New Delhi, October 24: India Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon will leave for Thimphu on a three-day visit on Thursday. The Indian bureaucrat's visit to Bhutan has come just before Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister K. P. Oli is scheduled to visit India before reaching Thimphu for bilateral talks on the issue of exiled … Read more
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister KP Sharma Oli today said he would hold “decisive talks” with the Bhutanese government on the 16-year-old refugee problem in the third week of November. Oli said the talks would be held either in the Bhutanese capital of Thimphu or in Kathmandu on November 21 and 22. “Our efforts … Read more
Kathmandu, October 20: The Refugee Rights Coordinating Committee (RRCC) has formally welcomed the US offer to allow up to 60,000 refugees in America. In a press release, the RRCC has said it welcomes Ellen Sauerbrey, the Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration for her comprehensible concept to resettle some 60 thousands Bhutanese … Read more
Kathmandu, October 20: Bhutanese government has requested Nepal to postpone the bilateral talks with Nepal that was scheduled for November 12-13. According sources at Foreign Ministry, Bhutanese Prime Minister, Khandu Wangchuk had called Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister KP Oli to request for the postponement. Wangchuk is reported to have cited stating that November … Read more
Kathmandu, October 20: American ambassador to Nepal James F. Moriarty on his return to Kathmandu after attending conference of US Ambassadors has said the recent US offer to allow up to 60,000 exiled Bhutanese in America was to help these people on the humanitarian ground. He also said it would not be an encouragement to … Read more
Kathmandu, October 18: President of America-Nepal Friendship Society Dr. Tara Niraula strongly opposed the recent US offer of allowing about 60,000 exiled Bhutanese in American soil stating that would not give entire justice to them. Speaking at a program in Reporters’ Club in Kathmandu today, Niraula said the resettlement offer isn’t a matter of problem … Read more
Narad Adhikari, representative of the Global Human Rights Defence for Bhutan, is also the General Secretary of Druk National Congress (DNC), spokesperson of National Front for Democracy and a central committee member of the Bhutanese Movement Steering Committee. Active in political movement since the establishment of DNC, he joined with Thinley Penjor after the split … Read more
Timai, October 18: Elephant kills one and injured one more in Timai camp on Tuesday. Bishnu Maya Rai, 28, was killed when the elephant attacked her on Tuesday afternoon. Her 8 years old daughter Vidhya Rai was severely injured and is undergoing medical treatment in a local hospital. She was the resident of Sector C. … Read more
Kathmandu, October 18: Chairman of the Bhutanese Movement Steering Committee (BMSC) Tek Nath Rizal has asked the representation of exiled Bhutanese community and Indian government in the forth-coming talks between the government of Nepal and Bhutan to find solution of the protracted crisis of the exiled Bhutanese. Addressing an interaction here on Wednesday, Rizal said there is … Read more
Kathmandu, October 17: The Third World Media Network (TWMN) an independent, international, non-profit organization of the working journalists from the least developed countries (LDCs) having it’s headquarter in Dhaka Bangladesh has recently given affiliation to TWMN-Bhutan Chapter. According Teju Chouhan, the Secretary General of TWMN-Bhutan Chapter, they received a response letter from the headquarter stating the … Read more