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	<description>News, views and insights from Gorkhas World Over! A Blog by Barun Roy</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Czech scientist&#8217;s bail rejected</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FROM PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Siliguri (WB)(PTI): Amidst an outcry by the international scientific community over the arrest of a Czech entomologist for collecting insects from a national park in Darjeeling, a court on Monday refused him bail. 
Czech entomologist Petr Svacha and compatriot Emil Kusera, who were produced before the judicial magistrate yesterday, were denied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gorkha agitation in North Bengal hits hospitality business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From HospitalityBizIndia
By Satarupa Chakraborty &#124; Darjeeling 
The recent Gorkha Janamukti Morcha-led Gorkha agitation in North Bengal has led to a substantial drop in the state’s tourism and hospitality trade. The Gorkha’s demand for a separate state (Gorkhaland) has greatly affected five million tourism businesses in Darjeeling. Over 100 Darjeeling hotels and others in neighbouring states [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble in Darjeeling as India&#8217;s Gorkha people campaign for new state</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FROM AFP
DARJEELING, India (AFP) — Leaders of the ethnic Nepali-speaking minority in India&#8217;s mountainous and tea-rich northeast have started month-long prayers to press for their own federal state. Ethnic Gorkhas &#8212; who number more than a million in the eastern state of West Bengal &#8212; have been demanding a separate state within India for decades, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kalka-Shimla Railway is now a World Heritage Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FROM PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New Delhi, July 8 (PTI) The Kalka-Shimla Railway, considered an engineering marvel of the 19th century, has become a World Heritage Site with the UN approving it for inclusion in the World Heritage List.
Acknowledging its outstanding universal value, the Committee of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GJM writes to Buddhadeb for tripartite talks in Delhi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FROM PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Siliguri, June 8 (PTI) The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha today wrote to West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee requesting him to take the initiative for tripartite talks in New Delhi at the earliest.
The letter by GJM President Bimal Gurung was in reply to Bhattacharjee&#8217;s letter of July 5 in which he had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six arrested for attack on journalists in Gangtok</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gangtok, Jul 8 (PTI) In a major breakthrough in the brutal attack on a group of journalists on Friday last, the Sikkim police today arrested six persons, including the alleged mastermind Tinku Prasad.
Prasad was nabbed from a hideout at Siliguri in West Bengal, while other five - Suraj Gurung, Ashish Subba, Milan Rai, Roshan Gurung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are communists popular in West Bengal and Kerala ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THROUGH COMMENT AT BEACON ONLINE
By Sumita Ghosh

Inspite of economic policies that have destroyed industry in the two states , leaving the populations with no choice but to migrate to other states or out of the country to earn a livelihood , communists still win every election. In West Bengal in particular , the communists are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls participate actively in Gorkhaland Personnel Recuirtment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Photo by Himalaya Darpan
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		<title>Panorama is of the Sulaiman Range in western Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Today&#8217;s panorama is of the Sulaiman Range in western Pakistan, looking
northwest towards Afghanistan&#8217;s Kandahar district. I am sending this
image despite the technical imperfection contained in the original
Landsat 7 data. Normally I try to work around such problems, but in
this case there is no hope for a quick fix.

Dr. William A. Bowen
California Geographical Survey
Northridge, CA 91326


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		<title>Kolkata tea traders face shortage in warehousing space</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FROM THE HINDU BUSINESS LINE
Kolkata: The members of Calcutta Tea Traders Association (CTTA) are facing shortage in warehousing space, according to its Chairman, Mr Azam Monem. 
Addressing the 115th annual general meeting of the association here on Monday, Mr Monem said the available registered warehousing space for storage of auction teas was 13.5 lakh sq [...]]]></description>
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