Manik Sarkar
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Tripura CM urges agricultural scientists to stop farmers' suicides
National | May 23, 2015, 06:03 PM ISTAgartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar urged the scientific community in the agriculture and allied sectors to take suitable measures to stop farmers' suicides in the country."During the regime of both Congress and BJP led
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Manik urges insurgents in Tripura to shun arms
National | May 18, 2015, 07:25 PM ISTAgartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today appealed to insurgents to lay down arms, saying peace can pave way for development in the state. “The tribals and non-tribals have a long tradition of living together
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BJP, RSS going ahead with agenda of forming Hindu state: Karat
National | Feb 25, 2015, 10:03 PM ISTAgartala: CPI-M General Secretary PrakashKarat today said the people of the country are facing a“rightist onslaught” from the NDA government and RSS who aregoing ahead “with an agenda of forming a Hindu state.”“On one hand
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Chittagong port can boost business in northeast India, Bangladesh: Manik Sarkar
National | Jan 23, 2015, 04:01 PM ISTAgartala: A deal must be finalised to leverage the Chittagong international port for expanding business between northeast India and Bangladesh, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has said."Chittagong international port (in southeast Bangladesh) could play a
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Tripura CM wants tight vigil along India-Bangladesh border
National | Jan 03, 2015, 03:10 PM ISTAgartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has asked the Border Security Force (BSF) to beef up its vigil along the India-Bangladesh border in tandem with other paramilitary and state security forces.Sarkar, accompanied by senior security
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Make Planning Commission autonomous, more powerful, committed: Manik Sarkar
National | Dec 09, 2014, 04:54 PM ISTAgartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar differed with the Centre's idea of converting the Planning Commission to a mere think tank and has proposed for making it autonomous, more powerful and committed to the people."Its
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Narendra Modi convenes chief ministers meet on new plan panel
National | Dec 03, 2014, 12:27 PM ISTAgartala: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has convened a meeting of chief ministers in New Delhi Dec 7 to seek their views on the structure and functioning of the revamped Planning Commission, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar
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NDA failed in adopting pro-people policies: Tripura CM
National | Dec 03, 2014, 09:06 AM ISTAgartala: A day after interacting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Tripura, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today called for a movement to press the NDA government for changing its outlook so that
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Narendra Modi accepts Tripura's communist CM's invitation to address state cabinet
National | Dec 01, 2014, 08:18 AM ISTAgartala: In what could turn out to be a new phase in centre-state relations, Tripura's Marxist Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address the state cabinet on his oft-repeated themes
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Tripura CM Manik Sarkar urges PM Narendra Modi to increase MGNREGA allocation
National | Nov 04, 2014, 05:32 PM ISTAgartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has sought intervention of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the reduction of allocation of money for implementing MGNREGA in the state.There should not be any impediment in granting
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Tripura CM for dialogue to end Assam-Nagalnd border violence
India | Aug 21, 2014, 05:01 PM ISTGuwahati: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today said the only way to end the ongoing ‘disturbances' along the Assam-Nagaland border was to find an amicable solution through dialogue between the chief ministers of the two
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Centre plans to revoke MGNREGA: Tripura CM
India | Jul 08, 2014, 02:48 PM ISTAgartala: The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre is contemplating revocation of the rural job guarantee scheme MGNREGA to help millionaires, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar alleged Tuesday.The scheme under the
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Trinamool Congress 'throttling' democracy in WB: Sarkar
National | Apr 22, 2014, 03:02 PM ISTGuwahati: Charging Trinamool Congress with throttling democracy in West Bengal by intimidating voters, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today said the Left will do better in the state if polling is done without any fear.He
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Trinamool Congress 'throttling' democracy in West Bengal: Manik Sarkar
India | Apr 22, 2014, 12:11 PM ISTGuwahati: Charging Trinamool Congress with throttling democracy in West Bengal by intimidating voters, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today said the Left will do better in the state if polling is done without any fear.He
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Non-BJP, non-Congress government after polls: Manik Sarkar
National | Mar 27, 2014, 04:20 PM ISTAgartala: The CPI-M hopes to form a non-Congress, non-BJP government after the Lok Sabha polls but it did not cobble a "third alternative" now for good reasons, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has said."We (CPI-M)
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Congress, BJP are black marketeers, two sides of same coin: Manik
National | Jan 07, 2014, 09:25 PM ISTBarpeta (Assam): Terming Congress and BJP as “black marketeers”, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today said both parties are just two sides of the same coin. Addressing a public rally here, Sarkar said “Congress and
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Odisha receives Rs 132 cr in CMRF, Naveen thanks Manik Sarkar
India | Oct 29, 2013, 07:19 AM ISTBhubaneswar: The Chief Minister's Relief Fund (CMRF) has received donation of Rs 132.04 crore for the cyclone and flood victims till date, a release issued by the CMO said yesterday.Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has
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Tripura rulers wanted to merge with Pakistan: Manik Sarkar
India | Sep 19, 2013, 12:26 PM ISTAgartala: Members of Tripura's erstwhile royal family had tried to merge the state with the then East Pakistan and later tried to integrate the state with Assam, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has revealed."Before partition of
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I opposed CPI-M's joining government in 1996: Manik Sarkar
National | Jul 30, 2013, 02:31 PM ISTAgartala, July 30: Tripura Chief Minister and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Manik Sarkar said that he had opposed the CPI-M's participation in the central government in 1996."The CPI-M central committee through voting
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Tripura to continue supplying sugar through PDS: Manik Sarkar
National | Jun 26, 2013, 03:17 PM ISTAgartala, June 26: The Tripura government will continue supplying sugar at subsidised rate through ration shops despite the central government's decision to stop giving sugar as a Public Distribution System (PDS) commodity, Chief Minister Manik