Lho' means year and 'Sar' means new or fresh if translated, and the word 'Sonam' refers to the Tamang people in Nepal. Thus the festival 'Sonam Lhosar' is the New Year event, according to the ...

Lho' means year and 'Sar' means new or fresh if translated, and the word 'Sonam' refers to the Tamang people in Nepal. People also take blessings from monks and elders for progress, prosperity ...

Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang on Thursday expressed optimism that the 12 left-out communities of the Himalayan state will be granted the Scheduled Tribes (ST) by the Centre in due course.

Actors Kartik Aaryan and Sreeleela, who have been shooting for filmmaker Anurag Basu’s Aashiqui 3 in Sikkim, met chief ...