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Karan Johar recently found himself at the receiving end of trolls after Indian designer Prabal Gurung shared how he met Alia Bhatt through him. Image Source : INSTAGRAM/KARAN JOHARKaran Johar's Instagram post In his long Instagram post, designer Prabal Gurung, who escorted Alia at the Met Gala talked about how he met the actress at Karan's 40th birthday party. Meanwhile, …

Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt, who is often subjected to criticism for allegedly being “favoured” by filmmaker Karan Johar, is once again facing ire of netizens over her MET gala debut appearance. It all began when designer Prabal Gurung, in a lengthy Instagram post, revealed that he met Alia for the first time at Karan Johar’s 40th birthday party. A Reddit …

Pro-Gorkhaland units in the Darjeeling Hills, including the GJM and the Hamro Party, have indicated that a fresh movement will be launched to press for separate statehood ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Darjeeling has witnessed several agitations over the years, with political parties promising people a separate Gorkhaland state and the implementation of the Sixth Schedule, which grants …

Darjeeling Drama: BGPM Wins Civic Body Trust Vote; Hamro Party Skips It; Tamang Leaves TMC

As the Darjeeling Municipality held the floor test on Wednesday, only Anit Thapa’s Bharathiya Gorkha Prajathantrik Party won it with the support of the Trinamool Congress, while the ruling Hamro Party gave it a miss. A day before the test, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung, Hamro Party chief Ajoy Edwards and then TMC leader Vinay Tamang launched the Gorkha …

The West Bengal government has decided to hold election for the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, an autonomous body to administer Darjeeling, in June this year Kolkata: Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supremo Bimal Gurung has requested West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to defer the GTA poll until the memorandum of proposals submitted by the party is implemented in the hills. The West …

After 74 years of a split that spurred one of the largest migrations in human history, there is a buzz in Bengal of another rupture with political leaders mainly from the Bharatiya Janata Party demanding North Bengal as a separate union territory and Jangalmahal to be carved out as a new state. On June 13, BJP MP from Alipurduar John …

In the season of defections leading up to the elections, the TMC's only star acquisition from the BJP’s side was Bimal Gurung. Gurung is a senior leader of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, a Hills party that has aggressively pressed for the demand of Gorkhaland – a separate state for the Gorkha community. While underground, Gurung, a mass leader in the …

THE third, fourth and fifth phases of the eight-phase West Bengal Assembly election on April 6, April 10 and April 17 will witness some interesting battles in the ruling Trinamool Congress’ strongholds and in constituencies that are now considered the Bharatiya Janata Party’s bastion. As 120 of the 294 Assembly constituencies go to the polls in these phases, it is …

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday received a shot in the arm in the Darjeeling hills when some leaders of its former partner, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, joined the saffron camp. BJP had been looking for local support in the Darjeeling hills after the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha switched allegiance to West Bengal's ruling party, TMC. The BJP which won the …