Darjeeling, April 12: Suk Bahadur Subba, a former Trinamul Congress leader from Kalimpong, joined the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today with around 50 of his supporters.
The Morcha said Trinamul supporters in the hills had started joining the Morcha after realising that the primarily political demand of the hill people, which is the creation of Gorkhaland, would remain unfilled by Trinamul.
Morcha general secretary Roshan Giri said: “Suk Bahadur Subba, a Trinamul Congress candidate in the GTA elections from Algara-Dalapchand, today joined the Morcha...
शिक्षक प्रमुखको लापारवाहीको कारण बेहाल अवस्थामा चम्पामाया प्रथमिक पाठशाला
पहाड़को प्रथमिक पाठशालाहरु एका एक बन्द हुनुमा सरकार पक्ष दोषी छ कि शिक्षक-शिक्षिकाहरुको लापारवाही? किन दार्जीलिङ पहाड़को शैक्षिक स्तर दिनोदिन खस्किन्दै गइरहेको छ? प्रथमिक शिक्षा बाल-बालिकाहरुको निम्ति महत्तवपूर्ण हुँदा-हुँदै पनि किन आजसम्म पहाड़को शिक्षा व्यवस्थामा सुधार आउन सकिरहेको छैन?
राजनीति गर्दिनँ भन्नु पनि अर्को राजनीति होः हर्कबहादुर छेत्री
मेरो अधिकारक्षेत्रभित्र पाँच बर्षको लागि जनताको हितको काम गर् भनेर मलाई भोट हालेको हो नि। मलाई थाहा छ यसले जनताको धेरै हित हुन्छ। यसले जनताको हितसँगै पार्टीको पनि हित हुन्छ, आन्दोलनलाई पनि सहयोग पुर्याउँछ भनेपछि एकदम निसंकोच भनेर अघि बढ्न सक्छु म। म त्यही काम गर्दैछु।
बघिनी फेरि पुरानै खोरमा
‘समयले मानिसलाई कहाँ कहाँ पुर्याउँछ,,,,,,’ कुनै समय रेडियो नेपालबाट बजिरहने यो चर्चित गीतले मान्छेको जीवनमा प्रणयसम्बन्धको आरोह अवरोहले पार्ने प्रभावलाई सुन्दर ढंगले व्याख्या गरेको छ। यो लोकप्रिय गीतको यही एक हरफ कुनै राजनीतिकर्मीको जीवनसँग गाँसेर हेर्दा के उत्तर पाइएला?
साहित्य अनि सर्जकलाई माया गर्ने घिसिङ
80 को दशकमा देशभरिका गोर्खाहरूलाई जातित्वको भावना उत्पन्न गराउने प्रथम नेता सुवास घिसिङको निधनले अहिले घड़ी सम्पूर्ण दार्जीलिङ पहाड़ नै स्तब्ध बनेको छ। गोर्खाहरूका हित अनि अस्तित्वका निम्ति छुट्टै राज्यको बहस लिएर सुवास धिसिङले त्यसताक पहाड़का प्रत्येक गाँऊहरूको भ्रमण गरेका थिए। 22 जुन 1936 सालमा मिरिकको मञ्जु चियाबगानमा जन्म लिएरका सुवास घिसिङले आफ्नो तर्क राख्न एकलै जनसभा गर्थे। घिसिङले सम्पूर्ण गोर्खाहरूलाई एकै शुत्रमा बाँध्न "गोर्खाल्याण्ड" शब्दको जन्म गरेका थिए।
निराश छन् विधायक डा. छेत्री
“बजट सत्रमा के कुराहरू उठान गर्नु पर्ने भन्नेबारे हामीले जीटीएबाट कहिले फिडब्याक पाएका छैनौं” डा छेत्रीले भने। डा हर्कबहादुर छेत्री मोर्चाका प्रवक्ता हुन् अनि कालेबुङका जनप्रतिनिधि। दुइवटा महत्वपूर्ण पदमा बसेका डा छेत्रीलाई अहिलेसम्म जीटीएको बैठकमा निम्ताइएको छैन, पार्टीको राजनैतिक लाइनबारे उनीसँग चर्चा र छलफल नगरिएको त झन कति भयो, उनैलाई हेक्का छैन।
13 Apr 2013
Cong slams Deb, CPM
Siliguri, April 12: Darjeeling district Congress today blamed north Bengal development minister and Trinamul leader Gautam Deb for inciting tension in town.
The Congress also criticised the CPM for creating unrest in the region. “We have serious doubts as to how much Trinamul and the north Bengal development minister, who often speaks of development agenda, is serious about development,” said Shankar Malakar, the Darjeeling district Congress president.
“Whatever Trinamul has done earlier this week is just an imitation of what the CPM had been...
Clash hearing on April 18
Siliguri, April 12: The additional chief judicial magistrate’s court here today ordered that the next hearing of the 51 Left supporters, who were arrested following an alleged clash with Trinamul activists, would be on April 18.
The CPM workers were arrested on Wednesday night and 49 of them (two person were hospitalised) were produced in court yesterday.
Later, five women activists were granted bail and the remaining 44 were remanded in jail custody.
“Today, all the 51… were supposed to appear before the court. Those on bail did not appear...
12 Apr 2013
Hill secy nod by court
April 11: Calcutta High Court today passed an interim order directing the state government to give names of three IAS officers to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) and the court by April 18 so that one of them may be appointed the principal secretary to the hill body.
“Let the matter be fixed for hearing on April 18. The state is directed to provide the names of three IAS officers to the court as well as the GTA in the meanwhile,” Justice Dipankar Dutta directed the state government.
Binay Tamang, the executive Sabha member of the...
Monastery trio held for rape
Kalimpong, April 11: Three students of a Buddhist monastery and a taxi driver have been arrested for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl on Tuesday night.
Police said all the four were aged between 20 and 24 and were arrested last night. They were remanded in judicial custody for 14 days by the additional chief judicial magistrate’s court in Kalimpong today.
Samten Tshedup, 21, Phurba Dorjee, 20, Dawa Dukpa, 20, are students of Thongsa Monastery at 10th Mile in Kalimpong and are citizens of Bhutan. The taxi driver, Karan Roka, 24, is a resident...
Non-bailable slap on Left activists
Siliguri, April 11: Siliguri police have slapped non-bailable charges on 51 Left activists who were arrested yesterday evening after alleged clashes between them and supporters of the Trinamul Congress.
Three Left leaders — former CPM minister Asok Bhattacharya, CPM acting Darjeeling district secretary Jibesh Sarkar and DYFI district secretary Shankar Ghosh — who were also rounded up last night, left Siliguri police station this morning. The police had told the trio yesterday that they could go home but Asok had insisted that all the activists...
11 Apr 2013
भूली गए सम्झनालाई-कालेबुङको कुसुमे रूमाल
(अनिल तेलैजा) प्रसिद्ध नेपाली चलचित्र निर्माता-निर्देशक तुलसी घिमिरेले अस्सीको दशकमा निर्माण गरेको चलचित्र कुसुमे रूमालको अधिकांश छायाङ्कन कालेबुङमा नै भएको थियो। उनले आफ्नो चलचित्रको छायाङ्कन किन कालेङबुङमा नै गरे अनि यसको नाम पनि किन कुसुमे रूमाल नै किन राखे? यो प्रश्नको सही उत्तर निर्माता निर्देशक घिमिरेले नै राम्ररी दिन सक्छन् तर अस्सीकै दशकतिर कालेबुङका हस्तशिल्पीहरूले ससाना रूमालहरू बनाएर देश विदेश पठाउने गर्थे, जसलाई कुसुमे रूमाल पनि भन्ने गरिन्थो। स्थानीय स्तरमा मात्रै होइन राष्ट्रिय र अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय स्तरमा नै ख्याति कमाएको कालेबुङको...
Morcha coerce letter to Trinamul - Missive to former supporters seeking explanation for quitting party
Darjeeling, April 10: A Trinamul Congress leader in Darjeeling today produced a letter allegedly written by a local unit of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha asking those people who had quit the hill party and joined Trinamul to attend a Morcha meeting and give an explanation for their action.
Trinamul said the letter showed that the Morcha was warning its supporters against joining any other party in the hills. The Morcha denied the charge and said the letter might have been framed by Trinamul to malign the hill party.
Gopal Chhetri, the Trinamul Darjeeling...
Students lock college gate
April 10: The students of Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College today locked the main entrance to the campus after the authorities allegedly failed to look into their demands of filling up vacant posts of teachers and upgrading infrastructure.
The demonstration was launched by the apolitical students’ union of the college.
The college principal, J. Jhampati, teachers and non-teaching staff members were forced to stand under trees for hours. It also led to the suspension of classes throughout the day.
The college, considered as the top engineering...
Asok & Left 58 arrested
Siliguri, April 10: Former CPM minister Asok Bhattacharya and Darjeeling district Left Front convener Jibesh Sarkar were arrested today from the CPM office in Siliguri, hours after repeated clashes between Trinamul and the Left party on Hill Cart Road.
The Darjeeling Left Front has announced a 12-hour strike in the district tomorrow. Exams and emergency services will be exempted from the strike. In all, 59 Left leaders and activists were arrested today in Siliguri.
The Left this afternoon took out a rally of 400-odd supporters to protest the...
10 Apr 2013
Bengal governor: Attack on Mamata “shocking”, CPM politburo should issue public apology
Calcutta, Apr 10 (PTI): West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan on Wednesday said the “attack” on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Finance Minister Amit Mitra in Delhi was “unprecedented” and “a blot on India's cherished democratic values”.
He said the incident deserved to be condemned in the strongest terms and deserved a public apology from the politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), whose students wing had organised the protest.
“The shocking pre-meditated assault on the chief minister, the finance minister and other senior ministers...
Morcha Siliguri march halted
Sukna (Kurseong), April 9: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s effort to march to Siliguri, days after Trinamul leaders held meetings in the hills, came to nought today when they were stopped a few kilometres from Darjeeling More, the entry to the town.
The Morcha held its rally at Sukna’s BB Gurung Memorial High School ground, which is near Siliguri and a few hundred metres outside the GTA area.
Police said they stopped the march of the Bharatiya Gorkha Bhutpurva Sainik Morcha, a Morcha-backed group of ex-servicemen, 5km from the entry point to Siliguri...
Mitra attack backlash at home
April 9: The Trinamul Congress today retaliated to the SFI’s Delhi assault on state finance minister Amit Mitra by attacking several CPM offices in the districts.
The spate of attacks prompted chief minister Mamata Banerjee to depute her industries minister, Partha Chatterjee, to appeal for calm over a television network.
In parts of north Bengal, Hooghly, Bankura, Burdwan, Birbhum, Purulia, North and South 24-Parganas Trinamul workers went on the rampage, storming CPM offices and warning cadres against carrying on political activity.
In most...
9 Apr 2013
Cave tourism for hill visitors - new LInk in sport loop
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Takling Busty, April 20.2006 : Caving, as a form of adventure sports, is fast becoming a craze with tourists visiting the region.
The credit for bringing the sport in the list of attractions in the region's adventure tourism circuit goes to a self-help group of eight youths from this village, more than 55 km from Siliguri. The youths have been instrumental in opening up a 300-m natural cave for sports enthusiasts.
Gloria Cave, as they have named it, was opened for tourists last Saturday, amid the holy chant of a local pastor and cultural performances...
