Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
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| Tripura under the threat of Extremism : | AGARTALA, April 1 (TIWN) : Whereas Tripura is suffering from ISIS / ISI terrors, the Chief Minister here is unwilling to take this matter seriously resulting in increasing terrors in the state. Generally CM blames the western countries for their capitalism attitude and being a hater of nuclear-deal as a part of Marxist theory CM avoids to take international terrorist threats seriously, and to take action so diminish extremist activities. | 02-Apr-2016 |
| BJP’s warning to Tripura govt. re | AGARTALA, April 2 (TIWN) : After much protest rallies here in Tripura by Tripura’s one of the opposition parties , i.e. BJP, is now silent after the state govt. didn’t bother discuss the issue of sugar price among themselves. Surprisingly, BJP is also silent now whereas this party warned CPI-M to decrease the price hike within 48 hours whereas more than 2 week have been passed after that warning. | 02-Apr-2016 |
| MBB State University : new drama of qual | AGARTALA, April 2 (TIWN): Keeping a few lakhs of youth unemployed in the state, Tripura government is all set to begin with the new state university from August to provide quality education to the people and nil employment in returns. It is to be mentioned here that the stage is all set to start to start new state university functioning from August. Kolkata's Jadavpur University Professor Gautam Bose has been selected as the vice chancellor of the new university. The left front government in Tripura has decided to set up a ‘state university’ to improve the scope of higher education. The government plans to launch the university at Maharaja Bir Bikram College, which has a large campus, to encourage teaching environment in the capital city. To widen the higher education scope the state came up with this proposal of establishing this new state University other than already running Tripura Central University. MBB University would start functioning from current academic session (2016-17) in the MBB College premises, official sources said. | 02-Apr-2016 |
| Land-acquisition process for Indo-Bangla | AGARTALA, April 2 (TIWN) : After the NFR has submitted the DPR with the estimated cost of Rs. 580 crores, for the Indo-Bangla project, state is now waiting for the fund to come. | 02-Apr-2016 |
| Indeed SMART city ‘Agartala†| AGARTALA, April 2 (TIWN): CPI-M rule over last two decades converted Agartala indeed a ‘SMART (?) city’ as Manik Sarkar’s illiterate Ministers and bureaucrats cemented all drains in Agartala, which not only clogged drainage systems but flood city after every splash. Tripura’s highflying Transport Minister Manik Dey ( a former bus conductor) claims a lot about upcoming hi-tech projects for Tripura as Airport Expansion, SMART City planning, Roadway developments, Transport Minister was spotted to pass Agartala City’s water-logged areas with hardships after the rain on Friday. Manik Dey, on Friday was passing through the road from Ganaraj Chowmuhani towards Jail road, but his vehicle had to struggle through the flooded road due to water logging. After every rain, roads turns into drains as Agartala’s sewage system failed completely under the corrupt PWD and AMC (Agartala Municipal Corporation). Agartala’s poor sewage systems, clogged drains are a far cry from so called ‘SMART City’. Agartala’s poor plight shows that irrespective of hundreds of crores being pumped by Central Govt, ADB, other financial institutions for modernizing infrastructures, however Agartala cannot turn ‘SMART’ with the present bunch of dumb city planners, Ministers and officials. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| Embezzlement of Rs. 2 crores in RD Block | AGARTALA, April 2 (TIWN) : A half completed work of Kalachara block with the estimate cost of atleast Rs. 2 crores is going to inaugurate, without giving any details of the utilization of amounts. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| Crime against women on rise: Minors bein | AGARTALA, April 2 (TIWN): Tall claims of development by the ministerial authority where goes high, several minor girls and married women are being victimized under the golden era of the State. | 02-Apr-2016 |
| Tripura reels under power ups & down | AGARTALA, April 2 (TIWN) : With the continuous rain and windy atmosphere the power cut is going on in full wave in Agartala city. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| Terror of flyover collapse in Tripura pr | AGARTALA, April 2 (TIWN): Just before people could recover from the shock of flyover collapse at Kolkata, panic and terror ran high among the people here after witnessing a crippled road at Battala in the flyover construction site which can lead to major accidents at any moment. It is to be mentioned here that fear gripped people when the road at Battala connecting server other routes collapsed blocking the traffic movement. The common public on Friday alleged slow progress in the construction work of the fly-over at Battala junction. Talking to TIWN correspondent on Friday, the public at battala alleged that the construction work is undergoing in slow progress and there is no development in the site. The localities also said that, comparing to the prior days the work progress has slowed down after the collection of the sample for the soil test. However, agitating over the slow progress in the construction work of the first ever fly over the locals also complained that due to the delay in the construction site at Battala the people faces traffic congestion at the office hours and cannot reach to their destination. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| Barak Valley & Tripura Passenger agitati | Lumding/Agartala, April 2 (TIWN): Silchar/Agartala remained virtually cut-off from the rest of the country, thanks to the Barak Valley & Tripura Passenger agitation which had a cascading effect on rail and road links across NE India. Most of the Barak & Tripura passenger facing problem to have their reservation seats in the Train after Army personal forcefully acquire common passenger seats. | 02-Apr-2016 |
| CM Manik Sarkar inaugurated Odisha festi | AGARTALA, April 1 (TIWN): Odia Samaj Tripura in collaboration with Sangeeta Natak Academy organized a programme to celebrate Odisha festival 2016 at Nazrul Kalashetra, here on Friday. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| AMC holds discussion on ‘Smart Cit | AGARTALA, April 1 (TIWN): AMC on Friday organised a discussion panel where issues on Smart city proposal were discussed at Muktadhara auditorium hall. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| Flyover construction delays : Sudden cha | AGARTALA, April 1 (TIWN): Sudden change in transport movement from Battala towards Chandrapur and from Battala to GB has given tough time to the common people on Friday morning during the wee hours. Going forward with the first ever fly-over construction in Tripura, the traffic movement from Battala towards GB and Chandrapur is diverted through Battala cremation road from Friday to conduct the drilling work at Battala. Many vehicles including bikes, autos, bus, and rickshaws all stranded for long hours in the road as traffic movement was vigorously disrupted. For the next two years and possibly more the traffic congestion is going to get worse. Once flyover is constructed, vehicles from the Nagerjala bus stand will continue to ply on the same path which is expected to reduced the traffic congestion. The first ever 2-lane flyover in the capital city will lower the traffic jam and it will make a smooth fast track movement of the vehicles. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| Tripura bags two golds in 4th Internatio | AGARTALA, April 1 (TIWN): Bijoy Dey and Mani Biswas on Friday added another golden feather to the state after they bagged two gold medals at 4th International Strength Lifting and Incline Bench Press Championship held from March 25 to 28 at Bangkok. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| TKMU to hold assembly march on April 6 | AGARTALA, April 1 (TIWN): Tripura Khet Mujdur Union on Friday in a press meet at CPI-M party office stated that they will hold assembly march on April 6 with 7 charters of demands. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| Commencement of BG train service to give | AGARTALA, April 1 (TIWN): BG train is the only way to get relief from the crippled NH 44 which has recently taken bad shape due to the moderate rainfall over past few days in the state. Once the train service begins in the state on a regular basis it is expected that the load will come down on NH 44 and people will start boarding train service. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| Incessant rainfall since morning disrupt | AGARTALA, April 1 (TIWN): Incessant rainfall that Agartala had been witnessing for the last two days had disrupted normal life in the state. Thousands of people are trapped in the rod due to the continuous rain and water logging at several parts of the city. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| Some miscreants tried to ransack TSECL o | KAMALPUR, April 1 (TIWN): In a bizarre incident some local youths tried to ransack the TSECL Kamalpur sub-divisional office last night around 9-30 pm last night. They attacked the office due to power failure during the India-West Indies semi-final match yesterday. The Senior Manager of Kamalpur lodged an FIR with the Kamalpur Police Station. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| AMC negligence, lack of Govt co-ordinati | AGARTALA, April 1 (TIWN): Streets were transformed into canals after water pipe burst left a busy junction of Battala flooded on Friday morning. Though the flyover construction agency have asked AMC to give the full blue print about the underlying water pipes but negligence from AMC in making communication has led to sudden breakage in water pipe while drilling at Battala posing tough time to the common people. Commuters faced transport chaos as they tried to travel through Battala this morning after the burst pipe sent a torrent of water down residential streets. Several residents could be seen trying to wade through the water, Water supply was disrupted in some parts of the city owing to the breakage of the water pipe at Battala tri-junction while the flyover construction works was being carried out on the stretch. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| CRS Inspection ends: Trains are all set | AGARTALA, April 1 (TIWN): CRS inspection ends. Trial Train reached Kumarghat to Badarpur at 120 KM/PH of Maximum Speed. The trains are all set to roll on the tracks on the eve of Bengali New year. Preparations are going on with full pace. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| BJP seeks CBI inquiry in flyover tragedy | KOLKATA / AGARTALA, April 1 (TIWN): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday sought a CBI inquiry into the collapse of a flyover here that killed 23 people, and said the corrupt nexus between the West Bengal government and the opposition has been exposed. "It is an act of fraud protected by the state government. The nexus of corruption between the Trinamool Congress and the Left party which is in the opposition has been exposed," union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters. He said the state government has deliberately tried to protect the fraud involved in awarding of contract for building the Vivekananda Road Flyover in Posta area that collapsed. "It is clearly visible that the contract was given to a black-listed company and the work was not completed on time. We seek a CBI inquiry into the entire matter," said Naqvi. The flyover's foundation was laid in 2008 and work began in February 2009. It was to be completed by 2010, but continued to be incomplete until it collapsed on Thursday. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| Tripura ruling party's Marxist policy st | AGARTALA, April 1 (TIWN) : Whereas Tripura still lagging behind in many aspects of development due to the negligence attitude of the Tripura CM Manik Sarkar towards technology, the CM of Telengana has made history with his power point presentation during assembly on Thursday. Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday made a detailed presentation on re-designing of projects to ensure optimum utilization of water from Krishna and Godavari rivers. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| Amarapur : CM Manik Sarkar’s blam | AMARPUR, April 1 (TIWN) : The long pending demand for Pacca Bridge over Gomati River of Amarpur Rangamati area remain unsolved for last 15 years .Poor quality of Wood Bridge still hanging . Sources said, the bridge was constructed almost a decade back but no step yet been taken to repair it. | 01-Apr-2016 |
| CPI-M's historical bond with Hyderabad b | AGARTALA / KOLKATA, April 1 (TIWN): At least 21 people died and over 70 got injured after the Vivekananda flyover in the congested Posta area of northern Kolkata crashed. Going by the statistics, CPI-M 's primary interest always remained enriching party funds with corruption money rather than serving masses as per poll planks. Otherwise how CPI-M will explain that in 2007, Bengal Govt picked a tainted Hyderabad based company IVRCL Infrastructures and Projects Ltd, against this company multiple cases listed nationwide for cheating, corruption, even Jharkhand Govenment recommended CBI probe in 2010 and blacklisted IVRCL for bribing former CM Madhu Koda to bag Rs 410-crore rural electrification project. In similar fashion, IVRCL Infrastructures bribed Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee led CPI-M Govt to bag Vivekananada Flyover Rs 164 crore contract in 2007. | 01-Apr-2016 |