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Sikkim - Gangtok, Sikkim, India (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:12:52 GMT

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Supreme Court Orders West Bengal to Keep National Highway 31A Open During Bandh. ("GroundReport)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:36:18 GMT

Acting on a petition of O.P.Bhandari, a Sikkim Resident, the Supreme Court today (3rd July'08) asked the West Bengal Government to ensure that the sole highway, NH 31A, joining Sikkim with the rest of the country was open to traffic when indefinite Bandh in the Darjeeling Hills resumes on 5th July. Reacting strongly against the Bandh culture, the bench consisting of Justice Altamas Kabir...

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Ensure Sikkim is not cut off from mainland: Supreme Court (Thaindian News)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:12:42 GMT

New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday asked the central and the West Bengal governments to ensure free traffic on the sole road linking Sikkim to the country’s mainland during the stir for Gorkhaland, which may be resumed July 6. A bench of Justice Altmas Kabir and Justice G.S. Singhvi also sternly told [...]

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Slides block NH31A (The Telegraph India)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:50:48 GMT

Kalimpong, July 2: A series of landslides following heavy overnight rain disrupted traffic on NH31A, the road linking Siliguri with Kalimpong and Sikkim, today.

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Vinayaka Missions to set up university in U.S. and Sikkim (Hindu)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:25:00 GMT

Salem: Vinayaka Missions University here has initiated steps to set up a University in United States and Sikkim in the country. Pro-Chancellor of Vinayaka Missions S. Sharavanan told reporters here on Wednesday in connection with first ...

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Five-star hotel-cum-casino to come up in Sikkim (merinews - citizen powered media)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:44:09 GMT

Sikkim has become the second state after Goa to allow operation of casino in the country. The state government has given nod to Park Sarovar Plaza Group of Hotels to set up a five-star hotel-cum-casino in Gangtok.

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Four Sikkimese die in Nepal road mishap (The Telegraph India)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:17:53 GMT

Gangtok, July 1: Four persons from North Sikkim were killed and five injured when a jeep carrying them to a wedding met with an accident on a highway in Nepal last night.

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Gearing up to keep Sikkim lifeline pumping (merinews - citizen powered media)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:49:26 GMT

With the third phase of the indefinite bandh in Darjeeling looming in the horizon, the Centre and the Bengal government has begun to gear up to ensure that Sikkim does not remain cut off from the rest of the country. Security forces will see to it.

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Govt to ensure supplies reach Sikkim (The Telegraph India)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:53:08 GMT

Siliguri, June 30: Bengal home secretary Asok Mohan Chakrabarti has asserted that the state government, along with the Centre, will take necessary steps to ensure movement of essential commodities to Sikkim through National Highway 31A even if the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha's indefinite shutdown resumes from July 6.

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Promise of Sikkim passage (The Telegraph India)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:42:18 GMT

Siliguri, June 30: Home secretary Asok Mohan Chakrabarti today said the state and the Centre would take all necessary steps to ensure movement of essential commodities to Sikkim even if the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha's indefinite shutdown resumed from July 6.

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Why not Himachal, wonder Puja early birds (The Telegraph India)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:16:41 GMT

Siliguri, June 29: If Darjeeling and Sikkim draw fewer tourists this Puja, some of the missing faces may be found in Himachal Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh.

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Supreme Court notice to West Bengal on Sikkim plea (Hindu)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:37:22 GMT

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the West Bengal government on an application filed by the Sikkim government to ensure free movement of traffic on National Highway No. 31A to and from Sikkim following a road blockade ...

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SC seeks Bengal views on highway (The Telegraph India)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:32:46 GMT

New Delhi, June 27: The Supreme Court today sought the Bengal government's views on a petition that wanted the state to keep away protestors clamouring for Gorkhaland from National Highway 31A, the lifeline to Sikkim.

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Sikkim (know places in india)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:44:00 GMT

Sikkim, sandwiched between Nepal in the West, Bhutan in the east, West Bengal State of India in the south and the Tibetan Autonomous Region China in the North is perhaps the last of the hot bio-diversity regions in the Himalayas that can be visited with more ease than its neighbors with political problems or high cost of travel or difficult permit procedures with little to no infrastructure....

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Apex court asks West Bengal to open highway to Sikkim (Thaindian News)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:05:16 GMT

New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday issued notice to the West Bengal government on a plea to ensure free traffic on the highway to Sikkim that has been blocked by agitators demanding a separate state of Gorkhaland. While issuing notice to the West Bengal government, a bench of Justices Aftab Alam and [...]

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Parties in Sikkim back Gorkhaland demand (rediff News)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:20:32 GMT

Mainstream political parties in Sikkim have thrown their weight behind the separate Gorkhaland state issue for which the state has witnessed a series of agitations with its economy paralysed. The state's main political force -- the ruling Sikkim Democratic Front -- has openly supported the creation of a separate Gorkhaland state to fulfil what it says the aspiration of the Gorkha people....

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Sikkim political parties back Gorkhaland demand - Sify (http://www.dolbajao.com/rss.php)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:45:52 GMT

Sify - 1 hour agoGangtok: Mainstream political parties in Sikkim have thrown their weight behind the separate Gorkhaland state issue for which the state has witnessed a series of agitations with its economy paralysed. Calcutta Telegraph Hindu

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Three new Governors appointed (Hindu)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:26:56 GMT

NEW DELHI: The UPA government on Thursday announced three new appointments of Governors in Assam, Sikkim and Meghalaya, filling up gubernatorial vacancies in the three States. Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Shiv Charan Mathur was ...

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Apex court to hear plea for reopening road to Sikkim (Thaindian News)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:31:51 GMT

New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) The Supreme Court will Friday hear two lawsuits for reopening the sole highway linking Sikkim to the country’s mainland that has been blocked by agitators demanding a separate state of Gorkhaland. The two lawsuits, including the one filed by the Sikkim government, has sought the apex court’s direction to the [...]

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New governors appointed for Assam, Sikkim and Meghalaya (Thaindian News)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:28:45 GMT

New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) Charan Mathur was Thursday named the next governor of Assam while Balmiki Prasad Singh and Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary were appointed governors of Sikkim amd Meghalaya respectively. Balmiki Prasad Singh takes over from Sudarshan Agarwal in Sikkim while Charan Mathur has been appointed in place of Lt. Gen. (retired) Ajai Singh, [...]

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