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Tripura Hcrefuses to Stay Probe Against TMC Leaders EasternChroniWINDOW TO THE EAST cle WEATHERWATCH SHOW OF DISSENT: DOZENS FINANCIAL CONDITIONS IDEAL BENGALURU GO DOWN 0-2 to Max 29°c of people raise Afghan flag in for economic recovery: ATK Mohun Bagan in AFC Cup Min 27°c Jalalabad P 6 RBI P 9 opener P 10 Humidity 89% VOL II, ISSUE 266 PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM SILCHAR GUWAHATI KOLKATA PAGES: 10 epaper at: www.easternchronicle.net PRICE `5 THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 2021 Schools, colleges Tripura HC refuses to stay Subsidised LPG price for final year to hiked by `25 per cylinder re-open from Sept 1 GUWAHATI: Schools and col- leges in Assam are likely to probe against TMC leaders AGENCIES monthly increases led to the re-open from September 1 elimination of subsidies by for class 10, 12 and final se- AGENCIES istered an FIR against All India past when a case was regis- NEW DELHI: Domestic cooking May 2020. mester students. General Secretary of Trinamool tered by West Agartala police, gas LPG price on Wednesday The price of domestic cook- This was informed by AGARTALA: The High Court of Congress Abhishek Banerjee, the accused persons refused to was increased by Rs 25 per ing gas has more than doubled Assam education minister Tripura on Wednesday re- Member of Parliament Dola take bail from police and pre- cylinder - the second straight in the last seven years. The Ranuj Pegu in Guwahati. fused to stay investigation Sen, Bengal education minis- ferred to move the court, even month of increase in rates. retail selling price of domes- Pegu said that a final deci- in the FIR registered by the ter Bratya Basu, Kunal Ghosh, if not required. Subsidised LPG now costs tic gas was Rs 410.5 per 14.2-kg sion on re-opening of classes Khowai police against five Tripur unit leader Subal On August 8, the TMC lead- Rs 859 per 14.2-kg cylinder in cylinder on March 1, 2014. is awaiting an... Pg 5 Trinamool Congress (TMC) Bhowmik and Prakash Das for ers had pressured Khowai police Delhi, according to a price Industry sources said the In Mumbai, a 14.2 kg LPG leaders for voluntarily ob- obstructing them from perform- station for the release of 14 TMC notification of oil companies. subsidised LPG price was not cylinder now costs Rs 859.5, structing public servant in the ing their duties. workers arrested by last month. This is the second straight raised on August 1 because while in Kolkata, it is priced at Supreme Court allows discharge of his public func- “The TMC leaders had Banerjee, Dola Sen, Bratya Basu, month of a price increase. Rates Parliament was in session Rs 886. For people of Chennai, tions. entered the police station on Kunal Ghosh and even Jaya Dutt were hiked by Rs 25.50 per cyl- and the government could an LPG cylinder will now cost women to appear for The single bench of Chief Abhishek Banerjee: Under trouble. August 8 and on the following did not leave the police station inder on July 1. have been attacked by the Rs 875.50, up from Rs 850.50. NDA exam Justice AA Kureshi, while state and allowed it to continue day a general diary number was even at the request of the police Non-subsidised LPG rates opposition. Meanwhile, diesel prices dismissing the petition filed with the investigation. registered under non-cognizable officers. As a result, there was were increased on August 1 The latest increase in sub- were cut by 19 to 21 paise across NEW DELHI: The Supreme by Subal Bhowmik to stay the “The court has allowed the offence, following which a case tension at the Khowai police by the same proportion, and sidised LPG price now has the country, while petrol prices Court of India on Wednes- investigation and quash the case investigation to continue against was registered under section 186 station “due to their aggressive now the subsidised cooking gas taken the cumulative rate hike remained unchanged, accord- day slammed Indian Army registered against him, said the the accused persons. However, of IPC,” Dey added. attitude”. prices have been raised. since January 1 to Rs 165 per ing to the price notification. for not allowing women to police can continue the investi- the court has directed that the The TMC leaders had visit- Reacting to the police action, There is hardly any differ- cylinder. This is the first change take part in National De- gation in the case. report should not be drawn up ed Khowai police station along TMC leader Subal Bhowmik had ence in the rate of subsidised The government eliminated in price in over a month. fence Academy (NDA) en- Advocate General Siddhartha without the leave of the court,” with a number of media persons, said that they did not create any and non-subsidised cooking subsidies on LPG by raising Petrol continues to remain trance exams. Shankar Dey said the court has the AG said. flouting COVID-19 restrictions. obstruction in the duty of the gas. rates every month. These unchanged at... Pg 5 Additional Solicitor served two week notice to the The Khowai police had reg- He said that in the recent police officials. Pg 5 General Aishwarya Bhati, representing... Pg 5 SPOTLIGHT Tripura ex-speaker Jiten Netaji's kin seeks Dima Hasao woman Two districts record DNA test of ashes Delhi court discharges rise in HIV cases Sarkar wants to join Trinamool kept at Renkoji temple Cong leader arrested Tharoor in Sunanda GUWAHATI: In a shocking, Pushkar case Assam’s two districts of AGENCIES I have forwarded the matter to win Tripura. We want people of KOLKATA: Seven decades ALLEGED LINK WITH MILITANT GROUP Nagaon and its nearby Abhishek," she told reporters. the northeastern state to take have passed since Netaji NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Morigaon have witnessed a KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Diamond Harbour MP and benefits of the welfare schemes Subhas Chandra Bose went CNS & AGENCIES president of Assam Pradesh BJP Wednesday discharged sen- sudden spike of HIV positive Minister Mamata Banerjee the chief minister's nephew that are running successfully in missing on this date in 1945, Mahila Morcha. She had left the ior Congress leader Shashi cases. A recent survey by a said that former Tripura As- Abhishek Banerjee is the TMC's West Bengal," she said. with many historians sug- HAFLONG: Dima Hasao police saffron party on denial of ticket Tharoor in connection with NGO and the district admin- sembly speaker Jiten Sarkar national general secretary. Accusing the BJP of causing gesting that he might have on Monday morning arrested during NC Hills Autonomous his wife Sunanda Pushkar's istrations has recorded over wrote to her on Wednesday "There is no democracy or violence against TMC leaders in died in a plane crash, but one woman Dipali Hapila, vice Council’s MAC poll in 2019. She death case in 2014. 100 cases of HIV positive expressing his willingness to law and order in Tripura, only Tripura, Banerjee claimed that the recurring demand to president of Dima Hasao ma- have been produce before the dis- Sunanda Pushkar was found cases recently. According join the Trinamool Congress. goondaism and vandalism," she the northeastern state's gover- bring back his purported hila congress committee from trict and session court and have dead in a luxury hotel in the to the survey, while some 84 Sarkar, a former Congress said. nor did not give an appointment remains from a temple in her residence in Diyungbra been taken to remanded for three national capital on the night including 10 women were re- MLA, had joined the CPI(M) in Banerjee alleged that West to her party leaders and asked Japan for DNA examina- for allegedly helping Dimasa days at Haflong P.S for further of January 17, 2014. She and corded to have infected with 2016 before switching over to the Bengal TMC leaders visiting them to visit after Independence tion has not been met with National Liberation Army interrogation. Tharoor were staying in the HIV virus, at least 30 others BJP in 2017. Tripura are facing harassment Day. thus far. (DNLA) in transportation. The DNLA have called 36 hour hotel, as their bungalow was have been found to have in- "Former Tripura Assembly in various forms, including "On the other hand, West The freedom fighter's The arrested was made on bandh from 5 am of August 14 till being renovated at that time. fected in Morigaon district speaker Jiten Sarkar wrote to problems over their stay in Bengal Governor Jagdeep grandnephew, Surya Kumar basis of substantial evidence and 5pm of August 15 in six district Tharoor was booked under since August 1 alone. Pg 5 me today saying that he wants to hotels. Dhankar sits with BJP leaders Bose, Pg 5 intelligence input, said police. of Assam viz Dima Hasao, Karbi sections 498A... Pg 5 join the TMC with many others. "This will not go on as we will every evening," she added. Hapila is the former vice Anglong, Pg 5 WB man gets 7 years RI in fake currency Uttam Kumar Sarkar named Mamata urges MEA to bring back Sushmita Dev in Tripura case new director of IIM-Calcutta unlikely: TMC leader AGENCIES Bengalis stranded in Afghanistan AGENCIES large body of faculty, students, MUMBAI: A special NIA court alumni, staff, board, and all AGENCIES MOST OF THEM ARE FROM DARJEELING, KALIMPONG CHRONICLE NEWS SERVICE apt leadership of TMC supre- here sentenced a man from KOLKATA: Uttam Kumar Sarkar stakeholders. Moreover, he is mo Mamata Banerjee, we West Bengal to seven years was on Wednesday named the acutely aware of 'what needs KOLKATA: Many people from ›AND TERAI REGION.
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