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Siliguri, 7 June: After getting shelter in India, Mother with her six year-old female child who are Nepal’s earthquake victims and two Indian citizens today were killed in a road accident at Siliguri.

According to received information from the eye-witnesses and Siliguri Metropolitan Police (SMP), four people including a female child and a woman whose are the victims of the devastating earthquake…

GORKHA BATTALION CELEBRATES 200 YEARS IN SILIGURI

Siliguri, 24 April: ‘First Battalion of the Third Gorkha Rifles’ also known as the ‘Ahmed Khel Family’ celebrated its Bi-Centenary on 24 Apr 2015. The Battalion was raised at Hawalbagh near Almora by Lieutenant Sir Robert Colquhuon on 24 April 1815.

The Battalion has participated in several major campaigns like the Bhutan War, Second Afghan War and Third Burmese War. The Battalion actively…

GORKHA REGIMENT COMPLETES 200 YEARS – Celebrations at Sevoke

SALUGARA, Siliguri: With their blood-curdling “Aayo Gorkhali” war-cry and wickedly-curved Khukris, Gorkha warriors have been sending shivers down enemy spines for centuries. In India, the famous Gorkha Rifles completes 200 years of soldiering this Friday (24th April 2015).

Though the Gorkhas were recruited for the first time by the East India Company, and then fought under the British flag in…