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The Statesman, The Voice of Sikkim, Eastern Himalayan News Service. Nitesh R Pradhan ( Nepali: नितेश आर प्रधान, born 11 May 1990 as Nitesh Pradhan) is an Indian journalist based in Sikkim, India. He is the Editor of The Voice of Sikkim online web portal and a correspondent of RT for Sikkim. [1] [2] [3] He is also a ...
2023 Sikkim flash floods. On 4 October 2023, heavy rains caused the glacial South Lhonak lake in Sikkim, a state in northeastern India, to breach its banks, causing a glacial lake outburst flood. [1] The flood reached the Teesta III Dam at Chungthang at midnight, before its gates could be opened, destroying the dam in minutes. [2]
43.71%, 0 seat. Current seats. 1. 0. Incumbent Prime Minister. Narendra Modi. BJP. The 2024 Indian general election in Sikkim was held on 19 April 2024 to elect the sole member of 18th Lok Sabha from Sikkim. [1] Legislative assembly was held simultaneously with the general election.
Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (translation: Sikkim Revolutionary Front) is a political party in the Indian state of Sikkim which is the ruling party of Sikkim since 2019. P.S. Golay , a member of the Sikkim Legislative Assembly , was one of the prominent figures of the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) and was a minister in the government of Sikkim.
Sikkim has the third-highest per capita alcoholism rate amongst all Indian states, behind Punjab and Haryana. Media The Dro-dul Chorten Stupa in Gangtok. In 1957, a Nepali monthly magazine Kanchenjunga became the first news outlet for the masses in Sikkim. The southern urban areas of Sikkim have English, Nepali and Hindi daily newspapers.
Sikkimese people. Sikkimese are people who inhabit the Indian state of Sikkim. The dominance ethnic diversity of Sikkim is represented by 'Lho-Mon-Tsong-Tsum' that identifies origin of three races since seventeenth century. The term 'Lho' refers to Bhutias (Lhopo) means south who migrated from Southern Tibet, the term 'Mon' refers to Lepchas ...
Sikkim Express is an English daily newspaper published from Gangtok, Sikkim, India. [2] It is the oldest and largest circulated English daily newspaper in Sikkim. The news paper started as weekly in 1976 and converted as daily in 2003 and it is the first English newspaper of Sikkim state. [3] It won Best Small Newspaper (English) in India at ...
Since 1974, Sikkim has had five chief ministers. The first was Kazi Lhendup Dorjee of the Indian National Congress. Pawan Kumar Chamling of the Sikkim Democratic Front was the longest serving Chief Minister of Sikkim from 1994 to 2019. He occupied the office longer than all his predecessors put together and currently holds the record for ...