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Court bar on DGHC teacher recruitment
Calcutta High Court today said the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council had no legal right to appoint teachers in the state-aided schools in three hills subdivisions, directing the council to sack within a month at least 300 ad-hoc teachers it had rec...  | Read.. 
 
Docs share tele-tips
Seeking expert medical opinion from outside the state is now that much easier with the arrival of tele-medicine in Sikkim. ...  | Read.. 
 
Theatre festival begins
The four-day Uttar Banga Shishu Kishore Natyotsab, 2003, was today inaugurated at Rabindrabhavan Mancha by theatre perso ...  | Read.. 
 
Kalimpong hospital gets new complex
The much-awaited inauguration of the new complex of Kalimpong Subdivisional Hospital seems to be close at hand, with the ope ...  | Read.. 
 
Wild ride & culture show on safari
There is more to wilderness than wildlife and a visit to Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary during the pujas can prove it. ...  | Read.. 
 
Lexicon for Dooars tribals
A lexicon on the 10 tribal languages of north Bengal — Multilingual Phonetic Lexicon on Terai Dooars Tribal Speeches ...  | Read.. 
 
KPP vows to bring back rebels
Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee started it. The KPP will continue it. ...  | Read.. 
 
Govt battles social evil with science speak
Late on a July evening, Sajni Hansda, 30, and Sukhi Soren, 40, were dragged out of their homes and beaten up by a frenzi ...  | Read.. 
 
Bangladeshi infiltrators
Border Security Force personnel arrested 11 Bangladeshis — 10 from the Kurba border under Karandighi police station and one ...  | Read.. 
 
Nepali confusion in schools
Chief minister Pawan Chamling’s decision to make Nepali mandatory has put schools in a fix. ...  | Read.. 
 
Congress takes Raiganj reins
The Congress today formed the Raiganj municipal board with the support of 15 councillors. The CPM was defeated by 15:9 v ...  | Read.. 
 
Jawans & hawkers clash on platform
A skirmish between army jawans and local hawkers snowballed at New Jalpaiguri railway station’s platform no. 2 early thi ...  | Read.. 
 
Travel trauma lingers for hills
Even as the transporters from across the state decided to withdraw their three-day transport strike last evening, their coun ...  | Read.. 
 
Minister carries relief package
Relief minister Hafiz Alam Sairani’s announcement of a Rs 3 crore relief package for the rehabilitation of the erosion-a ...  | Read.. 
 
Councillors boycott election
Barely a month after the Congress formed the local municipal board, party councillors today stayed away from the electio ...  | Read.. 
 
Clouds mar Mars show
Sixty thousand years of waiting ended in anti-climax as thick clouds draped the sky from late afternoon, blotting out th ...  | Read.. 
 
Germ factory: A man buys food from a roadside stall at Salbari. Picture by Kundan Yolmo
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