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"Surprised and shocked": Mamata Banerjee urges PM Modi to revoke appointme
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has strongly objected to the Centre's move to appoint an interlocutor to hold discussions on the issues relating to Gorkhas in Darjeeling Hills, Tarai and Dooars regions of state and said that the move was taken without any consultation with the
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Darjeeling rains: Every area of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration cut
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Following heavy rain and landslides in Darjeeling, Chief Executive of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), Anit Thapa, said that every area of GTA had been cut off, there was no road connectivity, and a report would be submitted to the government.
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11 dead, at least 10 injured in Mirik: Gorkhaland Territorial Administrati
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Arun Sigchi, an Executive Member of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, Darjeeling and Kalimpong, on Monday confirmed 11 dead and at least 9 injured in Mirik, out of the 18 casualties after a massive landslide in West Bengal's Darjeeling.
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"People from mountains have never supported Bengal govts": BJP's Darjeelin
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
"Seeing the mood here, it feels like it is almost confirmed that I will be the MP from Darjeeling for the second time. Last time the margin was four lakh, this time the Bharatiya Janata Party will be winning the seat with a even greater margin. This is because people from the mountains had n
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Jaiswal, Muthuswamy crowned champions of Himalayan Drive 9
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The team of Joginder Jaiswal and Prakash Muthuswamy lifted the coveted Himalayan Drive 9 crown. In the Open Class category, the team of Jasmeet Batra and Kashish Mehta emerged as the winners.
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Won't allow bandh, no question of division of Bengal: Mamata Banerjee on s
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
West Bengal CM's statement came against the backdrop of parties in the Hills such as the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) and Hamro Party called for a 12-hour shutdown in Darjeeling on February 23.
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Do not disturb pece of hills in name of Gorkhaland: GTA's Anil Thapa to GJ
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Thapa said that GJM withdrawing from the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) was a "political stunt."
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Darjeeling MLA demands Padma Awards for Gorkha Leader Subash Ghisingh, wri
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
"In the 1980s he spearheaded the movement demanding the formation of Gorkhaland a separate state for the Gorkhas within the Indian Union in the best national interest of the nation," the letter read.
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Bimal Gurung to sit on indefinite hunger strike today against GTA polls, o
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Darjeeling (West Bengal) [India], May 25 (ANI): Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) president Bimal Gurung will sit on an indefinite hunger strike from Wednesday against the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) elections and other issues.
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The day people find alternative, BJP will be ousted from power: Mamata Ban
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], March 8 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee gave a clarion call to the Opposition to get united against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the 2024 Lok Sabha election and asserted that the day the people will find a
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Gorkha Janmukti Morcha urges Mamata Banerjee to recruit teachers in GTA ar
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 30 (ANI): Gorkha Janmukti Morcha on Tuesday wrote to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee requesting her to recruit teachers in primary and upper primary schools in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) area. Recruitment of primary schoo
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Darjeeling's political parties, MP, meet MoS Kishan Reddy to find a 'perma
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): In an important development, political parties that operate primarily in the northern-most district of West Bengal along with Raju Bista, Darjeeling MP, on Thursday met Minister of State G Kishan Reddy at the North Block to find a permanent solution to p
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