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Veteran Hill Communist leader dies

Veteran Communist leader from Darjeeling Hills, Sangdopal Lepcha, passed away in a private nursing home in Siliguri on Sunday after a prolonged illness. Lepcha, a resident of Sahidnagar here, was 95. CPI-M leaders paid their tributes in front of the CPI-M party office on Hill Cart Road this on Sunday afternoon. Family members took his …

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February 13, 2018

Last veteran of Netaji’s INA still cherishes first flag

In a small village of Manipur, one last veteran of Netaji’s Indian National Army still lovingly cherishes the first flag that was unfurled in Indian Territory. It was not the tricolor, but the INA Flag that was flown in liberated India at Moirang on the 14th April, 1944 by Colonel Shaukat Hayat Malik, commander of …

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January 24, 2018