Bengali body slams Pranab’s comment on ‘Gorkhaland’

Statesman News Service
SILIGURI, Aug. 24: Janajagaran, a Bagdogra based apolitical body opposed to the Gorkhaland demand has cried foul over the foreign minister Mr Pranab Mukherjee’s recent comment wherein the Union minister allegedly identified the statehood movement in Darjeeling as a ‘constitutional’ one.
Emerging out of a meeting with Mr Mukherjee in New Delhi recently, the [...]

GJMM threatens boycott of tripartite talks if Gorkhaland Statehood issue not included

GJMM threatens not to join tripartite talks over apathy towards ‘Gorkhaland’
www.thestatesman.net
DARJEELING, Aug. 18: In response to chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s recent comments ruling out the possibility of dividing Bengal to form Gorkhaland, the GJMM chief Mr Bimal Gurung today threatened to walkout from the tripartite dialogue if the talks did not centre on the [...]

‘Patience’ key to hill peace - Morcha tactics anti-national: Buddha

www.telegraphindia.com
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Siliguri, Aug. 17: The Bengal government will exercise “patience” while addressing the situation in the Darjeeling hills despite chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today describing the tactics adopted by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha as “anti-national and undemocratic”.
Bhattacharjee while addressing journalists at Phansidewa, 20km from here, this afternoon said his government was monitoring the development [...]

Ghisingh’s wife gets cremated in Siliguri

Statesman News Service
SILIGURI, Aug. 17: Following the rival Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha’s denial in allowing the body from entering into Darjeeling yesterday for the last rites, the beleaguered GNLF supremo Mr Subash Ghisingh’s wife Dhanmaya Ghisingh was cremated at the Kiranchandra Municipal Crematorium in Siliguri this afternoon.
69-year-old Dhanmaya had died of a heart attack in [...]

Protestors march to Darjeeling for inclusion of Bhaktinagar in ‘Gorkhaland’

Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Aug. 17: After a two day march 600 protestors from Bhaktinagar block in Jalpaiguri who undertook the 96 kilometers journey from Siliguri to Darjeeling for a seperate statehood reached here around 7 p.m today.
“We started from Bhaktinagar at 6 a.m. yesterday and covered the 52km distance till Kurseong where we halted for [...]

Ghising’s wife dead

The Hindu
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Siliguri (WB) (PTI):
Dhanmaya Gurung, wife of beleaguered Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) supremo Subash Ghising, died here today.
Gurung, who was suffering from various ailments for a long time, died while being taken to hospital from a guesthouse in the outskirts of the town at around 8:30 am, IG (North Bengal) [...]

The History of Darjeeling - as researched and presented by Dr. Sonam Wangyal

Dr. Sonam Wangyal gave a presentation in the seminar organized by the Kurseong chapter of the Gorkha Janamukti Secondary Teachers’ Association on 12th July 2008.

In this paper Dr. Wangyal has researched and studied our history like no one has done before, and has presented his exceptional work in his inimitable story telling style.

This is priceless… A treasure trove of historical information, facts and analyses presented to us in this most user-friendly, accessible and approachable manner.

This is a must read for everyone, and it brings me great pleasure to present this here in Gorkhaland Chronicle.