Darjeeling Red Round Potato – The lost varieties
Darjeeling Red Potato was once the most cultivated commercial variety of potato in India. However, it is today in domestic quarantine due to Wart disease.
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Darjeeling Artists to Collaborate on the first Nepali Jazz-Funk music
Artists from Darjeeling – Yankee Yolmo, Vedant Baraili, Daniel Rai, and writer Pushpa Rai come together to produce the first ever Nepali Jazz-funk music
Meghalaya CM and Darjeeling MLA write to Home Minister in support of Permanent Solution for Gorkhaland
NPP Chief and Meghalaya CM, Conrad Sangma writes to Home Minister in support of Permanent Political Solution for Gorkhas
Addressing Mental Health Concerns in Schools in Darjeeling within the COVID19 Pandemic and Beyond
Following the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID19) and the ensuing lockdown, the psychological health of society has been put under immense pressure. Fear, stress, and anxiety over health, social isolation, education, and livelihood prevail.
Tsheten Dukpa Limbu – Taking Typical Darjeeling Cuisine to the World
Our Darjeeling foods content various nutrients, we use various herbs while cooking which can be of medical purposes, and most importantly we have unique dishes according to different cultures. So we need to preserve theses and let the world know about our cuisine.
COVID19 Pandemic and Drug Addiction in Darjeeling
Drug addiction is a common problem of youths these days. Most studies reveal that drug addicts are from the urban areas where there is sufficient…
Mountain Farmers of Sikkim-Darjeeling Dealing with COVID & Nature
Although Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts of West Bengal and the state of Sikkim have been projected predominantly as tourist sites, the mainstay of the rural population continues to be agriculture. According to Census 2011, the majority of the population here are rural (60.58% in Darjeeling-Kalimpong & 75.03% in Sikkim) and agriculture is the main occupation. Here farming communities depend on wage labour, small businesses and tourism (homestays) to augment their income from agriculture and all these were also closed during the lockdown period.
Darjinc Jhola – Darjeeling Startup Offers Free Home Delivery of Groceries
As Darjeeling battles the dreaded COVID19 with the lockdown in effect, Darjinc, a rising startup, began its venture ‘JHOLA’ for free home delivery of groceries and other essential goods. A brainchild of homegirl Prashansa Gurung, the service is available via a simple call or a message on WhatsApp. Be it vegetables, fruits, meat and other essentials like oil, kinema and other local produce like churpee, kinema, paade gheeu, putka ko maha among others. Darjinc delivers it all and uses eco-friendly, reusable packing in its larger goal of sustainability for the town.
West Bengal Govt to Pay Full Fare – After Darjeeling MP Raju Bista Accused Minister Gautam Deb of “Lying”
The West Bengal Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha has written to the Chairman of the Railway Board Vinod Kumar Yadav stating the willingness of West Bengal government to bear the “entire cost of movement by special trains to West Bengal, of migrants of the State stranded in various parts of the country”.
Home Quarantine is Dangerous for Darjeeling Hills
In this crucial time of the COVID 19 that rendered thousands of migrant labourers, students, medical patients as well as travellers in a difficult situation outside their home, many states including Sikkim has already taken an initiative to bring them back home but with strict norms of 14 days quarantine at designated quarantine centres.