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Bengal health dept hikes vigil along Indo-Nepal border amid coronavirus sc
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], Feb 3 (ANI): Amid the increasing coronavirus threat, the West Bengal state health department has started screening people entering into India through all the major entry/exit points along the Indo-Nepal border in Darjeeling district.
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BJP's Darjeeling district president Avijit Roy killed in road accident
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], Dec 7 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Darjeeling District, Siliguri President Avijeet Roy Choudhury was killed in a road accident in Baharampur.
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Deprived of clean drinking water, North Bengal tea garden workers cry foul
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], Apr 16 (ANI): "We experience a severe scarcity of drinking water here throughout the year. However, the problem intensifies during the summer. Most of the wells dry up and all the families here rely on nearby taps as the only water source. Vote or no vote,
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BJP accuses Mamata govt of denying permission for venue of PM's rally
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Mar 30 (ANI): Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's government has not given permission for holding a rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a ground in Kawakhali of Darjeeling district on April 3, state BJP president Dilip Ghosh alleged on Saturday.
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Six shops gutted in fire in Darjeeling
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Darjeeling (West Bengal) [India], November 20 (ANI): A major fire gutted six shops at Nehru road in West Bengal's Darjeeling district on Monday.
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Mamata assures she will restore normalcy in Darjeeling
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Darjeeling (West Bengal) [India], June 10 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has assured that she will restore normalcy in restive Darjeeling district, which has been badly hit by a shut down called by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM)
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Bengal Travel Mart organised to develop tourism industry
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], Jan. 28 (ANI): The department of Tourism, North Bengal Development Department and Eastern Himalaya Travel & Tour Operators Association (EHTTOA), largest body of tourism industry in North East jointly organized the second edition of three-day long Bengal Tr
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Astronomy festival organized in Siliguri
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Silguri(West Bengal)[India], Nov. 5(ANI): To develop more engagement among the people who takes interest in sky watching and other related issues, the Sky Watchers Association of North Bengal (SWAN) have organized a four-day exhibition called "Astronomy festival" in Siliguri under
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WB: Drinking water shortage leaves Siliguri locals in distress
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], Sept. 11 (ANI): Local residents of 47 wards of Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) under Darjeeling district of West Bengal are suffering from drinking water crisis from the last three days.
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Two elephants electrocuted to death in Darjeeling
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Darjeeling (West Bengal) [India], Sept.11 (ANI): Two elephants were electrocuted to death in West Bengal's Darjeeling district over the weekend.
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