Dharmanagar, 21 August 2022: Third Biennial Conference of Indian Postal Employees Association of Dharmanagar Branch and Northeast Branch was held at Ardhendu Bhattacharya Smriti Bhavan, Dharmanagar on Sunday.
The conference was closed for the past 3 years due to the covid situation. The conference became possible this year as a result of the normalization of the covid situation.
The third biennial conference was auspiciously inaugurated by Rajat Debbarma, Circle President of the Association, Honorable Deputy Speaker of Tripura Legislative Assembly Bishwa Bandhu Sen, Postal Commissioner Bidhan Chandra Das, District Secretary Arup Kumar Roy, SAARC Secretary Partha Chakraborty and other persons were present as special guests.
The main purpose of this conference is to strengthen the organization and to add new members and at the same time to form new committee.
Kailasahar, 21 August 2022: Local residents blocked the main road of Kailasahar and Kumarghat in Chirakuti due to water problem.
According to local sources, there has been water problem in Chirakuti area under Gaurnagar RD block for a few days. When the residents of the area contacted the pump operator many times, they said that the water has been already released. But it can be seen that the water did not come to the house.
Despite several reports to the chief, nothing was done. Forced to do so, the local residents blocked the road in Chirakuti on Sunday.
Khumulwng, 21 July 2022: A new staff management notification was issued to Khumupui Academy on Wednesday, by the PO of Education Department, TTAADC in order to de-escalate the frequent accidents taking place near the entrance road. Sri Chittaranjan Debbarma, Executive member, Education and PWD department, TTAADC responded positively to the deputation given by Tripura Indigenous Peoples’ Press Associtation (TIPPA) and Tiprasa Photo Media Association (TPMA) on Wednesday.
On Thursday, Executive body and members of TIPPA and TPMA solemnly thanked EM Chittaranjan Debbarma, for immediate implementation of the issue after the deputation. TPMA Secretary Mr. Amulya Debbarma alongwith other executive members from the two associations conducted a press meet in Khumulwng.
According to the details of the incident, on Wednesday morning while entering into the Khumpui Academy school, a boy of class – II collided with a running scooty rider, which caused a fatal accident in the morning. The boy was seriously injured and admitted in AGMC and GBP hospital for treatment.
Looking into the matter, Tripura Indigenous Peoples’ Press Associtation (TIPPA) and Tiprasa Photo Media Association (TPMA) handed over a memorandum of deputation to EM Chittaranjan Debbarma, demanding an immediate implementation to prevent further incidents in the accident prone area.
EM Chittaranjan Debbarma, without any delay took to implement the procedure for the well being of the social cause, and recommended the matter to the PO of education department. In the very day, PO of education department issued a notification regarding the staff management for guiding the school students at the entrance of Khumpui Academy.
The notification has brought a relief among the parents and guardians of the students of Khumpui Academy. Due to the right decision, at the right time, further incident will get de-escalated, according to the locals.
Bishalgarh, 21 July 2022: A huge python snake was found in Dwajanagar area on Thursday morning. The incident took place when a farmer, Helan Mia while going to work in the paddy field, noticed a huge python snake lying on the ground.
On seeing the huge snake, Helan Mia started screaming, and the youth of the area rushed to the spot. The Python snake was rescued from the field by the locals.
Later, the Information was given to the forest department. The forest workers rushed to the spot under the leadership of Sukanta Das, the official of the forest department. The python was rescued by the forest staff and taken to a zoo.
However, wild animals are being rescued from the locality very frequently. The trend of gradual deforestation poses a threat in this regard. Python snakes are being rescued from paddy fields, swamps or houses. Due to this residents are spending days in fear.
Agartala, 21 July 2022: During 25+ years of Left Front government in the state of Tripura, the media platforms were kept devoid of basic procurement rights. Several deputations and sittings were neglected during that period. But after the BJP government came into power, the ministers and the ICA department officials have taken up to listen and improve the situation of various media platforms in the state.
With the rise of literacy, the unemployed youths have increased rapidly. In a state with no major Industry and factories, the dependency for the government jobs have gone into high expectations among the people. At this hour of need, the media platforms of Electronic media, print media and web media have been providing employment for the youths up to some percent of extend. The concept of journalism has widened, and many people are making a livelihood from the sources.
Taking an account of the matter, State Information and Cultural minister Mr. Sushanta Chowdhury have declared an enlistment grade and a promotion grade for the eligible Television Channels of the state. Among the enlisted list of different channels, a kokborok based electronic media and television channel Chini Khorang has received an enlistment of promotion grade with category. Chini Khorang is the first kokborok channel from the state of Tripura to achieve such success from the department of ICA. The intellectuals thinks that, following the footsteps many more kokborok channels will come up and get enlistments in the coming days.
On July 20, a delegation of Tripura Electronics Media Society met the State Information and Culture Minister Sushant Chowdhury and thanked the state government for first officially reconsidering and giving category to electronics media. TEMS reiterated its demand for a minimum 51 per cent sanction on government advertisements as a matter of fact for the very popular TV news media that reach large numbers of people in every corner of the state.
Officials of Tripura Electronics Media Society expressed hope that the competent leadership of the Minister of Information and Culture will try to fulfill the demands. In the amicable discussion, Minister Sushanta Chowdhury also assured to take timely action by showing sincere sympathy towards the demands.
TEMS delegation included Secretary Saurajit Pal, Advisor Pranab Sarkar, Sebak Bhattacharya, and Member Manish Saha, Ranjit Debvarma, Hanif Ali among others.
Boxanagar, 21 July 2022: Incidents like murder, terrorism, suicide, kidnapping are seen every day and there is no stopping of such criminal incidents. This type of crime is increasing in the state as well as in the country. Last Wednesday, a girl from Tripura, who went to Chennai for work, committed suicide, which casted a shadow of mourning in the area.
In the details of the incident, it is known that Rima Maya Begum (30), daughter of Abu Taher, a resident of Ward No. (4) of Putia Village Panchayat under Boxanagar Block of Sonamura Sub-division of the state, married to Shahjahan Mia of Ward No. (6) of the same village 12 years ago according to Islamic customs. The family were blessed with two sons and a daughter and the family life was going well. But recently, two years ago, due to family problems, the couple got divorced. Then Rima came to her father’s house with her son.
On the other hand, husband Shah Jahan married a second wife. Then Rima fell into financial crisis with her aged parents and a son, which forced Riya to move to Chennai (for employment) for work.
As usual got a job as a nurse’s aide in a private hospital called Jeevan Mitra Fertility Center in Jayanagar, Chennai. Rima worked in the said hospital for one year. After a year of service, she came home on leave and took her younger sister with her for work in Chennai. After almost six months of work, Rima decided to commit suicide by hanging herself with a thick rope on the balcony of a hospital in Chennai at 10 am on Wednesday. In a telephone interview with Rima’s father Abu Taher and her younger sister, it is known that Rima was forced to commit suicide due to mental stress due to various family reasons.
On the other hand, it is known from secret sources that on Tuesday night, she committed suicide by hanging herself due to quarrels with her estranged husband about children’s various issues. However, Rima’s body has not yet arrived in the state. Rima’s family from Putia has approached the Sub-Divisional Ruler and the police administration to bring Rima’s body home.
Currently, Rima’s body is at the hospital mortuary under K-11 CMD Police Station, Chennai. Chennai and Tripura administrations have started racing to arrange for them to reach home within the next 24 hours. Rima’s relatives are eagerly waiting for Rima’s body.
Agartala, 20 July 2022: A press meet was conducted by TIPRA president Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl and members of Tipra Lawyers Confederation in Manikya court on Wednesday.
TIPRA president Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl briefed the press on the context of the judgement given by High Court regarding the conduction of ADC village council election by November 2022. The High Court has directed the State Election Commission to announce the date of the state village committee elections by the next month of November. On July 13, a double bench of the High Court gave this direction to the State Election Commission. The court directed to complete the election and the counting by the first week of November.
The Public Interest Litigation was filed in the High Court by Rajesh Debbarma and Dalia Debbarma. Tipra Matha is happy with the high court verdict.
Bijoy Kr Rangkhawl, president of Tipra Motha, said this at a press conference at Manikya Court on Wednesday. He also said that they are fully prepared for the election of 587 village committees.
The leaders of the party will meet in a meeting on July 26 to prepare the next day’s election strategy.
Advocate Mintu Debbarma and Advocate Arup Debbarma were present in the press meet from among the Tipra Lawyers Confederation. Advocate Arup Debbarma told the media about the details of the legal case upto the judgement for the village council election.
Dharmanagar, 20 July 2022: Thirteen cows were once again caught by the border guards on the way to be smuggled into Bangladesh. Later the cows were handed over at Dharmanagar police station. The incident took place on the Indo-Bangla border adjacent to Yakub Nagar BOP under Dharmanagar police station in North Tripura district.
It is known that during the early morning of Tuesday night at the Yakubnagar Indo-Bangla border, 139 border guard soldiers rescued thirteen cows from the barbed wire of the border while patrolling. However, no traffickers were caught. Border guards initial guess was that these cows were being smuggled across the barbed wire into Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, after all their legal processes, the cows were handed over to the police of Dharmanagar police station. The police have taken up the case and continued the investigation.
On the other hand, it should be noted that this intra-state cattle smuggling cycle has chosen North Tripura as a corridor. Moreover, a huge cattle smuggling syndicate has also developed in the northern district. Despite the continuous news published in different media, the state government did not seem to be active in this regard.
Allegedly, every day cattle are being smuggled to Kumarghat through Damchara of Uttar district through the chest of Panisagar. Cattle smuggling also continues from Churaibari Kadamtala, a similar border area. The various Indo-Bangla borders of the northern districts are being used. However, most of the police stations in the northern district are directly and indirectly supporting this trafficking cycle, it is also alleged.
Allegedly, along with this international cattle smuggling ring, the names of some bull drivers from Ramnagar area of Uttar district, several traffickers from Panisagar, Damchara, Churaibari Kadamtala areas have come up in the news headlines. Moreover, there are masked individuals who are running this international syndicate of cattle smuggling.
Hence the demand is being raised for the police administration to take quick action to eradicate the cycle of inter-state cattle smuggling. Otherwise, the people of the northern district will be forced to protest in the coming days in a democratic manner.
Agartala, 19 July 2022: Youth Congress leaders declared challenge on the government on the second day. Ashutosh Chatterjee, All India Vice-President of Youth Congress, was present at the rally. He brought the Tripura government to task on the unemployment issue from a three-day temporary platform.
He said that the state government has been cheating the unemployed youth with various promises at different times. Govt not recruiting TET passers together, not daring to declare JRBT result, not solving 10,323. They say they will provide thousands of jobs, but thousands of Tripura’s youth are becoming unemployed. As a result, Tripura occupies the second place in terms of unemployment.
Agartala, 19 July 2022: On July 18, the 15th presidential election phase was concluded in the state of Tripura along with the rest of the country. The ballot boxes containing other election materials were sent to the office of the Delhi Returning Officer on Tuesday.
The ballot box was taken from the strong room of the Tripura Assembly to the MBB airport around 6 am on Tuesday through tight security. State Election Commission Chief Officer Kiran Gitte and other administrative officers were present. This ballot box will be handed over to the Parliament Returning Officer.
57 MLAs voted in Tripura. One MLA (Brishaketu Debbarma) did not vote. The remaining two MLAs Sudhan Das and Rampada Jamatia exercised their franchise in the Delhi Parliament.
