Churachandpur, Manipur, April 03 2016: All Manipur Gorkha Students’ Union (AMGSU) today expressed strong condemnation over the rape and murder of Pampha Rai whose body was recovered yesterday at Hotel Venus at Churachandpur. Pampha Rai (30), d/o Bir Bahadur of 2nd MR, who originally hail from Kanglatongbi and Jamson Singh (27), s/o Tikendrajit Singh of Langjing Achouba […]

Some 25-odd women, travelling in the ladies compartment of New Alipuduar-bound Teesta Torsa Express early this morning, were robbed of money and other valuables by an armed dacoit who wielded a knife at them. A young woman, who tried to resists the loot, was injured after the miscreant attacked her with the knife. The incident […]

Kolkata, March 6 : Reliance Fresh CEO Damodar Mall apologises to female customer on Sexual Harassment case in Kolkata Tendering an unconditional apology to a woman customer who complained of sexual harassment at a company outlet here, Reliance Fresh dismissed two store employees, said a top company official. Soon after Darjeeling Chronicle put out a […]

Alleged culprit of Reliance Fresh Retail Outlet of Tollygunge Netaji Nagar , Kolkata Arrested by Kolkata Police in connection with an incident where a girl, a law student from Darjeeling, had faced a horrible incident of sexual harassment . He will be produced before Magistrate tomorrow after which he shall be retained under judicial remand. […]

A woman found murdered in her rented room in Gurgaon last week was raped before she was killed, police said on Tuesday after the arrest of two suspected killers. The 28-year-old widowed victim hailing from West Bengal`s Darjeeling worked in pubs and bars here. She was murdered in Chakkarpur area on the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road on […]

Report by PRASHANT ACHARYA Siliguri2 Feb 2016 Two minor girls from closed Panighatta Tea Garden were rescued from allegedly being trafficked to Dubai with the efforts of   NGO KanchanjungaUddhar Kendra (KUK), Siliguri and Railway Protection Force (RPF) Patna. According to the information one local agent Guria Darjee from Jabra More, Naxalbari has been arrested […]

Indore : A youth, hailing from Darjeeling, died when a speeding car hit him on Barfani Dham road on Sunday evening. The police have seized the car and search is on for the driver. According to Vijay Nagar police, the youth was identified as Naveen Lama (25). Naveen hailed from Darjeeling and resided in Malviya […]

Three minor girls were rescued from the port area of the city today after they went missing from their Kurseong home in Darjeeling district, police said today. The three were rescued after a tip off from an NGO and were spotted Mallikghat Flower Market area. The girls have been handed over to representatives of the […]

A 21-year-old woman from Sikkim has alleged that she was raped and assaulted by her former employer and a colleague in a south Delhi-based NGO, following which the two accused have been arrested, police said on Monday. In her complaint, the woman told the police that she used to raise funds for the NGO and […]

Condemn Brutal Racist assaults on Students from Sikkim for protesting against racist slurs The students from Sikkim were brutally beaten with rods, bricks and hockey sticks by some students and hooligans from Himachal Pradesh in full public view. This is the second time that students from Sikkim studying at Institute of Technology and Future Trends […]

The Media In-charge of Northeast Support Centre & Helpline Mr. Bruce Thangkhal was brutally beaten up by drunk local goons in Gurgaon last night. Mr. Dilip Kumar, a Gorkha Youth and Students’ Association volunteer based in Gurgaon, originally from Manipur, who had rushed to help Mr. Thangkhal, stated, “He was attacked by three goons at […]

16 Dec, Gangtok : A fresh report of brutal bloodshed attack on several Sikkim students studying in ITFT College at  Chandigarh is reported. According to the Sikkim student’s representative from Chandigarh (Sikkim Student’s Welfare Association of Chandigarh) told that while more then 30-40 Sikkim students were returning back to room from college around 5:10 – […]

The dead body of a man was found today under a tree at Don Bosco School in Mirik, from the first impression one can say that it looks like a murder and not suicide or an accident. The deceased has been identified as Prabin Rai(34), a resident of Thana Line  area just below Mirik Tourist […]

Soldier Racially Abused, Assaulted by Locals A 21-year-old soldier, hailing from Darjeeling, was hospitalized with severe head injury after allegedly being racially abused and beaten up by a group of around 12 locals in south Delhi’s Vasant Gaon area today. The victim, identified as Lobsang Sherpa, is posted at the Air Force base in West […]

Three members of a family were brutally killed by some miscreants in a house at Shivmandir near North Bengal University in Siliguri on Tuesday.Only the daughter of the family, who stays at her in-laws, was spared. Elderly couple and their only son of around 27 year had strangulation marks on their necks.The dead body of […]

Bhawani Pradhan, the father of a girl who was sexually harassed at Visva Bharati in Santiniketan in August 2014, on Saturday came down heavily on authorities concerned and threatened to commit suicide in front of the prime minister’s residence if justice is denied. Addressing the Press here, Pradhan, a private painting tutor in Gangtok in […]

A Buddhist monk from Darjeeling, namely Acharya Chodub Lama was seriously beaten on 31/8/2015, by the Bihar Military Police without valid reason at a tea stall just outside of Maha Bodhi Temple in Bodhgaya. He has been living in a Thai Temple since many years and well known by all in Bodhgaya. Buddhist monk from […]

Writes Amitava Banerjee The rescue of a 15-year-old boy from the Darjeeling Hills, who had escaped from a monastery in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, has brought to light a threat that has been plaguing the Hills. Pic for illustration purpose Many children, especially from the economically backward strata of society, are forcefully sent to religious institutions […]