… Meghalaya (17 cases), Uttarakhand (16 cases), Arunachal Pradesh (15 cases), Tripura (9 cases), Goa (5 cases), Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Chandigarh (4 cases each), Pondicherry (3 cases) and Mizoram, Sikkim, Dadra & Nagar Haveli , and Andaman & Nicober islands (1 each),” the report said. …

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Crying out to humanity! India's flagrant human rights violations

Darjeeling, April 15: Once a health sanatorium for the tired British working in the plains, Darjeeling has now turned into a “glorified slum” with every infrastructure starting to crumble because of population explosion. There are no provisions for residents to take a stroll around the town and if one owns a car, it is virtually impossible to drive around — thanks to lack of parking space and contracted pavements most of which have been narrowed down by encroachments. Darjeeling today is the most densely populated hill town in the world

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Darjeeling and polpulation explosion

Darjeeling, April 13: The Queen’s Baton Relay for the Commonwealth Games, Delhi, will be brought to the Queen of the Hills in July. Darjeeling is among the few places other than the capitals of the states and Union Territories where the baton will be taken. According to officials, the town has been chosen as the hills are of international interest because of the famed Darjeeling Tea and tourism potential.

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Queen’s Baton to glow in Darjeeling – July date for relay’s hill foray

Siliguri, April 13: Children attending the 40-odd Lepcha night schools in the three hill subdivisions of Darjeeling will find a treasure trove of knowledge about their community in the second edition of the Lepcha-English Encyclopaedic Dictionary that will be introduced in the institutions soon.

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Lepcha lexicon’s new edition

Addressing a press conference at Siliguri, All India Gorkha League President Madan Tamang has alleged that Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leadership has sold the issue of Gorkhaland in favour of an Interim Council.

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DARJEELING News: ‘Morcha has sold the issue of Gorkhaland’ Madan Tamang

With Subash Ghisingh – whose political writ ruled over the Darjeeling hills for more than two decades till nearly three years go – breaking his silence in the plains of north Bengal last week on developments in the hills, the forthcoming talks between representatives of the Centre, the West Bengal Government and the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha leadership has suddenly assumed added significance. Mr. Ghisingh, supremo of the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF), had been virtually forced to leave Darjeeling and go into political exile in July 2008 by his one-time protege, Bimal Gurung, the president of the GJM that dominates today’s political landscape in the hills

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Subash Ghisingh staging a comeback?

Madan Tamang, the leader of the ethnic Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, seeking creation of separate state of Gorkhaland slammed West Bengal Government for “discriminating against the Nepali-speaking people”. “Gorkhaland is nothing but aspirations of people, demand is genuine.

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Outfit seeking separate Gorkhaland state slams WB Government

Ministers Asok Bhattacharya and Surjya Kanta Mishra will represent the state at the political-level talks with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha on March 18, the Bengal government said today.

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Asok and Surjya on Gorkha talks panel – Morcha mum, waits for official communication on names

Kalimpong, March 8: Two young girls have been making gainful use of their mobile phones, sending out text messages of local and regional news headlines to subscribers interested in keeping themselves updated with breaking and developing stories. The duo of Pranita Chhetri, 21, and Nikita Bariely, 22, had launched their news service, SMS Headlines Every Evening on Mobile (SHEEM), a little more than a month back.

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Hill Girls venture into sms "work from home"

Darjeeling, March 8: The teachers’ union of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has declared eight primary schools across the Darjeeling hills “closed” because of the absence of permanent teachers. “Eight schools are now being run only by casual and voluntary teachers and we consider them as closed.

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‘Closed’ tag on eight schools across the Darjeeling Hills

Darjeeling, March 8: Development projects are progressing in the Darjeeling hills despite 29 months of agitation for Gorkhaland, virtually emptying the coffers of the DGHC. Ashok Mohan Chakrabarti, the Bengal chief secretary, might have complained about lack of development in the hills because of the agitation by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, but figures given to The Telegraph by a senior DGHC official reveal an unexpected state of affairs in a region frequently rocked by strikes.

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Strikes fail to stall projects in Darjeeling hills

G Brindha visits Darjeeling to travel on a toy train, savour a cuppa and soak in the splendour of the lofty Kanchenjunga peak. My sire used to say, “The British have left their legacy not only in their edifices but also in the names of towns and streets.”  Perhaps their anglicised tongues could not pronounce the Indian names. But, this twist made them more stylish and aroused some curiosity.

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Darjeeling: A Paradise Found

You are here: News … The meet will be attended by MSMEs from Arunachal, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya , Mizoram Nagaland, Sikkim Tripura and COSIA members and entrepreneurs from Maharashtra, Gujarat and Karnataka. …

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Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat, Sikkim, Dadar and Nagar Haveli , Daman and Diu. 4th Phase: May 7 : Bihar, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh …

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Besides Sri Harikota the team will also be visiting places like pondicherry ,Tirupati and other places of educational and scientific importance in and around Chennai and rest of Tamilnadu.The trip is being conducted by HRD … Posted by VoiceofSikkim on Dec 16th, 2009 and filed under Featured, Sikkim News .

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Sikkim students to visit Chandrayaan launch site at Sri Harikota …

Gangtok, Dec 7 (PTI) The proposed air connectivity to destinations in Sikkim, which could provide eco-adventure and wellness tourism, would boost the sector, Union Tourism Minister Kumari Selja said today. “It was to enable the state to promote tourist destinations that the Union Tourism Ministry granted financial assistance for development of three heliport projects in the state,” she said after laying the foundation stone for the proposed heliport at Chemchey in south Sikkim.

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Air connectivity to promote tourism in Sikkim

The Conclave was attended by the Union Minister of State Jairam Ramesh, Chief Ministers of Himachal Pradesh , Uttarkhand, Ministers from Himalayan States, a large number of Environmentalists including Dr Sunita Narayanan, Director, … Posted by VoiceofSikkim on Nov 2nd, 2009 and filed under Featured, National News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.

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“Sikkim deserves Green Bonus”, opines Himalayan Chief Ministers …

News4u- News Desk- Setting up of state councils for climate change and establishment of a Himalayan Sustainable Development Forum under which Chief Ministers of the five hill states would annually meet formed the part of the ‘Shimla … Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal read the 12-point ‘Shimla Declaration’ on which five Himalayan states Himachal Pradesh , Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, agreed to work in co-ordination for …

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Gangtok, Oct 12 (PTI) Accusing the private sector with deliberately violating in a “brazen manner” their agreement with the Sikkim government to provide employment to locals in their units, Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling today threatened to review the terms of agreement with the ‘guilty’ companies. “The private companies have been violating in a brazen manner the terms of understanding/agreement with the state government to promote local employment to such an extent that local people employed in the industrial units have been harassed and victimized by the management”, he said at an investor’s meet here. The local workers were discriminated by being paid less remuneration than their colleagues from outside while the private companies have gone back on their commitment to provide training for honing their skills for available jobs.

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Sikkim CM, Pawan Chamling warns private sector

The CPI-M today demanded a ban on the Gorkhaland Personnel ~ a voluntary force raised by the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha. The CPI-M Darjeeling district leadership, after a mass convention in Siliguri tomorrow, would write to the state home secretary, demanding ban on the GLP. “We would send a letter, along with photographs of GLP activities, to the home secretary and request him to take necessary action to ban the outfit,” the state municipal affairs and urban development minister, Mr Asok Bhattacharya said today while speaking on the GJMM’s diktat on dress code.

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