Sikkim
Sikkim celebrates Dashain
Sikkim celebrated Dashain of Dussehra, Dashain is one of the biggest and longest Hindu festivals in Sikkim and carries cultural and religious significance. It is a major Hindu festival celebrated in India and Nepal in the Hindu calendar month of Ashvin, which typically falls in the months of September and October. The nine days of […]
6 years ago#Northeast Live Digital Desk
Pawan Chamling honoured with FAO award for Sikkim becoming world’s first 100 pc organic state
Chief Minister Pawan Chamling received the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Future Policy Gold Award for Sikkim’s achievement in becoming the first totally organic state. The Himalayan state of Sikkim has been conferred with the prestigious World Future Policy award for promoting agro-ecology through policies and laws making it the world’s first ‘100 per cent organic agriculture […]
6 years ago#Northeast Live Digital Desk
History scripted in Hill State, first flight lands in Sikkim’s Pakyong airport
The picturesquely aesthetic hill state of Sikkim scripted history today as the first flight from Kolkata landed at around 1:24 PM in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Pakyong airport. The Spice Jet Flight number SG 3341 took one hour ten minutes to land in the Sikkim’s Pakyong airport. Earlier, PM Narendra Modi while inaugurating […]
6 years ago#Northeast Live Digital Desk
Sikkim scripts aviation history
In a historic first, SpiceJet Q400 Bombardier became the first commercial Air craft to land at the Pakyong Airport today. The Spicejet 78 seater Bombardier Q400 aircraft made a successful landing. In terms of Sikkim’s civil & aviation history, it is the first civil fixed-wing flight to have landed in the airport. Initially, flights from […]
7 years ago