Jorethang police constable committed suicide by hanging

10:56 AM

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Sikkim

Jorethang Sikkim: In a shocking incident this morning, Til Bahadur Chettri (34), a police constable cum driver of Jorethang police, committed suicide by hanging himself to a ceiling fan in his flat at the Jorethang Police Quarters. The incident came to light when the deceased failed to pick the numerous called made by his wife and colleagues. When a few of his colleagues from the Jorethang PS reached his flat, they found him hanging from a ceiling fan using a ‘dupatta’.

Tulsi Thapa, second officer in-charge, Jorethang PS, said Chettri was a constable in rank and doubled as a driver at the station since the past 5-6 years. He further informed the incident occurred when Chettri was alone at his flat as his wife had gone to her maternal home. The couple has a four year old son, he added.

The body was sent to Namchi District Hospital for postmortem and later handed over to the family. A case of suicide has been registered by the police and an investigation into the matter has been initiated.

Source:EOI

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Sikkim 7-year-old student found hanging in Hotel washroom

10:39 AM

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Sikkim

A Class XII boy was found hanging in the washroom of a hotel at MG Marg here this morning, after attending a get-together with seven of his friends who study in different schools in and around Gangtok.

The 17-year-old student was a resident of Daragoan, 5km from here, and was appearing for Class XII exams.

The superintendent of police, East District, Manoj Tewari, said prima facie, it seemed that the boy had hanged himself from the shower in the toilet using a leather belt. “There were four girls and four boys who spent the night in a single room. Two of them had booked the room on March 12 and invited the others to the hotel last night. It seems the students wanted to have fun and party,” said Tewari.

The boy was found dead when the other friends broke open the door after he had failed to respond to repeated calls.

The police said the eight had gathered in the hotel without informing the parents.

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Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad supports Trinamul in Lok Sabha elections

9:21 AM

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Trinamool Congress

The Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad (ABAVP) today announced its support for Trinamul in the Lok Sabha elections.

The announcement, which could boost Trinamul’s chances in the Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar Lok Sabha seats, has come a day after the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha announced it would support BJP candidates in Darjeeling, Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri.

Mamata Banerjee is felicitated in Malbazar, Jalpaiguri, on February 12 by Somji Bhai Damor, the all-India president of the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad. On stage is Birsa Tirkey (extreme right), the state president of the Parishad

The way the contest is set now, the Morcha, which wants statehood, and the BJP, known to favour creation of smaller states, are pitted against Trinamul, which is against dividing Bengal and the Parishad, which shares the state’s ruling party’s stand on the matter.

Of the tea garden unions in the Dooars and Terai, the Parishad-backed Progressive Tea Workers’ Union (PTWU) is the strongest. It has worker unions in almost every garden in the Dooars and Terai. Most of the workers in the tea gardens are tribals, except in few pockets where Gorkhas are larger in number.

The Parishad’s sign of support — this is the first time the outfit has officially said it would support a particular party — has come about a month after the tribal organisation felicitated chief minister Mamata Banerjee in Jalpaiguri for the development work done by the government for them.

Birsa Tirkey, the state president of the Parishad, said from Calcutta over phone today: “The initiative taken by Mamata Banerjee for the tribals is unprecedented in this state. We are overwhelmed by her sincerity to help the backward tribal population by initiating socio-economic development. So we have decided to issue a directive to the tribal community to vote for Trinamul candidates.”

Tirkey added: “Tribals will vote Trinamul across Bengal and also in other states where Trinamul will field candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.”

The sitting MP of Jalpaiguri, which is a seat reserved for Scheduled Castes, is the CPM’s Mahendra Roy. Alipurduar, a Scheduled Tribe seat, is held by the RSP’s Manohar Tirkey. Both have got tickets for the same seats this time.

Trinamul has fielded a new face in Jalpaiguri — Rabindra Bharati University assistant registrar Bijoy Krishna Burman. In Alipurduar, the candidate is Dasarath Tirkey, who switched from the RSP to Trinamul after the recent Rajya Sabha elections.

Trinamul is expected to benefit the most in Alipurduar where the tribals make up around 60 per cent of the voters.

Their percentage is around 15 per cent each in Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling.

North Bengal development minister Gautam Deb, aware that his party is unlikely to get any Gorkha votes after the Morcha leadership’s directive to plains supporters to vote for the BJP, said he was “happy” with the Parishad’s announcement.

He said the Trinamul government had “tried to do our best to bring development to the tribal belt in north Bengal”.

As examples he cited revision of tea workers’ wages, the opening of Hindi-medium colleges and ration shops in tea gardens.

It is the Left, which is already under siege from Trinamul across the state, which could suffer the hardest.

“Since 2009, Trinamul has made inroads into the tea gardens and set up units of the INTTUC there,” said a CPM leader. “The Parishad-backed Progressive Tea Workers’ Union is the strongest union in the tea gardens here.”

He said that in such a scenario a signal by the Parishad to garden workers to support the Trinamul would have a “significant bearing” on the voting pattern here in the coming elections.

“We used to depend a lot on the tribal support to win elections here,” the CPM leader said.

Salil Acharya, a district secretariat member of the Jalpaiguri unit of the CPM told The Telegraph: “We are against identity politics. Whether it is the Morcha or the Parishad, they are just trying to create a rift between the different communities living here. We are opposed to such vote-bank politics. The people of this region will give a fitting reply to such outfits.”


Source:Telegraph

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गोजमुमोको तथाकथित गोर्खाल्याण्ड़ आन्दोलनका उपलब्धिहरू

11:46 AM

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दार्जीलिङ पहाड़ मात्र नभएर सम्पूर्ण भारतभरिका समस्त बुद्धिजीवीहरू,शिक्षाविद्हरू, शैक्षिक कर्मचारीहरू, प्रशासनिक अधिकारी, न्यायिक व्यक्तित्व, डाक्टर, अवकाशप्राप्त कर्नेल देखि लिएर पुलीसका भूतपूर्व अधिकारी अनि गोर्खे समाजका स-साना बनिबुतो गरिखाने देखि लिएर व्यापारी वर्ग र भविष्य निर्माण गर्न हिँडे़का कर्णधार युवा-युवती अनि विद्यार्थी तथा धामी-झाँक्री, बिजुवा, फेदाङ्वा, फादर र गुरुदेवहरूसम्मलाई समेत आन्दोलनमा होमेर वर्तमान ममताको पुच्छर विमल गुरुङ र तिनका चेला-चमुण्डाले हामी गोर्खे जातिलाई आन्दोलनको मार्फत दिएका उपलब्धिहरू---

Neeraj Zimba Tamang

01) गोर्खाल्याण्ड़ भन्दा तलको केही पनि थापिँदैन भनेर पुङ नपुछरको जीटीए थापे।

02) बंगाल हाम्रो चिहान हो भनेर 86को आन्दोलनमा फर्काएको पहिचान युक्त माटो पुनः बंगालमैं गाभे।

03) दार्जेलिङ पुलीस जो बंगाल पुलीस भन्दा पनि पुरानो जल्लाई अंग्रेजहरूले दार्जीलिङ बंगालको हैन भनेर अलग्गै प्रशासनिक व्यवस्था बनाएका थिए, त्यसलाई दुइ फ्याक पारी सिलगड़ी पुलीस कमिश्नरेट गरी दार्जीलिङ पुलीस सधैंभरिका लागि समाप्त पारे।

04) दार्जीलिङमा भएका सबै गोर्खा समुदायसंग जड़ित ऐतिहासिक दस्ताबेज र नेपालका राजाहरूले बनाएका स्मारक अनि गोर्खा पहिचानयुक्त चौताराहरू हटाएर सम्पूर्ण बंगालको दासत्वको पराकाष्ठामा दार्जीलिङ पहाड़लाई पुर्‍याए।

05) दार्जीलिङ पहाड़मा बस्ने भूमिपुत्र गोर्खा, भोटे, लेप्चामा समानता थियो तर विमल गुरुङ र ममताको साँठगाँठद्वारा लेप्चामात्र भूमिपुत्र अनि माटोसहित भारतमा विलय भएका गोर्खाहरूलाई विदेशी बनाइयो र गोर्खा जातिभित्र फूट लाइयो।

06) दार्जीलिङे जनता त के विश्वमा नै नेपाली हैन गोर्खा भनेर चिनाउने सुवास घिसिङ हुन्। उनकी श्रीमतीको मलामी जानसम्म रोक लगाइयो। जनतालाई घिसिङ गोर्खाविरोधी हो, विमल गुरुङ सही भन्ने आभास गराउन के गरिएन तापनि गोर्खे जनताले बुझ्ने बेला आएको छ कि विमल र घिसिङ कुन् सही हो।

07) पहाड़मा सधैंभरि घिसिङ र विमलको तानाशाहीको विरोध गरिरहने कर्मठ योद्धा मदन तामङको हत्या गरियो।

08) जीएल पी गठनको नाउँमा थुप्रै गोर्खा युवाहरूलाई घरको न घाटको बनाइयो।

09) अनशनको नाउँमा थुप्रैको किड्नी फेल गराइयो।

10) सिब्सू काण्ड़मा गोर्खे चेलीको ज्यान गवाइयो।

11) डुवार्स , तराई र सिलगढ़ीको गोर्खाहरूलाई तिमीहरू पनि आन्दोलन गर, गोर्खाल्याण्ड़ दिलाइदिन्छु भन्यो अनि उनीहरूलाई थाङ्नुमा सुताएर सुटुक्क दार्जीलिङमा जीटीए थाप्यो।

यस्तै अरु पनि थुप्रै के के उपलब्धिहरू गोजमुमोले गरेको छ यदि तपाईँहरूलाई पनि थाह छ भने प्रस्तुत गर्नुहोस्। जय गोर्खा। जै गोर्खाल्याण्ड़।

अझै भन्नु मन लाग्यो—तृणमूल र गोजमुमो मा केही फरक छ र। तृणमूल नेतृको इशारामा श्रीविमल गुरुङज्यू महोदय हिँड़िसके पछि गोजमुमो र तृणमूल अलग्गै हो किन भनिराको। विमलजी महान् ले पनि आफ्नो पार्टी तृणमूलमैं विलय गर्दा भएन र।

Source : Neeraj Zimba Tamang

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Justice for NIDO TANIA

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northeast live news

Northeastern students seek justice  for NIDO TANIA after his death - Demanding justice, students from the country's northeastern states held a protest on Saturday at the market where a 19-year-old student from Arunachal Pradesh was beaten up, leading to his death. 

Northeastern students seek justice  for NIDO TANIA

They carried placards with slogans including "Hang the culprits," and "Why are we treated like outsiders?"

"This was a racist hate crime," said Albina Subba, an advertising writer originally from the northeast Himalayan town of Darjeeling.

"Our community is often targeted like this. ... We look different, so it's easy for people to see we're not from Delhi."

She added: "We have little faith in the Delhi police, but this time we want them to take action."

A Facebook page titled "Justice for Nido Tania" had received support from more than 19,000 people by early Sunday morning (NZT).

"There is no place for elements trying to spread hatred against people belonging to any particular part of the country," Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said in a statement.

Several hundred people protested outside a Delhi police station Saturday, shouting demands for justice against what they called a hate crime.

The capital's newly elected chief minister Kejriwal asked that a magistrate investigate the incident as well as the police response.

Police detained two shopkeepers and launched a murder investigation Friday night, after being criticized for doing little following Wednesday's altercation.

"We are questioning several people in the case," said Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat.

Many indigenous people from India's northeast, some ethnically closer to people in Myanmar and China, often say they encounter racism and discrimination in the rest of India.

Lok Sabha MP and Sikkim Democratic Front spokesperson P.D. Rai Saturday condemned the incident, saying the state's people were "horrified" on knowing about Tania's death and its causes as it played out on TV and social media.
"We wholeheartedly condemn this kind of racist slur and violence that happened in the middle of a major market in New Delhi," Rai said in a statement.

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Jorethang Maghay Mela 2014 all set to kick off

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Sikkim

The state’s biggest extravaganza of the New Year 2014 is all set to kick off here at the border town of Jorethang, South Sikkim. The yearly fair which attracts over one lakh visitor on a daily basis from across Sikkim and outside features various cultural and traditional programs apart from the other attractions. Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling will officially inaugurate the 3-day long fair on January 14.

Preparations for the Jorethang Maghay Mela 2014 in full swing on Sunday.

Chief Patron of the mela organizing committee and also the area MLA Zoom–Salghari constituency Madan Cintury informed, the main event which include cultural programs and exhibitions will be held at the Jorethang Ground, while the other fair attractions will be in display along the Rageet River bank. He further said other stalls featuring various culinary delights of the state, departmental and traditional items will be installed across Jorethang bazaar. This year’s mela will also feature adventure sports like paragliding and river rafting along with other sports events including the ongoing Inter-constituency Rural Football Tournament and skill games etc.  

The inaugural day will be marked with performances by dancing and singing troupes from Sikkim and other states, while the special men and women exhibition football matches will also played during the day, according to Century. Expecting a huge number of people, the Jorethang administration have also tighten the security in and around the town. The Governor of Sikkim Shriniwas Patil will be the chief guest for the second say of the mela, he added.  

Source:EOI

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Mirik - three under sixteen players selected by Cricket Assiciation of Bengal (CAB)

10:48 AM

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sports news

The Cricket Assiciation of Bengal (CAB) has three under sixteen players from Mirik Cricket Association for state level tournaments. Mohammad Saddam, Sujan Rai and Kunal Mallay have been selected owing to their good performances in the sub-division level under 16 tournament organized by CAB in Kanchungena Stadium, Siliguri.

Mirik Cricket Association team that took part in
under 16 tournament in Siliguri.

Delighted over the selection of three club players, Mirik Cricket Association’s official Sanjiv Thapa said the club’s overall performance in the sub-divisional level tournament was excellent. He said the club has been training the players in the local Ilu gorund in association with the CAB. The youngsters are being trained by mentors Bipen Thapa, Phiroj Thapa, Rakesh Rasaily and KP Lama.

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