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Zindagi Rocks to release in SikkimGangtok, Apr 11: Getready to immerse yourselfin love and discoverfriendship all over againwith ‘Zindagi Rocks’, afilm of ‘Magical, Mysti-cal Youthfulness’.

After taking the neigh-boring country Nepal bystorm, ‘Zindagi Rocks’, arom-com adventure film isall set to woo the audi-ence of Sikkim, Darjeelingand kalimpong as it hitsthe theaters next month.

Having already creat-ed a huge buzz amongstteenagers in Nepal, thefilm is a warm, tear-jerk-ing and humorous 2 hourjourney into the lives offour friends who set outon an adventure trip andend up discovering theessence of love andfriendship along the way.

A tale of growing up,first romance and friend-ship, Zindagi Rocks isnot only joyful but is

also an upbeat comedywhich is often funny tothe bones.

The film star’s the newHeartthrob of Kollywood,Sauramraj Tuladhar alongwith Akesha Bista and Re-echa Sharma (Loot fame)in lead roles.

The movie also castsSonam Pakhrin from Kal-impong, Prakriti Shrestha(Hostel Fame), RajendraKhadgia and KekiAdhikari in prominentroles.

The movie is directedby Nikesh Khadka andproduced by Birendra K.Tuladhar under the ban-ner Vee productions.Popular musicianSugham Pokhrel has com-posed the music for thefilm and songs like ‘La-khar Lakhar’ and ‘ChokoMaya’ have already goneviral in YouTube addingto the popularity of thefilm.

Lok Adalatsettles 6 cases

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Gangtok, Apr 11: National LokAdalat relating to Labour andFamily matters was held todaythroughout the country.

Under the initiative, Sik-kim State Legal Services Au-thority constituted nine LokAdalat Benches at DistrictCourt Level and Taluk (Sub-Division) levels out of whichLabour and Family caseswere taken up in Court ofJudge Lok Adalat, East atGangtok, Court of District &Sessions Judge, West at Gy-alshing and Court of District& Sessions Judge, North atMangan. A total of 11 caseswere received out of which 6cases were successfully set-tled. A sum of Rs 3, 85,000,was also awarded by the LokAdalat Benches.

As per information SikkimSLSA would be organizingNational Lok Adalat on vari-ous subjects every month.

Gorkha organisation tobe set up in Siliguri

Siliguri, Apr 11: A meetingwas held this morning atGorkha Kalyan Sangathan inBikashnagar, Salugara be-tween the local Gorkha peo-ple and several noted Gorkhaliterateurs, authors, writersand activists. With the ob-jective of establishing cohe-siveness and solidarityamongst the Gorkha commu-nity residing in Siliguri, themeeting discussed over thepressing need of forming anorganization that would helpthe local Gorkha populacescattered across Siliguri tobuild a strong cohesivenessamongst the community.

Nar Bahadur Dahal, a not-ed local litterateur who alsopresided over the meetingand C.K.Shrestha, a localwriter and the chief guest fortoday's meeting were greet-ed with colourful khada and

tika. The welcome speechwas given by SurenPradhan, a social worker ofthe area.

During his keynote ad-dress, chief guest CK Shrest-ha, said that it has becomevery essential for the Nepalipeople living in Siliguri tostay united and foster broth-erhood amongst themselves,to which he proposed forsetting up of an organisationchristened as the ‘SiliguriGorkha Samaj’, an idea whichwas actually coined bySudha Pashi, a local activistwho wanted to call it ‘GorkhaMancha’.

“With the setting up ofthe Siliguri Gorkha Samaj, weNepalis living in Siliguri cancome to each other’s help,and stay united as well,” saidShrestha.

His idea of changing the

original name ‘Gorkha Man-cha’ into ‘Siliguri Gorkha Sa-maj’ was debated by 70-80%of the people present in theevent.

In response, SurenPradhan, who has beenelected the Convener forthree months for the pro-posed organisation said,“Within this span of threemonths, the committee shalldiscuss on the resolutionsand agendas required for set-ting up of the sangathan.”The name of the organisa-tion shall be finalised later. Itis a secondary issue, andshall be given a collectivethought afterwards,” he add-ed.

Also present in today'smeeting amongst many oth-ers were Sudha Pashi, a localactivist and social workerMakkar Dhoj Tamang. (HS)

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Regional and Sub-Regional Trends’

Gangtok, Apr 11: Two dayslong seminar on “Interrogat-ing Development: Regionaland Sub-Regional Trends”was held at St. Joseph’s Col-lege of Darjeeling recently.

The seminar was orga-nized to interrogate the ideaof development and to findout a critical stance of its re-gional and sub-regional man-ifestations.

Senior scholars of interna-tional repute like Prof. Virgin-ious Xaxa, Deputy Director,Tata Institute of Social Sci-ences, Gauhati and Prof.Sharit K Bhowmik, Tata In-stitute of Social Sciences,Mumbai and National Fellow,ICSSR, New Delhi graced thethe two days conference onMarch 29-30.

The conference was fund-ed by the ICSSR.

The other dignitaries whopresented speech in eachacademic session andchaired the technical ses-sions were Prof. SibranjanMishra, Visva Bharati, Prof.Abhijit Mitra, Burdwan Uni-versity, Dr. Dilip Sarkar, Prof.Sanchari Mukherjee and Dr.Swatahsiddha Sarkar, NorthBengal University. The sem-inar witnessed twenty fourresearch papers followed by

discussion thereafter.In the inaugural speech

of Dr. C. B. Rai, former princi-pal of St. Joseph’s Collegestressed on the contributionof Jesuits in the field of edu-cation in Darjeeling hills andthe significance of the phi-losophy of Rev. Father Ar-rupe at the level of collegiateeducation.

While introducing theconference theme convenorDr. Anjan Chakrabarti, Head,Department of Economicsheld the view that strategiesand policies for economicdevelopment often get con-tested and become conten-tious since most of our na-tional and regional econom-ic strategies focus on eco-nomic competitiveness thattoo in a knowledge drivenglobal economy.

Prof. Sharit Kumar Bhow-mik in his keynote addresspointed out that not only thewage differential betweenorganized and unorganizedsector is on rise, but the phe-nomenon is also the sameamong the same class of la-bourers in different unorga-nized sectors. He alsobrought his research find-ings on the present and fu-ture of the tea-gardens and

tea-gardens labourers of Dar-jeeling and Dooars region.Prof. Virginis Xaxa, Tata In-stitute of Social Science,Gauhati, in his special lectureraised the crucial questionthat the attempt to addressinequity, inequality throughso called development ulti-mately breeds furtherinequity,inequality.

Dr. Swatahsiddha Sarkarwhile presenting his argu-ment strongly argued thatthough development andpolitics are inseparable is-sues, development over andover again makes its pres-ence in a depoliticised form.To him, identity aspirationsand agenda for developmentoften become mutually exclu-sive however the reality de-nies such corroboration.

St. Joseph’s college hasdecided to bring out an edit-ed volume incorporatingthese presentations madeduring the conference days,which will not only help theresearchers of this region butalso prove to be an impor-tant policy document for var-ious policy makers and plan-ners working at both govern-ment and non-governmentagencies of this region andbeyond.

Khagragarh blast: NIAarrests a suspect in Malda

Malda, Apr 11: A five mem-ber team from the NationalInvestigation Agency (NIA)on Friday night apprehend-ed one Bin Amin Seikh (32)from Ansaritola village underBaliadanga GP of Kaliachakarea in Malda district near theIndo-Bangladesh border inconnection with the October2 2014 Khagragarh blastcase.

Amin was taken to Kolka-ta last night. The blast lastyear had occurred in a housein the Khagragarh locality ofBurdwan, killing two sus-pected terrorists of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen of Bang-ladesh on the spot and hadleft a third man severely in-jured. The police had seized55 improvised explosive de-vices, RDX, wrist watch di-als and SIM cards from the

spot on the day of explosion.Amin, arrested last nighthails from Bhagabangola inMurshidabad district andhad taken refuge at thehouse of one Mahbool Ra-haman at Ansaritola villageto escape arrest, said policesources.

The NIA officials on April2 had nabbed one MehboobSeikh on charges of provid-ing refuge to Amin who usedto frequent his house in Kali-achak. On questioning, Me-hboob had mentioned Aminto be one of those involvedin the Khagragarh blast case.The local police were in-formed by the NIA of Amin’svisit and had been instruct-ed to keep the suspect un-der constant vigil which fi-nally led to Amin’s arrest lastnight by the NIA team. (HS)

GPU level training onorganic farming

Dalapchand, Apr11: A Gram Pan-chayat Unit leveltraining and inter-action pro-gramme on SikkimOrganic Missionwas held at Dal-apchand GramPrasashan Ken-dra, East Sikkimon Friday. Theprogram was pre-sided over by thePanchayat Presi-dent, DalapchandGPU in presence of H. K.Gautam, Joint Director, Nat-ural Resource Management/Food Security and Agricul-ture Development Depart-ment, Nima Doma Bhutia,DDA, Tshering Chopel Bhu-tia, Mission Officer, Serviceprovider ICCOA, Official ofAgriculture and HorticultureDepartment, PanchayatMembers and farmers of theGPU.

While addressing theprogramme Joint DirectorH.K Gautam explained in de-tail about the aims and ob-jectives of the state govern-ment mission programme onOrganic farming and certifi-cation. He also explainedabout the soil testing report,soil health card and planthealth management. Tsher-ing Chopel Bhutia highlight-ed the benefit of organic ma-nure and organic pesticides,and its ultimate benefit to in-crease the productivity ofland in sustainable manner.The Panchayat President in-formed about the present sta-tus of organic farming in thearea and utilization of organ-

ic manure.The demonstration on

preparation and use of bio-agent/botanical extract in-cluding maintenance and ex-ercise on farm diary was alsodisplayed by service provid-er ICCOA for the benefit ofthe farmers. An interactivesession was arranged be-tween farmers and resourcepersons where the farmersshowed keen interest andactively participated in thediscussion.

Similarly, Day long GPUlevel training on organic farm-ing and certification was heldtoday at Chota SamdongArubotey Panchayat Bha-van for the farmers.

More than 80 participantsfrom different wards of GPUattended the training. Pan-chayat President Poon MayaSubba and the Deputy Direc-tor J.B. Subba attended theprogram.

Mission officer Ram Ku-mar Gurung stressed on theimportance of the OrganicMission of the State andurged the farmers to workhand in hand with the depart-ment and the ICS service pro-vider.

Kul Prasad Field OfficerMEVEDIR Staff – coveredthe ICS (Internal Control Sys-tem) process and the fieldfunctionaries of the MevedirStaff.

Deputy Director J.B. Sub-ba said that there will be man-darin plantation throughNREGA in Middle ChotaSamdong in 10 Ha area. Healso informed that there willbe cardamom plantationthrough NREGA in 15 Ha inDewanitar and Majuwa sothat the farmers should workhard and have surplus pro-duction so that the depart-ment gets active market ontheir produce.

Man arrested withfirearm

Malda, Apr 11: English Bazar police of Malda district apprehend-ed a man with a handgun from the local railway hospital area lateFriday night. The man has been identified as one Anis Khan (30),a resident of Sattari village under the EB police station.

Dipak Karmakar, the EB police station officer-in-chargesaid, “Some police officials patrolling the railway hospitalarea spotted the man in suspicious condition and detainedhim. Later a country made pistol and a few rounds of bulletswere recovered from him.” (HS)

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Duo injuredin road mishap

Malda, Apr 11: Two bikers were severely injured when theywere hit by two weight-laden lorries from behind, at theMathurapur area of Manikchowk under the Malda districttoday morning.

The incident occurred at around 8:30 am when the twobikers came in between the wheels of two ten-wheeled lor-ries. According to police, the lorries were over-carrying sand,due to which the drivers lost control resulting into the acci-dent. The injured duo has been admitted to Malda MedicalCollege and Hospital in critical condition and is undergoingtreatment. (HS)

Beijing, Apr 11: A nun setherself on fire while cryingout for the Dalai Lama to re-turn to Tibet in the latest indozens of self-immolationsin recent years by Tibetansprotesting Beijing's controlsover the region, overseasrights groups said.

Yeshi Khando, 47, of Nga-ngang Nunnery circledKardze Monastery in Si-chuan province and thenself-immolated on Wednes-day near the police station

while shouting slogans in-cluding "Tibet needs free-dom," London-based FreeTibet said in a statement Fri-day. She also called out "LetHis Holiness Return to Ti-bet" as she was on fire, thegroup said, a reference to theTibetan Buddhist spiritualleader who has lived for de-cades in exile in India.

The Washington, D.C.-based International Cam-paign for Tibet also reportedthe immolation, but used a

slightly different spelling forthe nun's name.

The groups said securitypersonnel and police usedextinguishers to put out theflames and took Yeshi Khan-do away, and that local sourc-es believed she died.

A woman reached at theGanzi county governmentdenied that any self-immola-tion happened on Wednes-day and hung up. Calls tothe county police office rangunanswered. Yeshi Khando's

nunnery could not be con-tacted.

Tibetan monks and nunsare among the most activeopponents of Chinese rule inthe region and face some ofthe harshest restrictions ontheir activities. Earlier thisweek, Tibet's CommunistParty chief Chen Quanguohas demanded that Buddhistmonasteries display the na-tional flag as part of effortsto shore up Chinese patrio-tism.

Dozens of Tibetan Bud-dhist monks and laypeoplehave set themselves on firein protest of Beijing's strictcontrols over the region andtheir religion and to call forthe return of the Dalai Lama,according to the overseasrights groups.

The International Cam-paign for Tibet says 113 menand 24 women have self-im-molated since March 2011,the vast majority of whomhave died.