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Thimphu, March 16: Tashi Group, a commercial croup which won an auction for the second national cellular licence last year, is planning the formal award of its concession later this month. Tashi says it is forming a new division – Tashi Infocomm Ltd – to handle its cellular activities, with 25 percent of the new … Read more

Thimphu, March 16: The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) has promoted 45 senior government officials in executive and specialist category. They are first to be promoted under the position classification system. The RCSC received promotion proposals for 351 civil servants for July 2006 and January this year. Of this, applications of only 235 civil servants … Read more

Thimphu, March 16: India's Home Secretary V K Duggal arrived Thimphu On Thursday for a three-day visit in the backdrop of reports that the activities by insurgents grew up along the border. Home Secretary Penden Wangchuk and officials of the Home and Foreign Ministries received the four-member delegation led by Duggal. On Thursday afternoon, Duggal … Read more

16 March, 2007 – Most Westerners want to come to Bhutan to see the vast, unspoiled landscape, to put a human face on happiness in a peaceful, Buddhist kingdom unlike any place elsewhere in the world. See more here

Phuentsholing, March 15: Chief of the Bangladesh's caretaker government Dr Fukaruddin Ahmed flagged off the SAARC car rally amid fanfare in the south-eastern tourist town of Cox's Bazaar, reports said. Flanked by envoys and diplomats of the seven SAARC countries, Ahmed autographed a flag as the vehicles rolled out from the Cox's Bazar stadium under … Read more

Phuentsholing, March 12: Personnel of the Royal Bhutan Police uncovered an improvised explosive devise along a highway in Phuentsholing on Sunday. The explosive was planted below a culvert on the road connecting Pasakha and Tala. Labourers working in the road informed the police after they noticed an electric wire near the culvert. In the investigation … Read more

Thimphu, March 15: A high level European Union delegation is scheduled to arrive here today to discuss bilateral issues and repatriation of exiled Bhutanese.   According to EU sources, the nine-member delegation will also raise the issue of human rights violation continuing in Bhutan for years, further deteriorating in the recent years, the resettlement process of … Read more

In a world that measures a country's prowess on its gross domestic product (GDP), you have to marvel at a nation with the spunk and spirit to rate itself on its GNH – Gross National Happiness. Read teh full story here.  

Bhutan or AmericaLet The Refugees Decide   By Kazi Gautam THE American proposal of resettlement of the Bhutanese refugees that was made public in Geneva is eventually getting implemented within a few years. Even in the face of protests by some of the refugees, particularly the Bhutanese political leaders in exile, the US seems committed to … Read more