Siliguri, India News

June 19: The Kanthalguri Tea Estate will reopen tomorrow, the move made possible after tripartite talks yesterday during which the management agreed to pay workers Rs 85 a day, up from Rs 65. On May 14, the management had left the garden after announcing suspension of work because of an agitation by the workers who wanted higher wages.

The deserted Head Post Office More in Jalpaiguri town during the strike on Wednesday; Deepa Das Munshi at Mohan Bose's house in Jalpaiguri on Wednesday.

Siliguri, June 18: The Naxalbari panchayat samiti has decided to dig trenches to prevent the intrusion of elephants into human habitats that fall in the Mechi-Sankosh elephant corridor.

Siliguri, June 17: The health department will give vaccinations to more than one lakh children in the age group of 1-15 against Japanese encephalitis in the Siliguri Municipal Corporation area in July.

Tenzing Khambachay and Dawa Sangay Sherpa, and Sona Sherpa, three of the 13 Morcha workers in Darjeeling on Monday.

Siliguri, June 14: Private bus and truck owners in Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling and Cooch Behar would submit a memorandum to the Jalpaiguri district authorities on Monday demanding repairs on the potholed NH31D, which if not heeded would trigger a series of blockades and strikes.

Siliguri, June 13: The Lepchas in north Bengal will bestow the title of Kingtsoom Dartim or Bhagya Vidhata on chief minister Mamata Banerjee for announcing a board for the development of the community.

Siliguri, Jun 12 : A five-member parliamentary standing committee on railways is scheduled to arrive here on Friday to inspect the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, whose major network remains inoperative for the past past three years.

Siliguri, June 11: Trinamul would request the state government to dissolve the Siliguri Municipal Corporation board and appoint an administrator as civic services were being hampered because of the Congress's boycott of monthly board meetings, sources in the ruling party said today.

According to Bloomberg data, there are 47 companies with outstanding FCCBs worth $4.7 billion.

June 10: A Jalpaiguri-based social organisation today filed a police complaint against the National Highways Authority of India for not repairing the NH31D stretch between Siliguri and Dhupguri.

Siliguri, June 10: At least five Trinamul workers were injured after an alleged clash with CPM workers at Milanpally in Rajganj late last evening.

Siliguri, June 7: A potholed stretch on the Siliguri-Dhupguri highway is yet to be repaired, allegedly because of the government's hands-off land policy.

Siliguri, June 6: Farmers in Naxalbari, in the middle of the corn harvest season, are facing a peculiar resource crisis - a fire cracker crunch.

Siliguri, June 4: Mriganka Mouli Sarkar, an engineer of Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority, was arrested from Deoghar in Jharkhand this evening for his alleged involvement in misappropriation of funds at the SJDA.

Siliguri , June 2: Parents of an 18-month-old boy in Siliguri, diagnosed with a tumor in his adrenal gland that has increased his weight to 15 kilograms, appealed to the government for financial assistance for the medical treatment of the toddler.

Kalimpong, May 31: Trinamul Congress leader K.N. Subba returned to his Gorubathan home at 9 in the night under police protection, eight days after he had been prevented from proceeding to his native village.

Siliguri, May 30 : Three elephants were killed and one injured seriously when they were run over by a passenger train in the Dooars of north Bengal today, police and wildlife officials said.

Siliguri, May 31: The parliamentary standing committee on railways would on June 14 inspect the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a Unesco World Heritage network, a part of which is out of service since 2010 after landslides damaged the tracks.

Siliguri, May 30: Forty phuchkas , 21 takes - that was little Upasan Chakraborty's only day of work with Rituparno Ghosh.