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Delhi-Kolkata direct flight: Bengal win gives Modi strategic room shrinking for other world leadersRecent assembly election victories have significantly strengthened Prime Minister Narendra Modi's strategic position. This success provides...
'Simply not for me': After consecutive defeats, Bhaichung Bhutia quits politicsLeaving politics after successive defeats, I acknowledge SKM's win in Sikkim. Despite setbacks since 2014, I aimed to enhance sports and to...
SDF supremo Pawan Chamling loses from Poklok Kamrang, Namcheybung seatsPawan Kumar Chamling, the former Chief Minister of Sikkim and leader of the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF), suffered a defeat to Bhoj Raj Ra...
79.77 per cent voter turnout in Sikkim Assembly electionsThe Sikkim Assembly elections witnessed a voter turnout of 79.77%, while the turnout for the lone Lok Sabha seat in the state was 80.03%. T...
Sikkim CM among 16 candidates to file nomination papers for assembly pollsSikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Singh Tamang and 15 other candidates filed nomination papers for the upcoming assembly elections. Tamang a...
Sikkim Assembly polls: BJP releases second list of nine candidatesThe Bharatiya Janata Party released its second list of nine candidates for the upcoming Sikkim Legislative Assembly Elections. The party an...
Independent LS candidate files nomination, new Sikkim party names assembly poll nomineesThe Citizen Action Party (CAP) announced 14 assembly candidates in Sikkim. An independent candidate filed for the lone Lok Sabha seat. No n...
Congress releases list of 18 candidates for Sikkim Assembly pollsCongress announced 18 candidates for Sikkim assembly polls, with Gopal Chettri contesting from Chujachen. Polling for assembly and Lok Sabh...
Dalai Lama visits Sikkim after 13 yearsThe Dalai Lama's visit to Sikkim in October had been cancelled due to a flash flood that claimed the lives of scores of people and displace...
Sikkim CM Prem Singh Tamang wins from Poklok Kamrang seat, BJP bags two seatsPrem Singh Tamang aka PS Golay, founder of Sikkim Krantikari Morcha, defeated his nearest rival Moses Rai of the Sikkim Democratic Front. W...
Bypolls: Brisk polling in eastern regionThe Assembly by-elections are in progress in five seats of Bihar, four in Assam, three in Sikkim, one each in Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and...
SDF announces candidates for Oct 21 Sikkim bypollsThe Pawan Chamling-led SDF had ruled Sikkim for five successive terms between 1994 and 2019.
Pawan Chamling to complete 20 years in office tomorrow64-year-old Chamling first assumed office on December 12 in 1994 when his Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) won the Assembly elections.
- Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling's brother wins Sikkim Assembly seat as Independent
R N Chamling, who fought the seat as an Independent candidate polled 4788 votes, Kumari Mangar of ruling SDF got 4080 votes.
Monk-turned-politician Sonam Lama to fight for bringing back KarmapaFighting on a ticket from Sikkim Krantikari Morcha, Lama had defeated two other monks in the recently concluded Assembly polls to win the u...
Candidates in Sikkim not resorting to huge ralliesCandidates say it is a small state and together with party workers and they are having door-to-door meetings to give a personal touch to ca...
Pawan Chamling to contest from YangangPawan Chamling had started his career in politics from Yangang village in 1982 and was elected to the Yangang Gram Panchayat.
SDF announces names of 32 candidates for Assembly pollsSikkim Democratic Front (SDF) today announced names of all 32 candidates for the state assembly elections scheduled on April 12.
- Sikkim Lokayukta Bill gets presidential nod
The Sikkim Lokayukta Bill has got the presidential assent turning it into an act seeking to check corruption in the state, official sources...
- 14 SDF MLAs to head state bodies
Sikkim chief minister Pawan Kumar Chamling has appointed 14 of the 31 Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) MLAs as chairpersons of various governm...