Archive for December, 2006
Kathmandu, December 12: Chakra Mani Gautam, a resident of Beldangi-II sector E/1-132 has been admitted toTU Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu on Tuesday after he was seriously injured when a bus Lu.1.Kha 3768 met an accident at Sunwol, Nawalparasi district Monday night. Gautam is diagnosed to have broken his left leg. Doctors at the hospital have asked him to undergo […]
Kathmandu, December 12: The Bhutanese Movement Steering Committee (BMSC) delegation has met the Indian journalists at Hotel Malla, Kathmandu on December 11 and informed the Indian media about the latest development in camps. Addressing the journalists, the chairman of BMSC, Tek Nath Rizal urged the involvement of India in resolving the protracted crisis. Communications coordinator of […]
Kathmandu, December 11: Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala assured the exiled Bhutanese leaders that his new government would take stronger measures for repatriation of all the Bhutanese languishing in Nepal for the last 17 years. During the meeting with the 7-member delegation of the exiled Bhutanese leaders led by human rights activist Tek Nath […]
Kathmandu, December 10: Bhutanese Refugee Durable Solution Coordination Committee (BRDSCC) has strongly urged King Jigme Singye Wangchuk to realize the rights of Bhutanese people. In a letter sent to Bhutanese king on the occasion of world human rights day, BRDSCC has expected for an act of declaration is made in favor of innocent people evicted […]
Thimphu, December 10: The 86th session of the National Assembly that begins from December 22 will discuss about the Labour and Employment Bill. According to spokesperson for the Legislative Committee the draft Immigration Bill and the Judiciary Services Bill would also be put up for discussion. It is also learnt that a lot of chatrims […]
Kathmandu, December 08: The UNHCR is set to present its budget of US$1.06 billion for 2007 to donor countries at an annual conference in Geneva on Monday. In a press release issued by the agency on Friday, the agency expressed hopes that the international community will give generously "to support millions of people around the […]
Damak, December 07: The Nepalese teachers working in the private boarding schools in Jhapa district have demanded that the school management should expel all the Bhutanese teachers working in the schools and recruit Nepalese in their place. During a press conference here, the members of the Institutional Schools Teachers Union made this demand. Secretary of […]
Damak, December 05: Exiled Bhutanese leaders repeated their demand for a respectful repatriation of the the Bhutanese citizens back to their country. "We want to go back home and not to the US", the leaders said. Speaking at an interaction organized by the Bhutan Women's Development Association in Urlabadi on Monday and central member of […]
The Bhutanese refugee impasse is progressively stepping towards complication. Gradually, it is attracting individual refugee and well-wishers into hot debate. This decade-and-half years of pending issue has been one of the biggest burdens for South Asia. Even the world community is unreceptive to the dilemma. The long stay in the unimproved camps under the plastic […]
Beldangi I, December 03: The officail registration of the exiled Bhutanese in Beldangi-I ,which started from November 15, would end on December 8. Regular census would complete by Wednesday December 6. But it takes at least two days to register absentees who were marked temporarily absent earlier. After the completion in Beldangi-I, the census of Beldangi-II […]