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Dipa Karmakar welcomes PM Modi's Olympics task force
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Agartala [India], Aug. 27 (ANI): India's gymnastics heroine Dipa Karmakar has welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of setting up a task force to prepare an action plan for the next three Olympic Games, and expressed hope that it would yield positive results and the
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Dipa Karmakar says sad she could not snare Olympic medal
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Aug.26 (ANI): Ace gymnast Dipa Karmakar has said that she is sad at not being able to snare a medal at the recently concluded summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Section 144 imposed in Agartala after IPFT supporters storm town
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Agartala, Aug 23 (ANI): The West Tripura district administration has imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 in Agartala after Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) supporters created law and order situation in the city.
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Indian coaches' just as good as foreign counterparts, says Dipa Karma
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura), Aug. 23 (ANI): Rejecting the notion that foreign coaches are more likely to deliver results when it comes to local athletes, 'Produnova' specialist Dipa Karmakar's coach Bishweshwar Nandi asserted that Indian coaches' can do just as well, or even bette
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Raksha Bandhan celebration at Agartala mosque to promote communal harmony
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura), Aug. 20 (ANI): Setting an example of communal harmony before the nation, people in Agartala on Saturday organised a Raksha Bandhan celebration in the premises of the city's Gedu Mia mosque that brought together college students, boys and girls of Hindu, Muslim and ot
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Dipa's father ecstatic after daughter's name recommended for Khe
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Agartala, Aug.17 (ANI): The father of Indian star gymnast Dipa Karmakar, who missed the bronze medal by a whisker at the ongoing Rio Olympics, on Tuesday expressed his delight after she was recommended for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.
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Tripura Hajj pilgrims to fly to Saudi Arabia tomorrow
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura), Aug. 17 (ANI): Eighty two Muslim pilgrims left Tripura by air in two batches on Wednesday to take part in the Hajj, one of the biggest annual religious congregations in Saudi Arabia.
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Dipa Karmakar's father believes presence of manager would've bee
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Agartala, Aug 15 (ANI): While expressing satisfaction over his daughter's stellar performance in the Rio Olympics, the father of Indian star gymnast Dipa Karmakar, who missed the bronze medal by a whisker, said that the presence of a manager would have helped the team in problematic sit
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Normal life paralysed in Agartala by Congress-led strike
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura), Aug.12 (ANI): A dawn to dusk strike called by Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) is being observed in Agartala today. The Congress is demanding the withdrawal of a Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) notification regardi
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Dipa's parents ecstatic after physio rushed to Rio ahead of vault fin
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Agartala, Aug.12 (ANI): Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar's parents have expressed their satisfaction after the athlete's physio Sajad Ahamed Mir was rushed to the ongoing Rio Olympics to accompany her during the crucial Produnova vault jump in the finals.
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CPI-M will become irrelevant in Indian politics by 2017, says TMC leader M
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura), Aug.9 (ANI): Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy has predicted that by 2017, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) will become irrelevant in the Indian political context.
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GST is Centre's attempt to curtail power of states, says Tripura CM M
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura), Aug.9 (ANI): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has that the recently passed Goods and Services Tax (GST) has viewed it is an attempt by the centre to curtail the power of states. He was speaking to reporters at his office on Monday evening.
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