Statesman News Service GANGTOK, April 27: Miss Albina Lepcha, a teenaged girl left the audience spell bound when she tuned her violin piece “Mozart 23 II movement” as solo at the Defense Auditorium in Gangtok last night. Albina, a fifteen-year-old orphan girl from Gandhi Ashram (an orphanage school) in Kalimpong, was very keen on learning …
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http://www.telegraphindia.com Kalimpong, April 25: From Monday, tourists to Kalimpong will have to hire local taxis to visit the various sites in and around town, paying fixed rates that are higher than the fares offered by some hotels here. The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha-affiliated taxi-owners and drivers’ association has initiated the move to safeguard its members’ business …
http://www.telegraphindia.com Kalimpong, April 24: The Guardians’ Forum for Education has decided to launch a vigorous campaign to pressure the Bengal government to set up a District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) here for improving the standard of basic education in the hills. Although DIET s have been set up in almost all the districts …
http://www.telegraphindia.comKalimpong, April 22: A Lepcha youth association in Kalimpong has decided to organise another march to Dzongu some time soon as part of its protests against the setting up of mega hydel power projects there. The Rong Ong Prongzom will also take up the cause of Dzongu with like-minded organisations in different parts of the …
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