The death toll in Sunday’s landslides in Sikkim has reached 35 with 24 deaths confirmed only from North Sikkim where 6.8 magnitude of earthquake had its epicenter.
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police has launched search and rescue operations in Pegong area of north Sikkim which has been "badly affected" with two ITBP buildings also collapsing after the state was rocked by a powerful earthquake.
The opposition parties of Sikkim have given a call for boycott of Independence day celebrations in the Himalayan state protesting against a Bill tabled by Chief Minister Pawan Chamling.
Justice Paul Daniel Dinakaran, facing impeachment proceedings in the Rajya Sabha, was today sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Sikkim High Court after his transfer to the Himalayan state following allegations of corruption.
Chief Minister Pawan Chamling today discussed with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram the issue of permitting 17th Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje to visit Sikkim, official sources said in Gangtok.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Monday said Sikkim had always been close to his heart and he was happy to see the progress made by the hill state every time he visited it.
The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) on Sunday said the National Highway 31A, which passes through Darjeeling Hills district, has been exempted for the Sikkim traffic from the indefinite shutdown in the hills as a convoy of 94 vehicles left Rangpo for Siliguri during the day.
The Nathu La border trade with Tibet Autonomous Region of China will start on May 2, official sources said in Gangtok on Wednesday.
Four Army personnel were killed in a Dhruv helicopter crash in north Sikkim near the Sino-India border, days after a Pawan Hans chopper went down in the northeast claiming 17 lives.
The Queen's baton for the Commonwealth Games 2010 today left for Gangtok from Bagdogra airport escorted by the state police and Army.
Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government-in-exile, Samdung Rinpoche, arrived in Gangtok on Friday on a two-day visit to Sikkim.
A man from Ravangala in Sikkim's South district has been arrested for allegedly raping his own eight-year-old daughter, police sources said today
The two-day strike called by GJM on May 15 and 16 in the Darjeeling Hills would hit vehicle movement to Sikkim as a portion of NH-31A, the lifeline of Sikkim is in the Darjeeling district, transport operators in Gangtok said on Monday.
Around 1500 tourists, who were left stranded due to landslides triggered by snowstorm, were evacuated by the army in Sikkim's upper reaches.
President Pratibha Patil is scheduled to attend the concluding function of the golden jubilee celebrations of the Sikkim High Court during a three-day maiden visit to Sikkim beginning on Wednesday.