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Kupwara Codes book review: This military fiction is more than just chestthumping

The cover of Kupwara Codes by Maj Manik M Jolly (Retd)
Published on May 10, 2025 11:10 am IST

Gorkha leader Bimal Gurung to address mega rally in Siliguri on Sunday

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) leader Bimal Gurung is scheduled to address rally in Siliguri on Sunday.
Published on Dec 03, 2020 11:01 pm IST

Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla inaugurates 3 schools built under Indian assistance in Nepal’s Gorkha district

Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Friday inaugurated three schools built under Indian assistance in Nepal’s Gorkha district, the epicentre of the 2015 earthquake.
Published on Nov 27, 2020 04:52 pm IST

Bimal Gurung to address supporters in Siliguri but Darjeeling visit uncertain

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) leader Bimal Gurung surfaced last month after remaining underground for three and a half years.
Published on Nov 26, 2020 01:08 pm IST

Nepalese scribe who reported on Chinese encroachment found dead

A team deployed from the area’s police office in Bhimphedi fished out his body from the river and sent it to Hetauda hospital.
Published on Aug 15, 2020 04:52 am IST

BJP backs Bengal’s bifurcation, says TMC after fugitive Gorkha leaders’ photo with J P Nadda goes viral

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) founder Bimal Gurung who went underground more than two years ago after Bengal Police booked him for violence during the agitation for Gorkhaland in Darjeeling in 2017, reportedly attended the wedding of BJP chief J P Nadda last month.
Published on Mar 09, 2020 09:07 am IST

Pro-BJP Gorkha parties support Mamata Banerjee’s drive against citizenship act, say ‘it will harm our people’

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee speaks during her party’s protest dharna against CAA, NPR and NRC in Kolkata, on January 16.
Updated on Jan 24, 2020 09:42 am IST

Mamata intensifies attack on Centre, highlights Gorkhas’ exclusion from list

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday targeted the Narendra Modi government for the second time since the publication of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam
Published on Sept 02, 2019 05:47 am IST

Ahead of Darjeeling Assembly bypoll, BJP plays Gorkhaland card

Gorkhaland envisages a separate state for Gorkhas in the hills of North Bengal and some parts of the foothills as well. For the Gorkhas, it is an aspiration but the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee, as well as other parties from the plains are completely opposed to it. (Image used for representational purpose).
Updated on May 18, 2019 06:52 pm IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP promises solution for Gorkha issue in Bengal, but skirts Gorkhaland

In 2017 Darjeeling and the north Bengal hills went through a 104-day shutdown demanding a separate state of Gorkhaland.
Updated on Apr 09, 2019 10:27 am IST

India gifts 30 ambulances, 6 buses to Nepal on Republic Day

Since 1994, the Government of India has gifted 722 ambulances and 142 buses to various organisations across Nepal to expand access to healthcare and educational services in Nepal.
Updated on Jan 26, 2019 04:50 pm IST

Assam government to stop marking Gorkhas as foreigners

People verify the National Register of Citizens (NRC) forms to file claims and objections at an NRC centre in Guwahati.
Updated on Nov 17, 2018 12:07 am IST

Union home secretary to meet followers of absconding Darjeeling Gorkha leader Bimal Gurung on Oct 5

GJM’s founder, Bimal Gurung who spearheaded last year’s movement for a separate state for Gorkhas, ended the 104-day strike in the hills after Union home minister Rajnath Singh appealed to him on September 26 2017 and promised a meeting to discuss the statehood demand. But that meeting never took place.
Updated on Oct 03, 2018 11:17 pm IST