When actress and writer Paakhi A Tyrewala decided to make her feature filmmaking debut with the Sikkimese movie Pahuna: The Little Visitors in a language with which she wasn’t familiar, she knew she ...

The Sikkimese indigenous groups view the expansion of the term ‘Sikkimese’ to include persons who were not in the citizens’ register during the Chogyal era (they were ‘foreigners’ then) as a veritable ...

The Supreme Court on Friday, in a judgment, held that exclusion of Sikkimese women who marry non-Sikkimese men after April 1, 2008 from exemptions under the Income Tax Act is unconstitutional and ...

The assault of an activist in Sikkim’s Singtam town on April 9 has once again drawn attention to the concerns over the redefinition of who counts as “Sikkimese” for tax purposes in the Finance Act, ...

SDF supremo Pawan Kumar Chamling claimed that the Sikkimese people feel betrayed as Article 371F, which guarantees special provisions for Sikkim, was “violated”. The former Chief Minister, in a ...

SDF supremo Pawan Kumar Chamling claimed that the Sikkimese people feel betrayed as Article 371F, which guarantees special provisions for Sikkim, was “violated”. The former chief minister, in a ...

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on Monday, assured the people of Sikkim that nothing had changed with regard to the definition of the term “Sikkimese” as the central government had ...

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Monday said the identity of Sikkimese people is intact as the Supreme Court has expunged its remark that they are Nepali migrants. Nothing has changed about ...

NEW DELHI: The Joint Action Council (JAC), a non-political civil society platform, organized an all-party meeting in Gangtok to address the re-verdict issued by the Supreme Court. The meeting involved ...