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KALIMPONG, April 29. — The Kalimpong branch of the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL) has demanded that besides providing proper police protection to the accused in the assassination of DGHC councilor late CK Pradhan, the concerned authorities should also keep a watch on former councillor of the ‘Gidabling-Singhi’ constituency, Mr Tshering Sherpa. (more…)
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Kalimpong, April 28: If you thought kids were only interested in cartoons and
bedtime stories, think again.
Quizzards aged between seven and 10 years today amazed the audience at Town Hall shooting back answers faster than quiz-master Pravesh Kumar could fire them, and charming everyone by huddling to discuss answers and jumping for joy as points got added to their total.
The questions ranged from naming the largest river in the world, to identifying the voices of Bollywood playback singers or even knowing the sport in which local girl Paril Lepcha had bagged the gold at the national level. (more…)
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Kalimpong, April 28: A cross-country race was flagged off from this hill town today in an effort to keep students engaged in sports and other constructive activities. (more…)
Kalimpong, April 27: Opposition parties here have come down heavily on Pawan Chamling for his statement that outsiders will not be allowed to work in Sikkim and will be thrown out of the state. (more…)
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KALIMPONG, April 26. — The Tricolour has lost its radiance at the entrance and so has the appearance of the whole complex. Taps are running dry, windowpanes are broken, locked laboratories, unused for decades, are full of spider webs. This is what the Kalimpong Government High School looks like. (more…)
Kalimpong, April 25: In an effort to make the town more tourist friendly, the Kalimpong Main Line Taxi Drivers’ Welfare Association has started issuing photo-identity cards to porters of the motor stand area. (more…)
KALIMPONG, April 24. — Thousands flocked in today at the Deorali Dara, the venue for the celebration of Hanuman Jayanti. With the three-day prayer sessions ending today, devotees started assembling at the Hanuman Park from the early hours today. (more…)
The first essay from Prabin Moktan’s collection, Kpg Calling. If anyone is interested in a copy of the book, please contact the author at prabinkpg @ sify.com or the administrator at admin @ kalimpong.info.
A Toast for Teesta – Prabin MoktanJust as India, in a cartographic sense can boast of its own private ocean, Kalimpong’s pride is the Teesta. I have been fascinated by this green river ever since I can remember. Perhaps you too may have looked at it as you traveled on the road that runs parallel to its bank and wondered about the many secrets locked up in its sandy bed. The portion below the bridge may perhaps contain a wealth of coins thrown in by diverse breeds of devout individuals all with their own separate agendas for the divine to pay attention to. Perhaps one of them may belong to that over zealous coin thrower, who in the process of pursuing a blessing actually tossed herself out of the speeding jeep along with her rupee, to miraculously escape with just a minor bruising from the Gammon concrete. (more…)
REZA PRADHAN
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Kalimpong, April 22: Talk about music and his eyes shine. Mention the tabla and there is such a manic flow of words that one almost needs a traffic cop to control the rush.
For 66-year-old Kesu Das, who earns his living as a cobbler, there is nothing in life more exciting than playing the tabla. (more…)
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KALIMPONG, April 21. — The ethnic tribe of the hills has strongly supported the idea of giving the Sixth Schedule status for Darjeeling hills.
First to be recognised as tribals during the 1950s, the Lepchas seem to have taken up the Sixth Schedule very seriously. (more…)
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KALIMPONG, April 20. — Strongly criticising the state government for its step-motherly attitude, the United Forum today blamed the state for the cash-trapped Cinchona industry.
Condemning the Centre and the Left Front managed state; secretary of the Forum, Mr Pravin Gurung, said that the union, which had been trying hard to save the dying cinchona industry, was struck hard when the chief minister during his Siliguri visit expressed his views on privatising the industry. Interestingly, while Gurung has blamed the Centre for its lackadaisical attitude in saving the cinchona plantations, he supported the Darjeeling MP, Mr Dawa Norbula of the Congress of regularly corresponding with the Ministry of health and family welfare, Government of India for finding ways and means to protest the workers and labourers of the Cinchona industry. (more…)
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Kalimpong, April 20: The Kalimpong civic body has appealed to residents to extend all possible help to ensure that development work in the municipal area continues. (more…)
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KALIMPONG, April 19. — The additional superintendent of police, Mr Saroj Kumar Gazmer, who had been in the limelight for his extensive role in nabbing Maninder Singh Kolhi, accused for murder in foreign soil, has been transferred to Siliguri. He has now been promoted as the special superintendent of the intelligence bureau (IB) department. (more…)
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Kalimpong, April 19: The United Forum, an umbrella organisation of trade unions here, has threatened to start an agitation to protest against the chief minister’s suggestion that officials should start hunting for prospective investors for the cinchona plantation. (more…)
Statesman News Service
KALIMPONG, April 18. — Even as rumours of Sixth Schedule for the Darjeeling hills have been making the rounds, an upcoming hill Opposition, the United Gorkha Revolutionary Front (UGRF), asserted that the issue of Gorkhaland should not be diluted and it should be the only dream and the sole aim. The front condemned any negotiation on the issue of Gorkhaland. It even termed the Sixth Schedule futile. (more…)
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