Beldangi, October 19: CPB-Maoist-affiliated Republican Youth Union-Bhutan and All Bhutan Revolutionary Students Union have cautioned people in camps that the pro-resettlement activists were trying to mobile people in camps during Dashain. In a pampletting done all over camps, on Friday night, these organizations have said they would launch ‘people’s action’ if pro-resettlement activists try to […]
Many organizations formed by well-wishers of Bhutanese refugees, established with the aims of extending moral support to them, are now-a-days getting dissolved. Some of those organizations simply worked for their own benefits. ‘Friends of Bhutan’ is yet an organization formed by a small circle of Nepalese well-wishers. Standing on the favor of ‘repatriation’ to refugee’s […]
Kathmandu, October 16: Saranarthi Sarokar Unit, which has been airing Saranarthi Sarokar from Nepal FM 91.8, Kathmandu since eight months, has once again appealed to Bhutanese citizens living abroad to extend possible financial support for airing radio program from local FM stations in Jhapa and Morang. Earlier, it circulated an appeal to majority of Bhutanese […]
Oppressed and still on Press Even though T.P. Mishra is the Top Editor at The Bhutan Reporter, a monthly English-language newspaper written by and for Bhutanese refugees, it is his responsibility to pick up the papers from the press and transport them to his rented room, which serves as the newspaper's head office. To […]
Thimphu, October 15: As part of the biggest Hindu festival Dashain, the Durga puja ceremony has started at PWD colony in Thimpbu on Friday. Pandit Madhav Adhikari and Pandit Somnath Kafley, assisted by eight other Hindu priests, will recite Chandi, Yajur Veda and Bhagawat Puranas for peace and prosperity in the nation. The offerings will […]
Thimphu, October 15: Despite the warning from the election commission the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa’s women sing organized a meeting in Thimphu on Saturday. The party said the meeting intended to educate the women on democratic processes and free and fair election. Around 250 women attended the meeting. The party had said its women wing will […]
Kathmandu, October 10: The police in Damak arrested and held general secretary of Bhutan Press Union (BPU) Puranaghare for a night in custody without any reason. Puranaghare told Bhutan News Service over telephone that he, along with his younger brother, was arrested from the rented room in Damak on Tuesday evening. Despite his appeal to […]
Thimphu, October 10: The visiting joint secretary for North of India’s foreign ministry Preeti Sharan called on King Jigme Khesar at Tashicho Dzong on Tuesday. She was on her visit to Bhutan to attend the first meeting of the Punatsangchu Hydroelectricity Project Authority, which hand handed over to Tala project authority for management. Sharan’s visit […]
Phuentsholing, October 09: The Chukha district administration has fired two Lhotsampa tshogpas (village representatives) of Phuentsholing on charges of attending and participating a meeting organized by People’s Democratic Party in the town on September 12. Buddiman Rai and Partiman Rai have been relieved from their posts after Druk Phuensum Tshogpa complained to the Anti-Corruption Commission, […]
Samdrup Jongkhar, October 08: With the growth of open political debates alongside the democratization process, the sewing mouths of the young people to terminate their interest in national politics continue to exist in the country. When the college students in Sherubtse College began discussion over the changing politics and democratization process in the country, the […]