For some time now, the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) has stepped up agitations in the hills by replacing the words ‘West Bengal’ with ‘Gorkhaland’ in all signboards, including signboards of state government offices, in the hill council areas of Darjeeling and making it mandatory to change the number plate to ‘GL’ in place of ‘WB’ for […]
AMSCO tight-lipped about its contract with Mujuru’s company
United Nations-owned African Management Services Company (AMSCO) terminated its contract with Zimbabwean diamond mining company River Ranch Limited more than a year ago but it has refused to disclose terms of its three-year contract. River Ranch also declined to discuss terms of the contract saying, “details of the contract and its implementation are confidential”. […]
"Bimal Gurung is another avatar of Ghisingh" Madan Tamang
DARJEELING: The possibility of the come back of People’s Democratic Front (PDF), a combined front of Hill Parties seems eminent after the announcement made by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) barring all parties from holding public meetings. Speaking at a press conference, All India Gorkha League strongly condemned GJM’s declaration."During the rule of Gorkha National Liberation […]
8 Reasons McCain Needs A Miracle to Win
If you’ve been watching the news for the last month, it seems like John McCain might actually pull out a victory in November. After months of the press fawning over the unlikely candidacy of Obama (remember, he’s a mixed race junior senator with no executive experience) the press has rediscovered that John McCain actually has […]
Obama raises $52 million in June; Romney will let financial losses go; McCain asks blacks not to for
Illinois Senator Barack Obama has added 20 campaign offices across Virginia. The move will allow him to compete vigorously in a critical state. "A lot of these places may have never had a presidential campaign before. It shows [Obama] is investing in the commonwealth and it is a bottom-up, not a top-down campaign," said Sen. […]
Supreme Court Ruling on Indiana Voter ID Law the ‘Wrong Decision’
by James Parks In a decision today that could disenfranchise millions of average Americans, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld, on a 6–3 vote, Indiana’s voter identification law, the most restrictive law of its kind in the country. In his dissent, Justice David Souter echoed what critics of the law have said all along: Indiana’s voter ID […]
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