States

Sikkim’s Ankur Malik has been selected for the upcoming Men’s Under-19 One-Day Challenger Trophy, adding another glorious chapter to the fledgling cricket of the Himalayan state after the ...

A Himalayan black bear that had strayed into Gangtok on Wednesday evening, was rescued by foresters from Raj Bhawan Colony area on Thursday. Dechen Lachungpa, the divisional forest officer of east wi...

A 48-year-old school teacher from Malda who was in Sikkim on a trip with some relatives and friends, died after a brief illness in Gangtok early on Wednesday morning. Those travelling with him claime...

The Sikkim education department issued a notification on Tuesday, announcing reopening of schools for students studying in lower classes from October 18. “It has been observed that the positivi...

Sikkim chief minister P.S. Tamang (Golay) on Tuesday declared August 20 as a state holiday from next year onwards to commemorate the day when the Indian Parliament approved the inclusion of Nepali in ...

Sikkim, the toddlers of Indian cricket, have made a rousing start to the 2021-2022 cricketing season with both the teams of their girls and boys faring well with three and one wins, respectively, in t...

M.K. Sharma, the health minister of Sikkim, launched “Ujjyalo,” a state-wide universal eye health programme, at the auditorium of the New STNM Hospital in Gangtok on Friday. The project, ...

The much-touted Sikkim Krantikari Morcha government’s universal health insurance scheme, Su-Swastha Yojana, which was to have formally rolled out from Friday, was suspended at the eleventh hour ...

The second edition of the Sikkim Global Film Festival will be held in Gangtok from December 10 to 14, providing celluloid comfort to the pandemic-fatigued cinema lovers of the state. The nascent fest...

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Sikkim has arrested two persons from Rajasthan for impersonating as the vice-chancellor of a university of Sikkim and cheating some faculty members in th...