Most people live fairly close to the market and so they walk between their homes and the market. Those staying far from the town centre own vehicles or rely on local share-taxis to travel to their destinations. Taxis for exclusive use around the city are also available. Four wheel drives are the most popular means of transport, as they can easily navigate the steep slopes in the region. The nearest airport is Bagdogra Airport near Siliguri located at a distance of 80 km (50 miles), while the nearest railhead connecting the r ...

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Kalimpong receives almost all the television channels that are received in the rest of India. Cable Television serves most of the homes in the city, while Direct To Home is more common in the outlying areas. Besides mainstream Indian channels, Kalimpong also receives local Nepali language channels. Newspapers in Kalimpong include English language dailies, The Statesman and The Telegraph, which are printed in Siliguri, and The Hindu and the Times of India which are printed in Kolkata (Calcutta), and are received after a day's delay. In addition to these one can also find a f ...

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Sikkim does not have any airports or railheads because of its rough terrain. The closest airport, Bagdogra Airport, is near the town of Siliguri, West Bengal. The airport is about 124 km away from Gangtok. A regular helicopter service run by the Sikkim Helicopter Service connects Gangtok to Bagdogra; the flight is thirty minutes long. The Gangtok helipad is the only civilian helipad in the state. Sikkim is slated to get its own airport in 2005. The closest railway station is New Jalpaiguri which is situat ...

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The main mode of public transport is the cycle rickshaw. Among personal transport, people use bicycles and other two-wheelers. Use of four-wheelers are also catching up slowly. The town is very well connected to neighbouring Siliguri (45 km away), and Kolkata by bus. Bus services to all neighbouring towns and districts are good. Jalpaiguri lies in the NorthEast Frontier Railway zone of the Indian Railways. There are Railway links to the rest of the country directly and via Kolkata as well. The major railway junction of New Jalpaiguri is just 40 km from the town. The other stations servicing the town dire ...

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Darjeeling is a town in the Indian state of West Bengal and headquarters of Darjeeling district, situated in the foothills of the Himalaya at elevations of between 2,000 and 3,000 metres above sea level. With India attaining independence on 15 August 1947, the district of Darjeeling remained in the partitioned section of Bengal (West Bengal) and therefore in the Indian union. With the district's sub-Himalayan and geographical condition, it occupied a unique status in the state. The only remaining industry, that is the Te ...

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West Bengal (পশ্চিম বঙ্গ, Pościm Bôngo) is a state in the eastern region of India. Neighbouring regions are Nepal to the northwest, Sikkim and Bhutan to the north, Assam to the northeast, Bangladesh to the east, the Bay of Bengal to the south, Orissa to the southwest and Jharkhand and Bihar to the west. West Bengal - History. For more on Bengal's history prior to 1947, see Bengal. Bengal was ruled by the Buddhist Pala dynasty from 750 to 1161. The Palas were eclipsed by ...

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Melli (also spelt Malli) is a town on the West Bengal-Sikkim border on the River Teesta. The appellation Melli in Nepali means the place where the dead are cremated. Melli is one of the few towns present in India that lie in two different states. A bridge connects the two parts of the town. The part of the town in West Bengal is also called as Melli Bazaar. The town lies on National ...

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Sikkim is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas. It is the least populous state in India, and the second smallest in area after Goa. Sikkim was an independent state ruled by the Chogyal monarchy until 1975, when a referendum to make it India's twenty-second state succeeded. The thumb-shaped state borders Nepal in the west, the People's Republic of China to the north and east, and Bhutan in the south-east. The Indian state of West Bengal borders Sikkim to its south. The official language is Nepali, and the predominant religions are Hinduism and Vajrayana Buddh ...

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Gorumara National Park - Biomes. The park falls in the Indomalaya ecozone. Inside the park, the primary biomes corresponding to the ecozone are: Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands of the Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests of the Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome Both of these are typical of the Bhutan - Nepal - India Terai submontan ...

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List of political parties in the state The capital city of West Bengal is Kolkata. The primary language of West Bengal is Bengali. Since 1977, the state has been ruled by Left Front, who repeatedly won democratic elections. West Bengal - Subdivisions. West Bengal is composed of 19 districts [1] : Often the districts north of the Ganges ie., Cooch Behar, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, North Dinajpur, South Dinajpur and Malda are together termed as North Bengal. Ban ...

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The fair is held on the Maidan,Calcutta's large urban park. It is held at the Park Street end of the Maidan, due to a better road and rail network, having moved there from the other end of Maidan in 1991. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Calcutta played host to two annual book fairs, one by the Calcutta Publishers' and Booksellers' Guild, and one by the Government of West Bengal - the 'Grontho Mela' ('Grontho' is archaic Bengali word for book). 'Grontho Mela' used to be held in late December and continued till early January, and was ...

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A plan for a rail system in India was first put forward in 1832, but no further steps were taken for more than a decade. In 1844, the Governor-General of India Lord Hardinge allowed private entrepreneurs to set up a rail system in India. Two new railway companies were created and the East India Company was asked to assist them. Interest from investors in the UK led to the rapid creation of a rail system over the next few years. The first train in India became operational on 1851-12-22, and was used for the hauling of construction material in ...

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The company was eastablished in 1959 as Indian Oil Company Ltd. Indian Oil Corporation was formed in 1964 with the merger of Indian Refineries Ltd. (Estd. 1958) with the Indian Oil Company Ltd. Guwahati Refinery, the first public sector refinery of the country, was built with Romanian collaboration and was inagurated by the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, on January 1, 1962. IndianOil refineries registered a record throughput of 35,300,00 tonnes during the financial year surpassing th ...

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Until the mid-19th century, the area around Kalimpong was ruled intermittently by the Sikkimese and Bhutanese kingdoms. Present-day Kalimpong is believed to have once been the forward position of the Bhutanese in the 18th century, overlooking the Teesta Valley. The area was sparsely populated by the indigenous Lepcha community and migrant Bhutia and Limbu tribes. After the Anglo-Bhutan War in 1864, the Treaty of Sinchula (1865) was signed in which Bhutanese held territory east of the Teesta River was ceded to the British East India Company. ...

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Not much is known about the early history of Gangtok. The earliest records date from the construction of the hermitic Gangtok monastery in 1716. Gangtok remained a small hamlet until the construction of the Enchey Monastery in 1840 made it a pilgrimage center. After the defeat of the Tibetans by the British, Gangtok became a major stopover in the trade between Tibet and British India at the end of the 19th century. Most of the roads and the telegraph in th ...

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Jalpaiguri was initially founded as a trading centre, as the origins of its name suggests. The name Jalpaiguri comes from the Bhutanese term je-le-pe-go-ri, which means 'a place where warm clothes are bought and sold'. Some people attribute the name to the more common Bengali term jalpai, which means Olives and thus the name meaning the town of Olives. The town was part of the Duars area of the old Kamarupa and later the Bhutanese kingdoms, which was later annexed by the British in 1864. They divided the captured ...

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Henipavirus - Emergence. Nipah virus was identified in 1999 when it caused an outbreak of neurological and respiratory disease on pig farms in peninsular Malaysia, resulting in 105 human deaths and the culling of one million pigs (Field et al., 2001). In Singapore, 11 cases including one death occurred in abattoir workers exposed to pigs imported from the affected Malaysian farms. Symptoms of infection from the Malaysian outbreak were primarily encephalitic in humans and respiratory in pigs. Later o ...

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The earliest recorded event related to Sikkim is the passage of the Buddhist saint Guru Rinpoche through the land in the 8th century. The Guru is reported to have blessed the land, introduced Buddhism to Sikkim, and foretold the era of monarchy in the state that would arrive centuries later. In the 14th century, according to legend, Khye Bumsa, a prince from the Minyak House in Kham in Eastern Tibet, had a divine revelation one night instructing him to travel south to seek his fortunes. His descendants were later to form the royal family of ...

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Loop No.1 was located in the woods above Sukna. It was removed after flood damage in 1991. The site is now lost in the forest. Rangtong A short distance above Rangtong, there is a water tank. This was a better position for the tank than in the actual station, both in terms of water supply and distance between other water tanks. When Loop 2 was removed in 1942, again following flood damage, a new reverse was added. This reverse, No.1, involves the train making the longest of all runs backwards. Loop No ...

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Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, Darjeeling Himalayan Railway - The Route, Darjeeling Himalayan Railway - Locomotives

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