http://www.kalimpong.info what's happening ? news, view, information and pictures of kalimpong Fri, 16 May 2008 01:06:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en www.telegraphindia.com RAJEEV RAVIDAS Kalimpong, May 15: The directorate of technical education in Bengal has taken necessary steps to ensure the sustainability of Chitrabhanu, the art and craft centre, where no student has enrolled for quite some time now. Housed in a cottage, once a summer home of Rabindranath Tagore, at Atisha Road here, ... http://www.kalimpong.info/2008/05/15/plans-for-art-centre/ www.thestatesman.net GOPALI BANDOPADHYAY I landed at Bagdogra’s tiny airport early this month, experiencing equal measures of enthusiasm and trepidation. The latter especially because West Bengal Urban Development Minister Ashok Bhattacharya had been discouraging tourists from travelling to Darjeeling to enjoy its cool climes. He had warned that the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) ... http://www.kalimpong.info/2008/05/14/protests-amidst-peace/ www.telegraphindia.com RAJEEV RAVIDAS Kalimpong, May 14: A detailed mapping of the hazardous slopes could form the basis of an engineering solution to the problem of landslides in the Darjeeling hills. If all go according to plan, such an exercise would be taken up in Kalimpong with the help of the University of ... http://www.kalimpong.info/2008/05/14/us-study-on-landslip-zones-hills-eye-tie-up/ Source: Himalaya DarpanThanks to BMP for the article. http://www.kalimpong.info/2008/05/14/ravi-shankar-birthday-with-students/ In honour of the original inhabitants of our hills. -Admin --------- Lepcha Mad Dr. Sonam B. Wangyal Of the many people the Lepchas honour few can match the reverence that Lieutenant General George Byres Mainwaring (proper pronunciation Mannering) commands. This veneration becomes all the more significant since Mainwaring was not a Lepcha and belonged ... http://www.kalimpong.info/2008/05/10/lepcha-mad-dr-sonam-wangyal/ www.telegraphindia.com Darjeeling/Kalimpong, May 7: The Siliguri jao (let’s go to Siliguri) campaign of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha could have led to chaos on the roads leading to the plains from the hills, but most people managed to beat the rush and reach the venue on time. By the time the meeting began ... http://www.kalimpong.info/2008/05/07/supporters-beat-traffic-jams-to-attend-meeting-at-the-venue/ www.telegraphindia.com Siliguri, May 7: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has set a deadline of seven days for the Darjeeling district administration to arrest three CPM leaders for spearheading alleged assaults on some of its supporters in different parts of the town last week. Bimal Gurung, the Morcha president, threatened to bring down 10,000 ... http://www.kalimpong.info/2008/05/07/morcha-deadline-for-cpm-arrests/ www.thestatesman.net Romit Bagchi SILIGURI, May 7: With politically instigated rancour threatening to dry up the deeper springs of fellow feeling and understanding, it is highly exalting to recollect Rabindranath Tagore’s profound attachment with the Darjeeling Hills and particularly with the tranquil splendour of Mongpu near Kalimpong. He seemed to be enamoured by ... http://www.kalimpong.info/2008/05/07/mongpu-reminisces-the-days-of-tagore/ www.telegraphindia.com RAJEEV RAVIDAS Kalimpong, May 6: A residents’ committee here has invoked the Right to Information Act to ask the municipality and the subdivisional administration to explain the delay in shifting the town’s dumping yard from Lower Bhalukhop to the new site at Lower Newargaon. The authorities had promised on October 5 last ... http://www.kalimpong.info/2008/05/06/row-over-dump-yard-shift/ www.telegraphindia.com RAJEEV RAVIDAS Kalimpong, May 2: The repair of NH31A during monsoon is expected to be completed expeditiously this year with the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) relocating 87 Road Construction Company (RCC) from Kalimpong to Melli, located on Bengal’s border with Sikkim. The BRO is raising another RCC also to lessen the ... http://www.kalimpong.info/2008/05/02/faster-road-repair-on-cards/