Gangtok, September 19 (PTI): Three ministers of the Prem Singh Tamang government and two BJP MLAs have tested positive for COVID-19, an official said on Saturday.
All legislators and staff of the state legis
Gangtok, August 17 (PTI): Sikkim on Monday reported 20 fresh COVID-19 cases, raising the state''s tally to 1,187, an official said.
All the 20 COVID-19 positive cases have come from East Sikkim distr
Gangtok, August 15 (PTI): Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang on Saturday said his government will set up an education reform commission to draw a comprehensive policy in line with the NEP.
After unfurli
Gangtok, July 31 (PTI): 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.
As per the revised guidelines f
Gangtok, July 28 (PTI): Sikkim''s ruling SKM has attacked the opposition for "hitting below the belt" and "manipulating words" while accusing Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang of fail
Gangtok, July 26 (PTI): Sikkim reported its first COVID-19 death on Sunday after a 74-year-old man succumbed to the disease at a state-run hospital here, a senior health official said.
The man was a resident
Gangtok, July 20 (PTI): The Sikkim government on Monday decided to impose a complete lockdown in the state from July 21 to July 27 in view of the recent surge in COVID-19 cases, officials said.
The decisio
Gangtok, July 14 (PTI): Sikkim on Tuesday reported its highest single-day spike of 45 new COVID-19 cases which pushed the tally in the state to 198, a health official said.
There are 112 active cases in th
Gangtok, July 1 (PTI): Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang on Wednesday announced a one-time incentive for doctors, nurses and other health workers in appreciation of their service in combating COVID-19 pan
Gangtok, June 28 (PTI): Nineteen houses and an old hostel of a senior secondary school have been damaged in a flash flood in upper Djongu region of North Sikkim district, an official said on Sunday. The flash f
Gangtok, June 27 (PTI): Heavy rains for the past one week have triggered a series of landslides snapping road links at several places between Gangtok and North Sikkim bordering China, and causing major damage t
Gangtok, Jun 27 (PTI): Two more COVID-19 cases have been reported in Sikkim, taking the total number of infections in the Himalayan state to 87, officials said on Saturday.
Director General (DG)-cum-Secret
Gangtok, June 22 (PTI): Two persons, including a five- year-old girl, were killed and two other children critically injured after a boulder fell on a moving car in Sikkim on Monday, police said.
The incide
Gangtok, 14 June (PTI): Five more people, who are returnees from Mumbai and Delhi, tested positive for coronavirus infection in Sikkim, taking the total number of active cases in the Himalayan state to 63, a se
Gangtok, June 14 (PTI): Two women from Sikkim have swapped their children for the time being for their better care after one of them and one of the women tested positive for coronavirus, officials said on Sunda
Gangtok, June 9 (PTI): Six more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sikkim, taking the total number of cases in the state to 13, a senior Health Department official said on Tuesday.
Director Gener
Gangtok, June 3 (PTI): A man who returned from Delhi recently tested positive for COVID-19 in Sikkim, taking the number of cases in the state to two, a senior health official said on Wednesday.
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Gangtok | September 10
As delegates from all North East states and other parts of India gathered for the 2nd North East Health Care Summit in Gangtok, one thing was conspicuously absent. Pl