Thimphu, March 16: The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) has promoted 45 senior government officials in executive and specialist category. They are first to be promoted under the position classification system. The RCSC received promotion proposals for 351 civil servants for July 2006 and January this year. Of this, applications of only 235 civil servants […]
Thimphu, March 16: Tashi Group, a commercial croup which won an auction for the second national cellular licence last year, is planning the formal award of its concession later this month. Tashi says it is forming a new division – Tashi Infocomm Ltd – to handle its cellular activities, with 25 percent of the new […]
Phuentsholing, March 15: Chief of the Bangladesh's caretaker government Dr Fukaruddin Ahmed flagged off the SAARC car rally amid fanfare in the south-eastern tourist town of Cox's Bazaar, reports said. Flanked by envoys and diplomats of the seven SAARC countries, Ahmed autographed a flag as the vehicles rolled out from the Cox's Bazar stadium under […]
Thimphu, March 15: A high level European Union delegation is scheduled to arrive here today to discuss bilateral issues and repatriation of exiled Bhutanese. According to EU sources, the nine-member delegation will also raise the issue of human rights violation continuing in Bhutan for years, further deteriorating in the recent years, the resettlement process of […]
Phuentsholing, March 12: Personnel of the Royal Bhutan Police uncovered an improvised explosive devise along a highway in Phuentsholing on Sunday. The explosive was planted below a culvert on the road connecting Pasakha and Tala. Labourers working in the road informed the police after they noticed an electric wire near the culvert. In the investigation […]
In a world that measures a country's prowess on its gross domestic product (GDP), you have to marvel at a nation with the spunk and spirit to rate itself on its GNH – Gross National Happiness. Read teh full story here.
It has become long since Bhutan has an inconsistent situation emerged inside the country. Why did the Lhostampas fail in adjust in the northern Bhutanese culture? It is equally significant to know reasons behind the eviction of these people. Does Bhutan face a danger to its identity and integrity? These are some of the issues, […]
Bhutan or AmericaLet The Refugees Decide By Kazi Gautam THE American proposal of resettlement of the Bhutanese refugees that was made public in Geneva is eventually getting implemented within a few years. Even in the face of protests by some of the refugees, particularly the Bhutanese political leaders in exile, the US seems committed to […]
Kathmandu, March 10: The escalating rise in ‘polarization’ in ideological stance for exiled Bhutanese issue has now become a normal subject. This rise has even resulted into intimidation in lives of some of the people, whose principles do not match to those of others. Meanwhile, some independent youths are enthusiastic towards umpiring those clusters for […]
Kathmandu, March 10: Government has agreed to let the exiled Bhutanese to settle in third country if they wish to do so. Dr Suresh Chalise, foreign advisor of the Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala told media persons in Kathmandu on Saturday that Nepal government is ready to allow the exiled Bhutanese, who wish, to […]