Tag: Agartala
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India, ADB sign $61 million loan to improve urban services in Agartala
Rajat Kumar Mishra, Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs in India’s Ministry of Finance, signed for the Government of India, the agreement for Agartala City Urban Development Project while Takeo Konishi, Country Director of ADB’s India Resident Mission signed for ADB.
November 15, 2021 -
Cabinet expansion, reshuffle in Tripura imminent, say sources
Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, who is now on a weeklong tour to New Delhi, held a series of separate meetings with the Bharatiya Janata Party President J.P. Nadda, National General Secretary (Organisation) B.L. Santhosh and discussed the organisational matters.
July 19, 2021 -
Tripura family travels 3,200 km in ambulance from Chennai to reach home amid lockdown
During their long journey, they had to furnish documents of the hospital in different check points of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura.
April 21, 2020 -
Modi to visit Dhaka amid tensions in ties over CAA, NRC
The authorities in Bangladesh are taking stringent security measures to ensure that Modi's visit passes off smoothly in the wake of protests in parts of the country over the CAA and the recent communal riots in Delhi.
March 7, 2020 -
Bees delay Kolkata-Agartala flight
The bees were noticed by the pilots when the Airbus A319 was moving towards the runway for take-off.
September 16, 2019 -
Flight operations resume at Kolkata airport after 17-hour shutdown
Air India AI 743 to Agartala was the first departure on Saturday, and GoAIr G8 101 from Delhi was the first arrival
May 4, 2019 -
Seven Assam bound Rohingya Muslim children detained in Tripura
"Railway tickets up to Badarpur railway station were found on them. They might have been trafficked by middlemen," the RPF official said.
February 3, 2019 -
3 dead, four critically injured in Tripura accident
A high-speed bike dashed into the auto-rickshaw from the rear end and the three-wheeler collided with the car coming from the opposite direction erupting in a huge ball of fire.
December 23, 2018 -
Notifications for February 18 Tripura polls issued
The statutory notifications for the February 18 elections to the 60-member Tripura Assembly were issued on Wednesday, an official here said. “Tripura Chief Secretary, on behalf of the state Governor, Election Commission and all Returning Officers, has issued three separate notifications to constitute a new assembly and inviting candidates to file their nominations,” a Tripura Election Department official …
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January 24, 2018 -
Humsafar Express extended to Agartala
Tripura’s capital on Friday was linked with Bengaluru by “Humsafar Express”, becoming the second city in the northeast to get a newly introduced train, equipped with modern facilities. Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain flagged off the weekly train that will link the two state capitals via Kamakhya, Howrah, Cuttack and Vijayawada. Friday’s event …
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January 5, 2018 -
Security beefed up along Tripura’s inter-state borders
Security along Tripura’s inter-state borders with Assam and Mizoram and international boundaries with Bangladesh has been tightened in view of the publication of a partial draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and ensuing assembly polls, officials said here on Monday. “We have deployed additional security forces along Tripura’s inter-state borders with Assam and …
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January 1, 2018 -
India looks to set up more land ports to tap potential: Rijiju
India is looking to set up a few more land ports, buoyed by the success of such integrated check posts in Agartala and other places, Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju said. “We are thinking of identifying a few more (land ports). Beyond that, we have border huts, Customs stations and there are …
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December 14, 2017 -
Tripura Rajdhani Express to New Delhi chugs off from Agartala
Tripura capital Agartala on Saturday was linked with the national capital New Delhi by the Rajdhani Express, becoming the fourth city in northeast India to get the Rajdhani train link. Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain flagged-off the much-awaited Rajdhani Express between Agartala and Delhi’s Anand Vihar station. The regular service will start from …
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October 28, 2017 -
Tripura journalist last rites carried out amidst prohibitory orders
Funeral procession of video journalist Shantanu Bhowmik was carried out in Agartala on Thursday amid prohibitory orders. Shantanu Bhowmik was allegedly killed while he was covering clashes between the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) and the Tripura Rajaer Upajati Ganamukti Parishad (TRUGP) in Mandai, in West Tripura. Section 144 of CrPC was imposed in …
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September 21, 2017 -
Journalist killed by Tribal party cadres in Tripura
A local television journalist, Shantanu Bhowmik, was allegedly killed by unidentified tribal party cadres at Mandai, some 14km east of Agartala on Wednesday. He was 29-years-old. Police said that agitated members of Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) and CPI-M’s tribal wing Tripura Rajaer Upajati Ganamukti Parishad (TRUGP) gathered at Mandai in western Tripura after …
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September 20, 2017 -
Fatwa issued on Facebook against Tripura CM
The Tripura police on Friday launched a probe over a fatwa issued against Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Facebook, the authorities said. “After noticing the fatwa post on Thursday, an inquiry has been initiated following the registering of a criminal case at the West Agartala police station,” West Tripura district police chief Abhijit Saptarshi told …
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August 18, 2017 -
Tripura to issue Aadhaar cards to over 32,000 Mizoram tribals
More than 32,000 Mizoram tribals staying in seven refugee camps in Tripura for the past two decades will be issued Aadhaar cards by the Tripura government, an official said on Saturday. An official of the Tripura Relief and Revenue Department said that the Home Ministry had asked the state to provide Aadhaar cards to these …
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May 13, 2017