The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Darjeeling, Aug. 31: Bimal Gurung today said the social boycott of people owing allegiance to the GNLF must end through an agreement in which they would have to pledge their support for Gorkhaland.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Kalimpong, Sept. 1: Leaders with GNLF links, past and present, have welcomed the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung's call for a dialogue to ensure that they are no longer socially boycotted in the hills.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Darjeeling, Sept. 4: A former GNLF councillor has been granted primary membership of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha. N.B. Pradhan’s house, however, was searched in his presence before he was inducted into the party. Pradhan’s induction into the Morcha is the first such instance since Bimal Gurung announced that it was time the social boycott of the GNLF leaders ended. The Morcha chief had said he...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
NEW DELHI: A Nepalese national who was arrested for trying to smuggle 50 heroin capsules, swallowed by him and stocked in his stomach, has been sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment by Delhi court.The convict was arrested minutes before boarding a Bangkok-bound flight from IGI airport eight years ago.Special Judge P S Teji imposed a fine of Rs two lakh on Bal Bahadur Gurung, a resident...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | yesterday
... quality in primary schools needed to be improved. State human resources development minister G.M. Gurung claimed that Sikkim had achieved 82 per cent literacy and the rate would be nearly 99 by 2015.FelicitationIn Siliguri, Rotary Club felicitated some teachers at a hotel in Mallaguri. North Bengal Art Academy did the same on its campus on Haren Mukherjee Road in Hakimpara, reports our correspondent....
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... to retain the post since his candidature is believed to have been okayed by Morcha president Bimal Gurung.Lama said he did not expect any dark horse to emerge between now and the board meeting. “I am yet to decide the date of the meeting,” he told The Telegraph after taking the oath.On January 24, former chairman C.K. Kumai, then with the GNLF, had defeated an Opposition-sponsored no-trust...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Darjeeling, Sept. 3: Bimal Gurung has decided not to attend the tripartite talks to be held in New Delhi on September 8.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
... at Chowrastha already has five storeys. Although Agaraawal was not available for comments, Dinesh Gurung, the vice-chairman of the municipality and a Morcha leader, said the civic body had sent a notice to the hotel owner on August 22. “We will allow constructions approved by the previous board. Even then the construction must not obstruct any view or else we will break it down,” said Gurung....
Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
He served Britain loyally for 24 years as a solder in the Gurkhas, and was awarded the Military Cross. But now Britain has turned its back on 81-year-old Lalit Bahadur Gurung.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
... those who will be part of the delegation on September 4 to work out the modalities,” said Bimal Gurung, the Morcha president who chaired the meeting attended by 12 political outfits. “We will discuss only Gorkhaland and nothing else at the tripartite meeting. We are also taking representatives of the Adivasi community from Siliguri and the Dooars.”The hill outfits have decided to submit...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
... Local Development Minister Ramchandra Jha, Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation Kiran Gurung, Minister for Industry Ashta Laxmi Shakya and Minister for Youth and Sports Gopal Shakya. The CPN-UML, the third largest party in the Constituent Assembly, had boycotted the oath-taking ceremony of the new cabinet on August 22 after the Maoists rejected their demand that Gautam’s Home Ministry...
Unqualified Offerings (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
By Thoreau By “Freedom” I of course mean the exact opposite , because this is the era of Newspeak. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court alleges the workers were being taken to work at a U.S. air base in Iraq in 2004 when insurgents intercepted their caravan and killed them days later. A Nepali worker whose car survived the attack is also a plaintiff; Buddi Prasad Gurung, now back...
