Meet N. B. Giri
Meet the former senior army official of the country N. B. Giri to know how his life was as military personnel and compare it with his life as political activists in exile.
Month: March 2009
This is our history
Compiled by I. P. Adhikari Teju Prakash reads the history of Lhotshampas’ entry and settlement in Bhutan, which dates back to eighth century and relation between Nepalism and country’s name. Ichha Poudel has a feature recalling the days when mass eviction took place in 1990.
Impacts of resettlement, prospects of repatriation
Talks with Ashok Gurung of Refugee Rights Coordination Committee (RRCC) on impacts of resettlement, prospects of repatriation and future of Bhutan’s political and human rights movement. Pabitra Pokhrel pens a painstaking story revealing the life in remote Bhutan village.
Tshering Tobgay is new PDP president
Opposition leader in the National Assembly Tsherng Tobgay has been elected as the president of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday
Resettled folk commits suicide
Krishna Kumar Rai, 31, from Nashville city of Tennessee State committed suicide by hanging in a closet rod on March 17 at around 2.30 PM. A temporary inhabitant of Goldhap Refugee Camp, Sector B/3 Hut No 23 in eastern Nepal, Rai was resettled in Tennessee in September 2008 along with his parents
High hopes in avian industry
The government has not planned for any new airline, neither has invited private sector to submit proposal nor the private sector has show interest but plan for it but construction of local airports in the country is in top of the agenda list
King visits Lhuentse, Mongar
King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk, who is currently in visit to Lhuentse and Mongar districts, met and interacted with local people and students on several problems they face
Government continues to laid off old bureaucrats
The government will implement the strategies formulated by Druk Holdings and Investments (DHI) in 63 public agencies shortly to lay off ‘unnecessary’ officials recruited by the former governments
Sherubtse’s own FM radio
One of the pioneer and oldest educational institutions of the country, the Sherubtse College in Trashigang will shortly have its own FM radio though Royal University of Bhutan is yet to introduce journalism in its curriculum
Aftermath of the Beldangi fire
Police authority in Damak has decided to file a case against one person who was arrested on suspicion of having links for recent fire in Beldangi-II camp