Anti-Morcha forum called to talks table - 96-hour strike calls spurs govt invite

AVIJIT SINHA & SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSEPartha Chatterjee: the mediatorApril 6: The state government has for the first time invited a forum of outfits opposed to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha to the talks table next week after the two rival camps called a almost back-to-back 96-hour strikes to counter each other’s demand on added hill territory.The proposed meeting of the Terai Dooars Joint Action Committee, the forum for 19 organisations, with ministers...

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Hail hits Darjeeling, snow higher up - It’s April but tourists enjoy snowfall in Sandakphu

April 6: The upper reaches of Darjeeling got a snowfall at midnight, rare at this time of the year, while the hill town itself was covered with a white blanket of hailstones after a storm this morning.In Darjeeling, the skies were clear in the morning and a snow-draped Sandakphu-Phalut could be easily seen. But from around 11am dark clouds gathered over the town, followed by a hailstorm and heavy rain.Pema Dhondup Sherpa, the owner of a hotel on the Nepal side in Sandakhphu, confirmed that the entire area was covered in snow. “It did snow here...

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Civic body scan on Sikkim plaza

Gangtok, April 6: The Gangtok Municipal Corporation is preparing to crack down on shop owners who have sublet their holdings at the Kanchenjungha shopping complex that the civic body took over on April 1.The cleanup that is likely to start from May is scheduled be over in a month’s time.The state urban development and housing department was in charge of the five-year-old complex. But recently the administration of the plaza was handed over to the two-year-old GMC.There are around 350 hawkers and 225 shops in the four-storied complex.“The first...

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sikkim girls in Bhojpuri Film

RANGPO-6TH APRIL12Ranipool residents tulasha Sharma has received an opportunity to play a lead role in the Bhojpuri film ladai .according to the news just a ccouple of month she has played in a nepali film kanchi launey rahar and after that she has received an opportunity to play a lead main heroine role in the Bhojpuri film ladai produced and directed by upendra kumar .the film is purposed to be suit in the various state of the country.tulasha Sharma while talking with this correspondent has asked that this is a memorable turn in my life...

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Annual Primary Sports of Baha’i School

RANGPO-6TH APRIL12Annual Primary Sports of Baha’i School, Tadong held today. Participating students were from classes Nursery toClass IV. Children participated in various types of entertaining,funny and cooperative games. There were games like feeding the friend,dress up the friend, collecting the books, passing the balls, Mathquick, hurdle race, etc. at the end there was a game for parent versusteacher in which parents won.The sports started with the prayers by the children and this wasfollowed by the welcome address by the teacher Mrs. Muna Pradhan....

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Sri Hanuman jayanti

RANGPO-5TH APRIL12Two days long sarwajanik Sri Hanuman jayanti programme organised by Marwari yuva manch Rangpo Sikkim branch was started from today. the guest artist from Bhagalpur named hemant Sharma and group has performed colourful spiritual programme bhajan.huge gathering has fully supported the programme to success the programme .tomorrow the programme shall shall start with decoration in the photo of sri hanuman baba along with...

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Garden workers rally for new owner

Darjeeling, April 5: Labourers of Kanchan View tea estate today held a demonstration here to demand a change of management as work had been suspended in the garden for almost three years.The rally under the aegis of the Darjeeling Terai Dooars Plantation Labour Union was taken out even as a meeting was held between the representatives of the workers and the management here to discuss the garden’s opening.A suspension of work was declared in the garden in May 2009 following an assault on the manager.The union affiliated to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha...

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Darjeeling lawyers call off strike

Darjeeling, April 5: The Darjeeling Bar Association will withdraw their indefinite cease-work from Monday following an assurance from Gorkha Janmukti Morcha chief Bimal Gurung to take up the lawyers’ demands with the state government.The move has provided relief to hundreds of litigants who were facing inconveniences because of the agitation that started on March 20 to demand the relocation of the special CBI court to Darjeeling and to “restore the deserved importance of Darjeeling as the district headquarters.”Taranga Pandit, the president of...

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GNLF fest spoilt, finger at Morcha - Ghisingh’s supporters pelted with stones

Siliguri/Darjeeling, April 5: The GNLF could not hold its foundation day celebration in the hills today as rival Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supporters descended on venues and allegedly pelted Subash Ghisingh’s followers on their way to a meeting with stones.Ghisingh’s party, which accused the administration of indifference, had to content itself with a programme at Panighata in the plains under the watchful eyes of police.In Mirik and Garidhura, in Kurseong subdivision, GNLF supporters were outnumbered as mobs wielding Morcha flags blocked the way...

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श्रमिकहरुको आमरण अनशन फिर्ता

5 अप्रेल(कालेबुङ):- पश्चिम बंगालका उद्योग मंत्री पार्थ च्याटर्जीको लिखित आश्वासन पाएपछि रिङटाङ चिया कमानका श्रमिकहरुले नौ दिनदेखि जारी राखेको आमरण अनशन बुधबार फिर्ता लिएका छन। मंत्रीले कलकताबाट फ्याक्स पत्र पठाएर केही दिनपछि आफै कमानको भ्रमणमा आउने अनि श्रमिकहरुको समस्याको समाधानको दिशामा पहल गर्ने प्रतिश्रुति दिएपछि श्रमिकहरुले बुधबार अनशन फिर्ता लिने निर्णय लिएका हुन। दार्जीलिङस्थित जिल्लापालको कार्यालय परिसरमा गत 27 मार्चदेखि चलिरहेको आमरण अनशनको नवौं दिन मोर्चा नेताहरुको उपस्थितिमा अनशन फिर्ता लिइएको छ। यस अवसरमा अनशनकारीहरुले मोर्चा महसचिव...

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Summons for ‘health’ TC to student - Boy dismissed with ‘unfit’ tag

Gangtok, April 4: The Sikkim State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights today asked the principal of a school to appear before it after a transfer certificate was issued to an 11-year-old boy on health grounds within a month of the start of the new academic session.The guardians of the child said the authorities of Holy Cross School had not consulted any doctor to declare the Class IV student ill or unfit for the school.The summons was issued after a complaint was filed by the grandmother of the child, Shila Devi, with the commission which...

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Cong trade union seeks freeze on GTA launch

Siliguri, April 4: The Intuc today asked the Bengal government to put on hold the formation of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration till a decision was reached on the territorial jurisdiction of the hill body.The trade union of the Congress wanted the dissolution of the high power committee formed to look into the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s demand to bring the Terai and Dooars under the GTA. The Intuc also demanded that 13 mouzas that had been added to the DGHC be again brought under the Siliguri subdivision.“The state Congress president has...

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Darjeeling stares at showdown - Morcha and rival GNLF line up programmes in Mirik and Garidhura today

Darjeeling, April 4: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha is racing to organise events at Garidhura and Mirik where its rival, the GNLF, has already scheduled its foundation day celebrations tomorrow.The synchronisation of the two parties’ events is likely to spiral into a showdown specially since there were complaints today that Bimal Gurung’s outfit had torn some of the GNLF flags in town on the eve of the foundation day programmes.The administration has also mobilised forces ahead of tomorrow’s programmes.The GNLF alleged that Morcha supporters came in...

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Fast off after Partha word

Darjeeling, April 4: Seven workers of a shut garden here suspended their hunger strike today, reportedly after assurances from industries minister Partha Chatterjee and following “positive” results on their demand that the lease of the tea estate should be cancelled.The workers under the banner of the Darjeeling Terai Dooars Plantation Labour Union, an affiliate of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, started the indefinite fast on the premises of the district magistrate’s office here from March 27, demanding the cancellation of the lease of Ringtang tea...

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Body handed to US friends

Gangtok, April 4: The body of Tshering Rinzing Bhutia, who was among the seven shot dead in a California college on Monday, has been handed over to his friends there, his relatives have said.Bhutia’s relatives at his hometown Geyzing in West Sikkim said the body would be kept in California for three more days after being embalmed once again before being sent to India.“Our relatives are in Delhi and are in constant touch with the American embassy there and officials of the ministries of external affairs and home. What we gather is that it will be...

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meeting for renewal of trade license

RANGPO-4TH APRIL12The meeting of Rangpo nagar Panchayat was held at Rangpo nagar Panchayat bhawan under the president ship of municipal president for discussing the renewal of trade license and other discussion. The license renewal procedure for the year 2012-13 which is started from 1st April shall end on 30th may .after 30th may the fine shall imposed at the rate of rs five per day those who shall come to renewal the licen...

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clean drinking water for villagera

RANGPO-4TH APRIL12Under the social service responsibilities of the company the intas pharma the renewed pharma company has specially supported to provide clean drinking water to the villagers of bhageykhola and more then hundred houses is availing facility provided by the company .some days ago the members of samaj sudhar samity on behalf of bhageykhola residents has requested the management of intas pharmaciticales bagheykhola to help in providing drinking water as the area was facing scarcity of water. The company has made possible by providing...

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गोरामुमोले मिरिकमा स्थापना दिवस पालन गर्ने

4 अप्रेल(कालेबुङ):- गोरामुमोको निम्ति प्रतिष्ठाको विषय बनेको स्थापना दिवसको कार्यक्रम मिरिकलगायत तराईका क्षेत्रहरुमा पालन गर्ने यस दलले निर्णय लिएको छ। पहाडमा गोजमुमोको उदयपछि जनाधार हराएको यस दलले पहाडमा आफ्नो दलको स्थापना दिवस खुलेर मनाउन पाएको छैन। तर अहिले गोजमुमो जीटीएको झ्याउलामा परेपछि गोरामुमोले पहाडका आफ्ना समर्थकहरुलाई संगठित गर्ने प्रयास शुरु गरेको छ। गोरामुमोको मिरिक शाखाले भोलि 5 अप्रेलका दिन मिरिकको व्यसायी संगठन भवनमा पार्टीको स्थापना...

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Kurseong to soon get Hills’ first medical college

Kolkata :The Hills of Darjeeling is set to get its first medical and nursing college under a public-private partnership model. As per the proposal of the state government, the new medical college will be in Kurseong. State Health Department spokesperson Asit Biswas said a team comprising top state health officials, under the chairmanship of the director of medical education, is preparing a project report for setting up the college.Another team comprising...

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Ex-jawans to rally for justice, turf

Kalimpong, April 2: The ex-servicemen’s wing of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha will organise rallies in the Darjeeling hills and the foothills on April 9 to observe the fourth anniversary of a police lathicharge on its members in which nearly 10 persons were injured.Ramesh Allay, the president of the Bharatiya Gorkha Purva Sainik Ehwam Ardh-Sainik Morcha, said they would also demand the inclusion of the Gorkha-dominated mouzas from the Dooars and Terai in the hill set up.The former jawans would carry black flags to protest the lathicharge on April...

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Cheers at home fail to yield goals

NIRMAL MANGARThe match between United Sikkim (in blue jersey) and Vasco SC in Gangtok on Monday. Picture by Prabin KhalingGangtok, April 2: All-out support from the home crowd consisting of vuvuzela-blowing students and state government employees armed with a special leave could not help United Sikkim find the back of the net in an I-League second division soccer match here today.The club co-owned by Bhaichung Bhutia had to content itself with a...

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Darjeeling court strike to continue

Darjeeling, April 2: The Darjeeling Bar Association today decided to carry on with the indefinite cease-work to protest the state government’s move to relocate the special CBI court to Siliguri.The lawyers also vowed to press for the establishment of all offices that the hill town should have as the district headquarters.The strike that started on March 20 has hit the functioning of the district and session judge’s court, three additional district and session judge’s courts, civil judge (senior division)’s court, chief judicial magistrate’s court...

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srimadbhagwat puran

RANGPO-2ND APRIL12Rhenock is also ready to organise weeklong srimadbhagwat puran from tomorrow .organised under the banner of viswa mangal charitable sewa trust renewed pandit kuber sastri from Nepal,dr mast babaji maharaj president of viswa mangal charitable sewa trust ,dr dhruva vedentacharya from banaras shall special present in this weeklong spiritual programme to address the gathering .renewed bhajan artist named raju Adhikari and amar...

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sarwajaanik Sri Hanuman jayanti

RANGPO-2ND APRIL12Singtam is gear up to organise two days long sarwajaanik Sri Hanuman jayanti at 5th and sixth April at thakurbari Singtam .according to organising committee on 5th april the bhajan programme is organise where renewed guest artist from Kolkata shall perform bhajan whole night. On 6th April from 6 am in the morning the puja shall start with grand aarati, decoration, and divya darsan and sova yatra from thakurbari to all over the market. On two pm the bhandara and mahaprasad shall organi...

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srimadbhagwat katha gyN Yagya

RANGPO-1ST APRIL12Weeklong srimadbhagwat katha gyN Yagya organised by mahila jagriti manch at Majhitar Sikkim was started from yesterday with grand kalash yatra from holy river tista to Majhitar .according to organising committee president mrs manika subba,vice president Mrs. munnaa Chettri, secretary Mrs. prem Kumari tamang,cashier Mrs. goma gurung and advisor Mrs. ranjana subba renewed spiritual leader from kalimpong named pandit chudamani poudyal shall deliberated the spiritual speech during this weeklong spiritual; programme.pandit sekhar...

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Morcha faces threat slur

Darjeeling, April 1: The Gorkhaland Task Force, a forum of five outfits in the Darjeeling hills, today alleged that one of its leaders in Haryana had been warned by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha against returning to his native village here.The GTF said Kiran B.K. had earlier been a representative of the Morcha in Haryana, but he left the party following its decision to settle for Gorkhaland Territorial Administration.“It has come to our knowledge that Kiran B.K, who addressed our dharna for Gorkhaland in New Delhi on March 19, has been asked by the...

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suicide case

RANGPO-1ST APRIL12Illegal relationship with another girl after marriage has created one suicide case at Rangpo Sikkim .according to the news zeenat khatun of Rangpo upper bazaar was admitted to Rangpo primary health centre on22nd march 12 at 9.40 pm night in 80%burnt condition .after first aid she was referred to anandlok nursing home for further treatment .on29th march she was expired and after postmartum at siliguri funeral was held at rangpo on 31st march.zaakir Hussein of Kathmandu Nepal father of deceased lady named zeenat khatun has...

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