A hill observer said with elections to the territorial administration due, the idle money could be used by Thapa's rivals to corner him and his new party, the BGPM ...

Many leaders of Gurung camp privately express that they will have no option but to contest the polls if the state government go ahead with the plan...

He dumped BJP in 2020, after a decade-old association and joined hands with TMC, but there are no records of his public meeting since then...

Mamata recently announced that the polls, due since 2017, would be held after the revision of electoral rolls...

The development comes following the recent announcements by chief minister Mamata Banerjee...

Her announcement assumes significance as this is the first formal declaration that the two key polls will be held soon in the region...

The Morcha leader said that he would work for a permanent political solution with the state government...

The Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha had questioned the Centre for not inviting them  for the October 12 tripartite talks...

The 87 tea gardens in the hills have together around 55,000 permanent workers and 15,000 temporary labourers...

Gutted twice, chalet-like building in Darjeeling renovated again...