A Kathmandu-based web portal has created a furore in Darjeeling by reporting that Morcha leader Anit Thapa, the chairman of the board of administrators of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), ...
The Indo-Nepal treaty of peace and friendship of 1950 has come to the fore once again both at the foreign ministry level and also at the local level in Darjeeling but a chain of events over the past f...
Paras Gazmer lost his eyesight and his face was distorted at the age of one-and-a-half-years after a bout of measles but it did not stop him from belting out super hit songs like Sajha ko Gham Dhubi S...
Along with the Covid-19 vaccine, politics too is being rolled out in Darjeeling hills ahead of the polls.
On Thursday, Anit Thapa, chairman of the board of administrators, Gorkhaland Territorial Admi...
Hundreds, including some prominent names of Darjeeling politics, joined the BJP on Tuesday amid speculations that the saffron party, so far piggybacking on regional parties to win elections, has decid...
GTA head Anit Thapa has batted for the establishment of a School Service Commission (SSC) exclusively for the Darjeeling hills.
“Most systems have collapsed in the hills. We must have a system ...
Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leader Bimal Gurung on Thursday said the BJP had betrayed hill people and he would never accept that party again even if he had to sacrifice his life.
The assertion is a change...
The birth celebration of Agam Singh Giri, considered as one of the tallest poets among Indian Gorkhas, failed to attract enough people in Darjeeling on Sunday, prompting GTA chief Anit Thapa to wonder...
Anit Thapa led an impressive 16km-plus parivartan (change) rally on Saturday from Sonada to Darjeeling and announced that he would not seek votes on the Gorkhaland issue ahead of Bengal polls.
At a p...
The contest in the three hill seats of Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts is all set to be biploar in the Assembly polls as most of the hill-based parties have either aligned or are in the proce...
By Bireswar Banerjee & Vivek Chhetri
in Siliguri/Darjeeling