Sources: The Home Department of Government of Sikkim (Gangtok) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Earlier today, the Home Department of the Government of the Indian State of Sikkim declared Wednesday, September 26, 2012, as a one-off state public holiday on account of the funeral rites for H.H. Kybji Lachen Gomchen Rimpoche. [full story]