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Left front candidate makes a clean sweep | AGARTALA, Feb 16 (TIWN): As expected in absence of effective opposition, Left front candidate Parimal Debnath on Tuesday made a clean sweep in the Amarpur bi-election with the highest margin.Interestingly, left front never lost this seat since 1998 and is firmly gripping the position till date.CPI-M candidate Parimal Debnath got 20,355 votes while BJP candidate Ranjit Das secured 9,751 votes. Congress candidate Chanchal Dey stood at third position with less than 4,000 votes. As expected CPI-M candidate Parimal Debnath won the Amarpur by-elections by good margin. Debnath defeated the BJP candidate who stood in second position.However, CPIM candidate secured 20,355 votes, BJP with 9751, IPFT with 1623, Amrabangali 149, independent party 216 where as 262 votes were given to the account of NOTA. Seven candidates were in fray namely Parimal Debnath of CPI-M, Chanchal Dey from Congress, Ranjit Das from BJP, Pabitra Mohan Jamatia of IPFT, Bijoy Das from Amra Bangalee party, Nakshetra Jamatia from INPT and Ranajoy Jamatia of Twipra Land party. With the declaration of the results CPM supporters kicked off the celebrations in Amarpur. The counting began at 8 am on Tuesday at Amarpur Higher Secondary School.Left front made a clean swept against the rival Congress in these elections. | 16-Feb-2016 |
CPI-M Politburo meeting kicks off at Del | AGARTALA, Feb 16 (TIWN): CPM Central committee kicked off the three days emergency meeting on Tuesday to address the whole situation of the tie up issue at Delhi. The leaders of several states would discuss the matter over the resolution and recommendation sent by state committees.It is to be mentioned here that the tie-up issue of West Bengal pushed the entire Party into a jolt within the party. South lobby of CPM led by party hardliner Karat and ESR Pillai referred the decision of Party Congress and stood against any tie-up with Congress in anywhere.The final decision on the issue will be taken by the party's Central Committee on February 17-18.The Politburo meeting on Tuesday will be followed by another of the Central Committee on the next two days. Last week, the CPI(M)-led Left Front in the state had formally agreed to discuss the issue of alliance with Congress, if it was approached.However, On the alliance controversy CPM Polit bureau members and Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar are busy in attending West Bengal state Committee meeting along with Prakash Karat and other senior leaders of Party. Bengal leaders of CPM initiated the tie-up approach with the help of some Congress leaders against the ruling Trinamool Congress in the Assembly Election. On contrary Congress ranks from Kerala and Tripura oppose the move and knocked the door of High Command to mount pressure on those leaders of Bengal who actually carried the proposal forward to Delhi. | 16-Feb-2016 |
CPM leads in Amarpur Bi- election, BJP h | AMARPUR, Feb 16 (TIWN) : At the beginning of the counting session CPM is already holding the 1st position leading by 10,500 votes. The vote counting had begun at 8 am on Tuesday and the strong room is under strict vigilance of CRPF. Reportedly, whereas CPM is in 1st position, BJP holds the second and IPFT in 3rd. In total 7 parities had submitted their nomination papers for Amarpur Bi-election. The election was held on Feb 13.The candidates for the MLA post are : Parimal Debnath (CPM), Chanchal Dey(Cong.), Rajit Das(BJP), Pabitra Mohon Jamatia (IPFT), Ranjit Das (Amara Bangali), Nakhratra Jamatia (INPT), Nanda Kishore Debbarma (TSP). But Cong. has got out of scenery. IPFT has surprisingly holding the 3rd position. No unwanted event has been so far come out.Control room official confirmed that, only CRPF is deployed within the strong room, whereas TSR, police are taking care of the outside areas. The counter zone is Amarpur Higher Secondary school, where the vote counting has been started in full wave. Police personnel in vehicles and bikes are engaged at whole Amarpur subdivision to avoid any unwanted incident. The bi-election for the Amarpur Assembly segment was decided to hold after the CPI-M had kicked off its one MLA of Amarpur Assembly segment Manoranjan Acharjee on charge of moral error. | 16-Feb-2016 |
Vote counting begins at 8 am : 'Strong r | AMARPUR (GOMATI Dist.), Dec 16 (TIWN) : Vote counting for Amarpur Bi-election has been started in full swing. Counting has been started in time, which was predicted by SDPO Anirban Das that is at 8 O’clock. Talking to TIWN correspondent SDPO Amarpur said that there are strict vigilance for Amarpur bi-election vote counting. “3 types of police personnel have been deployed at Amarpur for vote countingâ€, said SDPO. | 15-Feb-2016 |
One claimed in a road mishap | UDAIPUR, Feb 16 (TIWN): In a bizarre incident, a 30-year old man lost his life in a road mishap on Tuesday at Jharjhari area of Nutan Bazaar Police Station under Amarpur sub-division. | 16-Feb-2016 |
Post Office starts to disburse money to | KAMALPUR, Feb 16 (TIWN): The small savings scam at Noagaon branch post office has ultimately succeeded to attain some kind of remedy for the depositors. The deposits of amount less than five thousand rupees have started to be disbursed among the depositors. | 16-Feb-2016 |
Khowai ADC areas suffer from acute water | KALYANPUR (Khowai), Feb 16 (TIWN) : Although CPI-M claims for bringing ‘rapid development’ in ADC areas, but in reality ADC areas’ people are suffering due to the lack of basic facilities. | 15-Feb-2016 |
Tripura CM Manik Sarkar's 'Golden Era' : | DHARMANAGAR, Feb 16 (TIWN Exclusive): Once again students of Tripura’s school have become the victims of unhygienic mid-day-meal, when a dead rat found in the plates, served to the infants of an Anganwadi Centre at Dharmanagar. This shocking incident took place at the Anganwadi Centre, Ward number 2, North Ganga Nagar, at Dharmanagar subdivision on Monday. During the morning time when the students were taking meals at the Anganwadi Centre, they were shocked to find the parts of the dead rat in their plates. Among them, the body of the rat was found in a plate (in picture above),and the tails, other body parts were was found in other plates. Many plates were full of rat parts which were consumed by infants.Getting informed about it, locals protested heavily against the school authorities and held meeting among themselves for further actions. Decisions has been taken that. on Tuesday there will be a meeting between the school authorities & the local Panchayat members.The girl on whose plate the rat was found has been identified as Sneha Chanda. Reportedly, the girl’s mother has kept the plate with all evidences in her home (captured in picture). | 16-Feb-2016 |
Monarchak 101MW power plant goes under c | AGARTALA, Feb 16 (TIWN): Powered by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), Tripura's 101 MW gas-based Monarchak power plants has once again undergone complete shutdown from last 5 days due to some technical faults in the turbine, said official source.Reportedly, ONGC had been supplying gas continuously to Monarchak power plant and Monarchak was although able to generate power fluently from gas turbine but the sudden report of technical faults has disrupted the power generation.However, the 101 MW gas-based Monarchak power plants in Sipahijala district at Sonamura sub-division has stopped power production after report of faults in the power generation from the gas turbine.Talking to TIWN correspondent, NEEPCO GM SR Biswas said that power generation is totally stopped in the Monarchak power plant due to some technical glitch.He further said that it will take time to resume the power generation and nothing can be said when it again starts power generation.The shutdown of Monarchak is a matter of concern for TSECL. TSECL cannot rely fully on Palatana, they should seriously think about alternate arrangement as Tripura is also willing to transmit 100 MW power to Bangladesh. The fluency in power generation of 101 MW gas-based thermal projects at Monarchak in Sipahijala district has become uncertain due to some technical faults in the turbines. The power crisis here in state seems to be a never ending issue due to lackluster attitude of authorities including Power Minister Manik Dey . | 16-Feb-2016 |
BG Conversion: Construction work underwa | AGARTALA, Feb 16 (TIWN): Aiming to positively kick off the BG passengers train service by April, the workers are busy in the last minute work at railway station. | 15-Feb-2016 |
Police unearthed sensational facts from | KAMALPUR, Feb 15 (TIWN): In the two days’ remand at Kamalpur police station, police succeeded to unearth many sensational facts from the four Bangladeshi citizens. And all those facts, as revealed by a source from police to TIWN somehow or the other indicate to the loopholes in our border vigil. | 15-Feb-2016 |
Wife arrested for killing husband, polic | AGARTALA, Feb 15 (TIWN): Just before people of Tripura could recover the shock of East Dukli dual murder case, another brutal murder case has again sent shock waves across the city. | 15-Feb-2016 |
State BJP raised voice against the JNU i | AGARTALA, Feb 15 (TIWN): Raising voice against the JNU incident, State BJP in collaboration with Tripura University holds a rally and demonstrated at the campus of Tripura University on Monday.The rally began from M.tech building and moved across the Tripura university campus. However, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJYM also organised a rally across the city which began from BJP office and ended at Colonel Chowmuhani raising voice against the issue at JNU.It is to be mentioned here that The Jawaharlal Nehru university turned into a battleground as the Right and Left clashed when a group of Left-oriented students called a meeting to commemorate the “judicial killing†of Afzal Guru, who was hanged on February 9, 2013 for his role in the 2001 attack on Parliament, and the lesser-known co-founder of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Maqbool Bhat, who was hanged in 1984, are “martyrs†in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).The situation turned violent and the administration had to call in the police. A poster, which was pasted all across the campus, read: “There will be an art and a photo exhibition portraying the history of the occupation of Kashmir and the people’s struggle against it.†| 15-Feb-2016 |
Protests in Tripura over CPI-M headquart | AGARTALA, Feb 15 (TIWN / IANS) Ruling CPI-M's leaders and members on Monday organised protest rallies and demonstrations across Tripura to protest over an attack on the party headquarters in New Delhi. | 15-Feb-2016 |
Traditional Ganga puja observed in Tripu | AGARTALA, Feb 15 (TIWN): Holding back the tradition of the once princely state, priests in Tripura on Monday celebrated the age old Ganga puja festival in worship of the holy river Ganga, which is revered as divine by millions of Hindus in India and worldwide. | 15-Feb-2016 |
Tripura Madrassa Teachers’ Associ | AGARTALA, Feb 15 (TIWN): Demanding to regularize all the Madrassa Teachers recruited under the recommendation of the Madrassa Advisory Committee on 31-12-2009, Tripura Madrassa (SPQEM) Teachers’ Association Monday placed deputation to the Director of elementary education at the office premises. | 15-Feb-2016 |
Manika Dutta Roy joins office as new cha | AGARTALA, Feb 15 (TIWN): Manika Dutta Roy on Monday took charge as the newly appointed chairperson of the Tripura Commission for Women. | 15-Feb-2016 |
Unorganised flyover construction: Traffi | AGARTALA, Feb 15 (TIWN): For the thousands of motorists and residents heading towards Battala, struggling starts right at the entrance, from Bordowali itself. Once a serene area with wide, well-laid roads, the stretch now is a nightmare due to the ongoing flyover construction, says the public in unison. Dry weather, compounded with heavy construction work, has turned city’s air seriously polluted. The capital city's air is thick with dust due to construction of residential buildings and flyover, and digging of roads for installing utility lines. Locals have said most of these "development works" are done without spraying any water to minimise dust. Traffic congestion has now become regular scenario. With the on-going construction work of the fly-over work at Battala, the issue of traffic congestions came into public eye with the regular massive traffic jam from Bordowali-Battala road, disrupting the convenient movement of traffic on the road during office and school hours. Through traffic managers are being deployed on the streets but no relief from the traffic jam. | 15-Feb-2016 |
Increasing theft cases hits North Tripur | DHARMANAGAR, Feb 15 (TIWN) : Increasing crimes at North Tripura has created turmoil over there, among them theft cases are at a large. Reportedly, on last night a bike bearing number TR 05-6679 has been theft from a household at Nayanpara Dharmanagar. | 15-Feb-2016 |
Unruly mind-set of CITU hinders gas bott | AGARTALA, Feb 15 (TIWN): Impractical demands of CITU is once again disturbing the smooth bottling of cooking gas cylinders at Bishalgarh bottling plant for last many days. | 15-Feb-2016 |
Indo-Bangla trade route : No major progr | AGARTALA, Feb 15 (TIWN): The construction of the 150-metre bridge on river Feni at a cost of Rs. 110 crore to connect the land locked State with Chittagong port in Bangladesh is stuck at the preliminary work, including making Detailed Project Report, to access Bangladeshi ports to carry goods and heavy machineries for the northeast region is underway. However apart from making any major progress the work has not taken any major lift after preliminary work. As per the plan, after preparing the DPR, it was suppose to submit the DPR to Tripura's industries and commerce department, which is a nodal department for the project. Proposed Bridge over river Feni between Tripura and Chittagong is delaying, plan was to make South Tripura to become trading hub of two countries one day. But till today no such construction work has taken up. In a first step towards making Tripura the gateway of NE India and initiated with one small step it'll surely add special value in the cultural and exchange efforts between Tripura and Bangladesh (especially Chittagong). | 15-Feb-2016 |
Mysterious fire guts 17 shops at Dharman | AGARTALA, Feb 15 (TIWN) : In yet another jolt, 17 shops at Dharmanagar have turned into ashes when fired sparks out at Padmapur Bazar. The event took place at 3.00 am on Monday, which caused losses of atleast 35 lakhs. None of the shops had insurance and allegations are coming that some miscreants’ group is behind this act, as in last 15 days one after one early-morning-fire incidents have created a peace-less situation over there. Tension prevails at Dharmanagar. | 15-Feb-2016 |
Baramura ADC VC Election : CPM Minister | BARAMURA, Feb 15 (TIWN) : Although during the whole year CPM didn’t speak anything against IPFT, but during VC election campaigns at various places, Ministers including the Chief Minister himself have been found to slam IPFT for their raising demands for Twipra land. | 15-Feb-2016 |
‘Discover North East’ Cultu | DHARMANAGAR, Feb 15 (TIWN) : ‘Discover North East Yatra-2016’ has been started in Tripura on Sunday. | 14-Feb-2016 |
CM breaks protocol, attacks Central Govt | AGARTALA, Feb 15 (TIWN): In the name of Indo-Bangla relation promotion, Tripura Govt. has invited Bangladeshi artist Hashem Khan in the 34th Book fair inauguration programme on Sunday at Umakanta Academy ground. Artist Hashem Khan gifted 3 books to Manik Sarkar and showered full load of praises to Manik Govt. for “rapid development†of Tripura during his speech at Book fair. Even though Hashem Khan’s knowledge about corruptions under Manik regime or ground reality of peoples poor condition across the state is unknown but wily Manik Sarkar used Bangladeshi Artist to propagate Manik’s so called ‘Golden Era’, not only that Chief Minister shamelessly criticized BJP led Central Govt in front of Bangladeshi guests, which is against protocol of badmouthing own country’s Central Govt in front of foreigners.Hashem Khan mentioned about Bengali sentiments of 21st February, International Mother Language Day etc, but, Manik Sarkar due to his narrow-mindedness did not hesitate to criticize Modi Govt in front of foreign guests in a non-political programme like Book Fair. | 15-Feb-2016 |
Politics of mutual 'survival' unites Con | AGARTALA / KOLKATA, Feb 15 (TIWN): Leaders of the CPI-M and the Congress will on Monday walk shoulder-to-shoulder in a rally here to protest against the Centre's bid to "propagate the ideology" of the BJP and the RSS with regard to the happenings at the Jawaharlal Nehru University."We will protest against the way the administration has become active to propagate the ideologies of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party. The civil society, various political parties, student bodies and youth will walk in a huge rally," Jadavpur University professor and West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary Om Prakash Mishra said here on Sunday. However, shameless display of new found love between CPI-M and Congress being dubbed as the necessity of mutual 'survival' as both parties lack much existence and popularity across electorate in Bengal. The rallyists will assemble at College Square, and walk three km up to Dorina Crossing.Among the leaders who would participate in the rally are Congress leaders Abdul Mannan and Arunava Ghosh, Communist Party of India-Marxist's Sujon Chakraborty and Ritrabrata Banerjee, and former Kolkata mayor Bikash Bhattacharya. | 14-Feb-2016 |
Mamata throttles up to beat CPI-M, Congr | AGARTALA / KOLKATA, Feb 15 (TIWN): Even as the opposition Left Front and the Congress go through a labyrinth of procedures in their bid to cobble up a possible alliance for the assembly polls later this year, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has steamed ahead with a clear-cut three-pronged strategy to charm the voters.The Trinamool Congress supremo has been showering goodies aplenty on various sections of the people to drive home her development agenda, wooing the minorities who comprise a sizable part of the population, and scouting for potential allies to widen her base. | 14-Feb-2016 |
Amarpur bi-election: Security tighten fo | AMARPUR, Feb 15 (TIWN) : Security has been beefed up at Amarpur for vote counting on Febuary 16. The strong room has been set at Amarpur Higher Secondary School. | 14-Feb-2016 |
Tripura's wait to see direct BG trains s | AGARTALA, Feb 15 (TIWN): The long wait of northeastern state of Tripura to have direct broad-gauge rail connectivity with rest of India soon. The railways already undertaking the project, what they call as ‘Mega Block’, to convert the state’s metre gauge rail track to broad gauge. | 15-Feb-2016 |
Chief Minister Manik Sarkar inaugurates | AGARTALA, Feb 14 (TIWN): Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Sunday inaugurated the 34th Agartala Book Fair at Umakanta Academy field. | 14-Feb-2016 |
5 left seriously injured in a road misha | AGARTALA, Feb 14 (TIWN): In a bizarre incident at least 5 people were left seriously injured in a road mishap at Pragati road on Sunday. | 14-Feb-2016 |
Bank employee’s federation holds | AGARTALA, Feb 14 (TIWN): With a total of 6 charters of demands, the members of the bank employee’s federation hold mass demonstration at paradise chowmuhani on Sunday. It is to be mentioned here that the Bank employee’s federation is scheduled to hold mass demonstration in front of the parliament on March 2 during the parliamentary budget session. | 14-Feb-2016 |
Tripura is all set to participate in San | AGARTALA, Feb 14 (TIWN): Representatives of Tripura football team is all set to participate in the Santosh Trophy football tournament at Aizwal. The match is held every year in the memory of late Maharaja Sir Manmatha Nath Roy Chowdhary of Santosh. | 14-Feb-2016 |
Fire at rubber garden caused massive los | KALYANPUR (Khowai), Feb 14 (TIWN) : In yet another event, a rubber garden has been gutted into fire at Kalyapur, caused huge losses. Sources said that the event held at Kalyanpur, was intentionally done by any of the locals. But who did this, it’s not clear yet. However, FIR has been lodged at Kalyanpur P S. | 14-Feb-2016 |
Second Bi-ennial meet of Melagarh HS sch | AGARTALA, Feb 14 (TIWN): The Agartala branch of Melagarh HS school association on Sunday observed the bi-ennial and yearly meet of the school at Shahid Bhagat Singh youth hostel. | 14-Feb-2016 |
East Dukli dual murder case: Police reco | AGARTALA, Feb 14 (TIWN): As a part of the investigation, police on Sunday recovered the knife used in the dual murder case of mother and son at East Dukli. Tripura police also visited the spot and investigated about the dual murder of mother (Gouri Chakranorty) and son (Debabrata Chakraborty). | 14-Feb-2016 |
Dead body recovered at Kamalpur : Myster | KAMALPUR, Feb 14 (TIWN): Sensation prevailed in the entire Fulchari area under the sub-division this morning, as a dead body got found in an almost marshy field near Fulchari High School. The matter was first noticed by the people of the adjacent house of a teacher namely Swapan Chakraborty. They informed locales about it and then police was informed about the matter. People virtually thronged into the spot to witness the dead body. | 14-Feb-2016 |
Ruling party gears up for ADC polls at K | AGARTALA, Feb 14 (TIWN): With the ADC Village Committee coming ahead, Minister Khagendra Jamatia kicked off election campaign at Khowai on Sunday at Khowai. | 14-Feb-2016 |
Dakshinee to celebrate its silver jubile | AGARTALA, Feb 14 (TIWN): Dakshinee, an Eden of creation is all set to celebrate its silver jubilee on February 18 and 19 at RS Bhawan. Addressing the press meet on Sunday the dignitaries of Dakhini, eden of creation said that they will celebrate the silver jubilee program of the organisation on February 18 and 19 at RS Bhawan. | 14-Feb-2016 |
No major progress seen in the upgradatio | AGARTALA, Feb 14 (TIWN): After the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has given clearance to the plan of setting up new terminal building at Agartala Airport, authority is yet to take any action for starting the work progress of the airport expansion. | 14-Feb-2016 |
Sand mining yet continues at the banks o | AGARTALA, Feb 14 (TIWN): Though several initiatives have been taken by the authorities to curb the rising sand smuggling in the area, sand continues to be trucked from the various parts of the Howrah River in the State. | 14-Feb-2016 |
SMS facility for LPG booking fails to me | AGARTALA, Feb 14 (TIWN): Despite of the introduction of the SMS facility for booking a refill of cooking gas from the dealers, most of the people have to visit the concern agency for booking. | 14-Feb-2016 |
Tripura stands nowhere in national 'Inte | AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, Feb 14 (TIWN): Unfortunately for Tripura’s IT educated youths, Tripura Govt headed by IT illiterate Chief Minister failed to capitalize the golden opportunity of making Agartala as destination of IT Industry in Northeast India as Tripura’s name listed nowhere in the latest report published by Internet and Mobile Association of India. The report, Index of Internet Readiness of Indian States’, was published by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and Indicus Analytics. Internet readiness index is a composite index on components like e-infrastructure index, e-participation index, IT-services and e-governance index. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladeshi Premier Sheikh Hasina was instrumental in shaping the important agreement which was signed in Dhaka on June 6 between the BSCCL and BSNL for leasing of international bandwidth for internet at Akhaura. Even though Modi Govt chosen Agartala as the location for prestigious 3rd Internet gateway of India but lameduck CPI-M Govt failed to make any inroads to build infrastructure and participation of IT Industry in Tripura. Failure of Manik Govt in building necessary infrastructures for IT Industry in Tripura will cause massive setbacks in boosting economy, also missing a golden opportunity to generate large scale employments to IT educated young generation. | 14-Feb-2016 |
Special investigation team of CBI to dig | AGARTALA, Feb 14 (TIWN): Aiming to dig out the hidden truth behind the chit fund scam, CBI has formed a special investigation team. | 13-Feb-2016 |
Tripura towns turn dumping ground for de | AGARTALA, Feb 14 (TIWN): Tripura Ministers claim that the state is peaceful and developing faster than any other state, on the other hand, various murder incidences are occurring every day. | 13-Feb-2016 |
Amarpur bi-election concluded successful | AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN): The bi-election to Amarpur assembly constituency successfully concluded on Saturday. However, the sources said that there was no report of any untoward incident. | 13-Feb-2016 |
Cash starved CPI-M dumps communism, clea | AGARTALA / KOLKATA, Feb 14 (TIWN): CPI-M stalwarts Karat, Yechury and their obedient student Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar certainly care less for Karl Marx or communism when it comes to enriching party funds by aligning with other capitalist backed parties like Congress. CPI-M and Congress are well aware of the fact that its impossible to defeat Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress in upcoming assembly election. Then the question arises why this sudden tie-up and how its beneficial to Congress at all ? As per leading political analysts, Congress, CPI-M pre-poll alliance will not help either party politically but will enable CPI-M to start cash collection from businesses, industrialists who traditionally back congress and bear most of the election expenditures. Sonia Gandhi blessed Yechury needs alliance with Congress to boost party's cash reserves as tiny Tripura unable to bear communist party's expenditures nationally. Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee attacked CPI-M's deficit of values, ideals and said "Those who change their ideals,.. the CPI-M, Congress alliance is a big mistake". Highlighting the importance of ideology in politics, she said even if a party becomes weak, it remains a loner by sticking to its ideology. "But those who sell off their ideological beliefs for the sake of power, become non-existent like CPI-M." | 13-Feb-2016 |
CPI-M's anti-India leadership : BJP atta | AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, Feb 14 (TIWN): Calling for punishment for the students who participated in the "anti-India" march, the BJP on Saturday said the CPI-M and the Congress should drop India from their party names for supporting "anti-nationals".Interacting with media persons here, Bharatiya Janata Party national vice-president Dinesh Sharma also questioned the silence of the West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress over a section of JNU students holding a meet on Tuesday to mourn hanging of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) co-founder Maqbool Bhat. "When the whole country is outraged at the protesters who publicly gave anti-India slogans and supported a terrorist like Afzal Guru, the Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Indian National Congress, instead of condemning, have been rallying in their support," he said. Sharma strongly criticised CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechuri who on the day met union Home Minister Rajnath Singh demanding the release of JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar arrested on sedition charges."What can be more unfortunate than people are now advocating for those who deserve strong action for their anti-national stand. "Both Congress and CPI-M who are supporting such anti-national elements, should drop India from their party names because they are pursuing anti-national politics. They are as guilty as the protesters," said the BJP leader. | 13-Feb-2016 |
'Twipra land will remain as an imaginary | AGARTALA, Feb 14 (TIWN) : Tripura Chief Minister during his speech on Saturday at Kanchanpur Subdivision(North Tripura) said that “Twipra land will never become realityâ€. CM was addressing the mass during his ADC Village Committee Election campaign, and he mentioned, “Tripura is already a very small state, with its less population. So it’s not possible to separate the land to make a new landâ€. | 13-Feb-2016 |
By-polls end peacefully in Tripura, Punj | AGARTALA / CHANDIGARH / HYDERABAD, Feb 13 (TIWN / IANS) The by-elections to three assembly seats in Tripura, Punjab and Telangana passed off peacefully on Saturday, officials in the three states said. | 13-Feb-2016 |