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A total of 148 candidates contested this time for the 32 wards, the highest number of candidates in fray for a civic election at the 122-year-old municipality

Hours after the Bengal government announced a partial lockdown on January 3, Ajoy Edwards declared that his outfit would halt all political activities

Leonard R. “Lenny” Kaiser, the former mayor of North Arlington, and a fixture in Bergen County politics and government for 34 years died September 11, 2021

Glenary’s, the Darjeeling eatery, has decided to convert its restaurant section into an isolation centre for treating Covid-19 patients free of charge. Ajoy Edwards, the owner of the 130-year-old eatery, said the decision had been taken as it was time for every citizen to “fight this war” in his/her own way. “We have decided to convert the restaurant on the top floor into an isolation centre with a basic oxygen supply facility. We will also provide food and medicines to patients free of cost,” said Edwards. The state government had on May 3 issued an advisory requesting social organ...

An analysis of Assembly election results by the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) suggests the party’s decision to concentrate on social works over political activities in the past one year has paid dividends. GNLF leader Neeraj Zimba won the Darjeeling seat on a BJP ticket. The GNLF also supported BJP candidate B.P. Bajgain, who won the Kurseong seat. However, the GNLF-backed BJP candidate Suva Pradhan lost the Kalimpong seat by a margin of 3,500-odd votes to Ruden Sada Lepcha of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s Binay Tamang faction. “We had not been able to do much social work at Bi...