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Continuing his fine run in his comeback from ankle surgery, India pacer Mohammed Shami will be in the spotlight as Bengal face strong challenge from a rampaging Baroda in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 quarterfinal in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
The tourists were returning from Nathu La pass and Tsomgo (Changu) Lake on Friday evening when snowfall in the region blocked roads, leaving over 300 to 400 civil vehicles stranded at various points on Jawahar Lal Nehru Road, East Sikkim District Magistrate Kapil Meena said.
The music composer is the state's first ever brand ambassador!
The 40-year-old Rai has won medals in every championships at the global and continental level but not the Olympics.
It was a call from his conscience -- a call which urged Bhaichung Bhutia to take mainstream football to his homeland Sikkim.
Some ministers are likely to be sworn in along with Golay, who was elected as the leader of the SKM legislature party on Saturday night.
We invited readers to share their college recommendations to the Class of 2010 -- the colleges with the best teachers, facilities, study programmes. Here we present the responses we recieved for colleges in Sikkim.
Kangana Ranaut's decline as an actor feels complete, observes Utkarsh Mishra.
Taking to the social media platform, Modi captioned the images, "Serene and splendid! Clicked these pictures on the way to Sikkim. Enchanting and incredible!"
The exchange took place at five Border Personnel Meeting points along the LAC, the sources added.
A list of the programmes on offer at the Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technological Sciences.
China also hinted that India was objecting to its efforts to build the road in Donglang area of the Sikkim sector on behalf of Bhutan.
Kauthankar and Bakle's partnership is second only to 624 runs for the third wicket, achieved by Sri Lankans Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene during a Test match against South Africa in Colombo, SSC in July 2006.
Dilip Vengsarkar, a former India captain and current BCCI Apex Council member, on Wednesday expressed his pleasure over the 'almost ready' National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru, which will be inaugurated later this week.
The Indian Army and the CRPF rush to the rescue...
Many of them sustained minor injuries in the clash near Naku La in the Sikkim sector along the Sino-Indo border on Saturday
Torrential rains pounded the tiny Himalayan state of Sikkim and the tea growing region of North Bengal, causing landslides that cut off National Highway-10, the main road linking Gangtok with the rest of the country.
Former Indian football captain, Bhaichung Bhutia inaugurated the first ever Sikkim Paragliding Festival by taking the first jump from a cliff in Gangtok.
Consultant, critic, fiction writer, columnist and theatre director and novelist Vijay Nair recounts his seven-day trekking experience to Sikkim.
The low intensity quake which lasted just a few seconds had its epicentre 23 km north-west of Gangtok in the north district, the sources said adding, these tremors must have been felt in parts of north Bengal and Assam too.
The worst-affected Mangan and Singhtam areas in quake-hit Sikkim are still out of bounds for rescue workers with massive landslides blocking key roads on Tuesday.
There is nothing India-like about Sikkim and nothing Sikkimese about, well, large parts of India.
Senior government sources told ANI that one such camp is coming up few kilometres inside the Chinese territory opposite the Naku La area in north Sikkim area, which is barely a few minutes distance from the area where Indian and Chinese troops had clashed last year when the confrontation started and also in January this year.
Political parties have fielded sons, wives and daughters-in-law of legislators who quit after being elected to the Lok Sabha.
Milind Kumar played seven seasons for Delhi in Ranji Trophy along with stints for Sikkim and Tripura before he migrated to the US in search of better opportunities.
Sikkim scored a superb 4-3 win over Orissa, while Punjab thrashed Chhattisgarh 5-0 in the preliminary league match of the Santosh Trophy.
Inflencer and vlogger Shenaz Treasury chooses her favourite quiet spots.
In Maharashtra's 288-member assembly, the share of legislators with college degrees increased over the past decade.
President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday approved 139 Padma awards including seven Padma Vibhushans, 19 Padma Bhushans and 113 Padma Shris.
Exactly a year after a powerful earthquake killed 90 people and ravaged large parts of Sikkim, a moderate tremor measuring 4.1 jolted the state on Tuesday evening, sending people out of their homes, but there was no immediate report of casualty or damage to properties.
Pilgrims travelling through the Lipulekh Pass in Uttarakhand will continue as scheduled.
At 13, Naseer Khan left Bihar to work in a saw-mill in Bhutan. He learnt the craft of making sofas, and some of the pieces he made found a place in the royal palace. He returned home after spending 35 years in the Himalayan kingdom, and has continued making sofas, restoring old furniture and creating wire-gutting chairs, all that has become a dying art now.
In yet another incident of Chinese transgressions into Indian territory, the People's Liberation Army personnel entered Indian territory in Sikkim and returned after spending some time.
BJP leader Pema Khandu took oath as the chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh for the third consecutive term on Thursday.
A man has built an eco-friendly house with mud, mud tiles, jute, metal, and toys in Kozhikode, Kerala.
Between 71 to 82 per cent polling was registered in five Lok Sabha seats in the eastern states of Tripura, Assam and of Sikkim in the fourth phase of the polls on Saturday.
The Indian Army's Trishakti Corps rescued 1,217 tourists stranded due to snowfall and inclement weather in East Sikkim.
Setting aside ideological differences, the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of India Marxist have joined hands in Sikkim to unitedly fight Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling's Sikkim Democratic Front in the assembly polls scheduled to be held later this year.The decision to form the UDF was taken in a meeting of Opposition leaders. The alliance is between the three national level parties and two other regional parties.
