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Landslide blocks Sikkim highway - Commuters take 2-hour detour via Kalimpong to reach Sikkim [1]

Gangtok, July 17: A landslide near the Bengal-Sikkim border at Rangpo last night kept the main NH31A route to the hill state blocked for nearly 17 hours.

Publication Date: 
18/07/2012
Telegraph (North East) [2]
Tags:
Sikkim [3], Gangtok [4], Natural Disasters [5], Landslides [6], Highways [7]
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[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/landslides
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/highways