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Topic: Sikkim

In 20 years, no one in this Assam village has missed out on weekly cleanliness drives

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

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.

On Camera

Nitish Kumar’s journey from endurance to exhaustion

Nitish Kumar has mastered the rhythm of renewal in Bihar. In a democracy of churn and chance, endurance may be the rarest—and most refined—form of political art.

India may cancel green projects struggling to find clients

While the move could free up grid capacity struggling to keep up with rapid renewable rollout, it would be a major setback for green ambitions. India aims to double clean power capacity to 500 gigawatts by the end of the decade.

‘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.