Nine held, huge amount of ganja, arms recovered in Bengal

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 15:24

Nine people were arrested and ganja worth over Rs.5 crore, besides arms and ammunition including an AK 47 rifle, were seized in West Bengal`s Darjeeling district, police said Thursday.

Mamata celebrates Netaji birth anniversary in Darjeeling

Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 18:37

West Bengal government, for the first time, celebrated legendary freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose`s birth anniversary outside the state capital.

Union Territory status is answer to Darjeeling problem: Jaswant Singh

Last Updated: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 22:14

The answer to the Darjeeling problem was to grant it the status of union territory, BJP MP Jaswant Singh said on Saturday.

Bimal Gurung takes oath as GTA chief

Last Updated: Thursday, December 26, 2013, 14:49

Setting aside separate statehood demand in Darjeeling, GJM supremo Bimal Gurung today on Thursady oath as the new Chief Executive of the hill council in Darjeeling, from where he had resigned in July agitating for a separate state.

Bimal Gurung elected GTA Chief Executive

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 25, 2013, 20:05

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) president Bimal Gurung was today elected as the new Chief Executive of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration at a special meeting of the GTA Sabha here.

Ringtong tea estate to reopen in Jan after decade-long closure

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 25, 2013, 16:04

After being closed for over 17 years, the Ringtong tea plantation in Darjeeling Hills would reopen in January, official sources said.

Court sentences elderly man to 2-yr imprisonment

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 25, 2013, 11:39

A local court has sentenced a 60-year-old man to two years imprisonment for outraging the modesty of a minor girl in Darjeeling Hills.

Gurung to be GTA chief again, to take oath on Dec 26

Last Updated: Friday, December 20, 2013, 21:32

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supremo Bimal Gurung on Friday said he would return as chief executive of the Darjeeling hill council at the request of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

GJM president welcomes back GNLF chief in Darjeeling

Last Updated: Monday, December 16, 2013, 16:27

GJM president Bimal Gurung has said that he welcomed back GNLF chief Subhas Ghising who had spearheaded the agitation for a separate Gorkhaland state in the 1980s, to the Darjeeling hills, while asking him to stay away from politics.