The Sikkim government has relaxed the ban on the supply of milk from Kalimpong and Darjeeling districts of Bengal following a “request” from dairy farmers. Sikkim had imposed a temporary ...

Residents of some of the tiny hilly hamlets on the fringes of Neora Valley National Park are facing a new problem nowadays. Himalayan black bears stray out of the forest and damage farmers’ api...

Chuden Kabimo, 32, a writer from Kalimpong does not know the motorable distance between the district headquarters and his village Malbong “because a pucca road has not yet reached my village&rdq...

The Centre has approved establishment of an Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS) in Kalimpong at a cost of Rs 16 crore but Darjeeling BJP MP Raju Bista has alleged that the state government is depr...

Sunday mornings, when it opens its doors to the public, are the best time to visit the church. Week-long musical events are also planned every year during the festive weeks. However, one needs to obta...

There has been an unprecedented rise in the incidents of the Himalayan black bear entering human habitats in East district of Sikkim and Kalimpong district in Bengal with about 15 such cases each repo...

Justice (retd) Abhay Manohar Sapre, the chairman of the one-man committee formed by the Supreme Court, has summoned all gardens of the Darjeeling Tea industry for hearing next month on alleged default...

An angry mob of tea garden residents in Jalpaiguri district killed a Himalayan black bear after it strayed into their garden and killed a teen on Wednesday. Around 3pm, the black bear was spotted at ...

Chaiti Mitra is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Vivekananda Vidyabhavan, Kolkata, and Guest Faculty at the Post Graduate Department of English, West Bengal...

Traffic along the damaged stretch of NH10, which links Sikkim and Bengal’s Kalimpong district with the rest of the country, resumed on Tuesday afternoon after a gap of six days. Since August 20...