How To Use Sikkim In A Sentence
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The modern-day Sikkimese are descendents of the Mi-nyag people who intermarried with the local Lepcha population.
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The absence of forest and other obstructions to the view, the breadth and flatness of the valleys, and the undulating character of the lower ranges that traverse its surface, give it a comparatively level appearance, and suggest the term "maidan" or "plains" to the Tibetan, when comparing his country with the complicated ridges of the deep Sikkim valleys.
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Audiences in India can watch "Sikkim" for the first time at the 14th Kolkata Film Festival beginning next week.
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Another international award for the campaign - showcasing major holiday destinations - has given a fillip to Exploring West Sikkim and its adjoining areas calls for an ideal trip bonanza says, Swaati Chaudhury Where the Sikkim is a Himalayan wonderland with breathtaking views and exotic orchids and Tourism Festival promises to bring lots of cheer to travellers, birdwatchers and With an adventurous spectrum that includes rafting on sparkling rivers,
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Blogging a satyagraha - hunger strike - to save homeland in Sikkim
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The semi-autonomous state of Sikkim was absorbed into India through political pressure but without bloodshed.
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The government of Sikkim is not evil, and has made remarkably progressive environmental moves in the past (e.g Sikkim was one of the first states in India to ban plastic bags).
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People are still panicky," Pawan Thapa, a resident of Gangtok, capital of Sikkim, told Reuters by phone.
Magnitude 6.8 quake in India, several dead
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Given the current capabilities of the IAF fleet, this would pose a major threat to Indian forces in Ladakh, Sikkim or Arunachal Pradesh.
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Another pest is a small midge, or sand-fly, which causes intolerable itching, and subsequent irritation, and is in this respect the most insufferable torment in Sikkim; the minutest rent in one's clothes is detected by the acute senses of this insatiable bloodsucker, which is itself so small as to be barely visible without a microscope.
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Sikkim which is located in the far northeast of India.
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The academy has so far restored and preserved 15 of Ray's feature films and two documentaries, including "Sikkim".
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This Himalayan region abounds in faunal beauty and there are hosts of parks and wildlife sanctuaries in the whole of Sikkim.
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Peter Hopkirk's introduction says he was Sikkimese; David-Neel says he was Tibetan.
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The Lepcha is the aboriginal inhabitant of Sikkim, and the prominent character in Dorjiling, where he undertakes all sorts of out-door employment.
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A town of northeast India in the lower Himalaya Mountains on the Sikkim border.
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While in Tibet and Sikkim on the way, Beger measured the skulls of three hundred Tibetans and Sikkimese and examined some of their other physical features and bodily marks.
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I would suggest that if they are bent on breaking Bengal they may opt for joining Sikkim which is a state comprising of Nepalese, Gorkhas, Bhutias, Lepchas and some other mongoloid ethnic groups.
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The mountain remained unclimbed for the next 22 years, till an Indian Army team made it up the North east spur to the North ridge from the Sikkim side in 1977.
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For centuries a rarely visited Buddhist kingdom known for the world's third highest peak in its border with Nepal called Kangchenjunga and glacial lakes, Sikkim joined India in 1975.
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Pemiongchi was once the capital of Sikkim, and called the Sikkim
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Anupam Nath/Associated Press A boy shows a crack of damaged road on the Sikkim state capital Gangtok, Monday.
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For centuries a rarely visited Buddhist kingdom known for the world's third highest peak on its border with Nepal called Kangchenjunga and glacial lakes, Sikkim joined India in 1975.
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Next to them, a British finance campaigner updates an indigenous activist about hedge fund investments in dams in his Indian mountain state of Sikkim.
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The good news is that hunger strikes by the Buddhist community in Sikkim have sucessfully stopped hydroprojects in the past.
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Both came from a small village just north of Darjeeling, each bearing a heritage that was an amalgam of local peoples: Sikkimese, Nepalese, Tibetan, and Indian.
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The people behind the Sikkim protest blog are also uploading YouTube videos like this one (Video Link), which shows ACT (Affected citizens of Teesta) members Dawa Lepcha (age 35) and Tenzing Gyatso Lepcha (20), on the 34th of their hunger strike.
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His remains were enshrined in a small golden structure in the Sikkimese Royal Palace.
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Manan Vatsyayana/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Residents camped outdoors for fear of another earthquake in Gangtok, in India's state of Sikkim, Monday.
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They can be found in Burma, Borneo, and other parts of Southeast Asia, such as Sikkim or Assam.
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There are several threatened species such as the endangered snow leopard, takin, and Himalayan goral (Naemorhedus baileyi), and the vulnerable serow (Capricornis sumatraensis) and Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus) (in eastern Nepal and Sikkim) in this ecoregion.
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This link points to "Weeping Sikkim," a blog that chronicles an ongoing hunger strike by the youth of Sikkim, India to demand goverment transparency and accountability regarding hydroelectric projects in Dzongu, the homeland of the Lepcha people.
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Given the current capabilities of the IAF fleet, this would pose a major threat to Indian forces in Ladakh, Sikkim or Arunachal Pradesh.
