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 ...

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 ...

Trim and lithe, her rich brown hair flowing over her shoulders, America’s only working queen strides the hilly lanes of her capital, Gangtok. As she passes by, the Sikkimese smile, nod and stop to ...

While many of her contemporaries are busy with their commitments within Bollywood, Priyanka Chopra is shuffling between those commitments and Hollywood (although the latter is on an upswing of late).

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, ...

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 ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday removed a statement from its January 13 judgment that called Sikkimese-Nepalese “people of foreign origin” after the Union government sought the review of the ...