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Tripura: PWD scam accused minister rushed to hospital, arrested
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Oct 22 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) MLA and former state Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Badal Chowdhury, who had been avoiding arrest in the Rs 600 crore PWD scam, was arrested on Monday, after he was brought to a hospital in Agartala.
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Tripura: Court rejects anticipatory bail of former PWD Minister Badal Chou
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Oct 17 (ANI): A Tripura Court has rejected anticipatory bail of Badal Choudhury, CPI (M) MLA and former state Public Works Dept (PWD) Minister in a Rs 600-crore PWD scam.
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Tripura: Five-year-old girl worshipped as Goddess Durga on Maha Ashtami
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Oct 7 (ANI): While people across the country were seen offering prayers to idols of Goddess Durga on Maha Ashtami, a five-year-old girl here was worshipped as the living embodiment of Maa Durga following an age-old tradition called 'Kumari Puja'.
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Tripura Police beef up security for Durga Puja celebrations
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Oct 5 (ANI): Amid the Navratri and Durga Puja celebrations in the state, the police on Saturday beefed up security measures to ensure that no untoward incident takes place.
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Tripura CM meets Hasina, discusses range of issues including direct flight
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Oct 04 (ANI): Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Thursday met Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and discussed a range of issues including a direct flight between Agartala and Dhaka.
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Tripura: CM distributes 50 heifers, to give 10,000 cows in all to meet mil
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Oct 1 (ANI): In a bid to make Tripura self-sufficient in milk production, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Tuesday distributed 50 heifers among farmers, 36 artificial insemination (AI) kits and bicycles among youths.
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Tripura govt to appeal in SC against High Court's ban on animal sacrifice:
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Oct 1 (ANI): Tripura Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath on Monday said that the state government will file an appeal in the Supreme Court against the high court's order to ban the tradition of animal and bird sacrifice in temples.
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Tripura: High Court's ban on animal sacrifice draws mixed response
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Sept 29 (ANI): The Tripura High Court's order to ban the tradition of animal sacrifice in temples has drawn a mixed response from people in the state.
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Tripura: BJP's Mimi Majumdar wins from Badharghat in by-polls
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Sept 27 (ANI): BJP candidate Mimi Majumdar on Friday was declared the winner from the Badharghat constituency of Tripura in the Assembly by-polls which were held recently.
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Agartala gang-rape case: Six people arrested, produced before court
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Sept 26 (ANI): Six people, arrested in the Agartala gang rape case which took place on Tuesday evening, were produced before a district court early on Thursday.
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Corporate tax cuts would invite FDI: Tripura CM Biplab Kumar Deb
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Sept 24 (ANI): Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Tuesday hailed the Centre's decision to slash corporate tax rates and said the decision would attract huge foreign investments into the country.
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Agartala-bound AI flight delayed after bees enter cockpit
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Sept 16 (ANI): In a bizarre incident, an Air India (AI) flight bound to Agartala in Tripura was delayed for around an hour after a swarm of bees engulfed the airfield site and entered the plane's cockpit at the Kolkata airport.
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