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| TMC to now lay the road map for strength | AGARTALA, Aug 19 (TIWN): Keeping eye on the upcoming 2018 Tripura Assembly Election, state unit of Trinamool Congress on Fridayorganised state committee meeting to strengthen its party in Tripura at TMC Bhawan. | 19-Aug-2016 |
| Tribal Students Union observes 39th Foun | AGARTALA, Aug 19 (TIWN): Tribal Students Union (TSU) in Tripura, has observed its 39th Foundation Day at Agartala infornt of City Centre. | 19-Aug-2016 |
| BJP organised state committee meeting to | AGARTALA, Aug 19 (TIWN): With the aim to rejuvenate its party ahead of Tripura 2018 Assembly election BJP on Friday organised state committee meeting at Nazrul Kalakshetra. | 19-Aug-2016 |
| Brahma Kumari celebrates Rakhi | AGARTALA, Aug 19 (TIWN): To mark the auspicious occasion of Rakhsha Bandhan , Prajapita Brahmakumaris on Friday celebrated Rakhi Festival and tied rakhi to CM Manik Sarkar at secretariat. | 19-Aug-2016 |
| MP to give Rs 25 lakh to Sakshi, offers | BHOPAL / AGARTALA, Aug 19 (TIWN): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced a Rs 25 lakh reward for Sakshi Malik, who won a freestyle wrestling bronze medal in the 58 kg category at the ongoing Rio Olympics. He also announced that the state will ensure proper training for the next Olympics for woman gymnast Dipa Karmakar, a Tripura girl, who missed an Olympic medal this time, in case she so desired. These ladies are a move to Indian womens’ entrance in athlete world and Madhya Pradesh is ready to create athlete artists. Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar missed out on a historic medal in the women's vault competition by a whisker as she finished a creditable fourth in the final of the Olympic Games here. Dipa averaged 15.066 points to finish fourth at the Rio Olympic Arena. Simone Biles of the US won the gold with an average of 15.966, while Maria Paseka (15.253) of Russia and Switzerland's Giulia Steingrubber (15.216) took home the silver and bronze medals respectively.Despite being disappointed at missing out on the medal, Dipa asserted that she is determined to train harder and do better at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo."I am happy to have come fourth. Next time when I come to Olympics, I will do better. Those who won in Vault ahead of me were better athletes," she said. "I was very happy with my performance", said Dipa. "I hope my coming years would be very good. I will try that in the future our performance at the next Olympics would be good," Dipa added. | 19-Aug-2016 |
| SDM seized huge numbers of rice bags, su | AGARTALA, Aug 19 (TIWN): Acting on a tip off, newly appointed Sadar SDM Summit Roy Chowdhury on Friday seized a total 15 bags of rice along with huge bags of wheat, Sugar and foreign liquors from MG Bazaar after information of illegal smuggling of rice bags were allegedly reported from the area. The officials, after receiving a tip off, raided the MG bazaar market shed area and seized the rice bags. The Sadar sub-divisional administration led by SDM- Sumit Roy Chowdhuy and officials of Food and excise department conducted the raid at MG Bazaar followed by a sudden raid at Lichu Bagan market shed. Based on secret information, Sub Divisional Magistrate- Sumit Roy Chowdhury, conducted raid in the Maharajganj and Lichu Bagan Market area However, concluding the raid at MG Bazaar, the team also raided Lichu Bagan market shed from where huge amount foreign liquor was seized along with rice bags. Reportedly no one was arrested in this raid. Alleged Illegal intrusion of the extremist, smuggling of contraband items and cattle from Tripura to Bangladesh and vice-versa has become an everyday issue. | 19-Aug-2016 |
| India to route petroleum products throug | AGARTALA/DHAKA, Aug 19 (TIWN/IANS): Bangladesh on Thursday inked a short-term route permit agreement to allow India transport petroleum products from the northeastern state of Assam to Tripura through Bangladesh in the wake of floods that have drastically damaged Indian roads. | 19-Aug-2016 |
| Vagabond died at Hospital at Kamalpur: S | KAMALPUR, Aug 19 (TIWN): A person who was shifted to hospital by SDM died this morning at hospital. As the person has no family or relatives, the authority gets in dilemma as what to do with the corpse. | 19-Aug-2016 |
| ONGC Congratulates Dipa Karmakar | AGARTALA, Aug 19 (TIWN): ONGC Workers Union organized a conference on Thursday afternoon and congratulated Dipa Karmakar and her coach Bisweswar Nandi for Dipa's success in Gymnast-world on behalf of Workers' Union and ONGC. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| 17 injured in road mishap | SABROOM, Aug 19 (TIWN): 17 persons were injured including 5 seriously injured when a commander jeep TR03-2557 fell into a dense in Gagan Mouja area under ManuBazar PS. The incident took place at noon. 17 persons were injured but only few have ao far been identified. Those who have ready been identified are Shyamacharan Tripura(28), Pradip Tripura(18), Krishanabasi Tripura(65), Purnadhan Tripura(38), Banasree Tripura(35) and Michael Tripura(5).The incident took place near the house of MP Jiten Choudhury. It is learnt that 5 injured persons were sent to District Hospital as their injuries were said to be critical. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| Nothing is yet finalized to repatriate B | AGARTALA, Aug 19 (TIWN): Although the Tripura government recently said it was ready to send back Bru refugees living in camps in the state to Mizoram but the final repatriation plan was yet to be formalised. Talking to TIWN correspondent, DM North Sandeep Mahatme said that nothing is finalised regarding repatriating Bru’s from Tripura as several protocols need to be followed as although Tripura government is ready but Mizoram government is not accepting the demand of the Bru’s.The Union home ministry has decided to repatriate around 37,000 Bru refugees from Mizoram, who have been living in six camps in North Tripura for the past 19 years, from November this year. Tripura chief secretary YP Singh earlier said that the Mizoram government would have to submit the final movement plan which is necessary to make the repatriation a success. Bru refugees have demanded security in Mizoram, cluster-based rehabilitation and at least a year's financial and social security package but the Lal Thanhawla government has not agreed to the demands. | 19-Aug-2016 |
| Urban Development Minister says 90:10 fu | AGARTALA, Aug 19 (TIWN): If Agartala has to be enable to smart city, central has to be agreed to the proposal of 90:10 sharing of funds for the implementation of Smart city project in Agartala. Talking to TIWN correspondent, Urban Development Minister Manik Dey said that 90:10 proportion of funding is acceptable for Modi Govt's SMART City project as Agartala was selected under the 13 top urban cities which are now set for conversion into SMART city. Minister Manik Dey further said that he has written a letter to Union Ministry to allocate fund on 90:10 ratio for implementation of smart city project in the city. It is to be mentioned here that in the Inter-State Council (ISC) meeting in New Delhi on Saturday last after a hiatus of 10 years CM Manik Sarkar in a meeting with Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu, objected the decision of his ministry regarding 50:50 sharing of capital investment between Centre and State for implementation of smart city project. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| Bangladesh approves Indo-Bangla Rail lin | AGARTALA, Aug 18 (TIWN): Bangladesh Government has recently approved to begin with the construction of laying 15 KM track at the side of Bangladesh and the work to begin soon. It is to be mentioned here that DPR for laying 5km of track in the India’s section is already submitteto DoNER ministry. However, the centre has sanctioned money for acquiring land and for laying of five km long tracks on the Indian side and the source claimed that the construction work will begin in this financial year. The Indian government has sanctioned around Rs 1,000 crore for a 15-km India-Bangladesh railway project, the source informed The union government has recently communicated to Tripura that it had sanctioned Rs 580 crore to lay the rail tracks and acquire required land in Tripura. On the other hand the external affairs ministry earlier agreed to provide Rs 400 crore to lay the new tracks and to acquire land in Bangladeshi territory. Indian and Bangladesh governments have decided to start a new rail link to ease surface transport. India will build a 15-km railway tracks linking Tripura’s capital Agartala with Bangladesh’s southeastern city of Akhaura, an important railway junction connected to Chittagong port, resource-rich Sylhet and Dhaka. An agreement to implement the railway project was signed between India’s former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina during her visit to India in January 2010. The Indian Railway Construction Company (IRCON) would lay the new railway tracks on both sides of the border. Of the 15 km rail line, five km of tracks fall in the Indian Territory. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| Tripura Assembly speaker to take final d | AGARTALA, Aug 18 (TIWN): Assembly Speaker Ramendra Chandra Debnath on Thursday confirmed that he will take the final decision on August 29 regarding the 5 Congress defectors against whom PCC chief Birajit Sinha has raised complain. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| Tripura Bamboo mission urged to invest i | AGARTALA, Aug 18 (TIWN): Tripura Bamboo mission on Thursday organised a program at Pragna Bhawan and urged to invest in Bamboo to achieve ‘stand up India’. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| Tripura CM Manik Sarkar celebrates Rakhi | Agartala, Aug 18 (TIWN): To mark the auspicious occasion of Rakhsha Bandhan the children on Thursday tied Rakhi to C M Manik Sarkar at CM residence. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| Children’s celebrate Rakhi with B | AGARTALA, Aug 18 (TIWN): On the auspicious occasion of Rakhsa Bandhan. Women and children tied rakhi to BSF border guards with the thought that they constantly guard the safety of their nation. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| Dipa likely to arrive at Agartala on Aug | AGARTALA, Aug 18 (TIWN): First Indian women gymnast Dipa Karmakar left Rio on Thursday and is likely to reach Agartala on August 22. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| Collapse of bridge and resultant stoppin | KAMALPUR, Aug 18 (TIWN): The reluctance which caused the destructive accident yesterday not changed a bit even today from the apart of administration. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| 5 children fell sick after taking de-wor | AGARTALA/AMBASSA Aug 18 (TIWN): Once again 5 children have fallen sick after they were administered de-worming tablets at school under the initiative of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare which was launched under the banner of the 'National Deworming Day' -a massive school-based de-wormingeffort. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| Decision on Tripura MLAs who deserted Co | AGARTALA, Aug 18 (TIWN/IANS): A decision on the issue of six Congress legislators in Tripura joining the Trinamool Congress (TMC) will be announced on August 29, Assembly Speaker Ramendra Chandra Debnath said on Thursday. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| ISKCON would celebrate Janmastami at Kam | KAMALPUR, Aug 18 (TIWN): Hindu religious festival of Janmastami (the birth day of Lord Krishna) would be celebrated in grand style in the sub-division. ISKCON Durai Shibbari unit got all set to celebrate the ocassion with four days' program. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| Flyover construction likely to get delay | AGARTALA, Aug 18 (TIWN): As everyone knows NBCC have been known for the mismanagement in construction of different project, for which they are also being black listed once again their mismanagement is proved as tainted NBCC Project Head has made a narrow escape from the fact and have put the blame on DWS department for the delay in the construction of the first Flyover in Tripura. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| Mamata makes Dipa the icon for Kanyashre | AGARTALA, Aug 18 (TIWN): West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has named Dipa Karmakar as the icon for WB Kanyashree scheme; India’s former Cricketer Virender Sehwag has requested the government to name a special train and plane after gymnast Dipa Karmakar and athlete Lalita Babar in order to honour their efforts at the ongoing Rio Olympics. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| Dipa Karmakar revives Duleep Singh's gym | AGARTALA, Aug 18 (TIWN/IANS): Three decades after his death, the memory of soldier-turned-legendary gymnastics coach Duleep Singh has again come alive with Dipa Karmakar's performance at the Rio Olympics, focusing global attention on little-known Tripura. "Duleep Singh is the father figure of the Tripura gymnastics and Dipa Karmakar is the finest-ever creation of this tiny state," said Mantu Debnath, India's second Arjuna Award winner in gymnastics after Olympian Shyam Lal Khullar and Tripura's most famous gymnast before Dipa. "Due to the hard and devoted work of Duleep Singh, Tripura so far has claimed 18 national team titles and seven individual national titles and produced three Arjuna award winners," Debnath, who was cited in 1975, told IANS. Two of the Arjuna awardees, Mantu Debnath and Kalpana Debnath, trained under Singh. Dipa, the third, credits her success to coach Bisheshwar Nandi, who, in turn, is a Singh product. The 23-year-old Dipa, who had become the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics, scored 15.066 points, a mere 0.15 less than eventual bronze winner Giulia Steingruber (15.216) of Switzerland in the final on August 14. Debnath said that Singh created an ambiance that attracts many youngsters to take to gymnastics in Tripura. Singh, a lance naik and sports instructor in the Indian Army from what is now Haryana, was asked by the National Institute of Sports (NIS) in Patiala in 1964 to examine how to promote gymnastics in Tripura. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| Loopholes in police investigation is una | AGARTALA, Aug 18 (TIWN): From the latest trends in the investigation of TCS officer Panna Ahmed involvement in a rape case seems like police has turned lenient towards Panna Ahmed and is showing negligence towards the investigation. Talking to TIWN correspondent, SP West Abhijit Saptarshi said that police is now working on filing charge-sheet into the case and they are likely to submit the report before the court soon. However, talking about Panna’s hidden shed in the house of one identified as Shefali Day at Karimganj West SP said that so far no details are available about her but she will also be interrogated along with Panna if she was aware about Panna’s crime since beginning. West SP further said that police is now working on filing Charge sheet against Panna Ahmed case and police is also trying to submit the charge sheet in the court as early as possible. When asked about which article to be slammed against Panna, West SP said that nothing can be said now before completing the preliminary interrogation. It can be said only after completing at least basic interrogation.It is to be mentioned here that rapist Panna Ahmed was arrested from Shivbari road under Karimganj District with the joint collaboration of Tripura police personnel Manoj Chanda and Karimganj Police. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| State is capable to generate sufficient | AGARTALA, August 18 (TIWN): State continue to suffer under massive load shedding yet TSECL MD Shyamal Roy claims that Tripura is now a shedding free state and the power plants in Tripura are supporting well. | 18-Aug-2016 |
| Tripura CM conducts meeting to review th | AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN): Being the Chief Minister of a state it is his basic duty to oversee all the undergoing project work in the state other than simply hoisting meetings inside a hall room. CM Manik Sarkar on Wednesday hoisted a review meeting at Pragna Bhawan on various undergoing projects in the state, including Urban Developmental projects, but question irks where are the follow up of such review meeting. It is seen that CM Manik Sarkar frequently hoist review meeting but hardly any development is seen in the status of the project in the state. However, addressing the meeting Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said that this meeting mainly aims for the development of several section including Education, health and Electricity. It also aims for the social and economic development of the state. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar further said development of education in youth is necessary as it aims to support young people to increase their awareness and understanding, challenges perceptions of the world and encourages young people to act for a more just and equal society at a national and an international level.Question arises will development come by only hoisting meetings and conference. | 17-Aug-2016 |
| Dipa Karmakar's coach Bisheswar Nandi ha | AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN): In a long letter to the Secretary of the Tripura Sports Council on 9th February 2012 , the 57-year old Nandi had explained the threat to her career as emanating from long-time chief coach of Indian gymnastic federation and also at the National Institute of Sports in Patiala. "When I raised the issue of deliberate partialitity to pull Dipa down to second place in a tournament in Bangladesh, Bawa threatened to come to Agartala with a stick to chastise me," Nandi, himself a five time national champion, wrote in the letter. " I have told him to come with a pistol if he can," Nandi wrote in the letter, indicating his desperation. A copy of the letter is available with Nandi's contemporary and veteran gymnast Lopamudra Ghosh, who made it available to the writer. Ghosh lives in Calcutta now. Nandi detailed how Dipa was relegated to second place to ensure the first position in the Sultana Kamal championships in Dhaka ( 28-30 Dec 2011) went to Meenakshi , a protege of Bawa and another lady coach close to him. | 17-Aug-2016 |
| Chakmas observed black day to mourn the | AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN): The Chakma community in Tripura, and other parts of India observed as Black Day on Wednesday. This mourning day was dedicated to their original land, that is Chittagong Hill Tacks, which was given to Pakistan (Presently Bangladesh) during the partition on 1947. | 17-Aug-2016 |
| CM released book on Tripura Police | AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN): Tripura CM Manik Sarkar released a book on Tripura Police on Wednesday. | 17-Aug-2016 |
| Minister Bijita Nath inaugurated 3 day t | AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN): Science, Technology and Environment Minister Bijita Nath on Wednesday inaugurated 3 day long training program for Farmer Producers Organisation at press club. | 17-Aug-2016 |
| Dipa and her coach to leave from Brazil | AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN): First Indian women gymnast who made it up to Rio 2016 and finished at Fourth would be leaving Brazil on Thursday along with coach and will reach to Delhi for attenting a grand felicitation program. | 17-Aug-2016 |
| Kamalpur-Khowai NEC road turned deplorab | KAMALPUR, Aug 17 (TIWN): The plight of NEC road connecting Kamalpur with Khowai has turned very much grave. And the condition of the road may cause major accident at any time. | 17-Aug-2016 |
| TET teacher’s recruitment to begi | AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN): Tripura state cabinet recently decided to do recruitment for teacher in September who qualified the Teachers Aptitude test. | 17-Aug-2016 |
| Reckless driving led to massive accident | AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN): In a bizarre incident, a middle aged man was left seriously injured in a road accident at Khayerpur old Agartala on Wednesday morning. The accident has triggered huge panic in the area. | 17-Aug-2016 |
| Minister Shahid Chowdhury felicitates Mu | AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN): Minister Shahid Chowdhury felicitated all the Haj Yatris at Agartala Airport who left from Tripura for their religious journey on Wednesday. | 17-Aug-2016 |
| Chakma tribals observe 'black day' | AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN/IANS): Around 7.5 lakh Chakma tribals observed a 'black day' on Wednesday to protest the occupation of their original homeland in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh. | 17-Aug-2016 |
| Multicrore NHM health scam is almost a c | AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN): Years have passed but no major action taken against the acussed involved in the multi crore NHM scam. Talking to TIWN correspondent, PCC Chief Birajit Sinha said that the case is almost closed and only due to the shelter from the ruling government police is also not taking any action, alleged Sinha. However, it is to be mention here that since after the Unakoti NHM scam was unearthed and FIR was lodged against at least 17 CMOs and other officials, one could find no sustained development in to it leading the corrupt officers roams free. According to the FIR, the health officials had embezzled an amount of Rs. 4.47 crore under National Rural Health Mission. However, no one was arrested in this connection, till the filing of the report. Instead the case now remained pending with the Police Head Quarter. Sinha also mentioned that the Left Rule Government is swallowing huge amount of public funds in the name of Development. | 17-Aug-2016 |
| Acute financial crisis makes TSECL to ta | AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN): Tripura Electricity Corporation Ltd (TSECL) which decided to take a loan of Rs. 250 crore after it faced severe financial crisis for a long time, is yet to clear the whole bill of the Power Plants. | 16-Aug-2016 |
| After Sonamura Ganja business rampant at | AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN): The illegal Ganja production is spoiling the young generation of Tripura. In an everyday look it can be seen that young boys are day and night enjoying their intoxicated sub-conscious situation. They find all happiness in this intoxication. This is increasing like cancers, spreading faster than AIDS in the society. | 16-Aug-2016 |
| Tripura’s poor sports infrastruct | AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN): Had it been any other State Govt of India- by this time they would have declared a cash prize of Rs 25 Lakhs to 1 crore for bringing the rare honour of becoming the first Indian woman gymnast to clinch a Bronze Medal in Commonwealth Games and represented India from Tripura at the Rio Olympic. From Telengana Chief Minister to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, every State Government always came forward to felicitate all great sports-persons cutting across party lines and rising above narrow politics but Tripura’s mismanagement has failed to recognise the talents of Tripura in the state. Tripura Govt yet to issue a press release thanking Dipa Karmakar for her achievements of making Tripura and India proud , also to declare a State Felicitation Ceremony upon her arrival in State, a matching cash reward for bringing such a rare honour by coming fourth in the Rio Olymopic and representing India but unfortunately Tripura government has not taken any step. | 17-Aug-2016 |
| NEC fully repaired, NH 8 (44) renovation | AGARTALA, Aug 16 (TIWN): Both NEC and NH8 (44) are giving passage to vehicles as the road condition has improved a lot, says DM North. Talking to TIWN correspondent, DM North Sandeep Mahatme said that both the routes including alternative national highway (NEC) and main national highway-NH8 (44) are giving passage to vehicles and every huge number of vehicles are entering the state. DM North further said that today 22 number of petrol tankers, followed by 32 diesel and 32 kerosine tankers will enter the state via national highway 8(44) and NEC and if the tankers continue to move frequently in the state it can be said that Tripura will never face fuel crisis. When asked about the status of the renovation he further said that alternative highway (NEC) is fully repaired and there is no problem in the route so far, however, the renovation for the main route that is nation highway 8(44) is under taken in 5 sections. However, the work is underway in 2 section and the rest of the renovation for the 3 other section will be adopted soon. | 16-Aug-2016 |
| TMC staged protest rally, placed deputat | AGARTALA, Aug 16 (TIWN): Trinammol Congress on Tuesday staged protest rally at Agartala followed by placing deputation to DM west Millind Ramteke demanding response as to why no action is taken against the buildings and offices of CPI-M built on the illegal plot of the land and AMC is eyeing to demolish Trinamool Bhawan which is built on the expedient plot of land. | 16-Aug-2016 |
| Tripura Gramin Bank joint forum associat | AGARTALA, Aug 16 (TIWN): Tripura Gramin Bank joint forum association including Tripura Gramin Bank Karmachari samiti, Tripura Gramin Bank officers union and Tripura Gramin Bank retired staff association on Tuesday sat for relay hunger strike from August 16 to 20at Abhoynagar demanding regularisation of the employees working in the post of office assistant in Tripura Gramin bank and to hike the salary of sanitation workers. | 16-Aug-2016 |
| Udaipur turns to be a crime hub: Decomp | AGARTALA, Aug 16 (TIWN): In a bizarre incident a decomposed of an unidentified woman was recovered from Udaipur Sub-divisional hospital on Tuesday morning. | 16-Aug-2016 |
| Digital move: Rubber Board introduce mob | AGARTALA, Aug 16 (TIWN): In a digital move, the rubber board has introduced what’s App facility recently as a part of the existing “rubber clinic†to address the problem of the rubber growers related to the rubber production instantly. | 16-Aug-2016 |
| Campaigning on peak for Simna-Tamakari A | AGARTALA, Aug 16 (TIWN): Almost all the political parties have begin with the campaigning for the Simna-Tamakari ADC bi-election scheduled to be held of August 23. None of teh party is leaving any scope for campaigning in the hills of Tripura. | 16-Aug-2016 |
| Fatal accident left 5 persons injured | TELIAMURA, Aug 16 (TIWN): Once again accident hits Assam-Agartala road at Teliamura, leaving atleast 5 persons injured. | 16-Aug-2016 |
| Modi in two years brings changes in the | AGARTALA, Aug 16 (TIWN): Tripura under the prolonged leadership of CM Manik Sarkar has witnessed heights of under-development in the state where still today the facility of drinking water to basic health service is at stake. | 16-Aug-2016 |