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No Headway in Tripartite ’Gorkhaland’ Meet but Solace for Gurung
Region: IndiaAs was expected, the tripartite talks on ‘Gorkhaland’ issue in New Delhi on 11th Aug’09 could not produce any tangible results. However Bimal Gurung and Co scored a moral and notional win over their archr... more
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The Demand for Gorkhaland
Region: IndiaThe demand for Gorkhaland is not the type of issue to just crop up today and dissolve tomorrow. This issue rose up decades ago and is re-reacted upon by the group of people who’ve merged up as one just a year ago. A... more
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GroundReporter Threatened for Covering Gorkhaland Movement
Region: IndiaI have been briskly covering the ‘Gorkhaland’ movement in the past giving my opinion side by side. To me this was a highly ill conceived movement which if succeeds would have the beginning of the end of a natio... more
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GJM Leaders Rescued by Police from Adivasi Encirclement in Dooars
Region: IndiaPolice forces avoided another flare up in Dooars, when they rescued Roshan Giri and Binay Tamang along with few others, who went to Ethelbari to attend the funeral of Akbar Lama, a Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) cadre who d... more
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Gorkha Janamukti Morcha on Violence Path in Dooars: Two Killed
Region: IndiaAs expressed by the this reporter in the article dated 4th Feb’09, the restive Gorkhaland movement has started entering the phase of violence when the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) supporters resorted to arson, looti... more
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Why Dooars and Siliguri are Included in Gorkhaland Map?
Region: IndiaGorkhaland movement organizers have issued a map of Gorkhaland, which includes, -apart from three hills subdivisions (Darjeeling, Kurseong and Kalimpong),- the Siliguri subdivision (that means whole of Darjeeling district ... more
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Inkling Into the Demands for New States if Gorkhaland is Created
Region: IndiaI have been maintaining all along that creating a miniature state of Gorkhaland would open ‘Pandora’s box’ and various ethnic and other aspirants for new states would put the country into turmoil of milit... more
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Is Gorkhaland Movement Entering a Phase of Violence?
Region: IndiaIt is now clear that the plea of Gandhian Philosophy in Gorkhaland movement was a ploy to create an alibi to show that the movement resorted to violence as the Gandhian ways failed. Now that they (political bosses of Gorkh... more
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Gorkhaland Movement Suffers Severe Backlash from Dooars Plains
Region: IndiaAfter a lull for about five months, the Gorkhaland movement faced its first severe backlash from plains of dooars in Jalpaiguri District where Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) supporters were confronted by anti-Gork... more
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Gorkhaland: Agitations Heat up Hills and Backlash from Plains
Region: IndiaFor 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 sta... more
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