HILLS HEADLINES TODAY
- Software to control Darjeeling Tea:Darjeeling Tea Association, there are 87 registered gardens in the hills produce about 9.5 million kg of made tea annually, an estimated 40 million kg is circulated as Darjeeling Tea worldwide. To stopped the illegal import of green tea leaves from Nepal and maintain the standard of Darjeeling Tea Brand.
- Darjeeling responded on Chamling remarks:During a UPA meeting in New Delhi on 21 March, Sikkim chief minister Dr Pawan Kumar Chamling has urged the Centre to create the separate state for Darjeeling districts as the hill people are historically, economically, culturally and with regards to religion different from the rest of Bengal and ...
- Action against tax defaulter: Darjeeling Municipality authorities are determined to be harsh against tax defaulters. Municipality authorities today blocked the entrance of Fortune Resort Hotel (Central Hotel), Robertson Road, with their own household waste, citing non-payment of municipal tax by the hotel owner as the reason. The civic authorities also disconnected water supply ...
- Ghisingh visits Shivatar for inauguration:Kurseong: Subash Ghisingh inaugurated the power connection unit under the rural electrification project. 172 families of Shivatar and Bagmara busty, 18 km away from Kurseong, will be benefited under the scheme. It was the surprise to the Mahanadi residents that
- Subba blames it on parents: Mani Kumar Subba, the first parliamentarian to be asked to come up with documentary evidence to prove he is an Indian, has told the Supreme Court that his parents did not register his birth because they were illiterate
- Abul Aziz Road is now known as Aruna Lama Road : Seven distinguished singers, musicians were felicitated at Gorkha Dukha Niwarak Sammelan (GDNS) by Mr. Pranay Rai, MLA of Darjeeling constituency. The exponents of Nepali music, Navin Bardewa, Man Bahadur Gurung, Gagan Gurung, Shanti Thatal, Dil Maya ...