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‘Wanted’ Gurung may have struck a ‘deal’ with Mamata
New Delhi: The sudden break-up of the long-standing alliance of the Bimal Gurung faction of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) and the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bengal, is being looked at as some kind of...
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Gorkha Janmukti Morcha flag signals Gurung return
Supporters of the Bimal Gurung faction of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha hoisted the party’s flag atop Gitangadara — a podium where most public meetings in Darjeeling are held — in a symbolic move which is...
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Darjeeling Jamuni tour site opens
The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration partially opened a tourist site that had been lying in utter neglect for the past three years at Jamuni near here on Wednesday.The opening was facilitated by...
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Bengal Guv to meet Shah before shifting home to Darjeeling
Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will shift to Darjeeling Raj Bhavan on November 1, and he will stay there for a month, a communique from the Governor’s House in Kolkata said on Tuesday. Dhankhar’s...
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Lakshmi Puja Covid safety alert in Darjeeling
Preliminary data on Covid-19 cases during the past few days has made health officials ring an alert in Darjeeling district ahead of the upcoming Lakshmi Puja and advise priests to undergo Covid tests...
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Siliguri lab does 2 lakh Covid tests
The Viral Research Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL), functioning at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) on the outskirts of Siliguri continues to hold the top slot in Bengal among all the...
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Bengal governor on month long visit to Darjeeling
Kolkata, Oct 31: West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has left for north Bengal to begin his month-long tour of Darjeeling from November 1.Dhankhar said he will connect with the people and the...
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Adivasi woman who fed lunch to BJP’s Amit Shah gets job from TMC Govt in WB’s...
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) strongman and Union Home Minister of India, Amit Shah, is all set to have lunch at the residences of marginalised communities during his ongoing visit to West Bengal.The...
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As Gurung Returns, Turmoil in the Hills May Be ‘Powered by TMC’
“We will not have any political association with Bimal Gurung,” said Binay Tamang, head of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (Tamang faction) or GJM (II) as it is called.Tamang was speaking to reporters...
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Ready for talks with Bengal govt: Gurung
Kolkata: After Binay Tamang refused to share platform with him, Bimal Gurung on Thursday said Tamang had expressed his personal opinion and not the demand of the Hills people. Gorkha Janmukti Morcha...
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17 BJP councillors of Darjeeling Municipality back to GJM at Bimal Gurung's...
KOLKATA: Seeking to send a message that politics in Darjeeling Hills is in his control, Gorkha Janamukti Morcha founder Bimal Gurung on Thursday announced that 17 councillors of the local municipality,...
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Assam Govt declares statewide holiday on Gorkha festival ‘Bhai Tika’
Mazbat: Assam Finance, Education, and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today declared a statewide holiday on the occasion of ‘Bhai Tika’, a festival observed by the Gorkha community. Sarma made the...
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Gurung fighting for Gorkha cause: Shah
Kolkata/Darjeeling: Union home minister Amit Shah described Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leader Bimal Gurung as a “leader fighting for the Gorkha cause” even after he pulled out of the NDA a fortnight ago...
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A twist in the politics of the Darjeeling hills
THE reconciliation between the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal and Bimal Gurung, the erstwhile undisputed leader of the Darjeeling hills of north Bengal, has given a new twist to the volatile...
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Mamata Announces 3 New Police Battalions in Bid to Woo Rajbongshis, Gorkhas...
Ahead of the West Bengal assembly Polls in 2021, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday made a strategic move by announcing the formation of three separate police battalions under the names of...
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After Bihar, BJP taunts Trinamool with ‘Now Bengal’ slogan
People are fed up with TMC, wind is blowing towards BJP: Kailash Vijayvargiya Within hours of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) edging past the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar elections, the West Bengal...
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Dilip Ghosh Greeted with Black Flags at Alipurduar by Gorkha Faction, Stones...
Stones were hurled and black flags shown at BJP state president Dilip Ghosh's convoy in Jaigaon area of Bengal's Alipurduar district on Thursday, where he had gone to attend party programmes, police...
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Tamang waves ‘green flag’ dare at Gurung
Binay Tamang on Thursday announced that unless he “waves the green flag” his archrival Bimal Gurung would not be able to return to the hills.Tamang, in the same vein, asked Gurung’s supporters not to...
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Dwindling numbers of Indian Gorkha in army
Indian Army veterans in Darjeeling hills have blamed changes in recruitment criteria and socio-economic factors for the recent trend of vacant Indian Gorkha berths in the country’s seven Gorkha...
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Gorkha Regiment plans - Bista writes to Singh
Darjeeling’s BJP MP Raju Bista has requested Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to intervene in the proposed recruitment of non-Gorkhas in the Gorkha Regiment.Mr Bista wrote to Mr Singh on 11...
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