This year marks 50 years since Sikkim's integration into India. Before India's independence, the British, along with the ...

Sikkim became a part of India in 1975, thanks to the efforts of pro-democracy protesters in the erstwhile kingdom and PM ...

May 16 is annually commemorated as Sikkim Day, marking the former kingdom’s integration with India in 1975. On its 50th ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday greeted the people of Sikkim on its statehood day, lauding its strides in diverse ...

A public holiday declared tomorrow on 16th May in selected states of India. Schools, colleges, banks, and government offices ...

Gokhale) In the book, RN Kao: Gentleman Spymaster, strategic affairs analyst and author, Nitin A Gokhale, writes that the Chogyal, or the then King of Sikkim (Palden Thondup Namgyal), was ...

Monks Tenzin Choklang, Geshe-Tsering Chophel, Tenzin Chokrab and Lobsang Chogyal sat in two rows facing each other under the altar of Buddha with the photo of the Dalai Lama. The monks then ...

GBS Sidhu gives an insider's view of the chain of events that led to the merger of Sikkim with India in 1975, and outlines the interplay of personalities involved, such as Indira Gandhi ...

For those who do, it remains "a Himalayan tragedy", as Nari Rustomji, one of the first Indian administrators in Sikkim and a lifelong friend of its last Chogyal, put it in the title of his 1987 book.

Originally, Ray had his trepidations about doing the documentary, but he eventually acquiesced after Hope Cook (the American wife of the Chogyal of Sikkim, Palden Thondhup Namgyal) convinced him ...

Neera Shrestha Pradhan is Senior Water and Adaptation Specialist, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD); Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa is Cryosphere Analyst, ICIMOD ...