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Topic: Sikkim

Culinary competition to bring ‘lost & forgotten cuisines’ of Sikkim to five-star menus

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

Meghalaya football fan clubs go beyond playground, provide aid in rural areas

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

Why Sikkim, which had no Covid cases till May, now has third-highest case fatality rate

Sikkim's CFR surged to 2.07 per cent Thursday from 1.79 per cent on 30 October, which is much higher than India's average of 1.47.

‘Wanted to know how it feels to fly’ — 82-year-old grandmother is Sikkim’s oldest paraglider

Dukmit Lepcha took to the skies last week, paragliding near the Aangi monastery at Ranka, a small town near Gangtok. She flew for 6 mins at an elevation of about 4,500 feet. 

Nagaland residents give free lifts at night as part of campaign to make India ‘rape free’

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

Sikkim model village, built to rehabilitate homeless, has been a ghost town for 20 years

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

Sikkim stopped seeing drug users as criminals and look what happened

In 2018, Sikkim Anti-Drugs Act decriminalised illicit drug use and laid down elaborate provisions for detoxification and rehabilitation.

Mizoram, Sikkim & Arunachal Pradesh among India’s top 10 ‘happy’ states, finds survey

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

Sikkim teacher, recovering from Covid in hospital, continues his online classes

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

One of the world’s spiciest chillies — Sikkim’s Dalle Khursani — to get GI tag

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

On Camera

Meghnad Desai was a man of many passions. Marxian economics, politics to Bollywood

Meghnad’s interest went much beyond economics and politics. This is reflected in his writing, particularly after his retirement as a full-time LSE professor in 2003.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.