Kolkata: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) has given a call for an indefinite bandh in the Terai and Dooars region of West Bengal to press for its demand for a separate Gorkhaland state. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked the GJM to respect the terms of the tripartite agreement and exercise restraint. But the GJM has gone ahead with the bandh call following violence in the region. The...
04:06 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Darjeeling: The death toll in the Darjeeling bridge collapse rose to 34 on Sunday. Government announced Rs 2 lakh ex-gratia for the kin of the dead and has assured to bear the expenses of the treatment. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would be travelling to North Bengal on Sunday to visit the victims. Over 60 people were injured when an old wooden footbridge over a spring gave way under...
07:09 AM, Oct 23, 2011
Kolkata: In what could be music to the ears of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, currently on a visit to Darjeeling, the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha on Tuesday virtually ruled out the demand for the creation of a separate state as is being asked for by Telangana protesters. "Telangana has a different perspective and Darjeeling has a different perspective," GJM General Secretary Roshan Giri told PTI from Darjeeling. The issue...
04:33 PM, Oct 11, 2011
Kolkata: An historic agreement creating the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, an autonomous body that will have greater administrative powers than the existing Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council was signed on Monday. Union Home Minister P Chidambaram signed the tripartite agreement with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha and the West Bengal government in Sukna. The agreement, it is hoped, will bring peace to the restive hills after over 30 years of agitation for the...
04:23 PM, Jul 18, 2011
Jalpaiguri/Siliguri: With the tripartite agreement to be signed on Monday to pave the way for setting up of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, the new hill council in Darjeeling, a 48-hour bandh is being observed in the plains to oppose it. The shutdown has been called by plains-based organisations Amra Bangali, Jana Jagaran and Jana Chetana protesting the move. Private cars and buses were off the roads, and shops and markets...
11:51 AM, Jul 18, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Government has given its go-ahead for creation of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration - an autonomous body that will have greater administrative powers than the existing Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council. The decision has been taken after the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) meeting and Home Minister P Chidambaram has been directed to go to Kolkata to sign the agreement with the concerned parties. The members of the...
11:06 AM, Jul 18, 2011
Kolkata: The memebers of the West Bengal government, the Centre and the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJM) are expected to sign an agreement on Monday to create the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration - an autonomous body that will have greater administrative powers than the existing Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met with GJM president Bimal Gurung and other top party leaders on Sunday. The Left has decided to...
09:28 AM, Jul 18, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that the Darjeeling dispute has been resolved and a formal agreement with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) has also been signed. Mamata said that she has informed the Union Home Ministry about the agreement. Mamata said that the West Bengal Chief Secretary Samar Ghosh would talk to the Center and hold a formal tripartite meeting in Darjeeling and formalise the...
05:14 PM, Jun 07, 2011
Priyanka Gupta in conversation with Roshan Giri, General Secretary GJM. Giri says GJM wants a separate state of Gorkhaland but the CPM and TMC are totally opposed to it. ...
02:31 PM, Apr 18, 2011
Malda: Security personnel allegedly lathicharged photo journalists at a polling station in Malda district when Minister Sailen Sarkar entered the booth to cast his vote on Monday, officials said. The incident occurred when Sarkar, Environment and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, entered the booth at Malda Women's College and the waiting photo journalists followed him. The security personnel objected to their entry into the booth but they ignored it and the men...
01:17 PM, Apr 18, 2011
Darjeeling: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) on Monday rejected Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) chief Subash Ghisingh's demand for sixth schedule status for the Darjeeling hills and said people would force him out of the hills for undermining their desire for a separate state of Gorkhaland. Taking offence at Ghisingh repeatedly pitching for the sixth schedule status at his public meetings and media interactions since returning to the hills earlier...
12:58 PM, Apr 18, 2011
Darjeeling: One of the big issues at stake in the hills of Darjeeling is a separate Gorkhaland. This is the first time that the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha is contesting in an election and is supporting the TMC. It remains to be seen whether Mamata Banerjee's promise of turning the hills into Switzerland will work. When one enters Gorkhaland, every home tells that one has entered a state within a state,...
05:22 PM, Apr 17, 2011
Ranaghat: Ridiculing the call for change by the TMC-Congress alliance in West Bengal, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said the Opposition was courting Maoists and separatists to bring ruin to the state. "We are often hearing the words 'paribartan' (change) from these people. What change are they talking about? To lead the state to extinction by hobnobbing with Maoists and Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM)?" Bhattacharjee told an election rally...
01:02 PM, Apr 17, 2011
Kolkata: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), contesting the elections for the first time, will raise the Gorkhaland issue in the West Bengal Assembly if its representatives are elected. "We want to go to the Assembly to raise our voice for a separate Gorkhaland and if we are not allowed to place that demand then we will certainly walk out and send our resignation," GJM spokesperson Harka Bahadur Chetri told PTI...
10:56 AM, Apr 17, 2011
Darjeeling: Subhash Ghising-led Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) and the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL), led by the wife of slain party chief Madan Tamang, are giving a tough fight to the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) in the Darjeeling Hills in northern West Bengal that goes to the polls on April 18. A total of 16 candidates of different parties are in the fray in the three hill constituencies -...
12:16 PM, Apr 15, 2011
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