FODDER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM & CASH INCENTIVE DISTRIBUTION AT BAC DENTEM & SORENG SUBDIVISION.

RANGPO-26TH APRIL12State AH, LF&VS Department organized a day long program on fodder development with cash incentive distribution @ Rs 5000/ per beneficiary & for three hundred beneficiaries totoa fifteen lakh rs /.All the beneficiaries were selected from milk societies as regular member . They were from Maney- Bong Dentam, Gyezing -Bormiok, Soreng- Chakung, Daramdin & Rinchenpong constituency. The main objective behind the program was...

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Minister blames Left for bandh fury

Deb lights the lamp at the opening of the state disaster risk reduction congress in Jalpaiguri on Friday. Picture by Biplab BasakApril 27: North Bengal development minister Gautam Deb today held the CPM and RSP responsible for the violence in the Dooars during the bandh called by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha.Deb told reporters in Jalpaiguri that he had specific information about who instigated the violence in Banarhat and Oodlabari.“I had specific...

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Dooars ‘success’ fuels relay fast plan Hunger strike to keep tempo alive

VIVEK CHHETRIDarjeeling, April 27: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, which believes that its Dooars movement has been “successful in generating enough enthusiasm”, is likely to start a relay hunger strike and low-scale rallies across the region from May 1.The aim is to keep the momentum going for inclusion of more than 400 mouzas from the plains in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration.Morcha chief Bimal Gurung, who had been camping in the Dooars till yesterday, has returned to the foothills, touring Gorubathan and Samsing. “But the Joint Co-ordination...

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Welfare nod for tea labour

Calcutta, April 27: A cabinet sub-committee today cleared a proposal to extend panchayat benefits to tea garden workers in the Dooars.Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has appointed a panel headed by home secretary Basudeb Banerjee to suggest steps on how benefits like the Indira Awas Yojana and 100 days’ work under national rural job scheme NREGA can be given to the workers.“The tribal and Hindi-speaking workers in the tea gardens don’t get electricity, housing, drinking water and other facilities. The tea gardens were established on leased land....

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Fire kills 6 kids in a family

VIVEK CHHETRIDarjeeling, April 27: Six children, siblings aged between 2 and 12, were burnt to death when a fire broke out in their home in a remote Mirik village last night.The children were probably asleep at the time when the fire is suspected to have started in the kitchen of their two-room house whose main door was bolted from outside.The sparsely populated Lower Zimba Gaon was unaware of the blaze till the electricity meter burst and woke up the nearest neighbour whose house is a five-minute walk from the home of Arjun and Shova Tamang, who...

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Hong Kong home for Chronicles crooners

NIRMAL MANGARThe band members in Hong Kong on Thursday. Telegraph pictureGangtok, April 27: Rock band Girish N the Chronicles has relocated to Hong Kong after bagging a contract to play in the pub circuit there.The four-member group reached Hong Kong yesterday and they will start performing from May 1.Front man and vocalist Girish Pradhan had been in Hong Kong since November where he was performing with a Philippines-based band. He had returned to...

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Student held for impersonation - Examinee falls ill, tells junior to write paper at Siliguri College

Siliguri, April 27: A second-year Nepali (honours) student of Siliguri College was caught writing a university examination for his senior today.While Jeet Kumar Rai was arrested for cheating and impersonation, police are looking for Indra Kami, a third-year student of the same subject in the college for whom he was writing the exam.Kami’s family members said he couldn’t appear for the environmental science paper of North Bengal University today as he had fallen ill, but they didn’t know that he would ask another student to write the exam for him.“The...

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In the open, an ‘indoor’ meet - Morcha chief calls for unity in Dooars, govt silent on rallies

Alipurduar, April 26: Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leaders held two meetings attended by nearly 2,000 people in the Dooars today without any permission from the Jalpaiguri administration. The administration, however, dismissed the meetings as indoor sessions on which no embargo had been imposed.The first halt of the Morcha leaders, including chief Bimal Gurung and Binoy Tamang, was the Dalsinghpara Durga Bari ground, 100km from Jalpaiguri town.While Gurung...

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कालेबुङमा सबला मेला स्वनिर्भर दलहरु उत्साहित

26 अप्रेल(कालेबुङ):- दार्जीलिङ जिल्लाका स्वनिर्भर दलहरुलाई प्रोत्साहन प्रदान गर्न कालेबुङमा बुधबारदेखि सप्ताहव्यापी सबला मेलाको आयोजना गरिएको छ। उत्तर बंगाल विकास मंत्री गौतम देवले यस मेलाको विधिवत उदघाटन गरे। दार्जीलिङ जिल्लाको महकुमाहरु दार्जीलिङ, खरसाङ, कालेबुङ अनि सिलगढीअन्तर्गतका 12 वटा खण्ड अनि तीनवटा नगरपालिकाहरुमा सक्रिय रहेका स्वनिर्भर दलहरुले मेलामा भाग लिएका छन। राज्य सरकारको स्वनिर्भर समूह अनि स्वरोजगार विभागले सबला मेलाको आयोजना गरेको...

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Crowd ban order lifted, markets shut Morcha message for garden workers

April 25: Prohibitory orders were from in five of the seven police station areas of Jalpaiguri after two days of violence in the Dooars, where bandh enforcers had announced a 36-hour relaxation from today.Section 144, however, will be in force in Oodlabari and Banarhat, where shops and vehicles were set on fire in the past two days.The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leaders today visited three tea gardens in the party-dominated Kalchini block of the Dooars and interacted with the workers, explaining to them the reason behind relaxing the bandh.The Morcha...

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Panel push to counter plains agitation

Siliguri, April 25: The forum launched to oppose the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s territorial demand today formed an 11-member committee with the sole objective to counter the ongoing agitation by the hill party in the plains.Leaders of the Dooars Terai Joint Action Committee, an umbrella organisation of 26 outfits, met at Shivmandir and announced the launch of the panel after a five-hour-long discussion.Atul Roy of the Kamtapur Party and Rajesh Lakra of the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad will be the convener and the joint convener of the panel...

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Awareness program of NSS

Rangpo-25th april12National Social Service Scheme (NSS) of Himalayan Pharmacy Institute, Majhitar, Rangpo, 40 Nos. of Student of Institute visited the villages Salghari, Tarpin, Rhenock Bazaar, and Rungdung East Sikkim as a part of the Scheme community Development and plantation program under the supervision of Mr. Abhinay Chhetri, Associate Director, Mr. Jaideep Sharma, Program Officer, NSS, and 3 other staff, along with Dr. N.R. Bhuyan, Principal...

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मंत्रीको बैठकमा जनप्रतिनिधिहरु अनुपस्थित

25 अप्रेल(कालेबुङ):- दार्जीलिङ जिल्ला अस्पतालको संरचना र सेवामा विकास र सुधार ल्याउन आज डाकिएको बैठकमा दार्जीलिङका विधायक र नगरपालिका अध्यक्षको अनुपस्थितिले प्रश्न खडा गरेको छ। रोगी कल्याण समितिको अध्यक्षको हैसियतमा उत्तर बंगाल बिकास मंत्री गौतम देबले डाकेको सो बैठकमा दार्जीलिङका विधायक त्रिलोक देवान अनि नगरपालिका अध्यक्ष अमरसिंह राई आज अनुपस्थित थिए। यी दुवै जनप्रतिनिधिहरु रोगी कल्याण समितिको सदस्य रहे पनि आज बैठकमा उपस्थित नभएर मोर्चाले घोषणा...

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बन्द बाट दुइ दिनको छुट,जनसभा गर्ने अडिगमा कमिटि

25 अप्रेल(कालेबुङ):- मोर्चा समर्थित जोइन्ट एक्शन को अर्डिनेशन कमिटिले आजदेखि बन्दबाट दुइ दिनको छुट दिए पनि डूवर्समा जनसभा गर्ने अनुमति दिनु पर्ने कुरामा अडिग रहेको छ। कमिटिले बन्दलाई बिहीबार साँझसम्मको निम्ति शिथिल गर्ने निर्णय लिएपछि आजदेखि तराई डूवर्स र पहाडको जनजीवन सामान्य बनेको छ। यधपि, डूवर्सको बानरहाटमा मोर्चाविरोधी संगठन र व्यापारीहरुले उत्तेजना सृष्टि गर्दा केहीबेर क्षेत्रमा तनाउ उत्पन्न भएको जानकारी पाइएको छ। मोर्चासमर्थित कमिटिले डाकेको...

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Rage continues amid scurry to flee Arson and assault before bandh relief

April 24: Two persons were beaten up and a car and a scooter set on fire as bandh supporters in the Dooars tried to enforce a shutdown, a few hours before the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha announced a 36-hour relief.An office of the Morcha, a constituent of the Joint Action Coordination Committee that had been trying to enforce the indefinite bandh, was ransacked by the anti-strike supporters in the afternoon. Later in the evening, a police team was attacked by a mob trying to defy prohibitory orders.The Morcha, however, is determined to get permission...

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Check-out spree in Gangtok hotels

April 24: More than 1,000 tourists, half the usual number, left Gangtok today during the 12-hour bandh relaxation in neighbouring north Bengal.Hotel owners complained that a check-out spree has hit the Sikkim capital, already reeling from the effects of last year’s earthquake and the drinking water scarcity early this month.Sikkim, which is landlocked, is accessible only by road through Bengal. Any bandh or shutdown in north Bengal, which includes the Darjeeling hills and the Dooars, cuts off the Himalayan state from the rest of the country — a...

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Member of lions club return back to sikkim from kolkata

RANGPO-24TH APRIL12Five member’s delegates of lions club of Rangpo gateway of Sikkim after attending two days long multiple convention of lions club international 322 on 21st and 22nd April at science city Kolkata return back today. the team lead by Rangpo lions president lion chabilal Sharma along with past president lion pramod Prasad and lion sanjay Agarwal ,secretary lion bikash Prasad ,member lion julfikar khan has specially attended in the speech in the resource persons where renewed human resources personalities named Mr. ajay Agarwal...

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अनिश्चितकालिन बन्दको दोस्रो दिन मोर्चा समर्थकहरुले दिए कोर्ट अरेष्ट, डुवर्स अशान्ति

24 अप्रेल(कालेबुङ):-अनिश्चितकालिन तराई डूवर्सको दोस्रो दिन आज कुनै हिंसात्मक घटनाहरु नभए पनि दिनभरि सम्पूर्ण डूवर्स उतत्प्त रह्यो। हिजो बन्द समर्थकहरुमाथि लाठीचार्ज गरिएको घटनाको प्रतिवादमा आज मोर्चा समर्थकहरुले डूवर्सका विभिन्न थानाहरुमा गिरफ्तारी दिए। पूर्व डूवर्सको जयगाँउ अनि कालचिनी क्षेत्रमा आज मोर्चा समर्थकहरु आक्रोशित देखिए। अहिले मोर्चा प्रमुख बिमल गुरुङ जयगाँवमा बसेका छन। आज उनका समर्थकहरुले जयगाँव थानामा हिजोको घटनाको विरोधमा नाराबाजी र धर्ना प्रदर्शन गरे। यहाँ लगभग पाँच हजार समर्थकहरुले थानामा गिरफ्तारी दिएको जानकारी पाइएको छ। यता, डूवर्सको...

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Bandh fury & fire singe Dooars Strike relief for 12 hours

April 23: Shops were set on fire, a truck was burnt and a trader and three policemen were injured in the Dooars today as supporters of the indefinite bandh led by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha clashed with their rivals.Chief minister Mamata Banerjee appealed for peace. “I am asking both sides to maintain peace. No one should say anything that can disrupt peace,” she said.Police lathicharged and burst tear gas shells to keep the mob at bay in Jalpaiguri’s Banarhat.The Sashastra Seema Bal, a paramilitary force, has been deployed in the area since the...

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Test for Mamata and hill deal

April 23: The Mamata Banerjee government is facing a sensitive test in the Dooars after a little over a dozen shops and a truck were burnt today to enforce an indefinite bandh.The shutdown was called by the spearheads of a campaign to bring some pockets in the plains under the jurisdiction of a council that will run the Darjeeling hills.The violence was controlled before it could spiral — a trader and three policemen were injured — but the spark was a reminder of the tricky terrain that lay ahead as the date nears for the submission of a key report...

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Trips cancelled in peak season - Stuck or forced to stay

April 23: Taxis today refused to ply in the Dooars and those travelling to and from the hills either demanded double the fare or stopped before they arrived at their destinations, forcing tourists to trudge with their luggage for at least a kilometre on a day bandh supporters and their rivals clashed in the region.Nearly 5,000 tourists in the Dooars-Terai-Darjeeling hills circuit suffered inconvenience of some sort or the other. Of them, nearly 600 were forced to cancel their trips.While those coming down from the Darjeeling hills were left stranded...

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Ringtang deadline extension

Darjeeling, April 23: The administration has decided to extend the deadline for the reopening of Ringtang tea garden by another week after the management failed to comply with the directive to start operations from today.“I have decided to write to the management asking them to open the garden by April 30,” DM Saumitra Mohan said. He did not specify any reason for the extension. Sources said the DM wanted to give time to owner Sushil Chowdhury before taking further steps so that there was no room for complaint. The garden has been shut for 16 ...

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अनिश्चितकालिन बन्दको प्रथम दिन डुवर्स अशान्ति

23 अप्रेल(कालेबुङ):- डूवर्समा जनसभा गर्ने अनुमति नदिएको प्रतिवादमा मोर्चासमर्थित जोइन्ट एक्शन को-अर्डिनेशन कमिटिले आजदेखि डाकेको अनिश्चितकालिन बन्दको पहिलो दिन डूवर्सका विभिन्न क्षेत्रहरुमा हिंसात्मक घटनाहरु भएको जानकारी पाइएको छ। बन्द समर्थक र विरोधीहरुबीच डूवर्सको बानरहाट झडप हुँदा यहाँका सातवटा दोकानहरु जलाइको छ। बन्दको विरोधमा बानरहाटका केही व्यापारीहरुले दोकान खुला राख्ने निर्णय लिँदा बन्द समर्थकहरुले तनाउ सृष्टि गरेका थिए।यस घटनाले निकै ठूलो...

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