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28/07/2010 00:00:00-11136071064AgartalaBy Our CorrespondentYouth Cong to observe 'Kala Diwas'Tripura Pradesh Youth Congress Committee has resolved to observe July 31 as ‘Black Day’ as a sign of protest against corruption and ill governance allegedly let loose by LF government in the state. All India Youth Congress General Secretary Mr. Bikash Upadhyaya today announced the programme with bitter scorn for the ruling party while speaking at a formal press meet held at Congress Bhawan here. “There have been several crises namely job scam, torture on women and several other identical incidents recently in the state during the tenure of ruling party”, said Mr. Upadhyaya. Pradesh Youth Congress President Sushanta Chowdhury, General Secretary Baptu Chakraborty, Uday Bhaskar Chakraborty and Joydami Tripura were also present at the press meet today. The Black Day will be observed be wearing black badges on person of the YC activists in all public places of the state while leaflets focusing on the alleged elements of corruption and ill governance will be distributed. The youth body will also organize a ‘padayatra’ or mammoth rally from August 15 till August 27. The rally will cover all areas from Dharmanagar till Sabroom. The ending day will be marked by a mammoth gathering at Astabal Ground here where one lakh organization supporters are expected to gather as informed by the PYC president at the press met this afternoon. “We have initiated several movements against the anti-people policies of the state government recent past. This movement agenda will also be a success as we are expecting eyeing at the response from the public”, said he. AICC General Secretary Mr. Bikash Upadhyaya said that AICC General Secretary and youth icon of India Mr. Rahul Gandhi will be intimated over the issue while AICC Secretary and in-charge of the state Mr. Jitendra Singh will remain present in the mammoth gathering.
07/07/2010 00:00:00-11235421060AgartalaBy Our CorrespondentAcute fuel crisis makes way to black marketAcute fuel crisis has taken hold of the entire state and capital city is shaking due to the crisis as long trail of vehicles were seen in Agartala main-town since early morning waiting for a liter of petrol. A similar condition is applicable for the heavy vehicles as well since lots of government service vehicles were seen waiting for their turn of cross verification of authenticity and supply of a bit of the fuel stock. The situation has escalated all the more in several areas and only two petrol pumps of the capital is presently having stock of petro-fuel. A petrol pump located at Radhanagar Motorstand area was functional till 10 am this morning and only two petrol pumps, one at Ganaraj Chowmuhani and the other at Bardowali area here are having fuel stock as of now. The situation has taken a tight grip on the travel fares as auto-rickshaw and bus fares have excessively soared recently with Rs. 1-3 increase right away at several instances, which totally violates state government’s transport fare regulations. All the other petrol pumps have simply gone dry and despite the fragile assurances of the Food Minister about availability of fuel, development in situation is only unnatural soaring of petrol and fuel in open black market. As seen in the open market of Agartala this afternoon, illegally stocked petrol is being sold at Rs. 75-80 per liter in some of the localities of Agartala and diesel has also soared a lot. Condition of cooking gas is even more critical as nearly a hundred consumers were seen standing outside a gas agency here this morning. Nearly 75% of these people waited for several hours in queue and later returned home without the cylinder owing to the stark crisis. Sarala Gas Agency saw pretty good bulk of such consumers who later got agitated hearing the closure of service. The situation was, however, tackled by localities and police personnel. According to sources, the price of petrol is likely to touch Rs. 100 per liter from tomorrow if the situation is not brought under control immediately.
05/07/2010 00:00:00-11335341059AgartalaBy Our CorrespondentISI agent,allies sent to 10 days remandRed corridor of anti-national activities is no more a mere presumption in the bottleneck pseudo-regional scenario of Tripura as the anti-national activities of Inter-Services Intelligence operatives has become crystal today after the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court here sent seven suspected persons to 10 days police remand for detailed interrogation of the arrestees. They include hardcore ISI agent Manir Khan alias Omar Asraf alias Omar Farooq Aslam alias many more as informed by the prosecution this evening. They will be again produced at the court on July 14 and the interrogation will be conducted at SB cell in the meanwhile. The judicial procedure has come after a brisk phase of rapid arrests of Manir Khan with his six allies namely Ramu Ghosh, Rana Roy, Uttam Barman, Sujit Saha, Gouranga Dey by officials of Intelligence Bureau on July 03. Manir has received training from ISI camps at Multan and Bhawalpur in Pakistan and he is a Pakistani national, informed the prosecution. He has got anti-national activities to his credit at Guwahati, Punjab, Bangladesh and several other places of India. This first grade agent of Pakistani intelligence had come to mobilize anti-national activities in the IBB adjacent region here, said the prosecution during court trial in the court of Judicial Magistrate (1st class) PC Biswas. The Pak agent, as he has been projected, had reportedly landed from his residence at Bhawalpur in Karachi, Pakistan to Dhaka airport through due passport clearance et al. The following phase includes several criss-cross journey agendas as Manir was received by a doctor of Bangladesh national health services who is also suspected to be an ISI agent, he traveled through the semi-porous IBB along Sonamura border alongwith other allies namely Ramu Ghosh, known to be the gang pin of the trans-border smuggling racket and his subordinate namely Taj-ul-Islam. Ramu is a resident of the Netaji Subhash Palli area under Jagaharimura, Agartala while Sujit is a resident of Town Pratapgarh. Manir used to live in the residence of one Rajib Roy Barman, resident of Araliya under the pseudonym of Bijoy Kumar Yadav. He is the driver of Ramu Ghosh.
05/07/2010 00:00:00-11435331058AgartalaBy Our CorrespondentBandh evokes partial responseThe NDA called nation-wide strike evoked mixed response in the state today. Though the ruling Left Front had opposed the bandh, private vehicles were off the road. All the private run schools, colleges like Women’s College and B.Ed College and other educational institutions were remained closed. Shutters of shops and other business establishments were also down due to the dawn to dusk bandh. The bandh supporters targeted the Agartala Railway Station to disrupt the railway services. But their attempt was foiled by the security forces. All the scheduled trains left for the destination today amidst tight security. The attendance in government offices and banks was thin but attendance in civil secretariat was usual. There was heavy deployment of security personnel in front of the government offices, banks and civil secretariat to avoid any untoward incident during the strike. The NDA and Left parties have called the nationwide bandh protesting the hike in the prices of petroleum products including LPG. Interestingly, the ruling Left Front here has opposed bandh in stead they organized protest rallies across the state.
02/07/2010 00:00:00-11535221057AgartalaBy Our CorrespondentHigh tension in police headquartersPolice headquarters turned into a heated cauldron today after the Director General of police was found absent at the police headquarters when more than 300 lawyers went to submit deputation to him in connection to the allegedly illegal arrest of an advocate. It is mentionable here that Mr. Babul Das, Officer-in-charge of the West Agartala police station, had arrested advocate Pradyut Dhar yesterday based on allegations of one Dulal Sil. The catch of the game is that Mr. Sil had reportedly created a nuisance in the chamber of the lawyer located at his residence in Ramnagar road no.1. The nuisance followed a heated conversation between Mr. Sil and the lawyer over allegedly obscene talks with the wife of the alleger. The lady is nowhere to be found in the meanwhile and the surprising allegation based on FIR filed against h lawyer by Mr. Sil at Ramnagar police outpost has somehow got validated in the eyes of the police. Moreover, the allegation filed on Advocate Mr. Dhar according to Section 354 (IPC) is a bailable offence and the mysterious act of OC Babul Das by keeping the advocate in police lock-up for the whole night has incited pretty good deal of public discontent since the due bail scope was denied. Around 300 lawyers reached the Sadar Police Headquarters this afternoon. The DGP of state police was intimated earlier and still he was not present at the police headquarters in the stipulated time. The lawyers got furious over the dubious role of the police in the entire inquiry and the situation escalated further when few furniture of the police headquarters were smashed and as many as 150 TSR personnel wer4e deployed in the area to take control of the situation. However, the DGP reached the spot soon and mitigated the discontent with the lawyers. The lawyers demanded immediate clarification of the illegal custodial term of the esteemed lawyer and suspension of the OC of West Agartala police station. The DGP listened to their demands and promised to initiate appropriate steps in connection with the issue. However, he hasn’t promised suspension of the police official.