Archive for August, 2008
GL number plates: Drivers arrested in S’guri; Tension after WB plates blackened
Darjeeling SP calls alert
Statesman News Service
SILIGURI, Aug. 25: The Darjeeling superintendent of police Mr Rahul Srivastava has requisitioned additional police force to control the mounting tension in Siliguri over the GJMM’s imposition of ‘GL’ number plates on vehicles.
The GJMM is forcibly changing the West Bengal number plates of vehicles to ‘GL’, which is indicative of [...]
Sale of traditional attire in the Hills rise
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Mrinalini Sharma
DARJEELING, Aug. 27: Indigenous style is replacing western fashion in Darjeeling ever since the GJMM made it mandatory for the people to dress in traditional attire for a month starting from 7 October.
Dhaure suruwal and chowbandi choli have sidelined fancy tank tops and trousers so much so that stocks are falling short of the [...]
All Transport Joint Action Committee (ATJAC) blackens WB number plates today. Number plate issue affects wildlife duties.
GJMM body blacken WB number plates
Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Aug. 26: Ever since the programme was announced, people adamant on their decision to not replace the WB with GL number plates bore the consequences for the first time when the All Transport Joint Action Committee (ATJAC), a GJMM body blackened their WB number plates today.
“We announced [...]
Morcha occupies GNLF house
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Kalimpong, Aug. 26: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha members today occupied the first floor of the four-storied building owned by former GNLF councillor Roshan Rai.
The Morcha’s partial takeover of the property comes a day after a poster asking Rai and his family to leave the hills was seen pasted on the building located at Lower Gumbahatta [...]
‘Insecure’ Pakhrin leaves
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Siliguri, Aug. 26: GNLF leader Dawa Pakhrin, who fled Kalimpong with his family on July 26 after his house was torched by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supporters, today said he was feeling insecure in Darjeeling and was leaving the region.
“There is no security for me and my family in the hills as the Morcha leaders are [...]
Priya asks state for Hill proposal
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SILIGURI, Aug. 25: The Parliamentary affairs minister Mr Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi has asked the West Bengal government to proffer a definite proposal at the proposed tripartite meeting on the Darjeeling imbroglio scheduled soon in New Delhi. “Unless the state government puts such a proposal, the dialogue may turn into a meaningless exercise,” he said.
“The respective [...]
GL license plate deadline reached. Non-complying vehicles’ tyres to be deflated
Operation spot-and-deflate-WB from today - Hill outfit to set up pickets on national highway
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Siliguri, Aug. 25: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today threatened to lay siege to NH55 — that connects the plains to Darjeeling — from tomorrow to track down vehicles with “WB” number plates.
“We will organise pickets and if we spot such vehicles, both [...]
‘GL’ license plates switch complete. Taxis without plate to be removed from Govt. service
Morcha claims switch complete
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Darjeeling, Aug. 25: Almost all private vehicles plying in the Darjeeling hills today sported “GL” number plates following the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s call for a “civil disobedience” movement last week.
Narbu Lama, the president of the All Transport Joint Action Committee, which along with the Yuva Morcha is overseeing the implementation of the [...]
‘Unity in diversity’
Statesman News Service
SILIGURI, Aug. 25: To maintain peace and unity among the different ethnic, racial, religious, and linguistic groups in the hills and plains of Darjeeling district, the intelligentsia of the region should mobilise public opinion against those who are trying to stoke fires of communalism to gain political mileage.
This is what the large number [...]
Gurung’s wife avoids ‘new’ plate
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Siliguri/Jaigaon, Aug. 25: Bimal Gurung’s wife today travelled to the Dooars in a vehicle with “WB” number plate to set up the central committee office of an outfit affiliated to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha.
Asha Gurung’s car had the registration number “WB-77-7070” and she inaugurated the office of the Gorkha Janmukti Adivasi Morcha at Mahabaribusty near [...]
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