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Gorkha leader Bimal Gurung, TMC’s new ally, holds first rally in Darjeeling
Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s (GJM) founder-president Bimal Gurung held his first public meeting in Bengal’s Darjeeling town on Sunday afternoon and announced that he will help the Trinamool Congress (TMC)...
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Darjeeling district readies vaccine plans
The Darjeeling district administration has prepared a list of around 10,000 health workers and personnel associated with uniformed services as frontline responders in Covid management on a priority...
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Darjeeling: Three dead, several injured as bus rams into a truck
Darjeeling: A North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) bus rammed into a truck killing three and injuring several others. The accident occurred in the wee hours of Monday at Bidhannagar in the...
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Gorkhas to seek 'permanent solution' from Centre
A Gorkha delegation from Vijaynagar in Arunachal Pradesh has moved the Centre seeking a “permanent solution” to the problems faced by ex-Assam Rifles personnel and their descendants in the area,...
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Dhankhar slams govt official for refusing to give info on VC appointment at...
Kolkata, Dec 22 (PTI) West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday slammed the principal secretary of the state higher education department, Manish Jain, for "declining to update" him on the...
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Bengal - Rajib Banerjee, 3 other TMC ministers skip cabinet meeting
KOLKATA: Four ministers of the West Bengal government skipped cabinet meeting convened by CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday at the state secretariat. Though three of them cited reasons seemed to be...
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Darjeeling to resume its Joyride from Christmas
New Delhi [India], December 23 (ANI): Days ahead of Christmas, Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) on Wednesday decided to resume the Toy Train Joyride between Darjeeling and Ghum stations in West Bengal,...
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Hill citizens revamp wall of fame
The wall of Chowk Bazar, which has stood the test of time as a newscaster and an integral part of Darjeeling, is getting an unusual facelift.A group of citizens from Darjeeling will beautify the...
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Police booth at Darjeeling Mall vandalised, furniture torched
Darjeeling: A police booth was vandalised, furniture brought outside and torched at the Darjeeling Mall on Friday night. The incident occured at around 8pm in front of a large tourist presence. On...
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Christmas cakes run out, people party hard
Father Christmas brought a record number of travellers to Darjeeling this Yuletide, a gift that surprised even the biggest optimist in the pandemic year.Ajoy Edwards, owner of the iconic century- old...
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New start in the new normal
Cynthya Limbu Subba, 27, had to sail from the United States for one-and-half-months to reach Darjeeling in June amid the Covid-19 pandemic that handed her a furlough.Mandip Subba, 29, a sailor, was...
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Success in Darjeeling variety orange, malta cultivation
Abdul Karim in Jashore's Monirampur upazila has achieved success by growing and selling oranges and maltas of Darjeeling variety.Initially, Karim, 52, brought one bigha of land under orange and malta...
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Vaccine reaches North Bengal, GTA chairman Anit Thapa to be first to be...
The first consignment of 69,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine, Covishield, which arrived in Siliguri late last night for five north Bengal districts, was dispatched to the cold chain points today. The...
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Paras Gazmer - Musician who beat blindness dies
Paras Gazmer lost his eyesight and his face was distorted at the age of one-and-a-half-years after a bout of measles but it did not stop him from belting out super hit songs like Sajha ko Gham Dhubi...
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Iconic Dehradun’s Gorkha School fights for survival
Gorkha Military Inter College (GMIC), a city-based school that has produced many international footballers is fighting for survival after getting notice to evict land on which the institution has been...
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Two leaders in north Bengal drop out of the list of vaccinated people on Day One
Two prominent political leaders in north Bengal volunteered to drop out of the list of vaccinated people on the Day One of the drive citing they would get the jab when it is available for people at...
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Morcha backing won’t help TMC win - Dilip
BJP state chief Dilip Ghosh on Tuesday made an attempt to downplay the support base of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha factions — the strongest political force in the hills — and said that even the support of...
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337 vaccinated in Darj district
A total of 337 health workers among the 600 listed recipients were vaccinated at five Covid-19 vaccination sites in Darjeeling district with three recipients complaining of minor adverse effects on...
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TMC worker shot dead in north Bengal, another leader dies of heart attack
A Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker from Gangarampur in the South Dinajpur district of north Bengal was shot dead on Tuesday morning, police said.Sanjit Sarkar’s family and local people alleged that he...
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Mom and three girls bend it like Beckham
If football runs in a family, it is in the Sharma family from Karmatar village, some 40km from Darjeeling.Chandrakala Sharma, 38, defends the village women’s team that also has her three daughters,...
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