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Kalimpong, Aug. 21: A sleepy hill town is gearing up for snazzy club culture.
Come September, and a luxury club sponsored by Resolve Jinni International will be set up at 12 ½ Mile near here. (more…)

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Kalimpong, Aug. 18: Self-help groups in and around the Hill town will now be able to build their own support systems that will make them financially independent and help them market their goods. (more…)

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KALIMPONG, Aug. 18. — The NH-31A blockade at Lekhuvir, 22 km from here, was finally cleared on the fifth day today. The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) officials said that three bulldozers and other vehicles were used to clear the debris. “We have been halting the traffic for clearing the minor boulders that have been rolling down from time to time,” a senior BRO official said.
The NH-31A is a major link between Siliguri, Sikkim and Kalimpong. The work of clearing the road was hampered due to continuous shower of boulders and rubble. “We also faced problems while regulating the traffic. Almost 500 heavy vehicles made their way to their respective destination this morning,” the official said.
The main landslide that had occurred at 8 pm on Saturday, had resulted in a pile spread over 130-meter stretch of road. The prices of essential commodities rose following the landslide.

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KALIMPONG, Aug. 18. — Besides being moral guides the mothers are now all out to lead their whole family. Acting upon guidelines of World Vision, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), mothers have now found new ways to sustain their families, economically as well as socially, through a programme christened as, ‘capacity building measures’. More than 40 self-help groups are now taking part in a three-day workshop organised by the NGO at Disha since yesterday. (more…)

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Kalimpong, Aug. 17: National Highway 31A — the main route connecting Siliguri with Kalimpong and Sikkim — remained blocked for the fourth day today with the mudpile at Likhubir (about 21 km from Kalimpong) still not cleared. (more…)

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REZA PRADHAN IN KALIMPONG

Watch out wannabe Bipasha Basus and John Abrahams of the hill town! The moral police are out.
Besides looking after the law and order situation of Kalimpong, the men in khaki have decided to don the “moral guardian” garb. (more…)

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KALIMPONG, Aug. 16. — Further worsening the communication system, a major alternative route to Sikkim and Gangtok via Gorubathan (block-III) has been blocked due to a landslide at Phapadkhati, almost 73 km from here.
The main thoroughfare via NH-31A has already been blocked since last Saturday following the landslide at Lekhibhir.
Vehicles to and from Siliguri from Kalimpong and Gantok have been moving mainly though NH-55. That is via Teesta, Jorbungla (Darjeeling), Kursoeng and Siliguri. (more…)

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Kalimpong, Aug. 16: Father George Edward McGuire, a Jesuit missionary and the founder of Gandhi Ashram here, died yesterday. (more…)

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KALIMPONG, Aug. 16. — Tears were simply uncontrollable as the classical violin orchestra, paid their last tributes to the Canadian Jesuit Fr Thomas Edward McGuire, founder of their very own Gandhi Ashram, at 6 milestone here. (more…)

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REZA PRADHAN
Kalimpong, Aug. 14: He was known as Pahare Gandhi or the Gandhi of the Hills.That was more than 55 years ago.
But now, except for a stretch of road at Thana dara named after Jangbir Sapkota, nobody remembers the freedom fighter much — at least, that is what his 81-year-old daughter feels. (more…)