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The Sikkim government has declared copper mahseer, locally called katley, as the state fish, to highlight its importance and to give emphasis to its conservation. N. Jaswant Singh, the director of fi...

The Sikkim Cricket Association (SiCA) recently conducted a two-day outreach programme, “Cricket at your doorsteps”, at Lachen, Lachung, Chungthang and Naga in North Sikkim as part of its c...

The indefinite hunger strike of ad hoc school teachers of Sikkim entered the sixth day on Tuesday even as the health of three on fast showed signs of deterioration. Six persons, including the one who...

All senior schools, colleges and universities in Sikkim reopened on Monday after a gap of almost five months because of the second wave of Covid-19. While Classes from IX to XII resumed in full capac...

All educational institutions in Sikkim will reopen on September 6 for students of Classes IX, X, XI and XII on normal basis, but universities, colleges, coaching institutes and hostels would be allowe...

Writer and Sikkim bureaucrat S.D. Dhakal has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 in Nepali for his novel Kirayako Kokh (Rented Womb) that was published in 2018. A release issued by the Akadem...

The Limboo-Tamang Voluntary Committee (LTVC) has iterated its demand for increasing reservation of jobs in the Sikkim government and state-owned Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) for the two tribal co...

Two teachers from Sikkim, Mingma Sherpa and Prem Das Chhetri, are among the 44 recipients of National Teachers Awards, 2021, from across the country. They will be conferred the award by President Ram...

The Sikkimey Nagarik Samaj (SNS) on Wednesday iterated its opposition to the implementation of the One Nation, One Ration Card (ONORC) scheme in Sikkim and condemned chief minister P. S. Tamang (Golay...

Over 800 ad hoc sch­ool teachers of Sikkim have expressed dismay at the education department’s delay in holding fresh interviews to enable them to continue in their jobs and sought the inter...