This was after earlier in the day, 16 newly-elected councillors of the Gangtok Municipality Corporation (GMC) had passed a unanimous resolution electing her as the mayor for two-and-a-half years and T...

The surge in the spread of the novel coronavirus has put Sikkim’s health system to test with a 26-year-old woman patient dying on Saturday for want of bed in the ICU at the STNM Hospital in Gang...

When she woke up on Saturday, Rahila Bibi, 23, of Jorpatki village had no inkling of what could happen in a few hours — she was simply excited about her Gangtok trip, starting Sunday, with her h...

The Sikkim culture department has appealed to the people of the state to donate various items of historical importance like documents, photographs and artefacts to the Sikkim State Museum being set up...

One of the contentious issues to come up during the campaigning for the elections to the March 31 urban local bodies in Sikkim is the issuance of trade licence to all interested registered voters, whi...

The Sikkim Cricket Association (SiCA) will organise a cricket fair at the Tashi Namgyal Academy (TNA) in Gangtok on Saturday and Sunday as part of its mission to identify talents at a very early age a...

Two persons died and three were injured when the car they were travelling in met with an accident near Tashi Viewpoint in Gangtok in the early hours of Thursday. The dead included Mewang Gyatso, 24, ...

Two Tibetan youths reached Gangtok on Tuesday after trekking for over 2,000km from Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh in their mission to spread awareness of Chinese activities in Tibet an...

A 54-year-old tourist from Calcutta died in his hotel room at Lachung in North Sikkim on Friday from natural causes according to preliminary investigation, though the police have filed a case of unnat...

The Central Referral Hospital (CRH) at Tadong in Gangtok has successfully removed a bullet that was lodged inside the left forehead of a 16-year-old boy for over three months after a homemade gun he h...