Morcha spares board selections

Darjeeling, Nov. 10: The annual examinations in hill schools will be deferred by at least a week to facilitate students’ participation in the movement for Gorkhaland being spearheaded by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha. The student agitation, which includes relay hunger strikes from tomorrow, is likely to continue till the third week of November when the [...]

Buddhadeb Holds Talks With GJM Representatives

“We have no problem with the convening of a tri-partite meeting over Darjeeling developments with the participation of the state Left Front government, the union UPA government, and the agitating groups: however, there must be a bipartite consensus between the state government and the agitationsists first.’   Thus, said the Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee [...]