Kalimpong news and information
The Telegraph Darjeeling, April 23: Around 250 members of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, all residents of a tea garden here, announced their resignations from the party today to protest the murder of a GNLF sympathiser last evening. The angry residents of the Chungtung tea garden, about 30km from here, also removed the Morcha flags from …
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The Telegraph Siliguri, April 23: DGHC administrator B.L. Meena today accused the leaders of the frontal organisations of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha of usurping DGHC tenders in connivance with contractors and doing substandard work across the hills. Meena said only 30-35 per cent of the funds disbursed for the projects was being utilised for their …
The Telegraph Darjeeling, April 23: Educational institutions and government offices remained closed in Kalimpong subdivision today to protest the decision of the directorate of library services to shift a library science course from Kalimpong Peoples’ (Janta) College to Siliguri “due to the present administrative turmoil in Darjeeling”. The bandh had been called by the Janmukti …
The Telegraph Darjeeling, April 22: A 30-year-old GNLF supporter was pulled out of a jeep and hacked to death near the Sallabari division of the Chungtung tea garden this evening. Pushpa Jung Thapa, a resident of Chungtung, about 30km from here, was returning from Siliguri when he was murdered by a group of five to …
The Telegraph VIVEK CHHETRI Darjeeling, April 22: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has told the Centre that it will not discuss any other subject in the tripartite talks, either at the bureaucratic or at the political level, till the tangle over the territorial jurisdiction of the interim set-up for the hills is sorted out. The party’s …
