Sikkim Snippets

• Sikkim confers its STATE DAY AWARDS on nine personalities from different fields such as journalism,painting,singing etc.
• Shree Akshay Sachdeva(IPS)DIG-range of SIKKIM POLICE condemns the news-item "DR.SUBBA'S HOUSE UNDER-SIEGE" in newspaper Hamro Prajashakti and terms its irresponsible journalism and threatned legal actions in future on such baseless news reporting in future
• An unidentified body at Jorthang, Karfektar is recovered by Jorethang Police on May 15.
• The45 day long training in acting and theatre,conducted by National School of Drama,Mumbai in association with Dept. of Cultural Affairs,Govt. of Sikkim for 30 youths of North Sikkim was concluded with enthralling performance by refined local artists in Mangan last week.
• PG Mohan Chhetri 35,resident of Rhenock attacks his landlady Meena Chhetri of Sichey,Gangtok with a knife inflicting multiple wounds on her before absconding from scene.The landlady is undergoing treatment at STNM Hospital.
• NCERT lists Sikkim among state causing shortage of school books. HRD Department of Govt. of Sikkim claims it does not buy books from NCERT anymore.
• Urmila Uraw, a 18 year girl attempted to commit suicide by jumping from Akkar bridge, Jorethang. However, she was miraculously rescued by the people there. She had jumped from the elevation of 200 feet towards the river
• A 19 years boy named Dawa Pincho Lepcha died while getting down from the backside of a truck. It is alleged that when he was getting down, the truck driver speeded and the boy fall on the ground and injured. He was admitted at Singtam Hosptial where he died. The truck driver Krishna Bahadur Chhetri has been arrested.