Long & hard trek for officers bound for hill booths

The Telegraph RAJEEV RAVIDAS Kalimpong, April 28: Dipak Chhetri and three polling officials bound for Makum village will have to stretch their muscles much more than others who have been assigned election duties. Having arrived here today after a two-hour drive from Darjeeling, Chhetri, who is the presiding officer of the polling booth at 22/55-Makum …

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Reality of Dukka, a small village which falls under Kagey Gram Panchayat, Block Algarah, Kalimpong

Nirnay John ChettriMankind in Action for Rural GrowthMarg.orgAfter lot of struggle and difficulties for the past eighteen months the villagers of Dukka, Tanderbong, Pabuk, Changsing, Kagey and Linsey have a reason to smile now as they have almost completed constructing approx 4 km road which they feel would be their lifeline in the days to …

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Drive to issue photo identity cards

The Telegraph Kalimpong, April 20: The Kalimpong subdivisional administration today started a three-day drive to issue photo identity cards to new voters and those who have lost their cards. The aim, sub-divisional officer Amyas Tshering said, was to ensure maximum EPIC coverage before the D-Day of April 30 when voters would exercise their franchise. Seventy-one-year-old …

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Hill students sensitised on security

http://www.kuenselonline.com 20 April, 2009 - The administration and police officials of Darjeeling and Kalimpong have agreed to watch over the safety and security of students studying under their jurisdiction, according to the law and order bureau in the home ministry. Officials from the bureau met with Bhutanese Students Associations in the hills on March 23 …

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A day spent at Net cafe, barbershop – Jaswant trims campaigning for haircut

http://www.telegraphindia.com RAJEEV RAVIDAS Image from http://www.telegraphindia.com The BJP leader wanted a copy of the ‘famous peck’ clicked by The Telegraph. The photograph, he said, was ‘international news’ Kalimpong, April 17: The BJP’s candidate for Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat, Jaswant Singh, took a day off the hectic campaigning and used the time to have his hair …

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