MUKESH SHARMATakling Busty: September 14It is understood that road plays as principal role in the advancement of the rural places anywhere in the world. The magnitude of the development first counts on the condition and the availability of good road. The people residing in the remotest hamlets where the conditions of the roads are appalling, one can picture the state of the lives settled there. One such story is that of the 11 kms long Takling road.The road till Teesta Gram Panchayat looks fine but as soon as it enters to Takling GPU, one can witness...
15 Sept 2012
Lions club of Rangpo gateway of Sikkim organised world peace rally
RANGPO-15TH SEPTEMBER 12 Lions club of Rangpo gateway of Sikkim organised world peace rally on the occasion of world peace week at Rangpo .organised with the special support and attended from the school students and teachers from Rangpo secondary school,rangpo junior high school, tiny tots school and little bells school the club members along with other delegates was also present in the meeting .Rangpo police station in charge PI Mr. Sonam wangdi was present as a chief guest while lion chabilal Sharma ,district chairperson lion mangilal...
Architect arrested
Darjeeling, Sept. 14: Pravin Mukhia, a Darjeeling-based architect who has designed the under-construction Gorkha War Museum, was arrested yesterday for allegedly kidnapping two 17-year-old girls and confining them to one of his houses near Siliguri.Lodhama police picked him up from the Salbari market and rescued the girls yesterday. Mukhia, 52, was produced in the chief judicial magistrate’s court today and remanded in judicial custody till September 28.Assistant public prosecutor Pankaj Prasad said Mukhia had been slapped with sections 363, 365...
Slide blocks NH31A for 12 hours
Gangtok, Sept. 14: The NH31A that connects Sikkim with the rest of the country was blocked for over 12 hours after a landslide at Kirney last night.The road was opened this afternoon.Around 500 vehicles were stranded on both sides of Kirney in Kalimpong subdivision as slush and debris fell on a 300metre-stretch on the highway. Most Gangtok-bound vehicles took a detour via Kalimpong that takes one hour extra.“The landslide occurred yesterday around midnight. A portion of the land above the highway slipped on to the road resulting in the halt of...
Barfi! treat for Darjeeling - Keventers on screen, crowd excited
Siliguri, Sept. 14: Darjeeling today came alive on the silver screen in Anurag Basu’s Barfi!.The audience at Inox City Center in Siliguri were mesmerised from the very beginning as a scene showing a market in Calcutta gave way to another in which a smoke-puffing toy train chugged against the backdrop of the lush green hills.The film is a story of Murphy, a hearing impaired boy. When Murphy says his name is “Murphy”, it sounds like “Barfi”, hence...
Landslides hit tea gardens
Darjeeling/Kalimpong, Sept. 14: Landslides triggered by heavy overnight rain in the hills caused extensive damage in six tea gardens but planters said the digging being done under the 100-day rural job scheme was making the soil come loose.While work had to be stopped for the day in Takdah and Lopchu gardens because of the slides, Bannockburn, Phoobshering, Ging and Pussimbing reported loss of many tea bushes.“Takdah received around 18 inches of...
14 Sept 2012
Lions club world peace really
RANGPO-14TH SEPTEMBER 12Lions club of Rangpo gateway of Sikkim is going to organise world peace rally on the occasion of world peace week tomorrow at Rangpo. lion chabilal Sharma zone chairman ,lion rajen gurung president and lion anand Pradhan active member of the club giving details about the programme asked that the peace rally shall be participated by the students of four school named government secondary school ,Rangpo junior high school...
आजको पैह्रो दार्जीलिङ अनि कालेबुङमा
13(कालेबुङ)ः- गत राती परेको अबिरल बर्षाले दार्जीलिङ पहाडका धेरैवटा क्षेत्रहरु पैह्रोको चपेटमा परेको छ। पैह्रोको चपेटमा परेर केही मानिसहरु घाइते पनि भएका छन जसलाई दार्जीलिङको विभिन्न अस्पतालहरुमा भर्ना गरिएको छ। यता, राजमार्ग 31एको कालीझोडा अनि तारखोलामा पैह्रो सोहोरिएर राजमार्ग अवरुद्ध हुँदा आज बिहान 11 बजीसम्म यातायात ठप्प रहेको थियो तर बीआरओको तत्परतामा राजमार्गमा यातायात सुचारु गरिए पनि जामको कारण यातीहरुहरु समस्याको सम्मुखिन भएका छन।पहाडका विभिन्न क्षेत्रमा पैह्रोको कारण सयौंको संख्यामा मानिसहरु प्रभावित भएका छन भने सडकहरु अवरुद्ध भएको कारण...
Work begins for Gorkha museum
VIVEK CHHETRIDarjeeling, Sept. 13: The GTA today started the construction of a Rs 1.5 crore Gorkha War Museum near Batasia at a time the hill body is accused of hurting the sentiments of the community by removing the Gorkha solider’s statue atop the Gorkha Rangamanch Bhavan.The GNLF and the CPRM had plastered posters across the hills condemning the GTA’s decision to remove the soldier’s statue.The GTA had said the statue didn’t suit the Rangamanch Bhavan, a cultural centre, and so it would be shifted to the war museum.The foundation for the museum...
Deb threat to launch road protest
Siliguri, Sept. 13: North Bengal development minister Gautam Deb has threatened to launch a movement against the Centre and the National Highways Authority of India if NH31D is not repaired immediately.“If no initiative for repairs or upgrade of the road to a four-lane highway is seen in the next few days, we will be forced to launch a movement because people face a lot of trouble while travelling on NH31D, particularly in Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar. The NHAI has to take immediate steps,” Deb said.R.K. Chaudhry, the project director...
Paraglide treat for Sikkim tourists - 60 experts to take part in four-day international gliding festival starting on Oct 31
Gangtok, Sept. 13: Tourists planning to visit Sikkim in October-November would get a chance to enjoy a bird’s eye view of the place when the state hosts its first international paragliding fest.Sixty paragliders will take part in the four-day event from October 31 that aims to promote adventure sports at a time when tourist traffic is heavy.“Sixty paragliders from England, France, Germany and Nepal, and from Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim...
Darjeeling ready for date with Barfi!
Siliguri, Sept. 13: Renuka Sharma’s yearlong wait will be over tomorrow when Barfi! releases.The 58-year-old is enthusiastic about the film not only because a portion of the movie has been shot in her hometown Tindharia but also because she posed as a passenger in a toy train while Ranbir Kapoor sped alongside on a bicycle.“I have been prodding my son to take me to watch the movie in one of the cinemas in Siliguri. It is not often that one gets featured...
13 Sept 2012
Freedom fighter who drove Netaji’s car dies
Darjeeling, Sept. 12: Krishna Bahadur Mukhia, who once drove Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s car during his INA days, died in Darjeeling on the night of September 11.One of the last freedom fighters in the hills, Krishna Bahahur was 91. He died in his residence in Rockville Dham and is survived by three sons and two daughters.Suresh Mukhia, one of his sons, said: “My father was down with fever for a couple of days. He had also caught a cold and breathed...
12 Sept 2012
कालेबुङ आर्ट ग्यालरीको विधिवत उद्घाटन
12(कालेबुङ)- कालेबुङका चित्रकारहरुको प्रयासमा आज कालेबुङ आर्ट ग्यालरीको विधिवत उद्घाटन गरिएको छ। कालेबुङको अप्पर कार्ड रोडमा अवस्थित बरसाना रिसोर्ट परिसरमा स्थापना गरिएको उक्त आर्ट ग्यालरीको आज एउटा विशेष कार्यक्रमको आयोजना गरी उदघाटन गरियो। कार्यक्रमका मुख्य अतिथि सिक्किमका पूर्वमंत्री थुकचुक लाचुङपाको बाहुलीबाट आर्ट ग्यालरीको विधिवत उदघाटन गरियो। यस अवसरमा नाट्यकर्मी सीके श्रेष्ठ, वरिष्ठ अधिवक्ता अनमोल प्रसादसहित कला क्षेत्रसँग सम्बन्धित मानिसहरुको उपस्थिति थियो। कालेबुङका चित्रकारहरुको समूह कालिम्पोङ आर्टिस्ट एशोशिएशनको पहलमा प्रथमपल्ट कालेबुङमा...
Heroin haul in hills
Darjeeling, Sept.11: Darjeeling police today arrested an alleged drug supplier with what they suspect to be a kilogram of heroin.Kunal Aggarwal, the superintendent of police of Darjeeling, said: “We had prior information that Pemba Tamang, 40, was trying to sell drugs. Our team intercepted him near Ghoom railway station around 4pm today and found a kilogram of heroin, which we are told is worth at least Rs 75 lakh.”Tamang, a resident of Magarjung village near Sukhiapokhri, was staying in a rented place at Sonada, about 25km from Darjeeling. He...
Transfer charge on GTA, ‘victims’ to protest - GNLF to oppose orders and hold rallies
VIVEK CHHETRIDarjeeling, Sept. 11: The GNLF has accused the GTA of victimising its supporters, employed with the hill set up, by transferring them to remote places and said the orders would not be accepted.GNLF leaders, who had been lying low for some time, said they would hold rallies across the hills to oppose the transfer and a new workers’ body would take up the issue.Arjun Rai, the convenor of the GNLF in Mirik, said: “The GTA has started transferring our supporters (who worked in the DGHC earlier) to obscure places. This is nothing but political...
11 Sept 2012
Biometric plan to catch truants - GTA wants retina and fingerprint scan for attendance
Darjeeling, Sept. 10: The GTA has decided to introduce biometric attendance system in some of its offices and hospitals in the hills to monitor the attendance of employees.“We have ordered 20 biometric machines at the cost of around Rs 5 lakh. These will be installed in all important GTA offices and hospitals,” Binay Tamang, an executive member in charge of the Sabha’s establishment department, said today.He did not say by when the system would be in place.In the new system, the attendance would be recorded through retina scanning and fingerprints...
10 Sept 2012
दूर्घटनामा मर्नेहरुको संख्या दुइ
10 सेप्टेम्बर (कालेबुङ) :- आइतबार अपरान्ह तारखोलानजिक भएको एउटा वाहन दूर्घटनामा मर्नेहरुको संख्या दुइ पुगेको छ। यस दूर्घटनामा गम्भीर रुपले घाइते भएकी 4 बर्षीय बालिका लिजुम लेप्चाको उपचाराधीन अवस्थामा आज मुत्यु भएपछि मर्नेहरुको संख्यामा बृद्धि भएको हो।मृतक बालिका दक्षिण सिक्किमको पाम्फोकको निवासी रहेको थाहा लागेको छ। उनी आफ्नो फुपू र बोजुसँग हिजो वाहनमा सवार भएर रम्फूबाट साङ्सेतिर आफन्तकोमा आइरहेकी थिएन। सिलगढी रेफर गरिएका तीनजना घाइतेहरुमध्ये चार बर्षे बालिका लिजुम लेप्चाले आज प्राण त्याग गरिन भने रहल दुइजनाको अवस्था पनि चिन्ताजनक रहेको जानकारी...
Boy driver and pals killed in Sikkim Vehicle rolls down 1500ft, 4 kids die
Gangtok, Sept. 9: Four boys, apparently carrying garbage in a car to dump at a place near their hostel, died yesterday when the vehicle that was being driven by one of them rolled 1,500ft off a hilly road in West Sikkim.Five boys, all below 18, were in the Maruti Alto yesterday morning and only one survived and has been taken to Siliguri for treatment.He has suffered injuries on his head which police said were serious.The four boys who died were...
