Darjeeling

Darjeeling prepares second Tourism Working Group Meeting of G20 on April 1

Preparations are in full swing in West Bengal's Darjeeling district for the 2nd Tourism Working Group Meeting of G20, which will begin on April 1, officials said on Sunday. At the first meeting held in Gujarat's Kachchh in February, five priorities were identified for the sector -- green tourism, digitalisation, skills, tourism MSMEs and destination management. At the second meeting in Darjeeling, representatives of G20 countries, invitee nations and international organisations will be discussing deeper aspects of the five priorities, they said. The Tourism Ministry will also host a side event on 'adventure tourism as a vehicle for achieving Sustainable Development Goals'. All the Northeastern states will make presentations at the event, they added. A full-day programme has also been organised for the domestic tourism industry, and the states to deliberate on adventure tourism, officials said. The delegates will be staying at a resort in New Chumta Tea Garden in Siliguri, where all

Cup of woes: Darjeeling tea production slips to near two-decade low

Figure is even marginally lower than in 2020, when a nationwide lockdown was imposed to contain Covid-19; Tea Board chief says output has gone down because due to old bushes

Climate change, competition from cheaper tea imperil Darjeeling industry

Darjeeling tea with its bright metallic colour was the first product of the country to be awarded the Geographical Indication (GI) trademark in 2004

RLDA invites bids for leasing 22,182 sqm of land in Darjeeling

The proposed land parcel will be leased out for 99 years and the reserve price of the land is Rs 73 crores

TMC's Binoy Tamang quits party, hours after change of guard in Darjeeling

He said that he would dedicate his life to the people of his region and to restore democracy and stop corruption in the hill town

Counting underway for GTA polls in Darjeeling; TMC bags maiden seat

This is for the first time that the TMC has managed to win a seat in the GTA, alongside the newly floated Hamro Party and the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha

A tourist makeover for Darjeeling tea industry to beat a growing crisis

The region's storied estates are upping the luxe quotient by foraying into hotels and resorts

Darjeeling polls: Parties stir bitter brew of tourism, tea & tap water

Political observers believe that memories of the 2017 statehood agitation by GJM, which was crushed by West Bengal's TMC, will play a part in the upcoming election

Form 12D to be circulated for 19,000 voters in West Bengal's Darjeeling

Darjeeling district Election Officer has said that 12D forms will be circulated among 19,000 voters in Darjeeling district for those who have crossed eighty years of age for the West Bengal polls

Darjeeling in 1905

The two most important factors in the development of Darjeeling have been the choice of the district for a health resort and the subsequent planting of tea in the hills

Violence returns to bandh-hit Darjeeling

After alleged 'miscreants' burnt the house of the chairman of the Khas Development Board of the GTA

Violence continues in Darjeeling hills, Army patrols streets

Scenic hills were largely shorn of tourists as Gorkhaland stir threw normal life into utter disarray