A 15-year-old school girl was bludgeoned to death during an attempted rape inside a jungle at Matigara in north Bengal’s Siliguri region on Monday | Kolkata News
Despite not leaving any mark in the two hill districts of Darjeeling and Kalimpong, the ruling Trinamool Congress has reasons to cheer over the results of the panchayat polls in these two districts.Unlike the remaining districts, polls were .
The Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha stamped its authority in most parts of Darjeeling and Kalimpong in the just-concluded panchayat polls but suffered serious setbacks in Mirik subdivision
The party, which is an ally of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the hilly regions of north Bengal, bagged 349 out of 598 gram panchayat seats in Darjeeling. In Kalimpong, out of 281 seats in 42 gram panchayats, BGPM won 168 seats in at least 30 gram panchayats | Kolkata News