Sikkim eyes good winter tourism: Darjeeling looks on

MANASR BANNERJEE & REZA PRADHAN, SNS, Siliguri And Darjeeling, 29 Nov: Snowfall at Tsongmo Lake, popularly known as Chhangu Lake, sinc...

Heavy snowfall leaves Sikkim Shivering

SNS, 30 November 2017, Gangtok: Heavy snowfall in the north-eastern part of Sikkim, including the Tsongmo (Chhangu) Lake and surrounding...

Tea prices likely to rise on production decline

MP, Kolkata: After a stagnant phase lasting months, tea prices have started firming up and are likely to rise further on the back of decli...

West Bengal Government provides financial relief to the Hills of North Bengal

Amitava Banerjee, OI, November 29, 2017: The Finance Department of the Government of West Bengal has issued two memos bringing relief to...

Local boys keep alive Chinese lion dance

Bishwabijoy Mitra | TNN | Nov 30, 2017, Kolkata: If only Jackie Chan knew. Inspired by a sequence in one of the action star's films,...

Tour operators rue lack of winter bookings

Central Nirvana Resort Darjeeling AVIJIT SINHA, TT, Siliguri: The lack of winter tourists in the hills even after the withdrawal of th...

Farmer grows oranges where few could......North Dinajpur farmer grows oranges

Oranges at the plantation of Mohammad Imajuddin.Picture by Kousik Sen KOUSIK SEN, TT, Raiganj: Orange growers in the Darjeeling hills ...

Chill sets in, but hills cold

Covered in woollens, a woman and a child walk along a Darjeeling road on a chilly Wednesday morning Vivek Chhetri, TT,  Darjeeling: Th...

SC concerned over loss of life, assets during agitations.... no one has been given the right to damage public property and indulge in violence which result in loss of lives- SC

SNS, NEW DELHI, 28 November: Expressing concern over the loss of lives and damage to public property during agitators, the Supreme Court...

Kolkata STF nets Ansarullah Bangla team operative from the Indo-Nepal border

 Mohammad Aftab Khan alias Omar Farooq alias Mahi from the Indo-Nepal border. Based on specific source inputs the STF team nabbed Mahi...

Gurung bail: SC to look at legal issues only .... We cannot go into it politically. We have to see the legal issues. .....SC cannot say anything on issues Gurung has raised politically- SC

TNN | Nov 29, 2017, KOLKATA: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will only examine the legal issues in Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leader Bi...

Restraint in poll campaigning

EOI: Election campaigns are now turning more and bitterer. Undignified language, slur words and crude personal attacks on candidates or ...

Code of conduct for teachers

EOI, 29 November 2017: The West Bengal Government has made public the draft code of conduct for school teachers.  An important restric...

SC meeting advice on hills

TT, New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday suggested that attorney-general K.K. Venugopal should convene a meeting between the Bengal g...

Civic chairman claims support

JAP Councillors (right and left) RAJEEV RAVIDAS, TT, Kalimpong: Suva Pradhan, the chairman of Kalimpong municipality, on Tuesday said ...

GNLF meet plan in hills

BIRESWAR BANERJEE, TT, Siliguri: The GNLF will organise public meetings across the hills from next month to apprise supporters that the ...

Hill tax fine relief..... no penalty on taxes that could not be cleared during the three months of the statehood agitation.

Vivek Chhetri, TT, Darjeeling: The Bengal government has exempted hill residents from paying penalty on taxes that could not be cleared ...

Tourist captures elusive wild dogs

The pack of wild dogs at the Buxa Tiger Reserve.   Picture courtesy: Tubai Manna ANIRBAN CHOUDHURY, TT, Alipurduar: Foresters at Buxa ...

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