VIVEK CHHETRI
Darjeeling, March 1: The GTA Sabha has started issuing appointment letters to 570 primary school teachers who had cleared entrance tests and interviews in 2002.
More than 4,000 candidates had applied for the vacancies, the tests and interviews for which were conducted by the district school board in 2002. Even though 570 of them got through the process, the DGHC that was ruling the hills then didn’t appoint them for reasons never explained.
The 570 are the first lot of primary school teachers to be recruited in the hills since...
2 Mar 2013
GTA staff lift Mohan gherao
Darjeeling, March 1: A Gorkha Janmukti Morcha employees’ front that had blocked out GTA principal secretary Saumitra Mohan from his office since early this month lifted the gherao today.
Although the Janmukti Asthai Karmachari Sangathan (JAKS) cited the examination season as the reason for removing its men and flags from the Lal Khoti gate, sources in the hills, who did not want to be named, said the JAKS had realised the futility of the protest because Mohan, who is also the Darjeeling district magistrate, was signing files sitting in the district...
1 Mar 2013
CBI remand
Darjeeling, Feb. 28: The district and session judge’s court here today ordered a two-day CBI remand for the five accused in Madan Tamang murder case and directed the agency to produce them in court tomorrow, giving the officers less than 24 hours to interrogate the arrested.
The CBI had picked up the five Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leaders on February 15 and they were remanded in judicial custody. Although today’s order, passed at 1.30pm, states that the accused have been remanded for February 28 and March 1, they will have to be produced in court...
28 Feb 2013
Miss Susmita Sharma star from Sikkim
SANJAY AGARWAL –RANGPO-28TH FEBRURY 13
Miss Susmita Sharma (siwakoti ) winner of little miss India in the year 2007 at 12 years age held at deemed university Orissa has performed a better song at the cultural programme organized at Rangpo just two days ago .miss susmita of Gangtok studying as a mechanical student at ATTC bardang near Singtam was the winner of the Sikkim I CON competition held last year .her main dream is to be a playback singer in bolly hood .she is going class in the vocal at Gangtok afflicted under Allahabad university...
programme regarding aids disease and health education
SANJAY AGARWAL –RANGPO-28TH FEBRURY 13
The forth year student of Bsc nursing of Sikkim manipal collage of nursing 5th mile Tadong also come in the street to aware the disease aids to the common people of Sikkim .today the aids awareness programme specially supported by the Sikkim aids control society was organized by the members of the red ribbon club of the institute at Rangpo halo block complex .the programme attended by mrs bishnu Maya kaarki ,ward councilor mining Mrs. aita Maya gurung ,dr upasna gurung medical officer Rangpo primary...
murder at the bank of Rangpo river
SANJAY AGARWAL –RANGGPO-28TH FEBURY 13
A case of murder was occurred at the bank of Rangpo river under Rangpo police station today .according to the news the local residents has shown one body was laying at the bank of Rangpo river in the dead position .they informed police and after the information the police team lead by SDPO Rangpo Mrs. L Palmo ,PI Tshring Sherpa ,sub inspector pema choden has reached the spot and started the investigation .in the preliminary investigation the police has found by showing the cut in the body that the...
Morcha ire over delay in pardon - 382 cases await withdrawal
Darjeeling, Feb. 27: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha is peeved over the state government’s delay in withdrawing 382 cases filed against party activists during the four-year statehood agitation and the issue could become another flashpoint between the hill party and the government.
“The cases have to be withdrawn as it was agreed upon by the state government. During a review meeting on the GTA held in Delhi on December 26, state home secretary Basudeb...
26 Feb 2013
Sikkim krantikaari morcha west Pandam constituency level meeting
SANJAY AGARWAL –RANGPO-26TH FEBRURI 13
Sikkim krantikaari morcha west Pandam constituency level meeting was held at Rangpo under the president ship of Mr. gopal Dahal central Pandam .the main aims and objective of the meeting was known as the preparation for the forthcoming constituency level party office opening at Rangpo on 10th march and to strengthen the party cadre and activity in the area .Mr. puchung tshring Bhutia (mama Rangpo )vice president...
Gorkha Janmukti Morcha(GJMM) supporters join Congress
JALPAIGURI: Unhappy with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), at least 30 hardliners of the party from the Dooars in Jalpaiguri joined the Congress on Monday. Most of them from Chamurchi on the Indo-Bhutan border,
The Nepali speaking youths blamed the "step-motherly attitude of GJM leaders towards the Dooars" for their reason to switch allegiance.
Though it has been more than a year since the formation of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), the Dooars and Terai region is not a part of it. A large section of Nepalis living in the plains...
Gurung tries to soothe plains - Morcha leadership assures Dooars members of support as more leave party
Feb. 25: Bimal Gurung today assured Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leaders from the Terai and Dooars that he would always stand by them, the message coming when disgruntled plains cadres have joined Trinamul and the Congress.
The Morcha president’s meeting at the Gymkhana Club with around 1,000 supporters from the plains came two days after 27 former Morcha supporters and leaders joined Trinamul in Calcutta.
Even as Gurung spoke, around 50 Morcha members in Jalpaiguri joined the Congress today.
The common complaint from the Morcha activists in the plains...
