Adapted from Jesper Svensson’s article Diverting Brahmaputra: A Rational Choice? Yangtze – Asia’s biggest river – is experiencing its worst drought in 50 years and there are genuine fears that the western lifeline of the South-North Water Transfer Project will not be able to transport enough water for feeding the …
(With inputs from The Economist) The international Global Zero movement was launched in December 2008 for the phased, verified elimination of all nuclear weapons worldwide. But the Global Zero got going in late 2006 itself. Its two founders were Bruce Blair, a former Minuteman ballistic-missile launch-control officer and fellow of …
Sourced from The Assam Tribune GANGTOK, June 20 – Azing Lepcha is a progressive farmer cultivating crops on five acres of land that he inherited from his ancestors. A promising farmer of Sikkim, Azing has been growing different types of organic crops on his land at Hati-Dhunga, West district. With …
Shital Pradhan Dalapchand: Changeylakha Primary School, East, under Regu BAC organized a School Managing Committee cum Guardian meeting on 9th June 2011, Thursday at the school. The meeting was presided by P. C. Rai, President, Dalapchand GPU. The purpose of the meeting was reconstitution of SMC, Mother Teacher Association (MTA) …
Tilak Jha At India International Center on Thursday evening, Vinod Kapur of Kegg Farms delivered the first of the series of ‘The Change Agents: Innovative Indian Organisation’ talks. The session was chaired by the Minister of State for Rural Development, Ms Agatha Sangma. What does a baby chick mean to …
For Anil Rai, Momos at “Roll House” is a part of his daily diet. A second year student at Government College Tadong hardly skips it any day. David Frazer a tourist from Australia who was in Gangtok for 3 days drooled on paneer roll so much that he had it in breakfast, lunch and …
Overcharging of tourist vehicle tarnishing the image of Sikkim Tourism The tourism industry in the state of Sikkim has been booming manifolds and with the intervention from the highest level to push up this industry it is targeted to break its own records make many new ones in achievement. This …
Based on Linguistic Survey of India report on Sikkim The population of Sikkim comprises of the following major linguistic groups: 1. Nepali 2. Bhotia (The Bhutia people migrated from Tibet in seventeenth century and in different phases from time to time which includes other subgroups of Bhutias like Chumbipa, Dopthapa, …
Based on Linguistic Survey of India report on Sikkim Almost 50 years after Sir George Abraham Grierson carried out the only comprehensive study of Indian languages referred to at the national and international level from 1894-1927, the Registrar General, India through its Language Division has been involved in connecting the …
Government Senior Secondary School Machong under Gnathang-Machong Constituency organized centenary celebrations of the School on the 14thMay 2011. The school was established in the year 1912. The Chief Minister, Mr. Pawan Chamling graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. He was accompanied by his Cabinet colleagues, MLA’s, Panchayat Adhayakshya and …
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