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West Bengal government prepares a comprehensive plan for Darjeeling“Altogether 7,000 acre land is available in the hills and a central hub can be built with small parks. We will focus on agriculture, hortic...
Gorkhaland not a poll issue in Darjeeling for first time in over three decadesThe statehood demand and implementation of the sixth schedule of the Constitution had been major poll planks in the Hills at various times ...
Resentment brewing over GJM supported BJP candidate in Darjeeling, Morcha leader resigned in protestWhile the decision has taken the Gorkha community in Darjeeling by surprise , GJM’s central committee member Swaraj Thapa quit party
Not politics, Darjeeling needs deeper attention towards ground troublesOn the eve of winter, the hill is boiling with political warmth generated out of power tussle between leaders of two factions of Gorkha Jan...
GJM chief Bimal Gurung withdraws strike in Darjeeling hillsGurung further added that paying respect to the appeal of the Union home minister, he had withdrawn the strike.
Mamata government expects peace and normalcy would be restored in Darjeeling during DurgapujaIt is learnt that GJM chief Bimal Gurung and his close associate Roshan Giri are fast losing control over the organisation which has been h...
Darjeeling protest likely to continue as all-party meet may prove to be a dud affairHill parties have already announced that none of them would participate in the meeting called by the state government on Darjeeling unrest.
Three Gorkha MLAs to resign on September 23 to oppose Mamata Banerjee's non co-operationCuriously, GJM announced its decision to quit the state Assembly just two days before CM Banerjee’s visit; she is scheduled to visit Darjee...
3 gorkha MLAs to resign on Sept 23 to oppose Mamata Banerjee's non co-operationInterestingly, the GJM has announced their decision to quit the state Assembly just two days before chief minister's visit to Darjeeling.
Three GJM MLAs to resign on September 23: GJMThe GJM has announced that its three MLAs in the West Bengal Assembly will resign to protest the alleged non-cooperation of the state gover...
Gorkha National Liberation Front founder Subhash Ghisingh diesGhisingh had founded GNLF in 1980 and was the chairman of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council in West Bengal from 1988 to 2008.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee keen on regaining own footage in Darjeeling hills.After remaining cozy with GJM and thus enjoying many electorate benefits in the hills, the Mamata took a tactical path to mark own footprin...
- New entrant in Darjeeling’s unstable political arena
The man is Prof. MP Lama, a fellow of New School University USA or Ford Foundation, founding Vice Chancellor of central University of Sikki...
- Mamata Banerjee to visit Maoist-hit Lalgarh tomorrow
Mamata Banerjee is supposed to address a public gathering in Lalgarh and distribute kishan credit cards to the farmers of Lalgarh.
- Mamata Banerjee solves Darjeeling hill problems
Mamata Banerjee has done a magic. Within 19 days after she was sworn in as the chief minister, Mamata solved the Darjeeling hill crisis by ...
- Gorkhaland to be umbilical link between Bengal, Assam: Jaswant
'It is the aspiration of the Gorkhas to create a new state. They will have to decide their own economic, political and social destiny.'
- Jaswant tipped to win hills vs plains war
The CPM had supported the Congress to form a coalition government in Delhi in 2004 only to keep the BJP at bay.