scam and image building exercise, few dynamic Ministers are still there who likes to discuss the real facts and figures, which are occurring in state. May be that is the reason that Sarkar is not allowing good Ministers like Badal for doing their works and snubbing them in party’s top most position. To avoid inner party competition, Tripura's most dynamic Industry & Commerce Minister Jiten Chowdhury was pushed out from the State, Manik's next plan is to kick out Badal Chowdhury from Tripura Cabinet after 2018 election. NH-44 is in such bad shape due to Manik's control over all depts including PWD. How far few Ministers want real development, but works are being done as all top officials are remotely controlled by CM. As a result development has become an uphill task in Manik’s era as Chief Minister always scared to give independent hand in running in Govt Departments. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| Tripura’s economical condition br | AGARTALA, Nov 30 (TIWN): Although in all other North Eastern states Govt. employees are getting Central pay-scale but in Tripura the govt. employees getting almost 40 to 60 percent less salary than the central govt. employees. Tripura CM Manik Sarkar so far avoided 6th pay Commission nor the 7th pay commissions recommendations. With that the central govt. is to follow the 7th pay commission, but Tripura govt. has no concern to maintain the balance between state-central budget. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| Tripura Health Scam: PCC president to fi | AGARTALA, November 30 (TIWN): Raising voice against the alleged funds scam to the tune of Rs 4.47 crore in the National Health Mission (NHM), PCC President Birajit Sinha on Sunday said that within one week a case will be filed against the corrupt officials involve in NHM scam. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| Facelift work of Agartala railway statio | AGARTALA, Nov 30 (TIWN): With the aim to give a new look to the Agartala railway station along with BG conversion wok at Tripura, facelift work of Agartala railway station is undergoing in full swing at Badarghat railway station. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| Polling personnel’s to leave for | AGARTALA, Nov 30 (TIWN): Keeping eye on the safe conduct of the municipal election, the polling personnel’s appointed for the ensuing municipal election slated to be held on December 9 are scheduled to leave for their polling station on Dec 6. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| Udaipur Postmaster Jayanta Saha case: 'S | AGARTALA, Nov 30 (TIWN): One day has been passed when agents disclosed the unruliness within Udaipur Post Office, under R K Pur area which is headed by Post Master Jayanta Saha, and reportedly Saha is accused of improper dressing within office and continued his misbehavior. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| Missing minor girl sent to Amtali Govt C | UDAIPUR, Nov 30 (TIWN): A minor girl who went missing has been brought to Udaipur, Amtali Child Government Home on Sunday. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| Tight security arrangements of Electroni | AGARTALA, Nov 29 (TIWN): Security arrangements of Electronic Voting Machines for the upcoming election have been done on Sunday in the presence of representatives of different political parties and delegates at Umakanta old building. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| Civic Poll: Left Front far ahead with el | AGARTALA, Nov 29 (TIWN): Compare to any other parties in the State, Left Front Party is far ahead with the election campaign. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| Health Department under scanner, RTI fil | AGARTALA, Nov 29 (TIWN): Just when counting days are left for the upcoming civic poll, question raised against the Health Department under the Manik’s regime regarding the recruitment procedure of radiographers for the operation of MRI Machine. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| Improper management of traffic on the ro | AGARTALA, Nov 29 (TIWN): Construction of fly-over resulted into traffic glitch and the dwellers of Agartala witness’s traffic logjams at rush hour every day, unnecessarily holding up people who are in a hurry to reach their destinations at time. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| Kamalpur: Preparation on peak for the en | KAMALPUR, Nov 29 (TIWN): The administration is all set for the ensuing Nagar Panchayat election here. With an aim to cope with the gearing up temper of the election, the administration left no stone unturned. In this election 7915 voters would cast their franchise in 11 polling booths to elect 11 representatives of Nagar Panchayat for next five years. Police also beefed up security measures to keep law and order under control. Besides keeping watch in different areas, constant patrolling and vigil got tightened. And nothing unprecedented been reported so-far regarding the election. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| Kamalpur: Thieves broke into three shops | KAMALPUR, Nov 29 (TIWN): In a sensational event on the eve of vote, thieves broke into three shops and looted materials and cash worth lakhs of rupees last night here at Kamalpur. Police though registered case but failed to find any clue yet. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| Dhalai border haat project is at stake, | AGARTALA, Nov 29 (TIWN): The much awaited project of border haat at Kamalpur is at stake as Bangladesh authority has not yet given any response to set up the border haat at Tripura.Although the representatives from Bangladesh has given response to the letter sent by the authorities of Tripura but yet no decision is taken to conduct a joint meeting between the authorities of Tripura and Bangladesh, confirmed Dhallai DM on Sunday.With the aim to boost the trade between India and Bangladesh, Tripura is moving ahead with the initiative to open a new border haat at Kamalpur under Dhallai district but the lacklustre attitude of the authorities from Bangladesh has given a pause to the development of the project.Talking to TIWN correspondent, Dhallai DM said that probabilities for opening the new border haat at Kampalpur can be executed and implemented only when the authorities from Bangladesh will give duration to conduct the general meeting.A joint meeting between the authorities of Tripura and Bangladesh is important for deciding the venue for the haat. Until and unless the meeting is conducted no progress can be made for the 3rd border haat in Tripura, said Dhalai DM. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| 101 MW Monarchak power plant generates a | AGARTALA, Nov 29 (TIWN): With some unavoidable glitches from ONGC since Friday, ONGC is yet successful in generating about 50 MW of power on Saturday, says NEEPCO GM SR Biswas.Talking to TIWN correspondent, NEEPCO GM SR Biswas said that though there were some technical glitches in the initial stages of the power production but with gradual development of the power supply from ONGC Monarchak succeeded in generating 47 MW of power on Saturday.Powered by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), Tripura's 101 MW gas-based Monarchak power plant was completely shut down due to lack of supply of gas from ONGC. Unable to get the required supply of gas from ONGC, Monarchak has faced a daily loss of Rs 17lakh which monthly stands at around 5 crore.Since October 16, ONGC has stopped gas supply, resulting, the complete shutdown of power generation at Monarchak. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| Political mud slinging continue: Whats B | AGARTALA, Nov 29 (TIWN): Election tempo is rising among parties for attention as municipal election is knocking door, also a litmus test for India's only communist ruled state and its Chief Minister Manik Sarkar. Most voters have already decided whom to cast their valuable vote as CPI-M so far ahead in race due to party discipline and lack of infightings like Congress or organizational weakness like BJP. In Tripura, even though Cong and CPI-M are considered as traditional competitors, however BJP is increasing its vote share since 2 years in spite of poor organizational strength and dynamic local leaderships. As per Political analysts, facts can’t be denied that BJP has a long way to go in the political map of Tripura to match over 2 decades old CPI-M's game plans. Tripura State BJP President Sudhindra Dasgupta while talking to TIWN on Saturday evening said that BJP candidates, party members all are working very hard for the sake to solidify party's organizational strength and BJP is hopeful that vote-banks will surely rise than the previous years. “Day by day Tripura administration being marred by rampant corruptions under the reign of Manik Govt. also due to CM's handpicked corrupted officials and moral degradations, whole State Govt is involved in corruption from Block to District levels â€, claimed State BJP Chief. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| Manik’s stage managed NDTV interv | AGARTALA, Nov 29 (TIWN): Nationally it’s a well-known fact that NDTV is owned jointly by media baron Prannoy Roy and his wife Radhika Roy, and Radhika Roy’s own sister Brinda Roy who after marriage to CPI-M Politburo member Prakash Karat changed title to Brinda Karat. Hence other than CPI-M family owned NDTV, no other national TV or media ever shown any interest to interview or propagate so called ‘clean and poor’ image of India’s most corrupt and tainted Chief Minister Manik Sarkar who not only created dozens of well known scamsters like BDO Bimal Chakraborty to generate multi-crore scams looting public money, also Manik Sarkar hand-picked most corrupt officials like Hyderabad timer scandal tainted IAS officer GSG Ayyangar to virtually lead civic administration as Principal Secretary; another CBI charge-sheeted corrupt IPS officer K.Nagraj to lead Police Administration as DGP. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| Unemployment hits State under the 22 yea | AGARTALA, Nov 29 (TIWN): It may be expected that Left Front might face short of votes from the unemployed section of youth as they are continuously being deprived under Manik’s rule Government. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| Maintenance of LED light in stake, indee | AGARTALA, Nov 29 (TIWN): Agartala Municipal Corporation where nominated for the Skoch Order of Merit award 2015 for successful implementation of LED Lights, on the other hand after few day of the installation of the LED lights some started flickering and some got damaged. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| 35166 homeless people prevailing in Trip | AGARTALA, Nov 29 (TIWN): At present, there are 35,166 people in the State who are deprived of housing and 12831 people who are landless. Though the State Government had given land to the needy persons, but still the condition of the State is in pathetic condition. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| Chinese Ambassador desires to setup Chin | IMPHAL/AGARTALA, Nov 29 (TIWN): Ambassador in Manipur for Sangai fest, holds talks with Ibobi on trade, cultural ties.Yucheng is here for three days to attend Manipur's 10-day annual Sangai tourism festival. | 29-Nov-2015 |
| BBIN car rally leaves Agartala for Chitt | Agartala, Nov 28 (TIWN / IANS) The BBIN Friendship Motor Car Rally, organised to promote an agreement on uninterrupted cargo movement in the Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) region, on Saturday left the Tripura capital for Bangladeshi port city Chittagong after travelling through India's northeastern states. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| BBIN criticizes NH-44's pathetic State: | AGARTALA, Nov 28 (TIWN): In an insulting remark to Manik’s golden era, the BBIN representatives who arrived in the state on Friday as a part of the BBIN trial car rally criticised the poor condition of NH-44 in the so called golden era.Altogether 20 cars arrived in the state along with 80 representatives on Friday night. The cross-border four nation car trial run through Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) has launched its run from Bhuwaneshwar on 15 November entered Agartala on Friday late night and was successfully flagged off from Agartala by CS Yash pal Singh on Saturday morning.Although, State administration gave a warm welcome to BBIN car rally representatives, but the representatives criticised the pathetic condition of NH-44 over past many months. The representatives said that it’s very shocking that National Highway 44 – 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 a harrowing experience for them. They said that they gave come across several routes during the trail run but in Tripura they have faced a harrowing experience. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| Regional Conference on Mediation: 'Media | AGARTALA, Nov 28 (TIWN): A two- day long regional conference on mediation has been organized on November 28 at the auditorium of Tripura High Court. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| Second phase of mock poll conducted: Civ | AGARTALA, Nov 28 (TIWN): With an aim for smooth and hassle free election, SDM Manik Lal Das along with the polling personnel conducted the second phase of mock-poll on Saturday at Randra Satabarshiki Bhawan. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| One arrested with 9mm pistol at Agartala | AGARTALA, Nov 28 (TIWN): Acting on a tip off, East police personnel on Saturday arrested one man with 9mm pistol from him at College tilla area. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| BBIN car rally receives grand welcome fr | UDAIPUR, Nov 28 (TIWN): The cross-border four nation car trial run through Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) was given a grand felicitation by DM gomati Sonal Goel at Udaipur Rajashri Kalakshetra on Saturday. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| CS YP Singh flags off the BBIN trial car | AGARTALA, Nov 28 (TIWN): The cross-border four nation car trial run through Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) was successfully flagged off from Agartala by CS Yash pal Singh on Saturday morning which launched its run from Bhuwaneshwar on 15 November. The rally entered Agartala on Friday late night and the state administration gave a warm welcome to the BBIN representatives. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| Shops evicted for double-lane expansion | UDAIPUR, Nov 28 (TIWN): With a joint initiative of Tripura State Rifle and Udaipur Police personnel on Saturday staged an eviction drive at the Matabari Area. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| Flags festoons of BJP destroyed, trigge | AGARTALA, Nov 28 (TIWN): The flags festoons and the decorations of BJP ahead of the municipal election were destroyed by some unidentified goons, alleged the BJP leader on Saturday. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| Smuggling of contraband items on a arise | AGARTALA, Nov 28 (TIWN): Despite wire fence in most of the parts of the border area of Khowai district the smuggling of contraband goods is still on a rise. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| Natural Products as a Resource for New D | UDAIPUR, Nov 28 (TIWN): A two daylong seminar of recent advances in natural products chemistry for drug discovery was organised at Udaipur Rajashri town hall on Friday. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| Black marketing of domestic cooking gas | AGARTALA, Nov 28 (TIWN): Despite of the introduction of the modified direct benefit transfer scheme for LPG, black marketers of domestic cooking gas cylinders making the availability of the LPG cylinder tough for the consumers of Kadamtala. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| Flop show of CPI-M at Udaipur: Health Mi | AGARTALA, Nov 28 (TIWN): Since lameduck Health Minister Tapan Chakraborty’s time, health service at Udaipur subdivision had been declined under massive corruption in the name of Gomati Dist. Hospital construction. | 27-Nov-2015 |
| Minister of State for External Affairs G | AGARTALA, Nov 28 (TIWN): Minister of State for External Affairs General (Dr.) Vijay Kumar Singh is like to inaugurate the international passport centre at Tripura after the Municipal election. | 27-Nov-2015 |
| Observers name declared for the upcoming | AGARTALA, November 28 (TIWN): With the aim to accomplish the civic poll peacefully, State Election Commission is going to deploy 24 observers to monitor the election. | 27-Nov-2015 |
| Poor INTERNET service and deplorable con | AGARTALA, Nov 28 (TIWN): While addressing an election campaign on Friday, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar's tall claim that the Tripura is developing faster than any other state but the poor internet service and the deplorable condition of the roads which plays an important role in developing a State speaks opposite.Prolonged deplorable condition of the Internet connectivity provided by BSNL, hits the people of the state with acute disruption in the day to day work through internet service. Today most of the works are dependent over internet service, whether it banking or for education purpose everywhere and every time inter is required.Although virtual connectivity has become increasingly important today with the emergence of new communication avenues, a good and reliable transport network also remains vital. There is a very strong positive correlation between a state's economic development and the quality of its road network.With the bad connectivity of roads with the other States causes great loss to the State’s economy and also creates trouble for the public.The poor internet service in the State also harms the banking service, from teens to senior citizen all had to wait for long hours in a queue as because the bank does not have any internet link.Elsewhere, when the people are switching on to 4G, the so called Golden Era of Tripura is still struggling with poor internet service, and Manik claims that Tripura is developing faster than any other State. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| Massive corruption in PWD Dept. in CPI-M | AGARTALA, Nov 28 (TIWN): Statewide across Tripura corruption has gripped the PWD in every subdivisions under the regime of Manik Govt. Even tough funds continue to come from the central govt. but the fruit of those funds are invisible yet of today. Either in the matter of road-way construction or building construction, everywhere the sign of corruption is so much visible.It’s worthy to mention here that the state govt. took over the maintenance in September 2013 from the central govt i.e. BRO (Border roads organization). But the main goal of govt. was pocketing the central funds, and exactly from that time NH-44 started to become worse and worse. According to the sources The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways had given an approval of Rs. 15 crore for the maintenance and the development of the NH-44, connecting Churaibari with Sabroom via Agartala. Then to de-centralize the issue and to grab the money, CM Manik Sarkar turned the issue by demanding another National Highway from Modi-govt. and for the 4 lane work of NH-44 but since then the issue of the main NH-44 has been fully sidelined by the state govt. | 28-Nov-2015 |
| 'Greed' hits RD Dept. : after Bimal Chak | AGARTLA, Nov 28 (TIWN): “Greed doesn’t rest until it’s satisfied & greed is never satisfiedâ€, this great quote is applicable to understand why after so many cases and allegations against the state govt. officials of Tripura, corruption always on rise. An example of the present Principal Secretary, GSG Ayyangar, whose department once was changed by Manik Sarkar to save him from the charges of corruption; but as soon as he joined in another department (as the Principal Secretary RD Department his corruption tainted lust started again. GSG Ayangar can be called as the most scam experienced IAS official who was caught red-handed for pocketing crores in Hyderabad Lamp light scam. | 27-Nov-2015 |
| Weather change ushers season for Tripura | AGARTALA, Nov 28 (TIWN): Tea plantation at a rise here in Tripura with the arrival of pre-winter season. | 27-Nov-2015 |