Ahead of the Assembly election in 2019, Sikkim’s ruling party, the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) recently included a manifesto in their election campaign which is to implement the Universal Basic Income by 2022. If everything goes according to the plan, it will be the first state to implement UBI in India.[Read More…]
More than 2,800 tourists who got stranded at Nathu La near Indo-China border and other places in the Sikkim region following heavy snowfall, were rescued by Indian Army. The tourists, who included many elderly people and children, while sharing their experience told the story of bravery by our jawans who slept[Read More…]
Sikkim’s dream of having an Airport finally came true in September when the first commercial flight operations began on October 4 between Pakyong and Kolkata. However, looks like commuters are not really happy with the services due to frequent cancellation of flights to and from Pakyong Airport. Airport located near[Read More…]
Marking a new milestone in the country’s aviation sector by bringing Sikkim into air network, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday attacked the previous governments accusing them of having neglected the northeast and said in the last four years his government has opened 35 new airports. “Today, it is not[Read More…]
Sikkim was cut off from northern West Bengal‘s Siliguri on Thursday following landslides in both states triggered by heavy overnight rains. National Highway connecting Darjeeling district’s Siliguri to the Sikkimese capital Gangtok was inundated by the Teesta river at Gailphola around noon on Thursday, leaving hundreds of tourists stranded. Many[Read More…]
Gangtok: Terming the decreasing fertility rate among the indigenous inhabitants of Sikkim as “alarming”, state Governor Shriniwas Patil has, however, lauded the Pawan Chamling government for making timely policy interventions to check the trend. “The demographic profile of Sikkim has changed over the last four decades. Percentile data of the communities,[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs will visit areas in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh bordering China next month to look at the situation amid concerns that China had ramped up its military infrastructure in the Doklam region. Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who is a member of the[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Kailash Mansarovar Yatra will this year take place through the two traditional routes — Nathua La Pass in Sikkim and Lipulekh Pass in Uttarakhand — and the registration process for the annual pilgrimage has started, the External Affairs Ministry announced on Wednesday. The announcement comes after China[Read More…]
The northeastern state of Sikkim has been accredited of having the best working conditions for women, while the national capital Delhi ranked lowest, according to a report. The report released jointly by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a top American think-tank, and Nathan Associates, gave Sikkim 40[Read More…]