Siliguri Gorkha Manch in collaboration with Hariyali Club of Kholachand Fapri is organizing a free medical camp & blood donation camp. Keeping in mind scarcity of blood in Siliguri we are organizing blood donation camps at various places. We are providing blood to the needy in Siliguri. Within 2 months SGM helped more than 40 […]

Police officers in Siliguri today said they were trying to find out GTA chairman Bhupendra Pradhan’s role in an alleged deal to sell a supposedly antique East India Company coin to a Jalpaiguri resident, who said the article was a fake and he had been cheated. GTA chairman Bhupendra Pradhan On Tuesday night, Pradhan, better […]

The collection of “anti-Gorkhaland movement fund” by an organization claiming to be Shiv Sena in Siliguri has created tension in the town. collection of “anti-Gorkhaland movement fund” by an organization claiming to be Shiv Sena in Siliguri – pic- DT A coupon for Rs 20 issued in the name of Shiv Sena from an address […]

People of North Bengal and Siliguri in particular are going to enjoy a ‘cultural’ beginning of 2015, since the Gorkha Saajha Pariwar, Salbari, Siliguri will bring back the Gorkha Sanskritik Utsav from January 7, 2015. Gorkha Sanskritik Utsav to be Held from January 7, 2015 The 2015 version of the festival will also include the […]

A school boy studying in Cambridge School Kurseong met with an accident today in the morning at around  7:30 am. Accident in Kurseong Claims A School Student’s Life Sources says the child died on the spot. The body was taken to Kurseong hospital. Following the child’s death there was Chaka jam. Family members wanted the […]

The external affairs ministry has decided to set up a passport seva kendra in Siliguri and asked the Bengal chief secretary to allocate a site for the building. Passport seva kendra in Siliguri to come up soon Union foreign minister Sushma Swaraj, in a letter to Darjeeling MP S.S. Ahluwalia, has said: “I am happy […]

Students of over 20 colleges from Siliguri, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling hills and Sikkim took part in City Centre t2 Spotlight 2014 grand finale today, the first day of the two-day event. Participants at the finals of Hotstepper at City Centre in Siliguri on Friday. Picture by Kundan Yolmo The event that was held at City Centre […]

Students from 21 colleges from across Jalpaiguri district, Siliguri subdivision, Darjeeling hills and Sikkim will participate in the grand finale of an inter-college competition in music and dance at City Centre here on September 12 and 13. Students pose at the intra-college competition of Star Quotient (Face of the College) at ICFAI College in Gangtok. […]

Siliguri: Online facilities will be introduced from next week for people to avail themselves of birth and death certificates from the Siliguri Municipal Corporation and land documents required for sanction to construct buildings from the Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority. Deb speaks to the media in Siliguri on Thursday . Picture by Kundan Yolmo Once the […]

SILIGURI: She has come and she has gone. In between, she has announced new schemes, distributed grants to beneficiaries and talked to administrative officials for development. West Bengal CM Miss Mamata Banerjee missed to address the crisis of uncontrolled influx through porous Indo-Nepal border. But missed to address one of the most important crises those […]

To strengthen the relationship and to discuss about the issues on the cross border felicitation of export and import between India and Nepal, a seminar was organized by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in association with Consulate General of Nepal at Siliguri last evening. India and Nepal cross border trade felicitation seminar Prabir Seal Chairman, […]

The Siliguri Metropolitan Police (SMP) has busted a sex racket, which was being operated through a website in Siliguri and in an apartment in a township here. Siliguri Police busted a sex racket operated through a website After receiving information that the racket was being operated, officials from the detective department conducted raids at some […]

The BGP ( Bharatia Gorkha Parisangh)  president Enos Das Pradhan on the bifurcation Siliguri from Darjeeling district said that with the GTA ( Gorkhaland Territorial Administration) settlement the separation was on the card. The seed of separation was not shown in 1988, it was rather confirmed in 1988 and reconfirmed when GTA agreement was signed in 2011. GJM […]

WB State BJP President Rahul Sinha has demanded the bifurcation of Siliguri subdivision from Darjeeling District following the creation of the new distrisct Alipurduar. Infact, the seeds of bifurcation of Siliguri from Darjeeling district was sown in 1988 following the formation of Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council. Seeds of Bifurcation of Darjeeling District- P.Arjun The formation […]

Siliguri : The Darjeeling district administration has finally decided after a year of discussions to start metered taxi services in the Siliguri sub-division from this year’s Durga Puja on the Kolkata model. Darjeeling district magistrate Puneet Yadav To get a feel of the response from those concerned, the district administration will initially start with 1,000 […]

Fifty-four-year old Diwakari Chhetri has set an example for NGOs by working tirelessly for the betterment of society despite being single and without any financial support from the authorities. CNSS president Diwakari Chhetri. She has sold off her cows and even landed property to run her organisation for helping deprived women of remote villages. Chenga […]

The Siliguri Sherpa Buddhist Welfare Centre (SSBWC) today slammed the state government for its ‘biased attitude’ when it comes to taking initiatives for the rescue of Dawa Sherpa, who went missing in a avalanche on Mount Kanchenjungha, along with West Bengal’s Everester Chhanda Gayen. Dawa Wangchuk Sherpa, the high altitude mountain guide from Darjeeling The secretary […]

Siliguri, May 29: The BJP has decided to field candidates in all seats in the Siliguri Municipal Corporation and the Mahakuma Parishad elections, bouyed by its good showing in the town and its surrounding areas in the Lok Sabha polls. BJP to field candidates in all seats for Siliguri Municipal Corporation election Biswapriya Roy Choudhury, […]