Music meet to find new talent

http://www.telegraphindia.com RAJEEV RAVIDAS Kalimpong, Oct. 9: Come Diwali, the hills will come alive with the sound of music. A Solo Instrumental Competition, with the thrust on Western classical music, will be held at Saptashree Gyanpeeth here on November 10. The open competition is being organised by My Peace Organisation, a local NGO. Four faculty members …

Lepcha rally in Kalimpong draws thousands

Statesman News Service GANGTOK, Oct. 7: Over 5,000 people took part in a mass rally organised by members of the Indigenous Lepcha Tribal Association at Kalimpong yesterday to protest against upcoming hydroelectric power projects at Dzongu, a Lepcha reserve in North Sikkim. People from Nepali, Bhutia and Lepcha communities ad members of various social organisations …

All quiet on Kalimpong front

http://www.telegraphindia.com Kalimpong, Oct. 2: All seems to be well — at least for now — on this side of the Teesta with the local unit of the GNLF busy celebrating the cabinet approval of the Sixth Schedule status since yesterday. In fact, all three major players of the party in Kalimpong — unit president Dawa …

Join action against hydel plants

http://www.telegraphindia.com Kalimpong, Oct. 1: Lepcha organisations from the Darjeeling hills and Sikkim have come together to form a Joint Action Committee (JAC) to intensify their on-going agitation demanding that all hydel power projects proposed for the Lepcha reserve of Dzongu be scrapped. The JAC will be headed by L.S. Tamsang, the president of the Indigenous …