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Ahead of Mamata Banerjee's North Bengal visit, KLO warns of bloodbath if Kamtapur statehood demand opposedA movement demanding to carve out a separate state of Kamtapur comprising the northern districts of West Bengal and the adjoining western p...- BJP opposes June 26 GTA polls; GJM boss Gurung to begin fastThe elections to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, formed in 2011, were last held in 2012. There are 45 elected members in the GTA...
- View: TMC’s landslide victory is constructing a narrative of a 'victory of Bengal and Bengali culture'North of the Balason river – running across the narrow ‘neck’ that divides the ‘head’ of the hill districts of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpa...
- Centre may have to help Mamata Banerjee handle Gorkhaland agitationThe BJP cannot antagonise Bengali sentiment by backing demand for Gorkhaland. Despite obvious risks on the law and order front, Banerjee is...
- Gorkhaland issue: If history is any guide, CM Mamata Banerjee’s aggression won’t stop fireEven though, there had been protests over the notification, the situation turned violent after Banerjee held a cabinet meeting in Darjeelin...
- BJP plans to send central team to Darjeeling to review situationGJM is holding an indefinite bandh in Darjeeling since Monday demanding a separate statehood for which they have been fighting for long.
- Darjeeling GJM stir: A story of blame-game politicsMamata has got herself sucked into the vortex of ethnic politics by treading on the paths that her predecessors, barring B C Roy, always av...
- Gorkha Janamukti Morcha meets Bengal governor, complains against forcible imposition of Bengal language in schoolsGiri's meeting with the governor is significant as Mamata Banerjee will hold her cabinet meeting at the Raj Bhavan in Darjeeling for the fi...
- Two-day-long Darjeeling political stir strengthens GJMThe closer was following a call of GJM to protest Bengal Government’s initiative to induce Bengali as compulsory in all schools of the stat...
- Bimal Gurung threatens to revive Gorkhaland movement again"We have no point left to discuss with the state government. It has been three years since the GTA was formed. But we did not get any coope...
- Despite promises, BJP-led government cannot form Gorkhaland easilyRecent political dynamics in Delhi giving upraise of BJP is being considered as a major positive development in favour of Gorkhaland format...
- In Darjeeling, those backing key contestants have most to loseThere's a lot at stake in this constituency, which spans a slice of the eastern Himalayas and the plains below, for the Trinamool Congress ...
- BJP GJM handshaking gives stir to Darjeeling and its 'Gorkhaland' statehood politicsGJM, the largest political power in Darjeeling hills in West Bengal, has decided to support BJP in next loksabha election.
- Sitaram Yechury’s recommendation condemned by social activistsIn a public meeting at Darjeeling last week, Yechuri demanded West Bengal hills, including Darjeeling, to be include under North Eastern Co...
- Darjeeling administrative body failed to get back to lifeMuch waited and largely talked about meeting to elect GTA chief Executive could not take place failing to get hill administration back to l...
- Darjeeling hills movement takes new shapeDarjeeling hill movement has taken a new shape today. Instead of being a call by a single party Gorkha Janamukti Morcha(GJM), now the movem...
- Mamata Banerjee calls for keeping Bengal united"The government's stand is very clear. We will work for keeping the state united. We are for a united Bengal,"
- Brewing up political knots in north Bengal will add up new worries for Mamata BanerjeeGJM is likely to get into fresh aggressive movement with their old demand of separate satatehood for Darjeeling from December.
- GTA development: A loss or gain for Gorkha Janamukti Morcha?The recommendation of Justice Shyamal Sen committee for five mouzas only ignited fury of Gorkha Janamukti Morcha(GJM) leaders who have decl...
- Militant outfit Kamtapur Liberation Organization reemerges with demands of separate statehood for North BengalBreaking its decade long silence, old Millitant organization KLO is reemerging with its demand for seperate statehood for North Bengal.
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