Kathmandu, May 28: The Sasastra Suraksha Bal (SSB) of India has blocked some thousands of exiled Bhutanese, who were heading on a "Long March" towards Bhutan, on the middle of the Mechi Bridge on Monday. The Long March is taking place at the call of National Front for Democracy (NFD-Bhutan). Gopal Gurung, spokesperson of Bhutan … Read more
Kathmandu, May 28: Purna Bahadur Tamang, 20, of Beldangi camp has died at police firing on Monday during the curfew hours. Tamang died while undergoing treatment at AMDA Hospital, Damak. Talking to the BNS over telephone, the camp secretary of Khudunabari camp, Manoj Rai confirmed the death of Tamang. Bhutan News Service
Kathmandu, May 28: The UN refugee agency has expressed grave concern over the death of one refugee minor and several injured exiled Bhutanese and policemen during the scuffle in the Beldangi II camp in Jhapa district on Sunday. According to a press statement released on Monday, the UNHCR has said that the violence broke out … Read more
Damak, May 28: Following the death of a youth in Beldangi camp on Sunday, the tensed situation has continued despite indefinite curfew clamped by the local authorities from 11 am on Monday. Thousands of people in all three Beldangi camps have been trying to defy the curfew. Meanwhile, some dozens have sustained serious injuries during … Read more
Phuentsholing, May 27: The Bhutanese authories, on Saturday, evening again arrested Dhan Maya Monger , sister of Ratan Monger of Suntalabari who was arrested on earlier on Thursday evening. Bhutan News Service
Beldangi, May 27: At least one died and some dozens sustained injuries at police firing in Beldangi camp on Sunday. The dead has been identified as Narapati Dhunel, 14, of Beldangi-II camp, Sector G/3-38. The situation became tensed after an unidentified group physically attacked Hari Adhikari Bangale, camp secretary of the same camp accusing him of … Read more
Phuentsholing/Kathmandu, May 27: Bhutanese authorities from different blocks under Samtshe districit on Thursday evening arrested at least six Nepali-ethnic people on the fake charge of opposing the ‘mock election’ scheduled to be held on May 28. The Druk security forces arrested Shreeram Chhetri of Ghumauney on Thursday evening while Ratan Monger of Suntalabari and Prahalad … Read more
Randeep Ramesh in ThimphuSurrounded by alpine meadows and snowcapped peaks, the town of Punakha in central Bhutan bears witness to the difficulty of taking a Buddhist Himalayan monarchy into the 21st century. Inside the 17th-century Tibetan fortress or dzong, topped with pagoda-like golden roofs, are 172 civil servants running the affairs of thousands of villagers. … Read more
Damak, May 25: US ambassador to Nepal James F. Moriarty, while talking to exiled Bhutanese in Jhapa on Friday said the third country resettlement process would being from September and it takes at least six months to complete the process before travel to the US. Moriarty, who was on his one-day visit to the camps, … Read more
Kathmandu, May 24: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said that there is a need to re-establish security posts in camps in Jhapa and Morang districts of Nepal where exiled Bhutanese have been living. Speaking at a press meet in Kathmandu on Wednesday evening, Guterres said security situation should be strengthened. Security posts … Read more