Archive for November 28th, 2008
Tripartite meet delay a conspiracy: Morcha -‘Best wishes’ with caution
The Telegraph
Darjeeling, Nov. 27: Madan Tamang, the president of the ABGL, extended his “best wishes” to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha for the ensuing tripartite meeting but said the talks must lead to statehood.
Tamang’s statement comes at a time when both his party and the Morcha are at loggerheads. In recent times, Morcha supporters had gheraoed [...]
GJMM says no to bipartite talks
The Statesman
DARJEELING, Nov. 27: The Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha announced today that it would not sit for the purported bipartite talks with the state chief secretary Mr Amit Kiran Deb and home secretary Mr AM Chakraborty before the tripartite talks that is slated to be held in Darjeeling on 28 November.
“Some of the media channels [...]
Candlelight rallies to spur Round II talks
The Telegraph
Darjeeling, Nov 27: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has decided to organise candlelight rallies across “Gorkhaland” from tomorrow to press for an immediate second round of tripartite talks on the statehood demand.
The Centre, state and the Morcha delegation had agreed to hold another round of talks when they sat on September 8 for the first [...]
Bail order for six sent to Siliguri
The Telegraph
Calcutta, Nov. 27: The copies of the Calcutta High Court order granting bail to Chandra Bahadur Subba and five more GNLF supporters were sent to Siliguri today.
They will be released from jail, where they have been languishing for more than 100 days, after their lawyers furnish the bail bonds before the additional chief judicial [...]
To pay or not to pay…
Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Nov. 27: Surprise awaited Darjeeling residents today in the shape of a notice signed by the Sub Divisional Engineer (technical) in the BSNL office announcing that its payment department would remain open for residents to pay outstanding telephone bills up to 6 December from today.
The unexpected part is that notice came without [...]
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