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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rainfall in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Kerala, Mahe, and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal today. The weather agency has also forecast thunderstorms with hail over Delhi, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, and Odisha for...

Gangtok, March 30 Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang on Monday emphasized the need for increased vigilance regarding the availability of essential commodities in the Himalayan state and directed officials to strengthen monitoring mechanisms and strictly curb hoarding, black marketing, and...

Gangtok, March 30 Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang on Monday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for launching the "Pride of Hills" initiative under the Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment (SASCI) framework.This significant...

Gangtok, March 30 Sikkim MP Indra Hang Subba has submitted a memorandum to Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, seeking the establishment of a separate bar council for the northeastern state.A statement from the MP's office said that in his submission, Subba highlighted that currently, the legal...

Gangtok, March 28 Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang met Assam Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya on Saturday.The two leaders met in Siliguri, in northern West Bengal.Tamang said that during Acharya's tenure as the governor of Sikkim, he served as a guiding force and a guardian for both...

Gangtok, March 27 Sikkim Governor Om Prakash Mathur and Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang extended greetings to the people of the Himalayan state on the auspicious occasion of Ram Navami on Friday.In his message, the governor said that the holy occasion of Ram Navami symbolizes the birth...

The India Meteorological Department has forecast heavy rainfall over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, and Sikkim for today. The weather agency has predicted thunderstorms, lightning, and strong winds over Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Telangana, and Uttarakhand until tomorrow. Similar...

In Sikkim, the Namchi District Police organized an awareness campaign under the "Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan" (Drug-Free India Campaign) yesterday at Tendong Hill, Namchi District. The campaign aimed to raise awareness about preventing alcohol and drug abuse while promoting a healthy and...

Gangtok, March 26 – The Citizen Action Party (CAP) announced on Thursday that it will boycott the upcoming Urban Local Bodies (ULB) elections in Sikkim if they are conducted on a party basis, reiterating its long-standing demand for non-party grassroots democratic processes.CAP spokesperson...

Gangtok, March 26 Governor Om Prakash Mathur expressed confidence on Thursday that Sikkim would make a significant contribution to a developed India, and said that the Himalayan state was on track to achieve its own development goals with assistance from the central government."Sikkim is...

Gangtok, March 26 Governor Om Prakash Mathur expressed confidence on Thursday that Sikkim would make a significant contribution to a developed India, and said that the Himalayan state was on track to achieve its own development goals with assistance from the central government."Sikkim is...

Gandhinagar, March 26 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the longest-serving head of an elected government in the country, serving for 8,931 days across his tenures as Chief Minister of Gujarat and Prime Minister, state BJP president Jagdish Vishwakarma said on Thursday.Addressing a...

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rainfall over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim until tomorrow. The weather agency has predicted thunderstorms, lightning, and strong winds over Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, and Jammu and Kashmir for...

Gangtok, March 25 A high-altitude expedition traversing 50 mountain passes across Sikkim to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the state's formation was launched on Wednesday.The expedition, led by the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI) in Darjeeling, was launched by Tourism and Civil...

Gangtok, March 25 Nearly 200 tourists were stranded in Chungthang, North Sikkim, after multiple landslides, caused by heavy rainfall, disrupted road connectivity, officials said on Wednesday morning.Mangan District Collector Anant Jain said the landslides occurred on the crucial...

New Delhi, March 24 The government's plan to implement the women's reservation law by increasing the number of Lok Sabha seats to 816 from the present 543 may require creating new constituencies from the existing ones, sources said on Tuesday.To implement the women's quota law even before the...

Gangtok, March 24 The Sikkim government carried out the disposal of seized contraband substances in the Namchi district on Tuesday, officials said.The District Level Drug Disposal Committee conducted the exercise using an incinerator facility, ensuring adherence to prescribed safety...

Gangtok, March 24 Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang met with SKM candidates for the local elections on Tuesday, urging them to work together with humility and integrity.During a meeting at Samman Bhavan, the SKM leader said the party would provide full support to the candidates...

New Delhi, March 23 The government is "willing" to bring two bills in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament to ensure that the law reserving seats for women is implemented even before the completion of the delimitation exercise for Lok Sabha and assembly constituencies, sources said on...

New Delhi, March 23 BJP MP Dorjee Tshering Lepcha commended Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday for transforming India into a global power that earns respect worldwide and congratulated him for becoming the longest-serving head of government, surpassing the previous record held by former...