Gangtok, 07 Oct:Sikkim’s Minister for Roads and Bridges, N.B. Dahal, paid a visit to the NHPC Teesta Stage 6 project site on Monday, where he met with the NHPC Executive Director and other senior officials. During the meeting, the minister emphasized on the urgent need to restore the damaged bridge and directed the Executive Director […]
Continue ReadingSiliguriSeveral Gorkha communities in Sikkim and West Bengal, who have been demanding scheduled tribe status, on Sunday formed a joint team to take ahead their demand. The development comes at a time when the Registrar General of India (RGI) has not been considering the demand under one pretext or the other.Representatives of the 11 left-out […]
Continue ReadingThe Himal World Desk Siliguri, Sept. 30: Normal life was affected in different parts of Darjeeling and Kalimpong as the hills observed a 12-hour bandh on Monday in response to the call by different trade union organizations espousing the cause of tea garden workers in support of their demand for enhanced bonus. Incidents of altercations […]
Continue ReadingThe Himal World Desk Siliguri, Sept. 30: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday opposed the bandh called by different trade unions working in tea gardens in the Hills of Darjeeling and Kalimpong, but expressed the hope that the bonus issue of the garden workers of the region would be resolved in the same […]
Continue ReadingBy Anushila Sharma Gangtok, Sept. 28: Sikkim chief minister P. S. Tamang on Saturday appealed to the people of the state to give utmost priority to protecting their lives and property in view of the threat posed by the rains that have wrecked havoc throughout the state following incessant rainfall in the past three days. […]
Continue ReadingThe Himal World Desk Siliguri, Sept. 28: Four members of a family were electrocuted at Takimari in Rajganj Block near Siliguri in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal on Friday night.The deceased have been identified as Paresh Chandra Das, 62, his wife Dipali Das, 60, son Mithun, 33, and grandson Subrat Adhikari, 2.According to family and […]
Continue ReadingThe Himal World Desk Gangtok, Sept. 28: Twenty-odd families have been relocated to safer locations after their houses were damaged in a landslide at Lungchok under Daramdim Assembly constituency in western Sikkim on Friday evening. There, however, has been no report of any casualty taking place in the incident. A Soreng district official quoting police […]
Continue ReadingBy Yowan Mothay Kalimpong, Sept. 27: The road network in Kalimpong district suffered a major disruption on Friday with three roads linking the town with Siliguri, including the National Highway 10, ruptured at different places due to landslides and flood triggered by incessant rains over the last 24 hours and more. A major landslide at […]
Continue ReadingBy Yowan Mothay Kalimpong, Sept. 25: A person died while undergoing dialysis at the Kalimpong District Hospital on Wednesday, leading to allegations that the death was caused by the incompetence and negligence of the staff of the hospital’s dialysis unit since this was the third death of a patient undergoing similar procedure. The person who […]
Continue ReadingThe Himal World Desk Siliguri, Sept. 24: Five wagons of a goods train went off the tracks at New Maynaguri in Bengal’s Alipurduar district on Tuesday morning, leading to disruption of rail traffic on the route. However, no one was injured in the incident. A railway official said five rail tracks run through the accident […]
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