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West Bengal strike still affecting Bhutan border town.
Excerpt from report in English by the website of Bhutan's autonomous national newspaper Kuensel on 10 February
[By Kinga Dema] 10 February [Thursday]: No clear information was available late last evening on whether the Phuentsholing gate would be opened to traffic entering and leaving the border town for India.
With an indefinite strike called by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), a political party in the neighbouring Indian state of West Bengal, starting Tuesday the border town closed its main gate for the second day yesterday.
A curfew was imposed in next-door Indian town of Jaigaon on Tuesday but was lifted around 5:30 p.m. The border gate opened for some …
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