Sixty-year-old S K Sarda’s ancestors migrated from Rajasthan to Sikkim 150 years ago. In the course of time, the family learnt the local language, developed links with Sikkimese society, set up businesses — and made Gangtok their home.
With Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling facing Opposition flak for allegedly purchasing awards using public money, the state government said on Thursday that the two latest awards to him were genuine and given in recognition of his contributions.
The Pawan Kumar Chamling government has debunked as 'inaccurate interpretation' the media reports quoting the Union Human Resources Development Ministry about higher drop out rate of students in Sikkim at 85 per cent and said that the actual figure stood at 25.42 per cent.
A 96-hour shutdown called by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha in Darjeeling Hills and adjoining areas today to demand a separate state disrupted traffic between Sikkim and the rest of the country.
There has been no significant decrease in glaciers in Sikkim due to global warming and climate change, a leading expert and member of Sikkim Glacier Commission Milap Chand Sharma has said
The children of Ulfa chairman Aravinda Rajkhowa, who supposedly fought all his life for establishing an identity for his people, do not even know that they are Assamese.
There is no proposal to open up the Sino-India frontier at Nathu La for tourism purposes but the Centre has relaxed the guidelines under the Restricted Area Permit for domestic tourists, Union Tourism Minister Kumari Selja said on Sunday
Five members of a family were killed and three others injured when the vehicle in which they were travelling overturned near Eighth mile in West Sikkim, police said today.
Six houses were destroyed as a major fire broke out in Rangpo bazar, the police said on Wednesday.
The government is conducting a separate inquiry into the violence in the Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT) campus in which seven students were injured, a state minister said today.
Unable to ensure supply of chickens and eggs to Army units in Sikkim, the state government today said it would partially lift ban on supply of poultry products from outside for the men in uniform.
The travel to world famous tourist destinations - Nathu La, Tsomgo Lake (Chhangu Lake) and Baba Mandir has become dearer with effect from today following upward revision of the fare, according to the revised fare slabs released by the tourism department.
Border trade between India and China at Nathu La seems to be gaining momentum after a lull for almost two months with goods worth Rs 9.24 lakh being exported in July.
In a partial relief, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha on Saturday morning relaxed for 12 hours its indefinite blockade of the National Highway 31A to allow the vehicles bearing Sikkim number plates to ply on the sole road link between the Himalayan state and Siligudi.
Sikkim remained cut off from other parts of the country for the fourth successive day on Friday due to the blockade of the National Highway 31A by the Gorkha JanaMukti Morcha (GJM) as part of its agitation for a separate Gorkhaland statehood demand.