NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court’s decision to introduce sensitization programme in schools to prevent racial stereotyping, prejudices and hatred against certain minority communities such as the Sikhs seems to have opened the floodgates for others to move court against similar victimisation. The latest to join the bandwagon are the Gorkhas or the Nepalis. A petition […]

Gorkha Youth and Students’ Association of India (GYASA) filed Complaint against Flipkart Advertisement Complaint filed against Flipkart Advertisement which is defamatory, sacriligeous, communal, racist and hurting the sentiments of the Indian Gorkha community and insulting khukri emblem of the Indian Gorkha Brigade and Assam Rifles. DETAILED COMPLAINT:- To, Shri Robin Hibu IPS, Inspector General of Police […]

Senapati Manipur, 11 Aug: In what could be termed as heinous crime, a Gorkha tenant from Kanglatongbi Mandir was found murdered this morning at a place near 3 Karong Villages Water Reservoirs, above Mao Karong, Senapati District Manipur. The victim was identified as one Kumar Pokhrel, 35 years of age, s/o (L) Ram Chandra of Kanglatongbi […]

Writes Amitava Banerjee, 7 Jul 2016, DARJEELING: Four local girls were rescued from Darjeeling Hills on Saturday just as they were about to be trafficked, thanks to a vigilant taxi driver who alerted authorities in time. The incident happened at Mirik, a scenic tourist town in Darjeeling surrounded by tea gardens. However, the economically backward […]

Writes Prashant Acharya SILIGURI 2 Jul 2016 An ongoing sex racket in Siliguri was busted on Friday night with police arresting 18 people from the Pradhan Nagar area. Acting on a tip-off, the Pradhan Nagar police conducted a raid  at a guest house and arrested 12 males and six females and also seized two cars […]

Siliguri: After the recent arrest of 18 people, allegedly involved in sex trade from Pradhan Nagar, Siliguri police yet again on Monday busted another big racket from the same area and arrested three people including two girls and a male from Pradhan Nagar. Police said interrogation on arrested persons will lead to more arrest speculating […]

Siliguri 5th July 2016 After two consecutive sex rackets busted at Pradhan Nagar, Siliguri police today again busted another sex racket at Hakimpara but this time with the active support and information of a local NGO. Five people including four females and a male have been arrested from a flat at ward number 16 of […]

Pokhriabong Darjeeling 2nd June 2016: A building collapsed in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district in the wee hours of Thursday killing one person and severely injuring six others, police said. One person has been arrested in connection with the incident. An old four-storeyed building, owned by Lakpa Nupu Sherpa in Pokhriabong Bazar at Darjeeling, collapsed at […]

Writes Amitava Banerjee Darjeeling, Jun 19, 2016: Intervention by schoolchildren helped uncover an international sex racket, leading to the arrest of the operation’s kingpin from Delhi along with a woman trafficker from Nepal. Three traffickers were arrested at the West Bengal-Nepal border, and a police team from Darjeeling was rushed to Delhi to nab others […]

18 June 2016 Bijanbari The victim of alleged police torture Ms. Kala Subba has been referred to Darjeeling District Hospital. Yesterday a team from Sikkim led by SDF Daramdim Samasty President Mr. Bhupendra Chettri arrived in Bijanbari to ascertain the facts relating to Ms. Subba’s address. Speaking to the Press Mr. Chettri stated, “we are […]

Writes ‎Prakash Lee‎ The news that went viral in social site (FB) on 14th June of Mrs. Kala Subba (31years), who was rambling around in search of job in Bijanbari, Darjeeling and ending the quest in hospital due to brutal physical assault by police personnel at Pool Bazaar Police Station, Darjeeling…thereby creating public rage on […]

Senapati, Jun 06: Manipur Gorkha Welfare Union has condemned the attack on a truck driver by some unidentified armed people on Saturday near Changoubung village, Senapati district. The union secretary, in a statement, said such attacks are very common at the Changoubung to Motbung stretch of the highway. Truck driver Sanjiv Pradhan (35) of Kanglatongbi […]

Manipur Kpi/Spt, Jun 5 : Suspected Kuki militants numbering about four shot and seriously injured a truck driver identified as Sanjeev Pradhan (26) s/o Rudra Bahadur Pradhan of Taphou Nepali village yesterday at about 9.30 pm. The incident occurred at S-Golai near Changoubung turning when the cadres stopped the truck for monetary demands and fired […]

30th May 2016 Assam: On Monday morning Gautam Biswakarma of Pengri Tinsukia district Assam died in Nellore at Nayudepeta Andhra Prdesh being pushed away from the running train by a miscreants while he was going to join his work over there. He was engaged in a semi skilled job in Chennai. All Assam Gorkha Students’ […]

“Gorkha Students, JNU condemns heinous acts of brutal rape and murder of gorkha girl from Assam and the Dalit girl, Jisha in Kerala. We condemn, in the strongest terms the despicable crimes committed against Jisha, against the girl from Assam who was brutally raped and murdered and to the continued apathy shown by the University officials towards […]

Gorkhas strongly condemn the rape and murder of 20 year old Champa Chetry/Chettri on 29th of April 2016 of Baragolai, Margherita, Assam. She was abducted & raped while returning from the beauty parlor she was apprenticing at, after which her body was thrown into a river. The dead body of Champa was recovered from Dehing river in […]

Siliguri, May 5 : The Bagdogra branch of the Central Bank of India was found burgled last night with 16 lockers broken. The robbery has sent customers into a tizzy and it is yet to be found out whose lockers were broken and what was stolen. The bank, located on the first floor of a […]

Three Gorkha youths Biren Tamang, Priyanka Tamang & Rajiv Thapa from Gangtok, Sikkim successfully rescued the tourist gal and grabbed the rapist Taxi Driver Prem Rai (22) along with uncle and relatives of the tourist at the sub highway after Kabi Village of North Sikkim around 2 A.M. morning of 15th May’2016. Priyanka Tamang received the late […]