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Topic: Sikkim

Sikkim CM Tamang pledges to ‘protect & conserve’ state’s special status

The revocation of Article 370 raised apprehensions across several northeastern states that also enjoy similar special status provisions in the Constitution.

BJP uses its favourite defection strategy to breach final northeast frontier Sikkim

With 10 of 13 Sikkim Democratic Front MLAs joining BJP, the party has now become the main opposition in a state where it traditionally had no foothold.

Why Sikkim CM Prem Singh Tamang’s appointment has been challenged, and what do rules say

SKM chief Prem Singh Tamang took oath as CM on 27 May this year. The appointment has been challenged due to his conviction in a 2016 corruption case.

After Andhra, Sikkim to scrap regulations to allow CBI probes in the state

The previous Sikkim Democratic Front government had in 2010 mandated CBI to seek prior consent before taking up an investigation against a state officer or public representative.

Sikkim’s new CM Golay announces 5-day working week for state govt employees

Reducing working days in a week to five, from a six-day week earlier, was part of Chief Minister P S Golay's election promises.

P S Golay, chief of SKM party, takes oath as Sikkim chief minister

P. S. Golay’s Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) won the assembly election by a slim 2-seat margin.

Meet the IIT grad and IFS officer who helped save Sikkim’s forests & dying springs

Sandeep Tambe’s proactive policy-making has also been instrumental in making Sikkim one of India’s most successful states in implementing MGNREGA.

These are the four states that will have assembly elections along with Lok Sabha polls

Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim will have simultaneous Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.

UP on a high: Govt study shows most cannabis users are in the populous state

A study covering all 36 states and Union territories found nearly 3% of Indians between ages 10 and 75 used cannabis, with UP topping the list.

The sordid underbelly of ‘golden state’ Sikkim — it’s India’s suicide capital

Despite a booming economy, Sikkim has the highest suicide rate among all Indian states, second only to the Union Territory of Puducherry.

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.