May 24: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today announced an indefinite strike in the hills from Sunday to protest the arrest of GTA Sabha member Chandra Yonzone, accused of burning down the house of Trinamul leader K.N. Subba last night.
Around 6.30pm today, members of the GTA Sabha, led by Roshan Giri, went to the Darjeeling Sadar police station and demanded that they too be arrested.
“Yonzone is innocent and was arrested by the police who came to his home late last night and aroused him from sleep,” Giri said at the police station. “We are calling...
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।
25 May 2013
Govt land reclaim drive
Siliguri, May 24: The Darjeeling district administration has launched a drive to retrieve over 2,000 acres of government land encroached on by “land mafia”.
The exercise started yesterday and a 17-acre plot worth around Rs 16 crore was cleared of an encroacher on the first day at Matigara.
“The records with the land and land reforms department show the total government land in Darjeeling district is 7,826.2797 acres. Of this, 2,281.8124 acres have been encroached on, while 1,889.255 acres are vacant. Our plan is to clear most of the plots of...
24 May 2013
Sukna base driver held for ISI link
Darjeeling, May 23: A contractual driver who worked at the army base in Sukna has been arrested for alleged ISI links, but the Darjeeling police chief said he did not seem involved with the people caught days back for suspected connections with the Pakistani spy agency.
Kunal Aggarwal, the Darjeeling superintendent of police, said: “Following a complaint from the commanding officer of the civil government transport wing of the army, we have arrested Md Azad, who was on his way to New Jalpaiguri (which has a railway station) around 4pm today.”
Aggarwal...
SJDA engineer held for graft
Siliguri, May 23: An engineer with the Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority and an employee of a construction firm were arrested today for their alleged involvement in irregularities in the payments for five projects.
Praween Kumar, a contractual sub-assistant engineer with the SJDA, and Amal Krishna Saha, who is with the Eureka Trade Bureau, a Calcutta-based construction firm, were remanded in police custody for five days by a court here. According to a complaint by SJDA CEO Shward Dwivedi, some SJDA officers had paid the construction firm...
23 May 2013
Land return, eye on polls - Mamata to give back 10000 acres
Calcutta, May 22: The Mamata Banerjee government has decided to return nearly 10,000 acres from its land bank to 30,000-odd original owners by the end of the year with an eye on electoral gains, officials said.
No one in the government would go on record but The Telegraph has seen a land and land reforms department order, sent to the departments holding the plots and the district authorities, to start the land-return process at the earliest.
The decision comes at a time land unavailability is being cited as a key factor constraining industrial...
Morcha halts hill Trinamul ride
May 22: Over 800 supporters of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today stopped Trinamul Congress leader K.N. Subba from entering Kalimpong near Gorubathan, leading to tension in the area after which local traders closed their shops.
The blockade by Morcha supporters also led to disruption in the movement of several tourist vehicles going to Kalimpong, Lava and Loleygaon at the beginning of the peak tourism season in the hills.
Subba, a former DGHC councillor and GNLF leader who joined Trinamul in February this year, was going to his Kalimpong home through...
60 steps, in all possible colours - Check out darjeeling’s rainbow stairs
Darjeeling, May 22: A drab and broken staircase, pounded by hundreds of residents in Darjeeling, has got colour to it, thanks to seven women in this hill town. And what colours they are.
Shatti Seri (meaning the 60 steps) may be the most used flight of stairs in Darjeeling, making it a landmark for hill residents.
The seven women, professionals and students, started a Facebook page called OMG Darj. It soon became the first step to the most colourful public art display in the town.
Smriti Raphel Rai, a professional photographer, speaking on behalf...
Couple die on Sikkim trip
Gangtok, May 22: A couple hailing from Bankura died when their taxi skidded off a road near Mangan in north Sikkim and fell almost 350ft below last night.
The deceased are Sujit Kumar Neogi, a 47-year-old former army officer, and his wife Nivedita, 41, who died on the spot.
Among the eight other passengers in the taxi were the Neogi’s daughters, who were injured. The driver, too, was injured.
The daughters — Suchita, 13, and Anandita, 17 — and driver Akhtar Ali, 40, have been admitted to the district hospital in Mangan.
In the SUV with the...
Saradha hand hangs himself
Balurghat, May 22: A 22-year-old former clerk with the Saradha Group allegedly committed suicide, having lost his job and money he had invested in the money-mobilising firm.
Sumit Das, a resident of Bridgekali in Balurghat, was found hanging from the ceiling of his room this morning. This is the first suicide in South Dinajpur after the Saradha default crisis had erupted in the state a month back.
Sumkit ate dinner last night and went to his room. “When he didn’t come out of the room this morning, mother Doli knocked on the door repeatedly. There...
22 May 2013
Parishad tie-up hint
May 21: Trinamul Congress sources in the Dooars and Terai have revealed that the party is in talks with the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad for a poll alliance in the plains tea gardens.
“Last Saturday, around 10.30pm, a meeting was held between Chanda Bhowmik (the Jalpaiguri district Trinamul president)and Parishad regional secretary Rajesh Lakra, who was accompanied by some other leaders in Jalpaiguri. The discussion was effective and both the sides agreed on the need for an alliance for the rural polls. The final deal, however, is yet...
21 May 2013
ISI cuffs on army clerk
Darjeeling, May 20: A clerk at the Indian Army’s base in Sukna was arrested today for allegedly stealing defence documents and supplying them to four persons from Kurseong, held yesterday on the charge of working as conduits of Pakistan’s ISI.
“Mani Kumar Biswakarma, aged about 50 years and currently serving as an upper division clerk with the army in Sukna, was arrested today. He has confessed to stealing documents and supplying them to ISI agents,” said Kunal Aggarwal, the Darjeeling superintendent of police.
Biswakarma was detained yesterday...
Bouncers held for murder outside bar
Gangtok, May 20: Two bouncers of the pub outside which an engineering student was beaten to death early morning yesterday have been arrested for allegedly not preventing a brawl inside the bar preceding the murder.
The death of Rakshit Singh Meena, a third-year civil engineering student of Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, forced police to issue an order today, stipulating that all pubs should stop serving alcohol by 11pm and bring down the shutters in another 30 minutes.
The 22-year-old Meena died after he had been assaulted by a group...
20 May 2013
फोहोर व्यवस्थापनको अभावमा शहर दुर्गन्धित
प्रज्ज्वल छेत्री
कालेबुङ, १९ मई|
कालेबुङ शरहबाट दैनिक रुपमा निस्किने फोहोरमैलाको उचित व्यवस्थापन नहुँदा अहिले शहरी क्षेत्रनै प्रदूषित बन्दै गएको छ| यसको मुख्य असर आम मानिसमा पर्न थालेको छ| करीब एक सातादेखि शहर क्षेत्रमा यत्रतत्र फोहोर हुँदासमेत कालेबुङ नरपलिकाले कुनै चासो देखाएको छैन| विशेष गरेर यहॉंको हाटबाजर परिसर, हरिजन रोड, डाकुरबारी, साथै शहरको विभिन्न भागमा फोहोरको डङ्गुर नै हुन थालेको छ| जनसाधरणदेखि लिएर पर्यटकहरूसम्मले सडक किनारमा थुप्रिएको मैला देखेर नाक खुम्चयाउँदै व्यवस्थालाई गाली गर्न सिवाय अर्को विकल्प देख्न सकेका छैनन्| ‘यहॉं मैला...
Hill police claim ISI arrests in Kurseong
Kurseong, May 19: Darjeeling police today arrested two suspected ISI agents along with two of their links from Kurseong.
Police have also detained three other people, one of them an upper division clerk in the army’s 33 Corps stationed at Sukna.
The arrests were made after a tip-off from the Rajasthan police following a recent arrest of an alleged ISI spy, B.K. Sinha, who was working as an upper divisional clerk of the Indian Army in Jaipur.
Sinha was posted in Siliguri till 2011 before being transferred to Jaipur.
Kunal Aggarawal, the superintendent...
Decision on others, Morcha out: Tirkey
Siliguri, May 19: Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad leader Birsa Tirkey today ruled out any understanding with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha for the panchayat polls, but said local leaders in the Dooars would decide on a tie-up with other parties in the region.
Tirkey, the state president of the Parishad, is scheduled to visit the Dooars next week to discuss the outfit’s strategy for the rural polls with regional leaders. He did not reply when asked if there was a possibility of the Parishad aligning with the Trinamul Congress.
“The chief minister’s...
Cop son killed in Gangtok brawl
Gangtok, May 19: A Bihar police officer’s son, studying engineering in Sikkim, died last night after he was allegedly beaten up outside a Gangtok pub, a follow-up to a brawl inside it.
Police have arrested five Gangtok youths, one of whom, Gurmey Wangchuk, is the son of a senior Sikkim state official.
A senior police officer said: “There was a scuffle between the two groups, one comprising local youths in Gangtok and the other of the engineering students of Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT) at the local pub (Live and Loud).
“The...
19 May 2013
ग्राम पञ्चायत चुनाउः पहाडमा कहिले?
प्रज्ज्वल छेत्री
कालेबुङ, 18 मई।
गोरामुमोले जस्तो दुइस्तरीय ग्राम पञ्चायत चुनाउ गोर्खा जनमुक्ति मोर्चाले गराउन चहॉंदैन। मोर्चा त्रिस्तरीय ग्राम पञ्चायत चुनाउ गराउने पक्षमा छ, जो जीटीए सम्झौतामा पनि उल्लेख छ। गोर्खा जनमुक्ति मोर्चा आजसम्म यही सम्झौताको आधारमा पहाडमा त्रिस्तरीय पञ्चायत चुनाउ हुनुपर्छ भन्ने टेक लिएर बसेको छ। यसैले आउँदो जुलाई महिनामा राज्यभरि नै ग्राम पञ्चायत चुनाउ हुने भएपनि त्यसबेला जीटीए क्षेत्रमा चुनाउ हुने सम्भावना छैन। किनभने, हिजो पश्चिम बङ्गाल सरकारद्वारा जारी अधिसूचनामा जीटीएको नाम उल्लेख छैन। यसैले ग्राम पञ्चायत चुनाउलाई...
महिला हिंसाविरुद्ध र्याली र सङ्गोष्ठी
कालेबुङ, 18 मई।
अल इण्डिया वुमेन्स कनफेरेन्सको कालेबुङ शाखाले आज महिला हिंसाविरुद्ध विद्यमान कानूनी प्रावधानहरुबारे जानकारी प्रदान गर्न एक सङ्गोष्ठी साथै शहरमा एउटा सचेतना र्यालीको आयोजना गरेको थियो। विभिन्न शैक्षिक संस्थानका शिक्षक अनि विद्यार्थी, सामाजिक संगठनका प्रतिनिधि लगायत शहरका सचेत तप्काका महिलाहरुले र्यालीमा भाग लिएका थिए। महिलाहिंसाविरुद्ध जागरुकतामूलक सन्देश लेखिएको प्लाकार्डहरु बोकेर र्यालीमा सामेल महिला र विद्यार्थीहरुले शहर परिक्रमा गरेपछि कन्या उच्च पाठशाला पुगेर सङ्गोष्ठीमा परिणत भएको थियो। पाठशालाको प्रेक्षागृहमा सम्पन्न सङ्गोष्ठीमा...
