Sikkim

Forests in Northeast are a victim of wilful encroachers: Elephants have nowhere to go

Bhumika Arora - March 3, 2021

India’s northeastern region — comprising Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura — is a unique biodiversity hotspot and the large...

Get off Galwan; Naku-La Pass is the new India-China flare-up zone

Newsbred Staff - February 3, 2021

Media hasn’t stayed put on the violent skirmish between Indian and Chinese soldiers at the Naku-La Pass in north Sikkim on January 20. Even...

Indian, Chinese armies clash at borders in Sikkim

Newsbred Staff - January 25, 2021

Just as India and China resumed their ninth round of military talks on Sunday, the report has come in that three days ago, their...

China has deployed satellite jammers near Arunachal Pradesh border: Reports

Sanjay K. Sharma - November 22, 2020

China has deployed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles at Hoping airbase, close to Sikkim according to Intel reports, An electronic warfare unit with four counter space jammers...

Rajnath Singh to do ‘Shastra Puja’ with forward troops on Dussehra

Newsbred Staff - October 24, 2020

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will today (24 October) leave for West Bengal's Sukna-based 33 Corps, a crucial Army formation that has the 17 (Gangtok),...

Mehbooba watches L-Gs come and go; and her PDP hang by a thread

Sant Kumar Sharma - August 8, 2020

Mehbooba Mufti, still chief of People’s Democratic Party (PDP), is watching Lieutenant Governors come and go even as she hibernates in her den. The...

Sikkim livid as Kejri’s govt. advertises it to be a foreign country

Newsbred Staff - May 23, 2020

Sikkim is livid that in a latest advertisement in newspapers by the Arvind Kejriwal government, Sikkim is shown to be a foreign country. Sikkim’s chief...

Why Muslims owe a lot to Sardar Patel

Ashish Shukla - October 31, 2017

This is the centenary of the year when Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel first met Mahatma Gandhi and India got its unifier as we know the...

Doklam has put Russia in a quandary

Ashish Shukla - July 3, 2017

By M.K. Bhadrakumar Through the month-long India-China standoff in Doklam near Sikkim border, Moscow has not spoken. Russian diplomacy is presumably at work. The ground...

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