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Bid for angling tourism in hills - Teesta contest held
Darjeeling: The bait has been thrown into the Teesta to promote angling as a new tourism avenue in the Darjeeling hills.The Himalayan Angling and Conservation Organisation, a guild of ardent anglers,...
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Dooars Gorkhas back TMC
Jalpaiguri: Around 25,000 supporters of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, along with ex-leaders of the party who are in Trinamul now, held a rally at Nagrakata in the Dooars on Sunday to express solidarity...
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GTA to build memorial to Padmaja
Sandakphu: The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration has decided to build a memorial to Padmaja Naidu, the first lady governor of Bengal, at Tonglu, situated about 10,072ft high.Tamang, who was on a...
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MP Ahluwalia seeks ST Gorkha tag
Darjeeling: BJP MP S.S. Ahluwalia has written to the Union tribal ministry pressing for inclusion of 11 Gorkha communities in the Schedule Tribal list, the move coinciding with the rural polls in the...
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Vote TMC, Binay tells Dooars
Alipurduar: Binay Tamang on Tuesday visited the Dooars and urged the Gorkhas to back "Trinamul only" in the rural polls for the development of the region.Tamang was speaking at a rally in Kalchini in...
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Sikkim groups seeks permits for visitors
Gangtok: The apolitical Nationalist Sikkim United Organisation (NSUO) on Tuesday iterated its demand for the introduction of Inner Line Permit (ILP) in the state to check the influx of people from...
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Delhi man dies while rafting on Teesta river in Kalimpong
Kolkata: One person died after drowning in River Teesta on Wednesday during river rafting with his wife and his family member. The deceased’s wife was seriously injured, along with other tourists. The...
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Dalai Lama pat for CM
Gangtok: Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, has congratulated Sikkim chief minister Pawan Chamling for becoming the longest serving head of the country's state government."I admire your more...
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Rafting hits troubled waters
Darjeeling: "Complacency" at all levelshas crept into the business of white-river rafting in the hills, a section of the operators said on Thursday, a day after a tourist died following a capsize in...
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Singer Mohit Chauhan is Sikkim mascot
Gangtok: The Sikkim government on Thursday appointed singer-composer Mohit Chauhan as the Green Ambassador to promote the Himalayan state as the environment-friendly destination.Chauhan is the second...
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मङपु लाब्दा समष्टिमा अनित थापाद्वारा विभिन्न योजनाहरुको शिलान्यास
मङपु लाब्दा समष्टि परिभ्रमण गर्दै बीओए उपाध्यक्ष एवम गोजमुमो केन्द्रीय समिति महासचिव अनित थापाले रन्जुभेल्ली विभागमा जुनियर हाई स्कूल, चार किमी बाटोको शिलान्यास साथै भुमि पुजा गरेका छन् | समष्टि भ्रमण...
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मङपुमा विधालय प्रबन्ध समितिको चुनावमा शतप्रतिशत मोर्चाको दखल
मङपु क्षेत्रभरिका उच्चतर माध्यमिक विधालयहरुको प्रबन्ध समितिको चुनाव आज शान्तिपुर्वक सम्पन्न भयो | आज पर्यान्त निर्विरोध रुपमा कुनै राजनैतिक दलको दखलमा चल्दै आइरहेको प्रबन्ध चुनाव प्राय: २५ वर्षपछि पुन:...
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West Bengal Panchayat Polls: 9 Dead in Violence, 56% Turnout Till 3 pm
At least nine people were killed and scores of others sustained injuries in violence that broke out at several places in West Bengal, hours after voting began for panchayat polls in 20 districts on...
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Darjeeling, Kalimpong witness series of landslides, 1 killed
Darjeeling: Darjeeling witnessed a spate of landslides, the first of the season. A construction worker died when a mud wall caved in.Construction work was on when a mud wall caved in at around 3:30 pm...
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West Bengal Panchayat Election-At least 19 people died- The casualties- Who...
At least 19 people died — according to reports from The Telegraph bureaus — during the voting for the three-tier panchayat system on Monday even as the state government and the election commission...
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Asok Bhattacharya positive on Congress in SMC
Siliguri mayor Asok Bhattacharya on Tuesday asserted that he would consider the proposal made by Congress councillors to include them in the board of Siliguri Municipal Corporation. "We hope to...
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West Bengal Panchayat Poll Violence: Death toll touches 26
The toll from violence during and after the panchayat polls rose to 26 with at least seven more deaths being reported on Tuesday. Details of the seven deaths follow:Name: Pranab Biswas, 35Place:...
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Election commission orders repoll in 'record' 573 booths today
Calcutta: The Bengal election commission has ordered repolling in 573 booths in 19 of the state's 20 districts on Wednesday, the largest such exercise in recent memory mirroring the scale of violence...
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Truck strike lifted in Darjeeling, petrol pumps to reopen soon
Darjeeling: Darjeeling and especially the travel trade industry heaved a sigh of relief with news of the trucks to resume ferrying of essential commodities from the plains to Darjeeling from Thursday...
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Tibetans set to renew Panchen Lama protest, Leader held in China for 23 years
Darjeeling: The Tibetan community across the country will once again be drawing the attention of the world over the "lost" six-year old Panchen Lama, who within three days of being recognised as a...
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