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| Pakistani ISI backed ISIS terror network | AGARTALA, April 25 (TIWN) : In a recent intelligence report, it has been mentioned that the Sonamura subdivision is becoming the centre for all ISIS intrusions in Tripura, which is increasing the terror among the common public in Tripura. Reportedly, Sonamura subdivision is the epicentre for all illegal activities,drug smuggling to massive ganja cultivations, entire subdivision has become a threat for the safety of people. However, taking the advantage of porous Indo-Bangla border, Bangladeshbased HUJI, ISIS, fundamentalist elements are building their bases in Sonamura.Sonamura, Boxnagar areas are known for organized ganja cultivations, drug smugglings, even helping out militant factions like NLFT, ATTF with arms.As per local sources, three Bangaldesh / Sonamura based radicals Taimur, Rahim & Khokon are setting up the ISIS base , collecting funds in spite of large BSF presence across border.Sources said that Tripura’s Sonamura, Baskanagar, Melaghar and Bishalgarh are the main focus areas of Bangaladesh based Islamic terrorist groups. | 25-Apr-2016 |
| Rs 300 crore Agartala Flyover project by | AGARTALA, April 25 (TIWN): Is Rs. 300 crores flyover project is safe for Agartala given the fact that flyover load-testing on Thrusday failed at Bordowali causing all sandbag load-testings collapsed in front of hundreds of commuters. CPI-M Govt awarded Rs 300 crore Agartala Flyover project to Hyderabad based Nagarjuna Construction Company (NCC) which was blacklisted by Pondicherry Govt in 2012 for indulging into massive irregularities which was unearthed by the Anti¬Corruption Branch of CBI in Chennai. Apart from that which Tripura Govt Dept keeping tab on daily basis whether proper constructions codes are followed by Nagarjuna Constructions ? Tripura Govt’s lackluster attitude is visible as structural safety audits never undertaken properly on all old and new buildings around Agartala. Recent massive earthquake of 6.9 magnitude on 13th April along India-Myanmar border is a stark reminder for Tripura rulers that this Flyover over Agartala may become a future disaster if not proper construction codes, safety audits are done on the quality of work of Hyderbad’s Nagarjuna Construction Company. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Announcements also in tribal language at | Agartala, April 25 (TIWN / IANS): The union civil aviation ministry has decided to make flight information announcements at the Agartala airport in a tribal language in addition to Hindi, English and Bengali, a Tripura MP said on Monday. | 25-Apr-2016 |
| Vishanathan Anand elated at Dipa's succe | Kolkata / Agartala, April 25 (TIWN): Five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand on Sunday expressed happiness over Dipa Karmakar becoming the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| MCX organizes awareness programmes in Ag | Agartala, April 25:In a bid to better explain and educate the market participants and executives in Agartala about the dynamics of commodity futures market in India, Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (MCX) organized awareness programmes in the city last week. The programmes were organized in association with Tripura Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and Institute of Cost Accountants of India (Agartala Chapter) respectively. | 25-Apr-2016 |
| Tripura’s 1st Flyover land acquis | AGARTALA, April 24 (TIWN): In an emergency situation, section 144 imposed at Agartala after AMC started eviction drive from Nagerjala to Bordowali area on Sunday. As per Govt plan to extend flyover construction work, AMC had started the eviction drive at around 5 am on Sunday morning. However, sudden demolition drive caused huge resentment among the local residents, traders as AMC never conducted a prior meeting with the affected parties. Large contigent of Police backed AMC bulldozers started demolition from wee hours as Police arrested over a dozen people for interrupting eviction drive.DM west Milind Ramteke, SDM Manik lal Das alongwith SP, TSR battalions manned the eviction spot since morning. On Sunday the situation got out of control when the public anger erupted causing a mini battlefield in bordowali. TRS jawans in large number were deployed in that area. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Massive storm damages electricity line a | AGARTALA, April 24 (TIWN): Northern Tripura undergoing massive power crisis affecting the daily lives of millions of people. Many electrical posts were damaged and many have been remained unrepaired due to apathy of Tripura's lameduck Govt. Mostly affected areas have been identified as Padpmapur, Kadamtala, Panisagar, Tithoi. Repeatedly, after few splashes of rain every time, North Tripura goes dark as continuous loadsheddings cripple public life. North Tripura’s many areas even stay neglected even for 2 to 3 days over a week also. All these happen due to the loose connection of power lines. Allegations are coming that the state govt. presently is under huge trouble due to the large amount of unpaid bills and may be govt. is trying to manage the bill with long power cuts across Tripura. According to the sources, since 2 days after storms electricity supply completely stopped and due to this all hospitals are also in pathetic condition. In Dharmanagar, continuous loadsheddings stopped works inside operation theatre, even for hours emergency service was halted. Dharmanagar correspondent has reported that power has come back in many places, although some of the places still facing power cut. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Heat wave sweeps South Tripura: South T | AGARTALA, April 24 (TIWN): Heat wave conditions prevailed in South Tripura with the temperature soaring several notches above the season's average, and the Meteorological Department (IMD) had little comfort to offer, saying the searing heat conditions will continue for the next few days i.e it was between 3 to 5 degrees "above normal", or "above average", which is 1.6 to 3 degrees more than season's average temperature.Pure Drinking water scarcity looms large in South Tripura. Most of the villagers have to go to far- flung area to fetch drinking water. For the past two years remote poor Tribal People have not received any modest Pure drinking water facilities yet day. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Composite BOP Kaptoli inaugurated by Chi | AGARTALA, April 24 (TIWN): Chief Secretary of Tripura, Dr Yashpal Singh, IAS, inaugurated new composite BOP Kaptoli. The chief guest was received and welcomed by Sh J B Sangwan, IG BSF Tripura Frontier in presence of Sh Yadvendra Singh, DIG BSF Sector Udaipur. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| More Tripura Congress leaders quit over | Agartala, April 24 (TIWN / IANS) Several Tripura Congress leaders on Sunday quit their party posts to protest against the party's tie-up with the Left in West Bengal's assembly polls. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Badal Choudhury blames RSS & BJP during | AGARTALA, April 24 (TIWN): On the 2nd day of the two day long 16th bi-ennial state conference of Tripura technical employee’s association 2016 at Muktadhara, on Sunday Minister Badal Choudhry has slammed the BJP Govt. at Centre and also claimed that behind RSS’s all misdeeds, it’s only BJP govt. who is responsible. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Weather change hits Northern Tripura : A | PANISAGAR / DHARMANAGAR, April 24 (TIWN): Whereas the other parts of the state are suffering from extreme temperature, but in last two days, storm caused massive losses to the Northern part of the state. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Farmers left reeling after hail storm c | DHAMRMANAGR, April 24 (TIWN): Farmers are undergoing huge losses due to the windy-storm and hail storm, which hit Northern Tripura. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Tripura Board of Joint Entrance Examinat | AGARTALA, April 24 (TIWN): Tripura Board of Joint Entrance Examination will be conducted on April 26 and 27, 2016. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Biswa Pustak Divas observed: Different e | KAMALPUR, April 24 (TIWN): Along with the rest of the state, the Biswa Pustak Divas, the day for book reading, cherishing and creating new readers throughout the world, got observed with due regards at Kamalpur last evening. The program was observed at the Bimal Singha Memorial public library at Netaji corner. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Heat wave sweeps South Tripura: South T | AGARTALA, April 24 (TIWN): Heat wave conditions prevailed in South Tripura with the temperature soaring several notches above the season's average, and the Meteorological Department (IMD) had little comfort to offer, saying the searing heat conditions will continue for the next few days i.e it was between 3 to 5 degrees "above normal", or "above average", which is 1.6 to 3 degrees more than season's average temperature.Pure Drinking water scarcity looms large in South Tripura. Most of the villagers have to go to far- flung area to fetch drinking water. For the past two years remote poor Tribal People have not received any modest Pure drinking water facilities yet day. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| National Panchayati Raj Day observed at | SABROOM, April 24 (TIWN): National Panchayati Raj Day was observed across India as well as in Tripura on 24 April 2015. The day is observed to mark the passing of the Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992 that came into force with effect from 24 April 1993. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| TSECL CMD's claim proves false; Tripura | UDAIPUR / PALATANA, April 24 (TIWN): April end brings acute power shortage for the people of Tripura as OTPC's scheduled shut down in both units of Palatana started from 23rd Aprill. Shut down in Unit-I commenced from 17th of April and it will continue upto 24th of this month. This shut down is said to be a scheduled one as there are some maintenance works to be done in Unti-I and it is mandatory to be done after some intervals, said an OTPC engineer over phone on Saturday morning. He said that plant needs some maintenance after a long gap and this is exactly what is going on. On 24th April the maintenance work is likely to be completed. However, on 23rd April complete shut down has taken in both units- Unit-I and Unit- II. It is expected that by midnight of 24th April Unit-I will resume its generation . Unit-II is going for 7 days shut down from 23rd April . UNIT-II will go for shut down because of Performance Guarantee Test by BHEL. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Sabroom: Massive fire breaks out at Damd | SABROOM, April 24 (TIWN): In a bizarre incident one shop was gutted by fire, when massive fire broke out at Damdama Market area under Sabroom Sub Division. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Gang-Rape horror saddens Gomati Dist : P | UDAIPUR, April 24 (TIWN): 5 days have been passed when a 15 year’s tribal girl was raped at Amarpur,Gomati Dist. but police yet to trace all of the accused. The incident occurred on April 20, and the victim has been identified as 15 year old girl, D/O-Dulumay Swaran Kumar Jamatia at Amarpur. Reportedly, at around 8 pm, on April 20 few miscreants including CPI-M’s Village Council Chairperson Mangal Debbarmma’s son named Pilak Debbarma alongwith CPI-M cadre Atanka Debbarma’s son Laxman Debbarma and few others entered the house of Dulumay Swaran Kumar Jamatia when his wife was away in household chores and taking that opportunity they forcefully taken her out of the home whereas her mouth was also taped by force. Whole night she was missing and it was on April 21st April that her injured, senseless body was found in a jungle.Getting informed by pedestrians she was immediately admitted to local hospital there, but soon she was referred to Gomati District Hospital due to her falling health.In between her parents were warned by the cadres to withdraw the FIR and also offered them bribes at around 2 pm on that very day. However, FIR is still lodged but police is yet to arrest all of them. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Massive storm damages Electrical connect | AGARTALA, April 24 (TIWN): Due to last few days rain Northern Part of state Tripura is undergoing massive power crisis affecting the daily lives of the people here. Many loose electrical lines were hanging over the road, whcih increased the risks for pedestrians. Many electrical posts was damaged among whom many have been remained unrepaired. The mostly affected areas have been identified as Padpmapur, Kadamtala, Panisagar, Tithoi. Repeatedly, after few splashes of rain every time the power is turned off at North Tripura’s many areas and it doesn’t come back in 2/ 3 days also. All these happen due to the loose connection of power lines. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| State facing tough time in continuing wi | AGARTALA, April 24 (TIWN): All though Tripura government started with the supply of 100 MW power to Bangladesh but as of now with the passage of days it has become unable to meet up the demand of 100 MW power supply to Bangladesh. | 23-Apr-2016 |
| LPG subsidy surrendered by one crore fam | NEW DELHI / AGARTALA, April 24 (TIWN): Around one crore families have till date given up cooking gas subsidy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Strange but true: wrapping up the studie | AGARTALA, April 24 (TIWN): keeping aside the books and studies the school students are made to hold rallies under the banner of SFI at Agartala city to raise voice for beginning the construction of the English medium college at Agartala. | 23-Apr-2016 |
| MGNREGA employees staged protest in fron | AGARTALA, April 23 (TIWN): MGNREGA employees are suffering from huge crisis with the indication of the illegal transfer of the Technical assistant from their post and recruiting junior assistant into their chair. | 23-Apr-2016 |
| Voice raised to begin the construction w | AGARTALA, April 23 (TIWN): Demanding to begin the construction work of the English medium college at old jail, SFI on Saturday placed mass deputation to education minister Tapan Chakraborty infront of town hall. | 23-Apr-2016 |
| Crisis emerging ‘terrorism’ | AGARTALA, April 23 (TIWN): The land-locked state Tripura which came under the threat of NLFT terrorist and similar others gangs has once again griped into tension after police along with Assam Rifle Battalions caught 2 terrorist leaders from the Bru refugee group. The two terrorists named Arnajoy Reang (29) & Doiloram Reang (36) was produced before the Karimganj court on Friday and according to the court’s order they have been kept in police remand for next 14 days. | 23-Apr-2016 |
| Minister Ratan Bhowmik inaugurates two d | AGARTALA, April 23 (TIWN): Welfare of Scheduled Caste (SC) minister Ratan Bhowmik on Saturday inaugurated the two day long 16th bi-ennial state conference of Tripura technical employee’s association 2016 at Muktadhara. | 23-Apr-2016 |
| Police produced two Bangladeshi citizens | KAMALPUR, April 23 (TIWN): After the nabbing of two Bangladeshi citizens from Kamalpur sub-division by the Special Branch, Kamalpur Police produced them before the Court today. Along with the nabbed citizens police also produced their identity of being Bangladeshi citizens. The interrogation by the joint team of Special branch and CID also brought out many sensational facts about those citizens. | 23-Apr-2016 |
| Fire sparks off in a restaurant from cyl | AGARTALA, April 23 (TIWN): Residents of ker chowmuhani area on Saturday narrowly escaped from massive fire incident when fire broke out in the restaurant in the evening hours. | 23-Apr-2016 |
| Grueling summer, frequent power cut make | AGARTALA, April 23 (TIWN): Residents of the city appear to be headed for a dry, long and scorching summer as the mercury has started soaring over the past few days. | 23-Apr-2016 |
| Children are deprived from nutritious fo | AMARPUR, April 23 (TIWN): Spending lakhs of public funds where the so called poor Chief Minister of Tripura visits the interior part of the State via helicopter, thousands of children are still deprived from the nutritious food facility in the Anganwadi centres of the State.Chief Minister Manik Sarkar most of the time claims that the State Government is helping the needy children by providing nutritious foods at all the Anganwadi centres, but allegation has been raised by the locals that the prolonged negligence of the State Government has left the Anganwadi centres in deplorable condition. Despite of prolonged poor condition of the Anganwadi Centres in the State, the ruling Government is least bothered about it. It is to be mentioned here that though the State public is facing several problems the ruling Government never forgets to attend any party promotional rally or any election campaign. | 23-Apr-2016 |
| Kamalpur: Deplorable bridge at Ganganaga | KAMALPUR, April 23 (TIWN): The plying of commuters on the roads of the streets continued to be dangerous enough for occasional accidents. And those accidents, on many occasions, occurred due to the poor condition of the road and bridges. In this context, the declared policy of the state government to change all the wooden bridges into RCC bridges came under serious scanner for the deplorable plight of the bridge on Halhali-Fatikroy NEC road. | 23-Apr-2016 |
| BG train services cannot start in April, | AGARTALA/GUWAHATI, April 23 (TIWN): Much speculated BR train services from Agartala will be delayed by at least few months even though Tripura’s most of the media houses spread the rumours that BG railway trains to Rajdhani Express will start operation from Bengali New Year / April end itself . In some section of the media it has also been reported that BG Train services will be flagged off by PM Modi from Delhi. But replying to an official query, NF Railway clearly stated that many of the infrastructural public amenity facilities are yet to come up in Agartala-Badarpur Section. This reply has been given from the Office of the General Manager , NF Railway, Maligaon, Guwahati on 19th of April and has been uploaded in the PGPORTAL also. TIWN took upon this fact-finding exercise to ensure that our readers get the correct info about the beginning of BG railway operations from Tripura. | 23-Apr-2016 |
| Anti-left tribal-politics received jolt: | KAMALPUR, April 23 (TIWN): The anti-left political movement and planning among the tribal received a jolt as former MDC Muluk Chand Debbarma joined hands with CPI-M yesterday evening. After a long detachment from active politics and remained confined in the house, Muluk Chand chose CPI-M as his next political den. He joined CPI-M last evening at Durgachowmuhani at Kamalpur in a street corner along with some of his old aides. | 23-Apr-2016 |
| Honest (?) CM Manik Sarkar keen to appoi | AGARTALA, April 23 (TIWN) : Former Tripura Chief Secretary cum retd. Union Textile Secretary S K Panda is almost certain to return to the state and this time with a bigger task of handling the post of Chief Minister's Political and Administrative Advisor, obviously because of' honest and Mr Clean' Chief Minister Manik Sarkar's penchant for tainted officials like GSG Iyengar . This has already given serious amount of anxiety and fear among the most of top level honest officials working in the state. A highly placed source in State CPI-M HQ Melarmath informed TIWN that even such decision has aroused considerable amount of doubts among the CPI-M leadership considering the irregularities in which S K Panda was involved during his tenure in Tripura right from Director of Higher Education to the Chief Secretary of Tripura. Melarmath lobby can't do anything against the interests of Manik Sarkar because of his influence in PolitBureau as well as in party's central and state committee. | 23-Apr-2016 |
| South Tripura's timber smugglers, sand m | AGARTALA, April 23 (TIWN): Tripura’s law & order nosedived to such extent that even few blackmailers, extortionists under the garb of journalist tag can dare to outrage the modesty of one IFS officer’s wife’s hand in broad daylight, then dare to manhandle her in front of her 4 yr old daughter, hurling abusive languages. On April 19, at around 9.30am, DFO Harshkumar’s wife Ms. Neha went to Holy Spirit School to drop her 4 year’s daughter for morning classes as DFO went out for Govt work for the day. DFO’s wife Neha spotted a silver color Hyundai Car (bearing number plate TR 03F 0447) following DFO’s wife’s Govt vehicle. Upon getting down at school gate, Ms. Neha was surrounded by 3 persons from Hyundai car namely Pritwish Datta, Samir Debnath, Rakesh Debnath, all of them started abusing DFO’s wife in filthy languages, started taking pictures, as DFO’s wife with 4 yrs old kid was running inside school, then Pritwish grabbed Ms. Neha’s hand, other two grabbed her bag and told her in obscene language demanding immediate money or she and her DFO husband will face living hell in Belonia. Later it was found that Silver Hyundai Car TR 03F 0447 belongs to Prithwish Datta. | 22-Apr-2016 |
| Absence of CPI-M representatives at Agar | AGARTALA, April 23 (TIWN): When the golden girl of Tripura, Dipa Karmakar has made her entry in Olympic as the first Indian women to represent in Gymnastic, adding a golden feather in the history of Tripura, not a single CPI-M member was witnessed at Agartala airport for welcoming Dipa karmakar and her coach Bisheshwar Nandi. | 22-Apr-2016 |
| Earth day celebration goes much unrecogn | AGARTALA, April 23 (TIWN): When the entire nation is engaged in celebration of earth day to create awareness about the safety of our earth, Tripura hardly pays any notice to the celebration of earth day in the state. | 22-Apr-2016 |
| Tripura to supply additional 100 MW powe | AGARTALA, April 23 (TIWN / IANS): Tripura has agreed to supply an additional 100 MW of electricity to Bangladesh, over the 100 MW of power the northeastern state is supplying to the neighbouring country, a minister said here on Saturday. | 23-Apr-2016 |
| Tripura Power Ministry under heavy finan | AGARTALA, April 22 (TIWN): Tripura Power Minister Manik Dey alongwith his Dept official including Secretary S K Rakesh, TSECL MD Shyamal Roy,Chief Secretary Y P Singh and other Govt. officers held meeting at Prgana Bhawan on Friday to discuss about the various unpaid bills of Govt. Departments to TSECL (the power dept. of state). Reportedly, many govt. Departments has not cleared pending bills amounting to crores to TSECL (Tripura State Electricity Corporations Ltd), which was reported by TSECL MD, followed by all State Govt. departments brought under review of Tripura Power Dept. TSECL asked State Govt Depts to clear the unpaid bills over 100 crores as the Power Ministry is now heavy pressure , ,unable to clear over 190 crores of bills to Tripura’s power supply grid, power plants OTPC, NEEPCO. Tripura Govt functioning under the leadership of Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has reached to such low standard that various Govt Depts ignoring due payments, no accountability, even the meeting at Pragna Bhawan was named as – “Meeting of operationalization of Centralized Electricity Bill payment to TSECL by all state Govt Departments.†| 23-Apr-2016 |
| 2 Bru terrorist leaders nabbed in Tripur | KARIMGANJ, April 22 (TIWN): Atleast 2 bru terrorist leaders were nabbed by Assam Rifles No-30 btln and Karignaj police named Arnajoy Reang (29) & Dailoram Reang (36)--- have been produced before the court on Friday. Reportedly, these 2 persons are the chief leaders of an emerging terrorist groups in North East India. Arnajoy Reang has been identified as the General Secretary of the Bru-terrorist Group, resident of Ashapara Kanchanpur Refugee camp and Dailoram Reang is recognized as the commandant of Katar, area at Dhali Dist. After nabbing them the chief leader’s name has been gathered by police as Rajesh Chorkhi (President, Resident of Mizoram). Reportedly, this refugee group deprived of any facility has come into this profession and to earn money by blackmailing and terrorism. Talking to the police, they said that the refugee terrorist group leader has told the police that they do not any longer consider themselves as Indians as neither Mizo Govt. now Tripura Govt. is really concerned about their future. On Thursday evening they were roaming before the court area at Karmganj and getting information Police with the help of Assam Rifles Btln nabbed them. | 22-Apr-2016 |
| BJP President slams CPI-M for blaming Ce | AGARTALA, April 22 (TIWN): Following massive protests by CPI-M for less MGNREGA fund allocations, where the party claimed that the central govt. has deprived state Tripura with a poor fund, BJP state president Biplab Deb held press meet to give his reaction, at BJP office on Friday evening. | 22-Apr-2016 |
| Will practice hard to get medals in Rio: | AGARTALA, April 22 (TIWN / IANS): India's first woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics, Dipa Karmakar said here on Friday that she will devote herself to serious practice to win medals in the upcoming Rio Olympics. | 22-Apr-2016 |
| Tripura celebrates Hanuman Jayanti | AGARTALA, April 22 (TIWN): The Pawan-putra-hanumaan has been worshipped in Tripura’s various Hanumaan temples and shiv temples, Ram Temples, also in households. | 22-Apr-2016 |
| Central government sanctioned Rs. 80 lak | AGARTALA, April 22 (TIWN): Seeing Dipa’s achievement, Central government has sanctioned an amount of Rs 80 lakh as an aid for golden girl Dipa karmakar for her well being. | 22-Apr-2016 |
| Birth anniversary of V.I. Lenin observed | AGARTALA, April 22 (TIWN): CPI-M on Friday observed the Birth anniversary of great communist leader V.I. Lenin all over the state. The programme began with offering of floral tribute on portrait of V.I. Lenin at CPI-M party offices in the morning. | 22-Apr-2016 |
| State BJP gives warm welcome to Arjuna a | AGARTALA, April 22 (TIWN): state BJP on Friday gave warm welcome to Golden girl Dipa karmakar and her coach at Agartala airport for her achievement after getting selected as the first women in Olympics in the field of gymnast from India, hailing from Tripura. | 22-Apr-2016 |
| Golden girl Dipa Karmakar receives grand | AGARTALA, April 22 (TIWN): Scripting history in the field of gymnast as the first Indian women, Golden girl of Dipa Karmakar along with her coach Bisheshwar Nandi arrived in the state on Friday before getting into the preparations for her finale. Golden girl of Dipa Karmakar along with her coach Bisheshwar Nandi received a warm welcome at Agartala airport for her grand achievement after selecting in the Olympic. To say, Golden girl of Tripura Dipa Karmakar has scripted new dimensions in Indian sporting history after selecting in the Rio Olympics as the first Indian gymnast. Dipa Karmakar has created history by becoming the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for Olympics as she booked a berth for the Rio Games after a strong performance at the final qualifying and test event in Rio.The 22-year-old garnered a total score of 52.698 points in the Olympics qualifying event to book a berth for artistic gymnastics in Rio Games which is scheduled to be held here in August. Apart from being the first Indian woman, she will also be an Indian gymnast qualifying for the quadrennial extravaganza after 52 long years.Dipa has been listed as the 79th gymnast among individual qualifiers in the list of women's artistic gymnast who have qualified for the Rio Olympics. | 22-Apr-2016 |
| Tripura eyeing towards faster introducti | AGARTALA, April 22 (TIWN): The latest trends and status shows that the BG passenger train will kick off the service by the end of this month to usher new stages of development in Tripura. | 22-Apr-2016 |