BJP leaders of Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts, including  legislators, on Saturday protested against Friday’s attack on Jayanta Roy, the BJP MP of Jalpaiguri. The BJP leaders have als...

Trinamul leaders in Darjeeling and Kalimpong hills have decided to underscore the necessity of having elected panchayat functionaries in the hills before central leaders of the party.  They also...

The National Gorkhaland Committee (NGC), an apolitical body which is positioning itself as a “think tank” of the community in India, has decided to set up a Peoples Forum (PF) to “ex...

The state government has decided to include tourism sector workers in the priority group for vaccination, a move that has brought a sigh of relief to an industry among the worst-hit by the Covid-19 pa...

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Covid-19 patients in the Darjeeling district hospital have no access to CT scan, a basic diagnostic tool for treatment, and more alarmingly, the facility has been forced to start conducting X-rays for...

The Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI) on Saturday dedicated a library after Radhanath Sikdar, the first person to reckon the height of Mount Everest whose contribution has often been overlooked...

Prolonged downpour in Malda since Thursday morning led to the death of three persons and inundation in several areas of the district. The rain caused minor landslides and damaged a number of houses i...

The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) has appointed five officials to liaison with hospitals and safe homes across the hills to look into infrastructure and related issues following a relati...

A Covid-19 patient hospitalised in Darjeeling — a district headquarter — has no access to a ventilator, a situation that is reflective of the health care in the hills. The Darjeeling dist...