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Siliguri hospital taken over
The administration finally took over the Desun Hospital at Kawakhali in Siliguri on Tuesday for treatment of suspected coronavirus patients and shifted around 40 patients admitted there to other...
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Plan to seal Chowk Bazar in Darjeeling
The administration is looking at cordoning off Chowk Bazar, the biggest market in the Darjeeling town, and restricting entry of people in an attempt to regulate crowd.The initiative comes at a time the...
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Nurseries in Sikkim, Darjeeling wilt as lockdown hits king of orchids
The Cymbidium is known as the king of orchids, the most elegant, expensive and sought-after among all variants of the exotic plant. For the nurseries of Sikkim and the Darjeeling hills, the plant is a...
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MEA sends bus for stranded foreigners in Bengal, UP; triggers panic in...
New Delhi/Darjeeling: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the extension of the COVID-19 lockdown till May 3 and tens of thousands of labourers arrived at Mumbai's Bandra railway station hoping to...
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No Facilities as Woman Breastfeeds in Bengal Tea Garden
A woman sits on a rock at a tea garden in Darjeeling. There's a crying baby in her lap, trying to suckle her, as another child, slightly older looks curiously at the man taking a video of them."She's...
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Workforce guideline lands tea gardens in trouble
Planters and tea garden owners in north Bengal are now facing problems as they fail to provide jobs to all permanent workers. The garden managements are having a tough time when it comes to selecting...
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What is next after class 10? by Kamal Bhujel, Research Scholar Mizoram...
Education plays a vital role in the development of any society. Intellectual advancement leads society to the higher standard with other mainstream civilization. Life’s standard of the citizen of...
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Mamata transfers IAS, IPS officers over ration supply and mosque gathering row
Kolkata: Three IAS officers and an IPS officer have been transferred in the last 24 hours in West Bengal after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed dissatisfaction over their handling of the...
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Darjeeling Chowk Bazar entry restricted
Chowk Bazar, one of the biggest vegetable markets in Darjeeling town, was cordoned off on Friday and a single designated entry point was marked to regulate the footfall.Sources said Darjeeling police...
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Lockdown fear in Darjeeling: Food, LPG
A situation report on the impact of the lockdown in the rural areas of Darjeeling suggests that the three biggest concerns among the residents are food (57 per cent), LPG cylinders (36 per cent) and...
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Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri non-hotspot dists
The administration and police have stepped up surveillance in three districts of north Bengal–Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Jalpaiguri–after the Union health ministry listed them as non-hotspot districts...
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Ensure fool proof lockdown in Hills urges CM
Darjeeling: The Chief Minister on Friday instructed the District Magistrate of Darjeeling to ensure that lockdown is strictly implemented in the border town of Siliguri. In an administrative meeting on...
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Bengal Governor alleges PDS scam, seeks urgent report from Mamata govt
Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has alleged there was a scam in the public distribution system (PDS) in the state, which was getting bigger by the day when the state needed to put up a united fight...
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State to start pooled sampling, rapid antibody testing to speed up results
Kolkata: The West Bengal government has decided to adopt a two-pronged approach to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the state. To ramp up COVID-19 testing across the state with limited resources,...
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Sikkim Only State With No COVID-19 Cases, to Partially Lift Lockdown on April 20
Gangtok: So far, Sikkim is the only state in the country without a single reported positive case of COVID 19. This is largely due to two factors: early preparedness and discipline.While the rest of the...
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Covid-19 could hardly dent the earnings of Darjeeling first flush
The markets of the US, UK, Canada, Russia and Iran would not get the flavours of Darjeeling until the end of July this year since the first flush of tea from the gardens in the northernmost district of...
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MHA says condition ‘especially serious’ in seven districts of West Bengal,...
Inter-ministerial central teams set up for ground reports and for suggesting redressal measures to state authorities Lockdown violations and the health hazards arising out of such violations are...
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Social support need of the hour, says Darjeeling counsellor
Darjeeling: As the world passes through a difficult phase, it is a strong social system and support that will help us tide over the crisis, feels Gyanendra Rai, counsellor, Tata Institute of Social...
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Central team arrives to take stock of situation in Hills
Darjeeling: A Central inter-ministerial team arrived at Bagdogra on Monday noon and headed for the Sashastra Seema Bal camp at Ranidanga in Siliguri. They are scheduled to visit Darjeeling, Kalimpong...
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Livelihood hit in shut tea gardens
The novel coronavirus-induced lockdown has taken its toll on 12,000 workers of 14 closed tea estates in north Bengal as most of them cannot avail themselves of the monthly doles given by the state...
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