NEW DELHI: Nearly 300 families were evacuated in Sikkim‘s Mangan district after a few buildings collapsed in the border region, PTI reported on Friday. The land in the village is gradually subsiding towards the Teesta River, which has raised concerns and fear among the local residents.Urging the Indian government for immediate attention, Nim Tshering Lepcha,…
SILIGURI: The body of 80-year-old Ram Chandra Poudyal, a prominent pro-democratic politician and former Sikkim minister, was found late Tuesday floating in the Teesta in Bangladesh, nine days after he had gone missing from his hometown in Sikkim’s Chhota Singtam.Poudyal had been deputy speaker of the first Sikkim assembly – from 1975 to 1977 –…
NEW DELHI: Sikkim Krantikari Morcha supremo Prem Singh Tamang on Monday sworn in as chief minister of the Himalayan state for a second straight term.Governor Lakshman Acharya administered the oath of office and secrecy to Tamang and his council of ministers during the swearing-in ceremony at Paljor stadium.The council of ministers in Sikkim has a…
BHUBANESWAR: Naveen Patnaik’s uninterrupted 24-year stint as Odisha CM ended Wednesday, 141 days short of eclipsing Sikkim stalwart Pawan Kumar Chamling’s record of chief ministerial longevity, after he handed his resignation to governor Raghubar Das and told his BJD colleagues that there was nothing to be ashamed of in the party’s poll performance.He will continue…
GANGTOK: Five-time former CM of Sikkim and SDF supremo Pawan Kumar Chamling lost from both Poklok Kamrang and Namcheybung assembly constituencies he contested. Chamling an eight-time MLA lost to Sikkim Krantikari Morcha’s Bhoj Raj Rai by 3,063 votes in the Poklok Kamrang seat in his native Namchi district.The five-time former CM lost to SKM’s Raju…
North Sikkim’s South Lhonak glacial lake, the epicentre of the massive flash flood that ravaged the region on Wednesday, had been literally bursting at the seams after more than tripling in size from 0.42 sq km to 1.35 sq km in less than three decades. As Lhonak grew between 1990 and 2019 into a giant…
