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FIRST ACT One month is a short time to judge the trajectory of a life, less so in the case of the life of a territorial-political entity called a state. Yet at times, years pack into months, months pack into weeks, or even a week. Such is the role of ...

The people protractedly striving for a separate state of Gorkhaland want the Hon’ble Chief Minister to be very clear on the following FOUR ISSUES: i) Darjeeling is not a killing field of West Bengal Government ii) The people want West Bengal to separate ...

Around 2,000 Gorkha Muslims staged a protest march supporting the Gorkha Jamukti Morcha cause.Avishek Rakshit reports. IMAGE: Muslims on Sunday, June 18, participated in a silent rally to demand a separate state -- Gorkhaland. Photograph: Ashok Bhaumik/PTI Photo The demand for Gorkhaland has crossed ethnic boundaries. Muslims and a part of the Rajasthani population have joined in to demand a separate statehood for the Darjeeling Hills, amid larger protests led by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha.

Mumbai: A Kerala woman gave birth to a healthy baby boy while flying at a height of 35,000 feet on Jet Airways's Dammam-Kochi flight on Sunday morning, officials said. Both mother and child are in "stable condition". Jet's 9W-569 flight, with 162 passengers ...

The political crisis in the Darjeeling hills took a new turn today with the GNLF breaking its alliance with the TMC after having joined hands with agitation spearhead GJM, saying the party has been fighting for Gorkhaland since its inception. Emboldened by ...

If the Gorkhaland movement has been difficult for Mamata Banerjee to tackle in the past, things might just get a lot more difficult for her this time on. The crisis in the Darjeeling hills intensified on Tuesday when a majority of the hill parties met and ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today met Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi in Raj Bhawan and the government appointed C Murugan as the new secretary of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) in the backdrop of the ongoing unrest in Darjeeling ...

You can call it the Darjeeling Tango. The hills of Darjeeling are on fire once again. The serenity of the green trees and the tea gardens are being disturbed by the unwanted green of the combat uniforms of the security forces. It was sad to see the pictures ...

A proposal to increase the Sikkim Assembly seats from 32 to 40 is under consideration before the central government which has sought views and suggestions on the draft plan from various stakeholders. In a notification, the Home Ministry said the strength of ...