Sikkimese people don’t pay income tax or tax on farm income. Local businesses get tax breaks, and some goods are GST-free.

India adds four wetlands to the Ramsar list, bringing the total to 89, with Tamil Nadu leading. The new sites boost India's ...

A glacier collapse caused a massive flood disaster in Sikkim, India, in 2023. Scientists linked the event to climate change.

Rameshwar Singh Jamwal Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) got an assembly and popular government in 2024, after a gap of about ten years ...

The global economy is in a constant state of flux, affecting nations in unpredictable ways. Factors such as technological advancements, climate change, and rapidly shifting geopolitical dynamics have ...

India faces severe climate impacts, including heatwaves, cyclones, and water-related disasters, requiring urgent adaptation ...

Amid the golden fields of Punjab lies an unsettling narrative that has and is still haunting not only the region but the ...

Sikkim's economy is mostly agrarian with maize, wheat, barley among the popular crops grown in the country. Sikkim has the lowest population among all states found in India. A majority of the ...

Their love of plants and willingness to explore unknown shores, despite obvious dangers, resulted in many specimens being shipped to Kew from all over the growing British Empire ... government grant ...

Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together what happened during the massive Sikkim flood to try to help others prepare for similar disasters.

A Himalayan tsunami generated by the collapse of a huge mass of rock, ice, and sediment into a glacial lake triggered the 2023 Sikkim flood ... threat from GLOFs will grow,” Dave Petley of ...

Sikkim MP Indra Hang Subba underscores Sikkim's progress and future needs in Parliament, focusing on education, organic ...