Sikkim resumes commercial flight services after 19 months
India | January 24, 2021 9:23 ISTCommercial passenger flight services at Sikkims lone airport at Pakyong near Gangtok resumed on Saturday after a gap of about 19 months.
Commercial passenger flight services at Sikkims lone airport at Pakyong near Gangtok resumed on Saturday after a gap of about 19 months.
Direct flight services between Delhi and Sikkim commenced on Saturday with a SpiceJet aircraft landing at Pakyong airport in the Himalayan statewith 57 passengers, officials said.
Former Sikkim chief minister Sanchaman Limboo died after a prolonged illness at a state-run hospital here on Sunday. He was 73 and is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.
Moderate-intensity earthquakes measuring 3.2 and 3.6 on the Richter scales hit Manipur and Sikkim respectively on Sunday, officials said. According to the Disaster Management officials of the two northeastern states, no report of loss of life or damage to property has been received yet.
Schools in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Sikkim will reopen from Monday. The schools will reopen for classes 9 to 12 in the three states after remaining shut for over six months due to the pandemic.
The Sikkim government transport undertaking SNT will run special bus services in Gangtok area to help students appearing in different examinations as a complete lockdown has been imposed in the city from September 21 to 27 to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Monsoon has long set in in the country, several parts of the country are witnessing floods. The rising waters have caused trouble in metropolis of Mumbai as well. The iconic Kirateshwar temple in Legship village of Sikkim is facing the rising menace of floodwater.
The Sikkim government on Friday extended the complete lockdown in the state till August 3 in view of a spurt in COVID-19 cases, a senior official said.
A complete, six-day lockdown, imposed by the hilly state, was scheduled to end on Sunday.
Sikkim government has decided to impose a week of complete lockdown in the state in light of the COVID-19 situation. The lockdown will come into effect from July 21. During the lockdown government and private offices, shops, business establishments, schools will remain closed.
Landslides, occurred after continuous rainfall for last four days, have cut off entire North Sikkim from the rest of the state.
Days after Indo-China clash in the Galwan Valley in Eastern Ladakh, an undated video of soldiers of both the armies, has surfaced showing Chinese soldiers being punched by Indian soldiers in a snow-covered high-altitude face-off in Sikkim.
The Sikkim government has deferred reopening of educational institutes by a month due to the COVID-19 outbreak and decided to resume classes inschools, colleges and universities in the first week of August this year, officials said.
Three more states -- Odisha, Sikkim and Mizoram -- have joined the 'One Nation-One Ration Card' scheme, taking the number of states and union territories (UTs) which have joined the scheme to 20, Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Monday.
The first reported clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) occurred on May 9 in the area of Nakula in north Sikkim.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal on Saturday announced suspension of an employee responsible for showing Sikkim as an 'independent nation,' but the map row escalated: the Sikkim government has now written to the Delhi Chief Secretary objecting to the state being referred to as an independent country in one of the Delhi government advertisements, calling it "hurtful".
Sikkim reported its first COVID-19 case on Saturday as a 25-year-old student who recently returned from Delhi tested positive for the disease, a senior official said.
Two men of the Indian Army's patrolling-cum-snow clearance party lost their lives in an avalanche that hit an Indian Army post in North Sikkim.
An avalanche has hit Lugnak La region in Sikkim. As per initial reports, a patrolling cum snow clearance party of 17-18 soldiers came under the avalanche. An army officer and a soldier lost their lives while others were rescued after an intense search operation.
The Ministry of External Affairs organises the Mansarovar yatra from June-September each year through two different routes -- Lipulekh Pass (Uttarakhand) and Nathu La Pass (Sikkim). Kailash Mansarovar is in Tibet.
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