By Matters India Reporter Gangtok, Sept 30, 2022: The political secretary of the Sikkim Chief Minister on September 30 denied allegations that he was using his position to spread Christianity in the northeastern Indian Himalayan state. “Today, I am shocked and pained to learn about the wild, unfounded and dubiousContinue Reading
By Poonam Muttreja Gangtok, March 29, 2019: Everyone knows that Sikkim is a small extraordinarily picturesque mountainous state tucked away in the Himalayas in the northeast of India. That indeed it is. Even today, there are only around 650,000 people living in the state. However, much less known about SikkimContinue Reading
Sikkim beat 51 other nominees from around the world for the awardContinue Reading
The state will allow people to legally bring trees into the familyContinue Reading
Offenders will face minimum two years in jail and a fine of 10,000 rupeesContinue Reading
Last year Sikkim was declared 100 percent organic by the Indian government, while across the country, organic farming is growing rapidly. Continue Reading
The ordination was held on February 11Continue Reading
By C.M. Paul Gangtok : A major study on displacement of peoples in Sikkim was released at a 3-day International Seminar on “North East: Peoples, Power and Perspectives” held at Sikkim Central University, Tadong. At the inaugural session of the seminar on 24 November 2016, Vice Chancellor, Prof. T.B. Subba releasedContinue Reading
SIKKIM: Nimtshreng Lepcha seeps medicinal leaves in cow urine and sprays the brew over his tomatoes. It’s the main way pests are repelled on his farm in the Himalayan foothills and across the northeastern state of Sikkim, the first in India to go fully organic. For more than a decade,Continue Reading
Kolkata: Built at a cost of over Rs 2 crore, northeast has got its fastest supercomputer with a peak computing power of 15 Teraflops. Housed at the National Institute of Technology Sikkim’s campus, near Gangtok, the supercomputer, ‘PARAM Kanchenjunga’ is a collaboration between Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C—DAC)Continue Reading
