Archive for September 2nd, 2008
All parties to participate in talks - Gorkhaland the only agenda
‘GJMM to focus on Gorkhaland at Delhi talks’
Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Sept. 1: All Hill parties unanimously adopted a resolution to press the one-point demand of Gorkhaland with the Centre at the proposed 8 September tripartite talks in New Delhi. “Gorkhaland will be our one-point demand for discussion and any alternatives like development or more power [...]
Gurung’s deal welcome
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Kalimpong, Sept. 1: Leaders with GNLF links, past and present, have welcomed the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung’s call for a dialogue to ensure that they are no longer socially boycotted in the hills.
Former Kalimpong municipality chairman C.K. Kumai said negotiation was the only way forward, especially since this is the time for people [...]
No more social boycott for GNLF, CPI-M
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Gurung deal to end GNLF ‘boycott’
Darjeeling, Aug. 31: Bimal Gurung today said the social boycott of people owing allegiance to the GNLF must end through an agreement in which they would have to pledge their support for Gorkhaland.
The Gorkha Janmutki Morcha president said he would convene a meeting soon after the tripartite talks in Delhi [...]
Strike disrupts cellular service
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Darjeeling, Aug. 31: The mobile phone service of Reliance Telecom has been disrupted across the Darjeeling hills and Sikkim since yesterday morning following an indefinite strike by its security guards demanding that they be made permanent employees.
A company official said the service was hit as the guards switched off the power connection to the towers.
The [...]
Hill rafters to help Bihar
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VIVEK CHHETRI & RAJEEV RAVIDAS
Darjeeling/Kalimpong, Aug. 31: Television images of a woman trying to wade across the rising Kosi river in north Bihar with a baby girl strapped on her back have urged a group of rafters from the Darjeeling hills to plan a voluntary rescue mission to the flooded region.
The 100-member Gorkhaland Rescue Team, [...]
Foresters claim ‘GL’ waiver
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Siliguri, Sept. 1: Forest officials in the Darjeeling district have claimed that the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has granted them “permission” to use vehicles with “WB” number plates, but the All Hill Transport Joint Action Committee denied any such waiver.
The Committee, a Morcha affiliate, has the responsibility of ensuring that the number plates of all private [...]
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