PRESS RELEASE:- The Darjeeling, Terai and Duars touches three international boundaries – Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Tibet (China) is also located right above our region. Given which the significance and importance of this highly sensitive and strategic border area, that connects the Indian mainland to the rest of North East India, cannot be overstated. Of […]
First International Nepali Poetry Festival held Successfully
The first ever International Nepali Poetry Festival was held yeaterday at the South Asian University (SAU), New Delhi yesterday. The one-day festival was organised by Nepali student community of the university, in collaboration with the university’s Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) and book club. The poetry festival was supported by the BP Koirala Foundation […]
Nepal Disallows Celebration of HH Dalai Lama’s Birthday
6th July 2016 The Songtsen Brikuti School in Boudhanath in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu where the Tibetan community was scheduled to celebrate the 81st birthday of the Dalai Lama was swarmed by Nepalese police early this morning, disrupting the celebrations and even detaining close to 30 Tibetans including the Tibetan Settlement Officer. The celebratory event […]
UNESCO World Heritage Status for Khangchendzonga/Kanchenjunga National park Sikkim
Sikkim Gangtok 17th July 2016: Congratulations to The Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Culture, Govt of India and the Govt of Sikkim for successfully ushering in Khangchendzonga (Kanchenjunga) National park as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. World Heritage Sites fall under three categories: cultural, natural and mixed. These sites are a legacy from the past, what […]
SAS Soldier chopped and killed 3 ISIS terrorists with khukuri
A Special Air Service (SAS) soldier reportedly stabbed to death three ISIS members with a traditional Gorkha knife when the militants tried to abduct him in Fallujah. The SAS soldiers are reportedly fighting Daesh (as ISIS is also known as) in Libya and Iraq, advising curter attacks and also occasionally taking part in fighting. The […]
14 Nepalese killed in Kabul sucide bomb attack by taliban
20th June 2016 Kabul: A Taliban suicide bomber killed at least 14 people and wounded eight in an attack on a minibus carrying Nepalese security contractors in the Afghan capital, Kabul, early on Monday, officials said. A Reuters witness saw several apparently dead victims and at least two wounded being carried out of the yellow […]
Darjeeling police busted International sex racket with the help of school kids
Writes Amitava Banerjee Darjeeling, Jun 19, 2016: Intervention by schoolchildren helped uncover an international sex racket, leading to the arrest of the operation’s kingpin from Delhi along with a woman trafficker from Nepal. Three traffickers were arrested at the West Bengal-Nepal border, and a police team from Darjeeling was rushed to Delhi to nab others […]
