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| Tripura Pradesh congress calls for 24 ho | AGARTALA, March 31 (TIWN): Tripura Pradesh congress on Wednesday raised voice against CM Manik Sarkar’s for his direct and indirect involvement in the murder case of the then Health Minister Bimal Sinha. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| North East has huge potential for start | AGARTALA, March 31 (TIWN): When Prime Minister Modi driven 'Act-East' policy bringing enormous developments, infrastructures, investments in Northeast India from Airports to BG Railways, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar alongwith his lameduck Industry & IT Minister Tapan Chakraborty chosen to keep silent on development of State economy. Due to Manik Sarkar’s narrow minded politics, Tripura’s former Industry Minister Jiten Chaudhury was shunted out of State to eliminate ‘future threat’ to CM’s chair. Due to Manik Sarkar’s low minded politics, Tripura is paying the price as no Industry came forward to invest in Tripura after removal of dynamic Minister Jiten Chaudhury from cabinet. Tripura Govt has Industry, IT, Commerce departments for the name sake as no government initiatives are taken to attract investments, employment generation for educated youths. Union Minister Jeetendra Singh on Wednesday said the North East has huge potential for start ups and that venture funds and other facilities can be provided for the start ups. "In years to come, North East will become the destination for young start ups," he said, addressing a seminar on sub-regional cooperation between India, Myanmar and Bangladesh. Tripura's unemployment rate remained amongst the highest in country due to Manik Sarkar Govt's apathy. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| Congress calls Tripura shutdown seeking | AGARTALA, March 30 (TIWN / IANS): The opposition Congress in Tripura on Wednesday burnt effigies of Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, and called for a 24-hour shutdown on April 18 demanding a CBI probe into the assassination of former health minister Bimal Sinha 18 years ago. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| Job drought: above thousand candidates g | AGARTALA, March 30 (TIWN): In a desperate attempt to nab a vacancy for the post of Lower division clerk (LDC) at Veterinary office near stable ground thousands of job seekers queued up from early morning on Wednesday. Reportedly, more than thousand candidates queued up to grab a post about 13 vacancies in the Veterinary office from morning. The job hopefuls began queuing from morning before the office time for a Government job on Wednesday. It has been observed the both the queues of boys and girls were very long and had been eagerly waiting for their turn in the scorching heat. However, the scenario of huge crowd job seekers in front of the Department gave an estimate number of educated unemployed in the state. There was a huge crowd observed inside at the corridors of the Department offices in scorching heat. As the State lacks proper opportunities for the youth and besides, the youth do not have option to work in any private sectors where they can use their skills and also do not had to stay unemployed. Unemployment stands as serious problem in Tripura as young graduates have no place to search jobs other than enrolling names as CPI-M cadres in party offices. With the increase in number of pass out students, the number of unemployed is also raising high. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| State gears up for SMART CITY project, A | AGARTALA, March 30 (TIWN): In a drive to move ahead with the concept of the SMART CITY, and to enlarge the smart city mission, the Agartala Municipal corporation chairperson Prafullajit Sinha on Wednesday held meeting with the municipal councilors at City centre. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| Residents of college Tila place deputati | AGARTALA, March 30 (TIWN): Demanding to take action against five local goons, the residents of college Tila area on Wednesday jointly placed deputation to police headquarter. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| CRS inspection to Badarpur-Kumarghat rou | AGARTALA, March 30 (TIWN): With the completion of the CRS inspection into Agartala-Kumarghat route, the team has walked forward and began with the inspection at Badarpur-Kumarghat route from Wednesday morning.It is to be mentioned here that Railway safety commissioner Sailesh Kumar Pathak said that there is no problem in the Agartala-Kumarghat railway track and is all set to toll the train soon. He further said that superfast trains can be introduced if landslides are taken care of. However, nothing can be said until and unless inspection is completed into the entire newly converted BG track.The safety inspection is the last step in facilitating commissioning of the route, which connects Tripura with other parts of the country. Though the gauge conversion works were completed month ago, the safety inspection was delayed, raising concern among train commuters.According to Railway sources, the mandatory final safety inspection would be conducted by experts for at least 6 days. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| Health Minister Badal chowdhury apprecia | AGARTALA, March 30 (TIWN): Calling upon new blood donors to donate blood generously, Health Minister Badal Chowdhury on Wednesday inaugurated the blood donation camp organised on the occasion of sadar divisional convention of Tripura Government Employees Association (TGEA) at Umakanta school. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| Two day legal awareness programme inaugu | AGARTALA, March 30 (TIWN): Tripura commission for women Chairperson Manika Datta Roy on Wednesday inaugurated the 2 day long legal awareness programme for the working women in collaboration with the national commission for women-New Delhi at press club. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| Passenger train service from Agartala li | AGARTALA, March 30 (IANS / TIWN): The much awaited passenger train service between Tripura and the rest of India is likely to start in April, a railway official said on Wednesday."After completion of all technical, logistical and administrative formalities by mid-April, the train will start running via Guwahati," said spokesman Pranav Jyoti Sharma of the Northeast Frontier Railway. He said the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS), Shailesh Kumar Pathak, was now examining the technical aspects of the newly laid Agartala-Badarpur (Assam) broad gauge railway line. Pathak, who met Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Tuesday, told reporters that the broad gauge line laid up to Agartala was "excellent and unique". The first commercial freight train arrived in Tripura on February 22 from Assam's Badarpur town. Assam's Barak Valley was brought on the broad gauge rail map last year. A regular passenger train service between Silchar and Guwahati started on November 21 last year. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| Anganwadi centre construction delaying, | KALACHARA, March 30 (TIWN) : Due to the negligence of the Panchayat at Algapur, Dharmanagar the Angawanwadi Centre construction at there is delaying and the materials which came in the name of govt. work are wasting like water. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| Agartala railway station second best sta | AGARTALA, March 30 (TIWN): Tripura's BG rail progress is 'on right track'. Agartala soon be brought into the country’s BG railway network service very shortly. Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) SK Pathak said he did not find any major problem after inspection. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| New Common Facility Centre established a | AGARTALA, March 30 (TIWN): Tripura Bamboo Mission established a Common Facility Centre at Narshingarh Cluster. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| India’s historical help to Bangla | DHAKA / AGARTALA, March 30 (TIWN): India’s historical help to Bangladesh to boost economic ties between the both South Asian nations. Container vessel MV Harbour-1 owned by Neepa Paribahan will become part of the bilateral trade history between India and Bangladesh as it sailed to Chittagong from Krishnapatnam port in Andhra Pradesh on Monday, said officials. "The newly-built container vessel sailed on Monday to Bangladesh with containers loaded with cotton. The vessel will be the first ship to carry cargo between India and Bangladesh after the four-decade-old trade agreements was revived last year during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to that country," Krishnapatnam Port Company Ltd director and CEO Anil Yendluri told reporters in Krishnapatnam on Sunday. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| Tripura’s first flyover: Agency f | AGARTALA, March 30 (TIWN): The assigned construction agency NBCC is facing tough time with the drilling work mainly from government press at Bordowali area to Nagerjala due to the land acquisition problem and alleged lack of communication from AMC regarding the under lying water pipes crossing the roads, said construction Project head. | 29-Mar-2016 |
| High Court slashes SRISTI Cable Network | AGARTALA, March 30 (TIWN) : Tripura high court slashes fraud 'Sristi Cable Network' for selling set-top box for cable-connected TV sets to customers at rates much higher which was fixed by the central TRAI authority. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| Frequent load-shedding hits Tripura: sta | AGARTALA, March 30 (TIWN): Despite of several tall claims by the ministerial authority of the state saying that with the commencement of Palatana and with the extension hand of the other power plants of the state, Tripura will be a load-shedding free State, till day the civilians are facing unscheduled load shedding frequently. | 29-Mar-2016 |
| Kolkata police arrests murder-accused cr | AGARTALA / UDAIPUR / DHARMANAGAR, March 30 (TIWN) : A criminal who is presently in jail custody at Balulghat PS under West Bengal in allegation of murdering his wife, was running business here in Tripura with his fake MBBS degree since last 2 years. He regularly used to publish advertisements for medical checkups in Tripura's daily newspapers and was smoothly running his business here in the state, including few other North eastern States. The fake-doctor has been identified as Uttam Das. He weekly ran his medical practice at Udaipur & Dharmanagar subdivision, also in capital city Agartala. In Dharmanagar, he camped at Tripura Guest house, whereas in Udaipur he stayed at Residency hotel, and in Agartala, he ran flourishing business from Triptisri Hotel. In many daily newspapers, his advts were published in front of the Govt. hospitals he ran his business but Tripura Medical authorities, Health Ministry was never concerned about it until the matter was exposed by Kolkata Police. Kolkata Police registered a case against him on March 18, at Balurghat, Kolkata, for murdering his wife namely Jyotika Paul (24). | 30-Mar-2016 |
| TIWN’s impact at Kamalpur: CDPO | KAMALPUR, March 30 (TIWN): After the publication of deprivation of a physically challenged person of Noagaon regarding pension under Salema ICDS Project in TIWN, the CDPO summoned the person and assured him to remedy the matter within 15 days. In this twist of the administration, the deprived son and his father got astonished. However, they planned to go into the root of this saga if the deadline of 15 days got crossed. | 30-Mar-2016 |
| Maximum areas along Indo-Bangla border a | AGARTALA, March 30 (TIWN): Unfenced border areas along IndoÂ-Bangla border at Tripura created havocs for people along the border as well a local people of the State. Though it is to be recalled here that India and Bangladesh conducts regular patrolling but reports of insurgency, smuggling of narcotics and trans- border crime is on a rise. Rising Illegal intrusion in the state is posing continuous threat to the identity of the people in Tripura day by day. It is seen that despite of several tall claims by the ministerial bench the business of drug smuggling, illegal intrusion, and Tran’s border smuggling is on a rise. While the Indian side raised issues about the presence of insurgents, the Bangladesh side raised the issues of narcotics smuggling. Joint patrolling by BSF and BGB and Bangladesh security would swung into action if insurgents were found to be using their soil is though conducted regularly but there is no respite from the growing instance of crime along the border. | 29-Mar-2016 |
| NFR Safety Commissioner gives clean chit | AGARTALA, March 29 (TIWN): Railway safety commissioner Sailesh Kumar Pathak on Tuesday in a press meet at the guest house of Agartala railway station said that there is no problem in the Agartala-Kumarghat railway track and is all set to toll the train soon. He further said that superfast trains can be introduced if landslides are taken care of. Praising the local authorities in a press meet, Railway safety commissioner Sailesh Kumar Pathak said that the State government has shown equal co-operation in connecting Tripura with BG rail service (even though a quick fact-check shows CPI-M aligned contractors supplied poor construction materials, causing collapse of newly constructed Railway Platforms at Dharmanangar). He further applauded the initiative of the NFR authority for completing the work in the given stipulated time and even much before that. One the train starts service it will run in a speed of 120KM per hour. Discussing about his observation he also added that the track alignment between Agartala-Kumarghat routes is perfect and there is no problem at all. Modern track formation techniques are adopted in the transformation of the track from MG to BG. Criticising the deplorable condition of the NH44, he said that railway connectivity can much relief from the day to day poor transportation system. | 29-Mar-2016 |
| CRS inspection underway at Ambassa, team | AGARTALA, March 29 (TIWN): After completion of the inspection at Agartala railway station the CRS team lead by Railway safety commissioner sailesh kumnar Pathak is now inspecting the work status at Ambassa on Tuesday. | 29-Mar-2016 |
| Agartala clutched under massive traffic | AGARTALA, March 29 (TIWN): Messy roads, huge number of vehicles, irregular parking has led to massive traffic jam in the city giving tough time to common people. | 29-Mar-2016 |
| Parimal Saha murder case: HC orders addi | AGARTALA, March 29 (TIWN): Tripura HC recently ordered the additional district and session court to wrap up the Parimal Saha murder case by April 30. | 29-Mar-2016 |
| New university in Tripura to start funct | Agartala, March 29 (TIWN / IANS): Following the governor's assent to a bill to set up a new university in Tripura, the institution will start functioning in August, a minister said here on Tuesday. | 29-Mar-2016 |
| Rain ends dry streak, gives life into gr | AGARTALA, March 29 (TIWN) : On the one hand whereas rain has caused massive losses in few places, on the other hand after the prolonged heat this moderate rain has brought relief from scorching heat as well as has given life into the crop fields. | 29-Mar-2016 |
| MET forecast: Heavy rain to occur in nex | AGARTALA, March 29 (TIWN): Metrological forecast on Tuesday indicated that heavy rain will continue in isolated part of the state along with heavy blow of wind for the next 24 hours. | 29-Mar-2016 |
| Police line celebrates its 1st annivers | DHARMANAGAR, March 29 (TIWN) : With the passing of 1 year of inauguration of police line complex, the staffs at there have observed its first anniversary inside police-line complex. | 29-Mar-2016 |
| Saikar and Sanaiya Reang para hit with d | KAMALPUR, March 29 (TIWN): The annual saga of drinking water scarcity once again hit the hilly terrains of Saikarbari and Sanaiya Reang Para under Setrai VC this year too. At the advent of the dry spell the people there had to struggle to meet their need of drinking water. And their pleas to remedy the situation, failed to stir the authority. | 29-Mar-2016 |
| Massive corruption under NFR hits Dharma | DHARMANAGAR / AGARTALA, March 29 (TIWN): After the 800 meter platform collapsed at Dharmanagar rail station due to the moderate rain on Monday morning, within next days the entire platform had collapsed comprising around 400 more area of the platform. The platform was constructed by using poor quality and cheap materials, that a splash of rain has turned the newly constructed Dharmanagar rail station into miserable shape. After the platform has collapsed fully, the poor quality work is getting visible. Reportedly, the walls of platform have been constructed without any concrete rod fitting. Moreover in many parts of the platform cracks are visible and it can be assumed that within a next few hours of rain the entire station will collapsed. The sanitary places including toilets are going under the soil at Dharmanagar rail station. All these are happening as because rolling was not done for a single day after the mud filling and as a result the platform has collapsed fully. Resentment brewing among the people of Tripura after hearing this and allegations are coming that such poor quality of work is done in all the rail stations across Tripura.It’s to be mentioned here that the filling work which is going on at that station since last 1 year is of poor quality, sub-standard materials. | 29-Mar-2016 |
| Traffic e-challan launched in Agartala f | AGARTALA, March 29 (TIWN): Traffic challans, those dreaded slips issued by the police to offenders under Motor Vehicles (MV) Act, have partially gone digital in Agartala from Tuesday, a new step in the field of e-governance to ensure the process of issuing fines under various slabs is transparent and hassle-free.Instead of physical challans to charge fines from traffic violators, Tripura police has introduced the e-challan system in the city on a trial run. Talking to TIWN correspondent traffic DSP said that the system is launched for the first in the entire NE region on a trial run basis at Agartala from Tuesday. The initiative is taken to get rid of issuing dreaded slips and to maintain a hassle free system and mainly to provide transparency.However, Traffic DSP further said that it is a very user friendly, digitised and enabled on modern technology which will be able to maintain transparency.The enforcement official will cross-check the details with the database and also get a list of details of different rules and amount of penalty to be slapped in case of a particular violation. | 29-Mar-2016 |
| First commercial BG freight train arrive | UDAIPUR, March 29 (TIWN): The much awaited first commercial freight train arrived in Udaipur from Assam amid rousing welcome, ending an old demand for broad gauge railway connectivity between Tripura and the rest of India. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| Temporary relief from petrol crisis in s | AGARTALA, March 29 (TIWN) : Although long queues are seen before the petrol pumps of Tripura, but temporarily petrol crisis has been reduced. | 29-Mar-2016 |
| Rain hits NH-44 once again : disrupts wo | AGARTALA, March 29 (TIWN) : With the rainy season, the NH-44 has turned pathetic as the mud filling work, which was going on at Assam-Agartala road has turned worse with the heavy rain of Monday. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| TRTC failing to cater required passenger | AGARTALA, March 29 (TIWN): The much talked Volvo service to Kolkata via Bangladesh which was inaugurated with great fervour, it seems like the lack of passengers has hit the much awaited service. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| Uncertainty looms large over commencemen | AGARTALA, March 29 (TIWN): Uncertainty looms large over the commencement of the BG passenger train service from Tripura as Railway safety commissioner who is here to conducts CRS inspection into the newly converted BG track has expressed displeasure into the status of the work into several sphere of the BG conversion work to the railway platform to signal system to the construction of the footbridge at Agartala railway station. It is to be mentioned here that when the CRS inspection is underway at Agartala railway station, sudden splash of rain on Monday morning led to the collapse of 800 meter platform boundary wall at Dharmanagar railway station. Promises of commencing the BG passengers train service by April 15 turns bleak as several corruptions and mismanagement in work is alleged in to the construction of the railway platform and station at different part of the state. However, it is also to be mentioned that just a few days back before the beginning of the CRS inspection, a newly constructed rail-shed at the Agartala railway station collapsed suddenly where at least four laborers were brutally injured. It was only because of the use of low graded materials into the construction. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| Bedlam in Tripura assembly over ex-minis | Agartala, March 28 (TIWN / IANS): The Tripura state assembly on Monday witnessed bedlam over assassination of former Tripura health minister Bimal Sinha and his brother in 1998, with the opposition Congress demanding a fresh probe in it. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| Tripura Education-system tops for quanti | New Delhi / Agartala, March 29 (TIWN) : Whereas Tripura schools are suffering from lack of quality in teaching, infrastructure etc, central govt. is trying to upgrade the Education quality here. Bringing qualitative improvement in the learning process was a priority for the government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. "We announced path-breaking reforms in the education sector. Improving the quality of learning will be my government's primary objective," Modi said while addressing the 'Bloomberg India Economic Forum' here. Modi said the government's aim was to empower higher educational institutions to help them attain the highest standards possible. Stating that the government will provide an enabling regulatory architecture to 10 public and private institutions each, so that they emerge as world-class teaching and research institutions, Modi said their regulatory framework will be separate from existing structures like the University Grants Commission and All India Council for Technical Education. "They will have complete autonomy in academic, administrative and financial matters. We will provide additional resources for the next five years for the 10 public universities. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| Rain hits the state on Monday morning, b | AGARTALA, March 28 (TIWN): With sudden splash of rain in isolated part of the state on Monday morning the people of Tripura got much relief from the scorching heat. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| Disabled unemployed forum staged 12 hour | AGARTALA, March 28 (TIWN): Raising voice against the negligence by the state government, the Disabled unemployed forum on Monday staged 12 hour long mass demonstration at Circuit house. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| Locals blocked road during heavy rain : | PADMAPUR (Dharmanagar), March 28 (TIWN) : Locals of Dharmanagar Padmapur, Ward No. 16 have blocked road on Monday for hours in demand of quick renovation work of road. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| Massive thunderstorm-lightning left two | AGARTALA, March 28 (TIWN): In a bizarre incident, two middle aged man on Monday were left critically injured due to the thunderstorm at Kamalghat. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| IDBI bank Agartala branch observes one d | AGARTALA, March 28 (TIWN): As a part of the nationwide strike the IDBI Agartala branch also observed one day strike in the state on Monday. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| NFR Railway corruption : Dharmanagar rai | AGARTALA, March 28 (TIWN): A few hours of moderate rain on Monday morning collapsed 800 meter of Dharmanagar railway platform which has created much turmoil among the railway passengers. Reportedly, Dharmanagar railway station was earlier allegedly using poor material in the construction work, due to bad maintenance and lack of supervision under the observation of Engineer Chittaranjan Paul (infamous for bribery and rampant corruption). With the collapse of railway platform, resentments brewing among the common people of Dharmannagar. Reportedly, 2 high officials including DCM B.K.Misra, R . K Mandal DOM visited here in Dharmanagar rail station on Saturday as a part of inspection and took a survey of various works. Sources said that officials expressed displeasure about the track works and also other ongoing works. Many works however still far from getting over at Dharmanagar railway station including few tracks also. In comparison to Agartala rail station, Dharmanagar rail station work not progressing rapidly due to corruption and contractor lobbies. Whereas all the railway works held in Tripura are in good shape but Dharmanagar rail station the work was undergoing little slow and allegation were coming for poor construction work, until the NFR officials had inspected the rail station. From control room to the tracks laid at there had been inspected, but NFR inspection team expressed displeasure after the inspection. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| FIR lodged against CPI-M’s leader | AGARTALA, March 28 (TIWN) : FIR has been lodged against a CPI-M leader’s nephew named Mridul Das resident of Dharmanagar. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| Silent and unrestrained human traffickin | KAMALPUR, March 28 (TIWN): Human trafficking got considered as the most heinous and the most dangerous of anti-humane crimes. And almost every state and country of the world claimed to be united against such efforts. It might be mentioned here that, the popular cases of human trafficking consists of selling of children for begging on roads, selling of girls in prostitution centers and trafficking of children to the Middle East. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| Yusuf commission report row: 'CM Manik S | AGARTALA, March 28 (TIWN): Opposition leader Sudip Roy Barman on Monday in a press meet at Assembly stated that Chief Minister Manik Sarkar had planned the murder of the then Health Minister Bimal Sinha as the growing popularity of Sinha was posing a threat to the CM’s chair. Addressing a press meet on Monday, opposition leader Sudip Roy Barman further said that the ruling party has intentionally hushed up the publication of Yusuf Commission report for past 16 years only to save the position of the Chief Minister’s chair of Manik Sarkar in Tripura. It is to be mentioned here that the report of the enquiry by Yususf commission, headed by Justice (retd) M.A. Yusuf of the Calcutta High Court, submitted the report in June 2000, but the State Government took 16 years to made it public. Question arises why the report was not made public if it was submitted by the commission 16 years back to the state government. Alleging corruption and changes in the report the opposition Congress demanded a fresh probe in it.Barman further alleged that with the sense to hush up the real truth, the Left Front government has not cooperated with the inquiry commission. The opposition further stated that the State Govt rejected the Congress' demand to probe the assassination by the CBI. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| CBI’s SIT submits chargesheet in | AGARTALA, March 28 (TIWN): The special Investigation formed by CBI has submitted charge sheet into 8 chit fund cases of the state. Among the77 chit fund cases SIT after investigation has submitted charge-sheet into 8 cases in the court on Monday.Police is conducting investigation into rest of the cases. It is to be mentioned here that CBI has formed a Special investigation team (SIT) to probe the chit fund scam in which investors in Tripura, West Bengal, Odisha and Assam were allegedly duped of crores of money. It is worthy to mention here that the government turned their back towards the depositors who lost everything following chit fund scam. The issue is being totally ignored. The chit fund companies who started their business by having a secret understanding with the administration fled away with their entire business. They are beyond trace now, hence, placing the depositors in jeopardy.Similar role was played by Rose Valley. In most of the cases, Rose Valley is not giving back the investors their deposited amount. Every time the depositors knock the door and have to come back home disappointed. CID and CBI were handed over the case, but, the problem is that the fled away companies remain beyond trace. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| CPI-M trying to escape its alleged link | KAMALPUR, March 28 (TIWN): CPI-M party would not go with the details of the Yusuf Commission and remained determined to cling to their traditional stand to blame the opposition for the brutal murder of the former minister Bimal Sinha and his brother Bidyut Sinha at Avanga on 31st March, 1998. The stand of the party became evident once again in the Blood Donation camp organized on the occasion of 19th Death Anniversary of Bimal Sinha at Soumendra Sutradhar stage at Manikbhnader. The party organized the camp as a part of their yearly calendar program of observing the death anniversary of the former Minister Bimal Sinha. The Minister alongwith his brother Bidyut had been gunned down as the duo went to Avanga and reached the Dhalai river bank to negotiate with the terrorists about the release of their kidnapped brother Bikram Sinha. The Minister left his security on the Kamalpur-Ambassa road and went on the river bank. There the NLFT terrorists gunned down the duo on 31st March, 1998. From then on the party used to observe the day as “Anti terrorism Day†and organized different programs ahead of the day. In the blood donation camp was also a part of this program where 40 youths donated their blood.However, the State Government became bound to bring out the report of the Yusuf Commission, set in this regard, after the directives of the High Court, recently. | 28-Mar-2016 |
| Boost for gas based power plants: Tripur | AGARTALA, March 28 (TIWN): With nod from centre’s green panel, approving the state owned oil major ONGC to develop 30 wells across the state, ONGC to start frilling soon for improving the gas resource of the state.The Centre's green panel has given approval to state-owned oil major ONGC for developing 30 wells and other infrastructure in Tripura, entailing an investment of Rs 758 crore.Reportedly, the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the ministry has also given clearance to the ONGC's Tripura project with some conditions. However, ONGC can start drilling only after it will obtain forest clearance, monitor ambient air quality, control noise from drilling activity, and put in place oil spillage mechanism among others. Based on the EAC recommendations, the ministry will take a decision on giving final environment clearance. According to the preliminary blue print ONGC will develop 30 wells across six gas fields at Boramura, Konaban, Agartala Extension Dome II, Manikynagar, Sundalbari and Gojalia in Tripura. The depths of wells vary from 2,500 to 3,000 meters. Besides, it will also construct a gas collection station (GCS) and a pipeline (54.15 km) connecting GCS to ONGC Tripura Power. Total cost of the project is estimated at Rs 758 crore. | 28-Mar-2016 |