Kalimpong Press Club reconstituted for 2022-2025

 On 9th August during the Annual General Meeting of the club held at Worship Centre, Kalimpong the Kalimpong Press Club was reconstituted and new office bearers were elected for the term 2022-2025

Newly elected Secretary, Prajwal Chhetri

Chief Advisor Arun Kumar Rasaily

President ARun Kumar Rai

Treasurer Solomon Samten Kabo

Asisstant Treasurer Mukesh Sharma

KALIMPONG PRESS CLUB

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KALIMPONG PRESS CLUB

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Kalimpong Press Club was established on 16th Nov 1998 for the welfare and solidarity of the Journalists of Kalimpong sub division and persons interested in Journalism. Its objective is to unite all member journalists for the betterment of media, acquire admissible rights of the media and media persons and assist the administration and other bodies working for the smooth function and development of the society and public institutions. It aims to bring all the people related to journalism in a single platform for the benefit and development of the society. Started with eight journalists now it has 50 members of which 20 are working journalists while the 30 are persons interested or having a taste in journalism categorized under associate members.

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KaleybungRatna Puraskar

Kalimpong Press Club instituted Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar (Kalimpong Gem Award) from the year 2008 on the occasion of its tenth year of establishment. The objective of initiating this award was to encourage and honour persons of Kalimpong Sub Division who have contributed / contributing in certain fields categorised by the Club viz. Adventure (including rescue), Agriculture(all allied fields), Sports & Athletics, Business, Education, Environment, Literature, Journalism (Print and Electronic), Fine Arts, Creative Politics, Arts, Film-Videographic World, Profession (all), Social Service, Health Service, Medical Science and Research / Studies etc. The Terms & Conditions for a person to be nominated for the award are as follows: 1. should either be a resident of Kalimpong Sub-division or stayed in Kalimpong as a resident and may have moved to other places for business/profession or studies. 2. should preferably be young or middle aged but not more than of 60 years. 3 should preferably be a less familiar to the people of Kalimpong or other places (unknown face in the crowd). 4. should not have received or privileged with, a prominent award of district level or above it, except felicitation . 4. should not be a relative of the member of nomination committee or jury. Each year the Kalimpong Press Club selects the category of the awardee and it selects members for the nomination committee. A three member nomination committee selects atleast three nominees for the award with their remarks and submits a panel to the jury A three member jury also nominated by the KPC selects one awardee amongst the three with their remark on the selection and submits the name to the KPC.. For the first time three categories were selected for the award and they were Adventure, Games & Sports and Agriculture. On 16th November 2008 three eminent citizens of Kalimpong received the Award and they were Manoj Dahal (Mount Everest Climber of 2008) in Adventure, Bharat Chhetri (International & Olympic Hockey Player) in Games & Sports and Dr. Mikthuk S.Foning (Agri Horti culturist and Floriculturist) It also felicitated Sukhbahadur Tamang ( a rafting specialist for his outstanding rescue work during several accidents ands floods in Bihar) with special gallantry citation. The category for the year 2009 was Drama, Film/Video world category which included script writing, direction, acting, photo/video/cinematography, editing and other allied technical fields (music, lyrics, dance, singing are excluded). On the occasion of the Club's Foundation day cum National Press day on 16th November 2009 Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar 2009 was awarded to Lalit Golay a drama, video and film actor, director and script writer. The 3rd KALEYBUNG RATNA PURASKAR for the year 2010 was awarded to Sudesh Pradhan for his social service. Despite of being a policeman, his role in helping the patients and their accompanying family members in finding the appropriate hospitals and providing necessary helps like blood and financial help during their treatment in different hospitals of Kolkata was acknowledged as a distinguished social service. It also felicitated with an award on Excelence in Journalism to a promising journalist and the recipient was Prabin Khaling a reporter cum photographer of the Telegraph. The 4th Award in 2011 was awarded to Mrs. Babita Dhamala a boutique specialist who started dress designing as her profession, trained several girls and encouraged unemployed girls and housewives to this profession for their livelihood . It also awarded Manoj Rai a video Journalist of Dainandini news Channel with Excellence in Journalism for his outstanding help in relief work of the earthquake victims of 18th October 2011. Later Manoj was awarded the Godfrey Philips Bravery Award in 2013 In the year 2012 the award giving ceremony could not be held due to various political disturbances. In the year 2013 the award is conferred upon Roshni Rai a legal executive of Palmolive India and marathon runner for her zeal towards Games and sports as well as her contribution to the Gorkha society. Her project to run the Mumbai marathon along with other Gorkha runners in the year 2012 and 2013 to clear the misconception regarding the nationality of Gorkhas through by highlighting that Gorkhas are very much Indian as other fellow Indians.( It will be awarded on 4th May 2013)

Marquee inaugurated in Kalimpong

KalimNews: Kalimpong Press Club started scrolling marquee in Kalimpong for displaying news and informations of public utility. Inaugurating the marquee today at Damber Chowk Rev. D.K.Khaling, chief guest of the programme an eminent journalist, writer, translator and the first hill diploma holder in journalism from Calcutta University said that it is indeed a herculean task to install such an equipment and it is an asset of Kalimpong. He further said that to be upgraded in the field of information and technology is really a progressive sign.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr H.B Chhetri said that Kalimpong Press Club has enhanced Kalimpong’s pride by being the first to install marquee for public information. The club has started a new revolution in the Darjeeling hills, a history to be remembered and to be learned by others as well as it is the duty of the people to help the club in such, Dr Chhetri added. He further said that Kalimpong has indeed done well in the field of journalism. On the occasion A.K.Rai, Secretary of Kalimpong Club said that it is the duty of the people to restore, protect and safeguard utility of marquee and make the best use of it. The project of marquee installation is indeed a joint effort of various people like Dr.G.C.Subba, Rizwan electronics, Surabhee electronics, Ashoke, Subash and others, Rai said.
Marquee will display news, informations. announcements and others, said Rai. It is recalled that KalimNews a unit of Kalimpong Press Clun is acting as a news agency as well as producing Dainidandini News a 30 mins daily news at 7 am and 7 pm ; two online new viz kalimpongnews.net and kalimpongonlinenews.blogspot.com and Headline SMS a SMS headline news service by employing local youths and giving them training in the field of journalism and self employment. Marquee is an added unit of KalimNews.

बिल्डिङमा झुण्डाइएको मार्कीले गर्नेछ चुनाउ परिणामको घोषणा

मनोज वोगटी, कालिमन्यूज, कालेबुङ, 12 मई। कुनै पनि क्षेत्रलाई कालेबुङले प्रतिनिधित्व गरिरहेको छ। मीडियाको क्षेत्रमा पनि कालेबुङ जति गरेको उन्नति अन्यत्र छैन। कालिम्पोङ प्रेस क्लबले जनहीतलाई नारा बनाउँदै आज जुन उपलब्धी लिएर आयो त्यो स्तुत्य छ। कालेबुङ प्रेस क्लबले डम्बरचोक नजिकको एउटा विल्डिङमा मार्की बोर्ड झुण्डाएपछि डा.हर्कबहादुर छेत्री यसो भनिरहेका थिए। तिनले थपे, कालेबुङबाट अरू महकुमाले सिक्नुपर्ने बेला भएको छ। तिनले यसो त्यसै भनेका थिएनन्‌। जब आम नागरिकहरूलाई सबैप्रकारको जानकारी शीघ्र प्रदान गर्न प्रेस क्लबले इलेक्ट्रोनिक न्यूज बोर्ड वा मार्की झुण्डाएपछि तिनले यसो भनेका थिए।
कम्प्युटर मार्फत प्रेसक्लबको कार्यालयबाट नै बिल्डिङमा झुण्डाएको मार्की वा स्क्रोलिङ बोर्डमा दिनभरि समाचार हेडलाइन र अन्य जानकारीहरू प्रसारण हुनेछ। बोर्डमा ठूल्ठूलो अक्षरमा जानकारी कुद्ने छ जसलाई पढ़ेर नगरवासीले डम्बरचोकबाटनै तात्तातो समाचार र जानकारी पाउने छन्‌। यसलाई विधिवत उद्घाटन गर्न ल्यापटपको स्वीचमा हात राखेर थिचेपछि मुख्य अतिथि डी.के.खालिङले भने, अब डम्बरचोकमा नै उभिएर नगरवासीले सूचना लाभ गर्न पाउनेछन्‌। यो भन्दा सुखद कुरा अर्के के हुनसक्छ?
प्रेस क्लबका सचिव अरूणकुमार राईले भेला भएका शुभचिन्तकहरूलाई भनिरहेका थिए, प्रेस क्लबले एसएमएस हेडलाइन, दैनन्दिनी समाचार लगायत एउटा ब्लगसाइट अनि अर्को वेबसाइटबाट ताजा जानकारीहरू उपलब्ध गर्ने काम गर्दै आइरहेको छ। हामी कालेबुङ नगरका मानिसहरूले कुनै पनि घटनाको जानकारी शीघ्र नै पाओस्‌ अनि यसको फाइदा लिन सकोस्‌ भन्ने चहान्छौं। यसै सोंचले यो आजको पहललाई पनि निर्माण गरेको हो। माकपाका तारा सुन्दास, कालेबुङ कृषक कल्याण सङ्गठनका विष्णु छेत्री, स्थानीय पत्रकारहरू, कथाकार सञ्जय विष्ट, समशेर अली लगायतका धेरै शुभचिन्तकहरूले डम्बरचोकमा भएको स्क्रोलिङ न्यूजको उद्घाटन कार्यक्रममा उपस्थिति दिएका थिए। सचिव अरूणकुमार राई तथा पत्रकार तथुराले भने, 13 मईको दिन विधानसभा चुनाउको परिणाम घोषणा हुनेछ। गणना हुँदाहुँदैको जानकारी यो स्क्रोलिङ बोर्डमा कुद्न थाल्नेछ। चुनाउको परिणाम यसै मार्कीले गर्नेछ। तिनले भने अनुसार कालेबुङ महाविद्यालयमा 13 मईको दिन विहान आठ बजीदेखि मत गणना शुरू हुने छ। गणना हुँदाहुँदै बिल्डिङमा झुण्डाइएको मार्कीले परिणाम भन्ने छ।

FGLR, a unique long run

KalimNews: For the first time in Kalimpong long distance runners from all across the country ran for 50 km run from Suntalay to Pedong. 5 national long distance marathon runners started their 50 km Friendly Group Long Run from Suntalay near Rambi in National Highway 31 A to Pedong via Kalimpong. Flagged off by Dipen Tamang Officer in Charge of Ryang Police station at 6.04 am the FGLR group reached Kalimpong at around 10.15 am and Pedong at 1.10 pm and ended with a grand felicitation programme at Pedong .

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Kalimpong, Rambi, Teesta, Algarah and Pedong and thanks them for the participators too. All participants were presented certificates at Pedong during a welcome programme in the afternoon.
nPeople of Kalimpong welcomed the runners all along their way to Pedong. Roshni was overwhelmed with joy for the warm welcome received from the people of  Kalimpong. Five national runners included Roshni Rai of Pedong, a national regular marathon runner of Mumbai, Asha Arora from Chandigarh, Vishwas Bhamburkar from Ahmedabad, Brijesh from Bangalore and Amit from Mumbai.  Senior citizens of Kalimpong also participated in the run within the town area. Runners of the district also participated in the run from Kalimpong to Pedong. Organisers of the run Kalimpong veteran's Club, Pedong Youth sports association and Kalimpong Press Club acknowledged help and contributions of all the schools, clubs and organisations.

DAINANDINI renewed with changed looks

KalimNews: Dainandini started on 15th March 2007 and later renamed as News 7 was again given a new look. Rechristened again as Dainandini its board was also changed and is run completely by the Kalimpong Press Club. Kalimpong Press Club started a news service as a unit of the Club to run its three news services namely Dainandini News an informative and news channel; Kalimpong news - online news in the sites www.kalimpongnews.net and http://kalimpongonlinenews.blogspot.com and Headline SMS, a SMS headline news service. All the services have their own board of Directors.
KalimNews is a unit of Kalimpong Press Club and news agency that provides news for its daily news channel DAINANDINI, broadcasted in areas of Kalimpong by the Sky scan cable network; Headline SMS, a SMS headline news service and Kalimpong News, two online news services; www.kalimpongnews.net,    http://kalimpongonlinenews.blogspot.com. Kalimpong online News blog was started on May 23, 2009 and officially inaugurated on  Nov 16, 2009 and online news site was started and inaugurated on 20, Nov 2010.

Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar awarded to Sudesh Pradhan - Prabin Khaling felicitated and awarded Journalist of Excellence

Sudesh Pradhan

KalimNews, kalimpongonlinews, blogspot. com and kalimpongnews.net, Kalimpong, 20 November: Social worker Sudesh Pradhan was conferred with 3rd Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar an award instituted by Kalimpong Press Club on 20 November during a ceremony held in Ramkrishna Rangamanch of Kalimpong. On the occasion of the Club's 12th foundation day and National Press Day the award was presented to Pradhan for his service to the needy and helpless. Pradhan is serving in Calcutta police and during his off hours had been serving the needy people of hills seeking medical and other assistance in Kolkata for many years.
Pradhan a true social worker by heart who helped and is helping people needing medical assistance in Kolkata was honoured with 3rd Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar a memento, a citation and a shawl by Prof. Dr. Mahendra P. Lama Vice Chancellor of Sikkim University the Chief Guest of the occasion.

Chief Guest Prof. M.P.Lama

Prof. M.P.Lama and Dr. G.C.Subba releasing INFODEX

Prabin Khaling receiving the Journalist of Excellence 2010 Award

Sudesh Pradhan receiving KaleybungRatna Puraskar

Prof. Lama addressing the audience

Prabin Khaling a member of Press Club of Sikkim and a a staff photo journalist of The Telegraph and correspondents of several Nepali and Hindi daily News Paper, was also felicitated as a young and budding journalist for his valiant effort and contribution in the field of Journalism. On the occasion of its foundation day the Club felicitated Khaling for Excellence in journalism. The Club will felicitate preferably a non local journalist (below 60 years) every year starting from this year.
The objective of initiating Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar is to encourage and honour distinguished persons of Kalimpong Sub Division who have contributed in any of the fields like Adventure (including rescue), Agriculture(all allied fields), Sports & Athletics, Business, Education, Environment, Literature, Journalism (Print and Electronic), Politics (Creative Politics), Profession (all), Social Service, Health Service, Medical Science and Research / Studies etc. The award includes a memento , angavastra (shawl) and a citation.

Prabin Khaling

Instituted with an objective to encourage the recipient who is under 60 years and is a less familiar face and not priviledged with awards or felicitated elsewhere and a present or past resident of Kalimpong, in the year 2008 the first Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar was awarded to three prominent figures Mr. Manoj Dahal, Mount Everest Climber, Mr. Bharat Chhetri, National Hockey player and Dr. Mikthuk S. Foning, an eminent Horticulturist. Mr. Sukh bahadur Tamang, a rafting rescuer of Triveni, Teesta was also felicitated for his outstanding rescue operations  rescuing the dead and living in disasters, flood and accidents.

Mr. Lalit Golay a renowned film and video actor, comedian, story writer, lyricist and director (all rounder of Bhanu Ra Pala) was honoured with 2nd Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar for his contribution in the field of Drama, Film and Video in the year 2009.
The club's news blog Kalimpong News (kalimpongonlinenews.blogspot.com) was also upgraded to the website kalimpongnews.net on the same occasion. A draft copy of the Club's Yellow page project INFODEX was also released on the day.

An inter college extempore contest was also organised in Nepali and English. Students of the two Colleges and Management Colleges of Kalimpong participated in the contest. Karan Khaitan of Kalimpong College in English language  and  Jharna Chhetri of Cluny Women’s College in Nepali language were adjudged the best and winner contestants by the Judges Mr. J.S Rai of SUMI, Mr. Y.S.Ghising of Kumudini Homes, Mr. Mani Bhujel of Jubilee High School, Mrs. Tekla Dhakal of St. Philomina’s School and Mrs. Gita Thapa of Kalimpong Girls HS School.
Chhatra kumar Tamang of 1^st yr Hons and Karan Khaitan of 5^th Semester BBA from Kalimpong College, Jharna Chhetri of 3^rd yr Hons and Kezia Lepcha of 2^nd yr Hons of Cluny Women’s College participated in the contest. Others were Pritam Thapa of 3^rd Sem BCA and Pankaj Dahal of BBA from BB Pradhan Management College; Durga Rai and Rachelmit Lepcha from Good Shepherd Institute of Hospitality Management and Suman Raut, 1^st semester of BBA from the Oracles School of Hospitality Management & Research participated in the contest.
The Chief guest Prof. Lama accompanied by his wife and daughter along with the Guest of Honour Dr.G.C.Subba Director of Cinchona and Medicinal Plantation were welcomed by the SUMI band.
During the programme Captain Prakash Mani Pradhan Director of BB Pradhan Management College was also felicitated for achieving the Best affiliated College award among the 20 other colleges as well as declaring the all round best of the competition of 2011 of All Heads of Listed ICSE Schools. The programme was live telecasted by News 7 in the sky scan cable network and online edited by Hill Channel.
Addressing the audience Professor Mahendra P. Lama said that the political parties championing the proposal of an alternative arrangement should keep in mind 4 basic points. Indian Government should consider the issue of Gorkhaland as a matter of national security or we should make it a matter of national security. It is an issue of national security so West Bengal government has no role in it.

The second point is that the body to be formed should have a constitutional guarantee. It should not be like DGHC which had no constitutional recognition. The issue of Dooars and Terai should be solved taking into consideration the Census of 1951. As the census clearly indicates the majority population of the Gorkhas in those areas the areas cannot be excluded from the area to be included in the demand of Gorkhas which is the third point. The fourth point is that the area demanded by the Gorkhas should be included in North East Council which will ultimately recognise the status of a state.He further added that everything including the problem of regularisation of adhoc staff of DGHC should be settled before coming into any sort of agreement.

Sudesh Pradhan awarded Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar and Prabin Khaling to be felicitated for contribution in Journalism

KalimNews, kalimpongonlinews,blogspot.com,Kalimpong, 2 November: Social worker Sudesh Pradhan will be conferred with Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar an award instituted by Kalimpong Press Club. On the occasion of the Club's 12th foundation day and National Press Day the award will be presented to Pradhan for his service to the needy and helpless. Pradhan is serving in Calcutta police.
Pradhan a true social worker by heart who helped and is helping people needing medical assistance in Kolkata will be honoured with 3rd Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar.
Prabin Khaling a member of Press Club of Sikkim and a a staff photo journalist of The Telegraph and correspondents of several Nepali and Hindi daily News Paper, will be felicitated as a young and budding journalist for his valiant effort and contribution in the field of Journalism. On the occasion of its foundation day the Club will felicitate a journalist preferably a non local every year starting from this year.
Khaling and Pradhan will be felicitated on 20th November 2010 in the Ramkrishna Ranga Manch, Kalimpong during the Club's 12th foundation day cum Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar ceremony.
The objective of initiating Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar is to encourage and honour distinguished persons of Kalimpong Sub Division who have contributed in any of the fields like Adventure (including rescue), Agriculture(all allied fields), Sports & Athletics, Business, Education, Environment, Literature, Journalism (Print and Electronic), Politics (Creative Politics), Profession (all), Social Service, Health Service, Medical Science and Research / Studies etc. The award includes a memento , angavastra (shawl) and a citation.
It has an objective to encourage the recipient who is under 60 years and is a less familiar face and not priviledged with awards or felicitated elsewhere and a present or past resident of Kalimpong. In the year 2008 three prominent figures Mr. Manoj Dahal, Mount Everest Climber, Mr. Bharat Chhetri, National Hockey player and Dr. Mikthuk S. Foning, an eminent Horticulturist were honoured with 1st Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar.Mr. Sukh bahadur Tamang, a rafting rescuer of Triveni, Teesta was also felicitated for his outstanding rescue operations of the dead and living in disasters, flood and accidents.
Mr. Lalit Golay a renowned film and video actor, comedian, story writer, lyricist and director (all rounder of Bhanu Ra Pala)was honoured with 2nd Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar for his contribution in the field of Drama, Film and Video in the year 2009.
The club's news blog Kalimpong News (kalimpongonlinenews.blogspot.com) will be upgraded to website kalimpongnews.net on the same occasion.Prof. Dr.M.P.Lama Vice-Chancellor of Sikkim University will be the chief guest of the programme in which an inter college extempore contest will be organised in Nepali and English.A draft copy of the Club's Yellow page project INFODEX will be released on the day.

KALIMPONG PRESS CLUB RECONSTITUTED

KALIMPONG PRESS CLUB RECONSTITUTED

KalimNews: Kalimpong Press Club  was reconstituted in the Annual General Meeting of the club held today and the following members were elected as Office bearers for the next two years.President-Arun Kumar Rasaily: Vice President-Samten Kabo: Secretary-Arun kr.Rai: Asst. Secretary-Pradip Lohagun: Treasurer- Sujan Siral: Asst. Treasurer-Mani Tamang: Executive Members- Shanti Thatal, Manoj Rai, Kishore Bantawa and  Sekhar Subba: 
Working Committee-Coordinator-Hira Chhetri: Members-D.K.Waiba and Samiran Paul, Legal Advisor- Pravakar Dewan: Chief Advisor- P.R.Pradhan: Advisors- Kumar Chhetri, B.K.Shilal, K.P.Gautam, Sanjay Mintri, Suman Gurung and Zion Lepcha.

In the meeting reports were presented and amendments in the Bye-Laws were made and  future plans were shorted out. Membership to two new members were granted in the meeting. Mr. N.P. Thapa , Manager of Sunakhari Samachar was the Chief Guest and Mr. Zion Lepcha was the Election Officer while Pradip Lohagun conducted the meeting.

Presently the Office bearers of the Club are as follows:

President: Mr.Arun kr. Rasaily (Sunakhari Samachar and AIR Kurseong),
Vice President: Mr. Samten Kabo (KalimNews and Dainandini),

Secretary: Mr.Arun Kr. Rai (KalimNews and Dainandini),

Treasurer: Mr. Sujan Siral (KalimNews and Dainandini)

Asst. Treasurer: Mr. Mani Tamang (KalimNews and Dainandini)

Executive Members: Mr. Manoj Rai (KalimNews and Dainandini), Mr. Shekhar Subba (HPC and Dainandini)

Advisors: Mr. P.R.Pradhan, Mr. Zion Lepcha, Mr. S. Mintri, Mr. Kumar Chhetri, Mr. Basant kr Shilal, Mr. K.P.Gautam and Mr. Suman Gurung,

Legal Advisor: Mr.Prabhakar Dewan (Sr. Advocate and an Associate Life Member)

Working Committee members: Mr. Hira Chhetri (KalimNews and Dainandini) , Mr. Samiran Paul (KalimNews and Dainandini) and Mr. D.K. Waiba (KalimNews and Dainandini).

Other field journalist members:

Mr.Rudra Karki (Himalaya Darpan-Gorubathan), Mr. Gautam Lama (Himalaya Darpan), Mr. Kishore Bantawa ( Dainandini), Mr. Prabin Ch. Rai (Dainandini), Mr.Mahesh Rai  and Mrs. Shanti Thatal (News Reader) .
Associate Members:

Mr. Ujjwal Prakash Bomjan, , Mr. Rajen Chhetri (Videographer), Mr. Paras Sharma, Mr. Sudesh Khati, Mr. Prashanta Mallick,  Mr. Kalyan Thapa, Mr. Ram Kishan Mittal,  Mr.Sahadeo Giri and Mr. Pradip Sharma.

Life Members:

Mr. Sitaram Kafley (Free Lancer), Mr. Girish Kaul, Mr. Sanjay Mintri, Mr. Ashish Subba, Mr. Pancha Ratna Pradhan, Mr. Rohit kr. Gupta, Mr. Mohan Shamsher Pradhan, Mr. Dhendup Bhutia, Mrs. Jyoti Karkee, Mr. Mohan Khanna, Mrs.Tara Lohar Lepcha , Mr. N.P.Thapa and Mr. Zion Lepcha .

The members of KALIMPONG PRESS CLUB pay membership fee and also contribute for special donation drive to meet the expenditures of the Club.Contributions and donations are also collected from the wellwishers of KPC for organising special programmes.

It has an account in Axis Bank Ltd in Kalimpong with the A/c no. 594010200001311.

DAINANDINI RENAMED NEWS 7

KalimNews: Kalimpong's only news based popular Channel Dainandini celebrated its 2nd Anniversary today. Pannu Lucksom a renowned Audio and Video professional and expert of Kalimpong was the Chief Guest of the Programme. In the presence of an audience representing different NGOs, Political parties, Organisations and the Press fraternity the channel was renamed CHANNEL 7.

Suraj mani Pradhan was the master of the ceremony held in Worship Center near the New Bus Stand at Kalimpong. Munnu Gautam, Ming Liwang, Pravakar Dewan and Jyoti Karki exchanged their views and comments on the News programme of Dainandini. 

Pix:1. Board Members of Dainandini    2. Pannu Lucksom, Chief Guest inaugurating News 7 and 3 Lucksom inaugurating the programme.- All Pix: Samten Kabo

11^th Foundation Day and National Press Day Observed in Kalimpong - Golay awarded Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar

KalimNews, Kalimpong 16^th Nov: Mr. Lalit Golay a renowned film and video actor, comedian, story writer, lyricist and director  was honoured with 2^nd Kaleybung Ratna Puraskar for his contribution in the field of Film and Video by Kalimpong Press Club. During the closing of the Club’s 10th foundation day and on the occasion of 11^th Foundation day and National Press Day Celebration at Ramkrishna  Rangamanch Golay was honoured with a silver memento and a citation . Ecotourism and Neora Valley National Park by Sahadeo Giri the Club felicitated the Kumudini Homes and Jubilee High Schools of Kalimpong which celebrated Platinum and Rockvale Academy and Mt. Carmel School celebrated Silver Jubilee this year. Dr.G.C.Subba Director of Medicinal and Other Plantation, Chief Guest of the programme also launched Kalimpong News a blog site of news administered by the Club having the address http://kalimpongonlinenews.blogspot.com. 

Wifred Singh was also felicitated for his best caption "Human hive" for the Caption Contest held during the Photography exhibition -Colour of Nature. 

Eminent Citizens’ debate on the topic “Indian Gorkhas are facing identity crisis” was also organized on the day. For the motion debators Rajen Bnerjee, Hari Psd Adhikari, Dilip Bhujel and Dinesh Ch Poudel participated while Santosh Adhikari, C.B.Chhetri, Dilip Pradhan and Bal kr. Sharma took part in the debate against the motion. The team for the motion was declared winner while Santosh Adhikari was adjudged the best speaker.

The award was sponsored by the family of late D.D.Rai of Gorubathan and in the programme it was announced that from the next year the award will be sponsored by Capt P.M.Pradhan, Principal of Rockvale Academy in memory of his late father B.B.Pradhan.

It is reminded that last year Mr. Manoj Dahal, Mount Everest Climber, Mr. Bharat Chhetri, National Hockey player and Dr. Mikthuk S. Foning, an eminent Horticulturist were honoured with first ever Kaleybung  Ratna Puraskar and Kalimpong Press Club organised a year long programme like Senior Citizens' Quiz competition, Chess Competition, Photography exhibition, Seminar on Human Trafficking in collaboration with I&C dept, 3 day Workshop on Journalism on the occasion of its completion of tenth year of establishment. 
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Umesh Tamang

HIRA CHHETRI

A.K.RAI

SAMUEL MODEST

SAMTEN KABO & HIS WIFE

SAMTEN KABO

N.R.PRADHAN, Chief Guest inaugurating the Exhibition

Pix: D.K.Waiba & Samiran Paul

KalimNews, Kalimpong, 10 Sept 09: The beauty of Kalimpong and nature was presented by Samten Kabo in Kalimpong today through his photo images. Speaking to an audience at Ramkrishna Rangamanch in Kalimpong Chief Guest Nava Ratna Pradhan principal of SUMI who inaugurated the show Colour of Nature said that Samten’s photography is an example of his hard work and consistency to photography.

The photographic exhibition was inaugurated with a word of prayer by Reverend Mathias Subba who emphasized that God’s beautiful creation is manifested through Samten’s images. Sam Modest a photographer by hobby and a visitor from the states, the Guest of Honour of the occasion said in his message on photography that Samten’s images have the best combination of colour and light. Umesh Tamang conducted the programme while A.K.Rai introduced Samten to the audience and Hira Chhetri higlighted the importance of the Exhibition and Press Club's Yearlong programme in the Three days’ exhibition organized by Kalimpong Press Club started from today till 12^th of September.

Samten is an amateur self taught freelancer who is photojournalist of Sunakhari Samachar a Nepali daily with 8 years of experience in this field. He started photography in 2001with Minolta 370X an analog Camera and later withNikon F65, In 2005 he bought SLR Nikon D50 and now using Nikon D40X and Coolpix S10 all digitals

His photos are published in the magazines like “Better Photography”, “Smart Photography” and “Asian Photography”.

In June 2007 his photo “Ecstasy” was selected for 10 best images of the year in Better Photography. In April 2008 Smart Photography (national magazine) featured him in the “Kaleidoscope” section and rewarded him an Epson photo printer.

Even today they use his images for magazine with his prior consent. Photo sites like eyefetch.com has presented him 81Awards through 7Contest Medals and 21Group Contest Medals in the website. His photos are available in the siteswww.fotoflock.com, photogalaxy.com, photcommunity.com and smartphotography.com. Several pictures were sold and booked for sale on the very first day of exhibition.

THREE DAY LONG WORKSHOP ON JOURNALISM HELD

Capt P.M.Pradhan , Chief Guest addressing the Trainees and audience

Kalimnews, Kalimpong, 23 Aug : 27 would be Journalists completed a three days’ workshop organized by Kalimpong Press Club. Certificates were distributed to the participants of the workshop by Alvin Lama, Director of Good Shepherd Institute of Hospitality Management on 23rd August during the closing ceremony of the Workshop in Sub Divisional Library. Several speakers spoke on the success of the programme.

It is recalled that three day long Workshop on Journalism was inaugurated at Sub-Division Library on 20 August. The function was attended by Captain (Retd) Prakash Mani Pradhan, Director, Rockvale Academy as chief guest who congratulated Kalimpong Press Club, the organizer of the workshop for holding the programme and viewed that it was not only the responsibility of the Club to organize such society oriented programmes but also the duties of concerned citizens to act for the cause of the society. He also appealed the youths of the hills to concentrate in specialized fields of report writing and make efforts to expose themselves in the national mainstream journalism. Alvin Lama, Director, Good Shepherd Institute of Hospitality Management also echoed Pradhan’s view and said that the media personnels should guide the society in time of the need. The inauguration session was also addressed by Moti Prashad Sharma, senior journalist and Samsher Ali a prominent social activist.

In the afternoon session Kumar Chhetri, Ex-Professor, Kalimpong College addressed the trainee journalists who had come from all walks of the sub-division. In his session Chhetri gave basic concept of the journalism while Punu Lucksom, Audio-Video Engineer delivered speech on the technical prospects in the media particularly pertaining to photography and videography.

All the thirty participants were imparted with various useful training ranging from the subjects like field journalism, regional journalism, electronic media and web media, legal aspects of the journalism by resource persons including free lancer Hira Chhetri, President of Sikkim Press Association Parasmani Dangal, Photo Journalist from Guwahati Nanda Kirati Dewan and Senior Advocate and Secretary, Kalimpong Bar Association Prabhakar Dewan. Executive Member of Kalimpong Press Club Kalyan Thapa presented the paper on behalf of Web Journalist Barun Roy.

According to Umesh Tamang, Co-ordinator of the Workshop, the last day’s session included field training for which all the participants were divided into different groups of three members each and assigned to undergo practical training for about three hours. On completion of all the sessions the participants were awarded certificates of merit during the closing ceremony, he added. Tamang has expressed thankfulness to all the concerned personalities and organizations of Kalimpong who came forward to extend possible assistance to the Club in organizing the programme.

It may be recalled that Kalimpong Press Club organized the three day long Workshop on Journalism as a part of monthly programmes on its completion of ten years of existence. The club has decided to organize various programmes throughout the year 2009 to commemorate the occasion. It has also organized Quiz of Senior Citizens, Chess Tournament etc. in recent past.