कालेबुङ, १७ मई|
बङ्गालका मुख्यमन्त्री ममता व्यानर्जीलाई भेट्न नपाउँदा हिल तृणमूल कङ्ग्रेसका कार्यकर्ताहरू निराश बनेका छन् भनेर कतिपय मिडियाले गलत प्रचार गरेको आरोप हिल तृणमूल महिला सङ्गठनका प्रमुख ननिता गौतमले लगाएकी छन्| आज एक पत्रकार सम्मेलन डाकेर छापामा आएको खबर असत्य रहेको बताएकी छन्| ‘मुख्यमन्त्रीको पहाड आगमनले हामीलाई ठूलो बल मिलेको छ| उनीसितको भेटले दलप्रति कार्यकर्ताहरूको मनोबल अनि विश्वास अझ बढेको छ| तर पहाडमा हिल तृणमूललाई फस्टाउन नदिने, बाधा पुर्याउने जस्ता षड्यन्त्र हुँदैछ| मिडियाको गलत प्रचारको कारण सङ्गठनप्रति आम मानिसमा गलत सन्देश...
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।
18 May 2013
Career fair
Siliguri, May 17: Several universities ad colleges from across the country will set up stalls at career fairs that will be organised in Gangtok, Darjeeling and Siliguri by SAPE Events and Media Private Limited in association with The Telegraph Careergraph next week.
This is the first time that the fair is being held in Gangtok and Darjeeling and the 10th year that the event is being organised in Siliguri. “This year, we will be organising the 10th career fair in Siliguri. We will be holding the fairs in Gangtok and Darjeeling for the first time...
No-trust dare to Trinamul
Siliguri, May 17: The Congress today challenged Trinamul to move a no-trust motion against Siliguri municipal corporation mayor Gangotri Datta if it was not satisfied with her work rather than preventing her from discharging her duties.
The immediate provocation for the Congress to attack Trinamul was an eight-hour demonstration by its Trinamul councillors yesterday at the SMC office to protest the suspension of 12 contractual employees.
The Trinamul councillors also pasted posters on the door of the mayor’s chamber and covered her nameplate...
17 May 2013
Roy Villa for govt, hostel for GTA - Mamata, Gurung swap buildings
Darjeeling, May 16: The Bengal government and the GTA have worked out a swap on the upkeep of two buildings — Roy Villa, which is associated with Sister Nivedita, and the Tenzing Norgay Youth Hostel.
Roy Villa is under the GTA administration, while the Tenzing Norgay Youth Hostel is under the youth affairs department of the state government.
“According to the GTA agreement, Roy Villa was with the GTA and they had plans to set up a youth hostel here. On our request, they have agreed to hand it over to us. In lieu, we will give the Tenzing Norgay...
Health awareness programme
Health awareness programme organised by the Sikkim health department at Panchayat Bhavan, Sang-Martam village, East Sikkim, 10am. Health awareness camp organised by the Trinamul Congress at Khanakul in Hooghly, 10...
What Cheek! - Sree Shame: Police see three players fixing IPL spots, board sees little but bolt from blue
May 16: A “great comeback”, the TV commentator gushed. Hit for 14 off the first three balls of the over, Rajasthan Royals tweaker Ankeet Chavan had conceded just one from his last three.
But once the floodlit night of show and glitz passed, it all looked a little dubious in the glare of daylight. Delhi police alleged this afternoon that Chavan had deliberately bowled long hops and half-volleys to the Mumbai Indians’ Glenn Maxwell last night because bookies had paid him to concede at least 13 runs in his second over.
Job done in the first half...
16 May 2013
Golf course gets nod
Darjeeling, May 15: Mamata Banerjee today laid the foundation stone for a golf course at Tiger Hill, a turf that was built around the 1900s and the revival of which has been a longstanding demand of the tourism industry.
Sonam Bhutia, the executive director of GTA in charge of tourism department, said: “A sum of Rs 2.10 crore has been allotted by the state tourism department for land reclamation and development of the area where the golf course will be set up ”
Sources said Worlds Sport Group, a Singapore-based firm, has inspected the area, 12km...
Darjeeling the heart of state: CM Morcha sees point in Mamata speech
Darjeeling, May 15: Mamata Banerjee today said Darjeeling “is the heart of Bengal” but also clarified almost immediately that she was not talking politics.
After inaugurating an auditorium at the Gorkha Rangamanch Bhavan, with Bimal Gurung on the dais beside her, the chief minister spoke for bringing development to the hills in her first visit here after January, when she had annoyed the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha with her speech.
The January 29 event was also a government one like today’s, but Mamata told the crowd at Chowrastha: “Darjeeling is...
14 May 2013
Sikkim schoolkids’ ad brush with Ranbir - Two children shoot education commercial with Bollywood star in Mumbai
Gangtok, May 13: Lakhit Lepcha and Abhishek Rai feel like minor celebrities in their own school. After all, they just returned after shooting an advertisement with Ranbir Kapoor.
“What does he look like…. Is Ranbir tall? Is he actually as good looking as he looks in the movies?” These are questions that 14-year-old Lakhit and 11-year-old Abhishek have been asked repeatedly by classmates.
The two students of Melli Gumpa Government Secondary School were among a handful of kids from other parts of India who sang and danced with Ranbir for the ad...
Nathu-la trade
Gangtok, May 13: The Nathu-la trade that could not start on the scheduled date because of bad weather kicked off today, after almost two weeks.
Although the trade was declared open on May 1, no transactions took place because of snowfall and frequent landslides along JN Marg.
“Thirty Chinese traders reached Sherathang (14,500ft) today,” said Sumita Pradhan, deputy secretary of commerce and industries department. But 25 Indian traders who had permits could not go beyond Sherathang for bad roads.
The Chinese got garments, shoes, quilts, blankets...
Tea lay-off alarm as rain eludes Dooars
Siliguri, May 13: Tea planters in the Dooars and Terai have warned that they may be forced to slash the number of work days or lay off hands if the near-dry spell because of lack of rain continues for another 15 days.
“Unless there is an improvement in the weather, the owners might not be able to provide enough working days to the labourers. We will be forced to either reduce the number of working days or lay off some labourers,” said U.B. Das, the secretary of the Terai Indian Planters’ Association.
The Dooars have received 60mm rainfall from...
Suicide bid by teen depositor
May 13: A 16-year-old student from Jalpaiguri district who worked as a guard and had invested with the Saradha Group consumed pesticide yesterday evening.
Sahanur Islam is now in the ITU of Jalpaiguri district hospital.
“For the past one-and-a-half years, Sahanur has been working as a security guard at a construction site near Lataguri station,” said the Class X student’s father Muhammad Ali, a daily labourer.
“On his holidays, he often worked as a labourer during the day. But he never gave any money to the family and invested almost all his...
Tourism hub plan for Gazoldoba
Siliguri, May 13: The state tourism department today unveiled the details of a proposed tourism hub at Gazoldoba in Jalpaiguri and invited investors for the project.
Vikram Sen, principal secretary of the department of tourism, said the hub — one of the key projects announced by Mamata Banerjee for north Bengal — would be developed through a public-private partnership and investments to the tune of Rs 1,800 crore would be invited from private players.
The investors would be provided with a 203-acre vested plot next to the Teesta Barrage Project.
“The...
13 May 2013
Morcha to keep CM indoors Once bitten, hill party wary of public show
Darjeeling, May 12: The GTA Sabha has decided against holding any public event during the chief minister’s two-day Darjeeling trip starting May 14 to avoid a repeat of the Chowrastha episode when her utterances sparked protests in the audience, sources said.
Sources in the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, which controls the GTA Sabha, said the party had initially thought of organising a public event to welcome the chief minister.
“But many within the party were not comfortable with the idea of holding a public meeting at Chowrastha as they felt that the...
Barla hints at no Trinamul tie-up
May 12: Tribal leader John Barla today said he would not forge an alliance with the Trinamul Congress for the upcoming rural polls if the state’s ruling party continued to make incursions into his strongholds across the Dooars and tried to influence his support base.
Barla’s comment comes a day after Trinamul leaders organised a rally and a meeting on the Lakkhipara Tea Estate at Banarhat in Dhupguri block of the Dooars.
Yesterday, 30-40 garden residents joined Mamata Banerjee’s party.
Lakkhipara, where Barla stays, is his bastion.
“Since its...
Rose Valley office raided in Geyzing
Gangtok, May 12: The Sikkim police raided the west district office of Rose Valley, a money mobilising company, in Geyzing bazaar on Friday evening and seized the company’s documents.
“We have seized important documents of the company to gather more information on the depositors, agents and the total money involved in the business,” said a senior police official.
The Sikkim Protection of Interests of Depositors Act prohibits companies from collecting money from the public. The Act was passed in the Sikkim Assembly in 2010 after fraudulent financial...
Protest on bad roads in Sikkim
Gangtok, May 12: Stakeholders of the tourism industry and local people took out a rally here yesterday to protest the alleged delay in repairing the North Sikkim Highway and JN Marg, the main roads in the district.
More than 100 protesters marched from Tashi View Point to the office of Project Swastik chief engineer S.S. Porwal. “I have written to the head office (of Swastik) in New Delhi. Nothing can be done unless funds are released. I am leaving for Delhi tomorrow and will place the matter before the higher authorities,” he said.
The Border...
Party launched with eye on Dooars
May 12: A number of outfits demanding a separate state comprising the six north Bengal districts today joined hands to form a new party called the Bharatiya Gorkha Janahit Morcha.
The formation of the party was announced at a meeting held in Agrasen Bhavan in Nagrakata, Jalpaiguri district, where leaders of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Separate State Demand Forum — a common platform of parties such as the Kamtapur People’s Party (KPP) and some Naxalite factions — and some workers of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha from the Dooars and Terai...
NBU deans
Siliguri, May 12: North Bengal University has filled up two vacancies that have been lying vacant for more than a year with the appointment of professors to the posts of dean of arts, commerce and law and dean of science.
Palash Ranjan Sengupta, the head of the commerce department, is the new dean of faculty of arts, commerce and law, while Amitabha Mukhopadhyay, the head of the physics department, will be the dean of the faculty of science.
“The appointments were made by vice-chancellor Samir Kumar Das on Friday and the duo will take charge...
12 May 2013
कोक्राझार, बक्सा र चिराङका गोर्खा फेरि अत्याचारको शिकार लाखौं रुपियॉंको मागः नदिए मार्ने धम्की
कालेबुङ, 11 मई।
बोडो उग्रवादी सङ्गठन एनडीएफबी (नेश्नल डेमोक्रेटिक फ्रन्ट अफ बोडोल्याण्ड) ले असमको तीन जिल्ला कोक्राझार, बक्सा र चिराङका गोर्खाबहुल गाउँहरूमा आतङ्क मच्चाउन शुरु गरेको छ। कोक्राझारको सूत्रले समय दैनिकलाई बताए अनुसार एनडीएफबीका जवानहरूले फोन गरेर गोर्खा बाहुल गाउँका हरेकलाई लाखौं रुपियॉं मागेको छ। एकएक गाउँलाई लक्ष्य बनाएर हरेक गाउँको जनघन्त्व हेर्दै एनडीएफबीले रुपियॉं दाबी गरिरहेको छ। सूत्रले भने, गाउँको जनसंख्या हेर्दै कम्ति गोर्खा रहेको गाउँलाई 10 लाख देखि घनत्व धेर भएको गाउँलाई 20 लाखसम्म रुपियॉं मागिरहेको छ। उग्रवादी संस्थाका...
मोर्चा कालेबुङ शाखाको सभा सम्पन्न
कालेबुङ 11 मई।
गोर्खा जनमुक्ति नारी मोर्चा कालेबुङ महकुमा समितिको साङ्गठनिक सभा आज यहॉंको रामकृष्ण रङ्गमञ्चमा सम्पन्न भयो। सभा नारी मोर्चा महकुमा समिति एवं शाखा-प्रशाखाका प्रतिनिधिलाई लिएर आयोजना गरिएको थियो। सङ्गठनको कार्यनीति प्रतिनिधिहरूसमक्ष राख्नु अनि सङ्गठनलाई अझ सशक्त बनाउनु सभाको उद्देश्य रहेको थियो। अवकाशप्राप्त ले.कर्णल शान्ता छेत्री मुख्य अतिथिको रूपमा उपस्थित रहेको कार्यक्रमलाई नारी मोर्चा सचिव बन्दना योञ्जन, काजिम छिरिङ भोटिया, सामुयल गुरूङ, नोर्देन लामा, कुमार चामलिङ आदिले सम्बोधन गरेका थिए। नारी मोर्चाका कलावती आचार्यले स्वागत भाषण...
