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Pema Thendup Bhutia and Ganesh Bhujel, two sport climbers from Sikkim, have been selected to represent India in the Asian Beach Games 2020 that will be held in China in April next. Pema, 25, who is f...

Sikkim’s celebrated rock band, Girish and the Chronicles (GATC), continues to strum success globally with its second album ‘Rock the Highway’ being hailed as one of the best metal re...

Sandakphu, the highest point in Bengal, also received season’s first snowfall on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.  Located at an altitude of 11941ft, it is around 60km from Da...

In a first in the fledgling cricket history of Sikkim, 30 aspiring umpires, including eight women, underwent a five-day Level-O course organised by the Sikkim Cricket Association (SiCA) at the Sikkim ...

The Sikkim government has launched a scheme to provide smart television sets and set-top boxes to all high school and higher secondary students in state-run schools to get around the problem of poor I...

The Sikkim sports and youth affairs department on Wednesday provided cash incentives to scores of sportspersons in an effort to promote sporting activity in the Himalayan state even as the sports wing...

Sikkim’s first cricket carnival came to a rather lacklustre end with Alpine Sporting Clun humbling Black Eagle (Sikkim Armed Police) by 125 runs in the one-sided final of the Khangchendzonga Shi...

Sikkim chief minister P. S. Tamang (Golay) on Monday announced a slew of projects to boost tourism in the state, including a mega project for homestays that is currently being drawn up. Speaking at t...

Sikkim’s cricket carnival is all set to reach a crescendo this weekend with the finals of both women’s and men’s tournaments, which are being organised for the first time by the Sikk...

Trekking has resumed in Sikkim with the far-flung Uttarey village in West Sikkim recently organising such expeditions for local people to the picturesque Phoktey Dara and the adventure tourism receive...