CM Chamling back from Delhi

RANGPO-24TH AUGUST 12Sikkim chief minister Mr. Pawan kumar chamling was return back from delhi after one week long trip to Delhi .according to the news Mr. chamling was left for Delhi on 18th august .today maximum cabinet ministers ,mla,chairman ,senior leaders of the party ,members of yuva ,cheli ,trade ,majdoor and others cell members .councillors and panchayats along with local residents was present at bagdogra and Rangpo the main entry...

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Bail rejected

Calcutta, Aug 24 : A division bench of Calcutta High Court comprising Justice A.K. Roy and Justice Taufique Uddin today rejected the bail petition of Sudesh Rai Maji who was arrested in connection with ABGL chief Madan Tamang’s murder.The court had rejected Maji’s bail plea in November last year.Maji’s lawyer claimed that his client had been languishing in jail for the past 250 days. “The investigation into the murder has already been concluded. So there is no necessity to keep Maji behind the bars any more. If granted bail, he will help the CBI...

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Photography salute to first two - Sikkim exhibition of father-son’s Chogyal photos

Gangtok, Aug. 24: Off-season tourists to Sikkim have found a way to spend their time by browsing through a photography exhibition in tribute to the first two photographers of Sikkim, Tse Ten Tashi and his son Paljor Dorji.There are around 200 photographs on display at the Star Hall premises on MG Marg, including 20 photographs taken between 1940-75 by Tashi and Dorji during the Chogyal (Sikkimese King) regime.“The photo exhibition is dedicated to...

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illegal process of recruitment in SPDC

RANGPO-24TH AUGUST 12RTI filed by Mr. D K Chettri general secretary of Sikkim RTI forum has exposed the hundred percent of employees working under Sikkim power development corporation recruitment process illegal. Mr Chettri has filed an RTI to provide the details of the recruitment policy and what document or under which policy the recruitment was done along with total number of employees. And the name list of Employees working in SPDC and whether the Employees are inducted through fair competition or interview. To our horror, SPDC furnished...

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Morcha seeks N-E tax relief - Gurung and team meet pranab and shinde

Darjeeling, Aug. 23: A Gorkha Janmukti Morcha delegation met President Pranab Mukherjee and Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in Delhi today and asked for an extension of all tax benefits, subsidies and tax holidays to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration similar to what the northeastern states get.The seven-member delegation led by GTA chief executive Bimal Gurung also demanded Scheduled Tribe status for all Gorkhas except those from...

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Darjeeling boy’s road to sets of Jism-2 - 36-year-old cinematographer with no formal training finds toehold in tinsel town

Darjeeling, Aug. 23: A Darjeeling youth with no formal training in film-making has made it to the sets of Jism-2 as a cinematographer.Nigam Bomzan was selected by the Bhatt camp for one of their most hyped films of the year that stars Sunny Leone.“After completing my schooling at Vidya Vikash Academy in Darjeeling I went to Delhi and enrolled myself at Zakir Hussain College. I was a confused kid, not sure about my calling, although I was passionate...

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Science centre power cut - Connection snapped after Kalimpong facility runs up dues

R.RKalimpong, Aug. 22: The Kalimpong Science Centre, which has experiments to illustrate the production of electricity, has been without power for a week because it has not cleared electricity dues, according to the West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited.Officials at the four-year-old centre said the dues of Rs 51,000 could not be cleared because they did not get the bill.But WBSEDCL gave a different version.“We had sent the bill...

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Morcha seeks tea arrears

Calcutta, Aug. 22: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today asked the government to immediately clear the wage dues of 600 labourers in three state-owned tea gardens in Darjeeling and ensure better housing and water supply for all those employed in the sector.The demands were raised at a meeting between commerce and industries minister Partha Chatterjee and a Morcha delegation led by GTA chief executive Bimal Gurung at the Gorkha Bhavan here this morning.The Morcha leaders told Chatterjee that 600 labourers in the three gardens owned by the West Bengal...

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Molest charge on priest

NIRMAL MANGARGangtok, Aug. 22: The Sikkim State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has lodged an FIR against a temple priest for allegedly molesting an 11-year-old boy in the East district.According to the complaint lodged with the Sadar police station in Gangtok on Saturday, the incident happened on the evening of August 9 during Janmasthami celebrations.The Class V student had gone to the temple to see the celebrations when priest A.J. Pathak, 54, a resident of Bihar, allegedly called him inside saying he would give the child sweets.The...

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Darj civic tax from tourist pockets Shell out Rs 10 a day from Sept 1

Darjeeling, Aug. 21: The Darjeeling municipality has decided to levy a Rs 10 tax a day on each tourist visiting the hill station from September 1.The charge will be levied as conservancy or sanitation tax, not tourism tax, and is expected to help the municipality which faces a cash crunch.Last year, tourists were told to pay a one-time entry fee of Rs 3. The earlier civic board had collected the “tourist tax” on November 15, 2011, by stopping vehicles...

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Barla Parishad’s poll target

Siliguri, Aug. 21: The Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad today vowed to go all out to defeat the alliance of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha and the tribal group led by John Barla in the panchayat polls.The state leadership of the tribal outfit also gave its carte blanche to the Dooars-Terai unit to forge a tie-up with any party in the elections.Birsa Tirkey, the state president of the Parishad, said his organisation was not attaching much importance to the decision of the Morcha and Barla to contest the polls jointly in the Dooars and Terai.“But...

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Sikkim player in India team - 23-year-old midfielder features in the 20-member squad for Nehru Cup

Gangtok, Aug. 20: Sikkim boy Sanju Pradhan, the captain of the East Bengal football team, has made it to the 20-member Indian squad for the Nehru Cup, which begins in Delhi on Wednesday.Nirmal Chettri and Sunil Chettri are also in the squad and Sunil would be leading the Indian team in the tourney.It is the first time that 23-year-old Pradhan has found a place in the national squad.“My dreams have come true. I have been waiting for a call to the...

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Nepali deadline

Darjeeling, Aug. 20: The Gorkha Janmukti Vidyarthi Morcha today set a 20-day deadline for all advertisers in the hills to write hoardings in Nepali, failing which it would pull down the billboards.The student wing of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha also demanded that question papers for various state job exams be written in Nepali, apart from English and Bengali.The demands were made on the 20th anniversary of the Nepali/Gorkha language being included in the Eight Schedule of the Constitution in 1992. Amrti Yonzone, the president of the Vidyarthi Morcha,...

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Morcha, Barla in joint rural fight

Darjeeling, Aug. 20: Bimal Gurung today said the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha would contest the panchayat elections and all other polls jointly with John Barla’s group.“We will jointly contest not just the panchayat elections, but all other elections,” Gurung, who is the GTA chief executive, said at an event where Barla was felicitated by an arm of the hill party.The tribal leader, who had yesterday said that his group would contest under the Jharkhand...

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Hill accident

Siliguri, Aug. 20: A Tata Sumo carrying seven people from Gangtok and bound for Siliguri rolled off NH31A in Kalimpong tonight.The driver of the car is missing and the six passengers are injured. They have been admitted to Rambhi primary health centre, about 45km from Siliguri.The accident happened around 8pm today at Hanumanjhora on the NH31A.Local people and police extricated the passengers from the car and took them to hospital.The passengers have not been identified yet, nor is the name of the driver kno...

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Gurung gives team a year to deliver

Darjeeling, Aug. 19: Bimal Gurung has warned 14 executive members of the GTA Sabha that he would not hesitate to replace them if they failed to perform in a year.Gurung, the GTA chief executive, gave the warning while addressing all 45 elected members of the Sabha at an event organised by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s Darjeeling subdivisional committee at Gymkhana Club yesterday.“Both the elected and nominated members of the GTA must work together. The public, the Opposition parties and even the state government are closely monitoring the functioning...

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