5 मई (कालेबुङ):- कालेबुङमा मोर्चाविरोधी दल र मञ्चहरुको सक्रियता बढेपछि आज गोजमुमोले पनि यहाँ एउटा जनसभाको आयोजना गरी आफ्ना विरोधीहरुलाई ओठेंजवाब दिएको छ। मोर्चाको केन्द्रीय अनि महकुमा स्तरका नेतृवर्गले आफ्नो दलको नीति र कार्यक्रमहरुको खोइरो खन्ने विरोधी दलका नेताहरुको आलोचना गरेका छन। कालेबुङको डम्बरचोकमा सम्पन्न सो जनसभामा मोर्चाको केन्द्रीय समितिका सहसचिव बिनय तामाङ, सांगठनिक सचिवहरु सामुएल गुरुङ, बिजय सुन्दास, भूतपूर्व सैनिक मोर्चाका अध्यक्ष रमेश आले, स्टडी फोरमका सदस्य डा आर बी भुजेललगायत विभिन्न भातृ संगठनका पदाधिकारीहरु उपस्थित थिए। पहाडका...
5 May 2012
Shutdown to mourn doc death
VIVEK CHHETRI
Dr. Khanra. File picture
Darjeeling, May 4: All business establishments in Darjeeling will remain closed for two hours from 11am tomorrow in memory of Swadesh Ranjan Khanra, a well known doctor in the hill town who breathed his last in Calcutta yesterday.
“On Saturday Dr. Khanra suffered a cardiac arrest. He was treated in Darjeeling and his condition was stable. But his health deteriorated on Wednesday and was taken to...
Storm batters Dooars & Siliguri, 2 die Heavy rain forecast for 24 hours
The factory of the Mujnai garden after the roof was blown away in the storm. Picture by Anirban Choudhury
Siliguri, May 4: The weather department has warned of more rounds of severe thunderstorm in north Bengal and Sikkim over the next 24 hours as an upper air cyclonic circulation is prevailing over Jharkhand and the adjoining areas.
According to weather experts, the upper air cyclonic circulation, added to a low pressure trough that has...
4 May 2012
गेलखोलानजिक वाहन दूर्घटना, खलासीको मृत्यु- चालक बेपत्ता
4 मई (कालेबुङ):- राष्ट्रीय राजमार्ग 31एको गेलखोलानजिक भएको एउटा मालवाहक वाहन दूर्घटनाग्रस्त हुँदा खलासीको मृत्यु भएको छ भने चालक निखोज बनेका छन। ड्ब्ल्युबी 73 बी 4552 नम्बर भएको क्य़ाण्टर वाहन राजमार्गबाट टिस्टा खोलामा पस्दा वाहनका खलासी बिरिक डाडाँ निवासी बुद्ध तिरुवाको घटना स्थलमै मृत्यु भएको छ भने कालेबुङको अलगडा निवासी वाहनका चालक निमा शेर्पा लापता भएका छन।
सिलगडीबाट माल लिएर गान्तोकतिर गईरहेको सो वाहन हिजो राती गेलखोलामा दूर्घटनाग्रस्त भएको...
Relay fasts start on low note - Parishad claims tribal opposition to GTA cry
A relay hunger strike at Salugara near Siliguri; (below) police keep vigil at a fast site at Panchnoi. Pictures by Kundan Yolmo
May 3: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha and the dissident faction of the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad launched relay hunger strikes in the plains today, but the event turned out to be a damp squib on Day 1 itself because of the low attendance at the venues of the agitation.
The month-long fasts are being...
Carnival to lure tourists to Sikkim - Cultural event, adventure sport & more for 5-day fest
NIRMAL MANGAR
Rhododendrons bloom at Yumthang in North Sikkim where a safari will be organised during the carnival. Picture by Prabin Khaling
Gangtok, May 3: Sikkim will hold a five-day festival next week to woo visitors to the state with an aim to revive the tourism industry that was hit by the earthquake last year.
The Sikkim Spring Carnival will start on May 11 with cultural and adventurous events that would be held in all the four...
Deadline to get fire licences - Darjeeling municipality tells business entities to put in place safety measures by May 15
VIVEK CHHETRI
The remains of the shops razed to the ground in the April 20 fire in Darjeeling. Picture by Suman Tamang
Darjeeling, May 3: The Darjeeling municipality has set a deadline of May 15 for all business establishments to obtain fire certificates and install extinguishers.
The deadline was issued after the fire department warned that the hill town was turning into a “death trap” because of lack of safety measures.
The fire department...
30 Apr 2012
Bijanbari event scrapped - Morcha boycott call spurs cancellation of foundation laying
Darjeeling, April 29: The foundation laying of a column in memory of Bijanbari bridge collapse victims by Gautam Deb was cancelled today because of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s call to boycott all government programmes.
The development is being seen as a move by the government to avoid a direct confrontation with the Morcha and to pre-empt any sort of embarrassment to the north Bengal development minister.
The Morcha had announced the boycott to protest the denial of permission to the party to hold a meeting in the Dooars on April 22.
Thirty-three...
Fresh tribal campaign against GTA
Siliguri, April 29: The Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad will launch a fresh campaign in the Dooars and Terai to counter the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s bid to rope in the adivasis to support the proposed Gorkhaland Territorial Administration.
The Parishad today announced that it would hold indoor meetings and distribute leaflets among the people ahead of the outfit’s rallies in Siliguri and the Dooars in May to oppose the Morcha’s demand to include more than 400 mouzas in the plains in the GTA.
“Ahead of the public meetings next month, we...
