From the pages of history and textbooks, and the statues strewn around Darjeeling and Dooars region, to be able to see Adi Kawi Bhanubhakta Acharya’s family in person. Adi Kawi Bhanubhakta’s Great Great Grand Son in Dooars The people from Bagrakot in Dooars claimed their piece of history when the Great Great Grand son (6th […]

DAWN ( Darjeeling and Dooars Tea Workers Relief Organization) organized a health camp at Red Bank tea estate in Banarhat in Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal where workers are suffering from severe malnutrition and even deaths due to starvation have been reported. The following Report was published by  DAWN  in a social networking site. Reported deaths of workers […]

”If things are not taken care of, we might lose one person or the other every week.” ” PLease take me to an orphanage home. I want some food. I want to live, ” were the words of a paralysed lady, accompanied by her mentally disturbed son. The lady resides in the Red Bank tea […]

Salim Pradhan like many of us, had a very hard life growing up. His parents worked as labourers – in Patharjhora tea garden in Dooars. Unable to support his expenses, his parents were forced to send Salim to work in Bangalore at the tender age of 12. Today he is the favourite hairdresser for some […]

The Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh (BGP) has written to the newly formed NDA or Modi government at the Centre seeking its attention on seven demands the organisation has listed. BGP national executive president Dr Enos Das Pradhan In his letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BGP national executive president Dr Enos Das Pradhan has noted the […]

Dooars: In another incident of death from malnutrition, Sunita Oraon (55), a garden worker and resident of No. 3 Raliway Division Line, died today. Since the closure of the garden on October 19, 2013, as many as 19 workers have died. The three currently locked out tea gardens owned by the Red Bank group, namely […]

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) has said the 16th Lok Sabha elections 2014 may not be comparatively important for the rest of India when compared to the Gorkha people residing here in the hills and elsewhere. The party is rigorously campaigning for BJP candidate SS Ahuluwallia with the sole intention of realising the dream of […]

Former vice-chancellor of Sikkim University, Dr Mahendra P Lama, the independent candidate from the Darjeeling constituency for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, today conducted a public meeting at the Bagha Jatin Park in Siliguri. Mahendra P Lama speaking at the public meeting in Bagha Jatin Park on Tuesday. In a thinly veiled reference to chief […]

The Gorkha Utsav kicked-off on the initiative of the Dooars GJM on Saturday completed its second day amidst colourful programmes. The festival being celebrated at the Thana ground here was also marked by the visit of North Bengal JMM president John Barla. JMM leader John Barla at the Gorkha Utsav in Kalchini Barla said, “The […]

In sync with Mamata Banerjee’s vision to turn Bengal into a world-class tourist destination, the Tourism Department of West Bengal is mulling a plan to do away with the ‘dry days’ in popular tourist spots of the state. Speaking to Financial Express Online, Krishnendu Narayan Chowdhury, state tourism minister, West Bengal said, “While hardselling the […]

National level parties have not yet uttered anything about their stance on Darjeeling constituency although the next Lok Sabha polls are approaching quickly. However, regional parties and apolitical organisations have announced their candidates’ names and have even begun campaigning. Darjeeling and the Dooars returned to Sikkim – GRC If Dr. Mahendra P Lama has already […]

Sept. 22: Over three lakh workers in around 220 tea gardens in the Dooars and Terai will receive the annual bonus at 20 per cent of their yearly earnings irrespective of the grade of the estates. The plains have a total of 250-odd gardens, but the rate agreed on by the planters and trade unions […]