Darjeeling: Amid an indefinite strike approaching two months, the district administration of Darjeeling has launched a crackdown against hoteliers who have expanded their properties in violation of building regulations after it transpired that Gorkhaland activists were attacking security personnel from hotel terraces. The district administration has started to send noticesContinue Reading
Siliguri : The Bengal government Monday clamped prohibitory orders in different localities around Siliguri to prevent a spillover of the statehood agitation from the hills to the plains, the first such measure by the administration in recent memory. Officials pointed out that during the earlier phases of the Gorkhaland movementContinue Reading
A month of shutdown has forced lifestyle changes on a hill population short of food, transport and Internet services. A look at how Darjeeling is coping: Long marches Hill residents are walking the extra mile, literally, to keep their hearth burning. A vegetable trader who didn’t want to be namedContinue Reading