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Blood blotch before rural poll battle
Blood has begun spilling in the run-up to the October 9 Sikkim panchayat elections with an Independent hopeful being murdered in West district and a CPM leader assaulted allegedly by ruling party members in the same area. ...  | Read.. 
 
Monk yearns for Rumtek
Almost three years after he escaped from China-controlled Tibet, the 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje, still yearns f ...  | Read.. 
 
Hill union protest
The GNLF-affiliated Hill Employees’ Union (Amar Group) today began a week-long hungerstrike at Chowk Bazar. ...  | Read.. 
 
Pirates strike on bus bound for Calcutta
Bus dacoits struck near Majlispur last night, looting around Rs 25,000 worth of cash and jewellery from the passengers. ...  | Read.. 
 
Train rams into tractor, one dies
A metregauge local train, 15GL Tezpur- Samastipur, rammed into a tractor today at an unmanned railway crossing at Washab ...  | Read.. 
 
Plying rules face protest
Brihattar Siliguri Cycle Rickshaw Owners’ Association today staged a roadblock, clogging the Venus More, a week after Si ...  | Read.. 
 
Siege on police for jail ‘tax’
Police in the Malda jail charge Rs 20 from relatives who want to visit inmates. In lieu, they give them a slip of paper, as ...  | Read.. 
 
Phoney bills ring consumer alarm bells
The three-and-half-hour-long meeting between consumers and senior officials of the BSNL over “faulty arrears in telephon ...  | Read.. 
 
Rio and UN echo in hill meet on mountains
Come September 19 and Darjeeling will play host to a three-day interactive meet with various stakeholders. The topic of ...  | Read.. 
 
Siliguri set for quick shine
The Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) today started a 15-day-long “clean city” awareness campaign. ...  | Read.. 
 
Rickshaws being diverted by traffic police on Hill Cart Road. Picture by Avijit Sarkar