Editor By Govinda Rizal For any book to survive and perform well in today’s market, when the cyber store has piles of freely accessible information, it’s content must be of interest un-accessible through internet browsing. This criterion is highly upheld by TP Mishra’s “Becoming a journalist in exile”. The first of the four parts … Read more
Jiban Bhandari talks with TP Mishra, editor of Bhutan News Service before he left for NY under resettlement program. In second part, Khem Kafle from Beldangi-II updates the degarding SLC results of the Bhutanese students this year.
Exiled Bhutanese resettled in Norway have observed Bhanu Jayanti today amidst a special function. According to our correspondent Ramesh Gautam, more than 150 exiled Bhutanese observed the day. The program, which was conducted from a stage in Alta, one of the Kommunes (municipality) in the far North, was aired live through Skype in online to … Read more
Bronx, New York: New York-based local online news portal syracuse.com has wrote in today’s edition that in some areas of Syracuse in New York State in USA, there have increased incidents concerning physical attacks on exiled Bhutanese resettled here. According to the report published in the online, eight men attacked Hari Rizai while he was … Read more
A survey conducted by the Senior Citizens of Bhutan (SCB) led by Harkajung Subba has shown that as many as twenty-thousand Bhutanese refugees still want to return home. SCB with support from few other exile-based organizations including the Human Rights Organization of Bhutan, had urged the compatriots to fill out a form, asking them to … Read more
Adelaide, South Australia: The Bhutanese community in South Australia observed Bhanu Jayanti amidst a program here today. Chaired by Bhutanese human rights leader Ratan Gazmere, the program was attended by over a dozen participants. The program started with reciting of Ramayan and followed by presentation of poems and other literary items. Speaking at the program … Read more
The Nepalese PM Madhav Kumar Nepal has said that resettlement is not going to reduce refugees’ feelings towards Bhutan and Bhutanese community. Rather it becomes a platform for the resettled Diasporas to highlight the their stories and sufferings. Next, Mr and Mrs Rizal talk on TCR and its related aspects. Rizal, who is left with … Read more
It has been over a month since I landed at Adelaide airport in South Australia. The first month remained impressive as expected. I had my ninety six year old grandfather on his wheel chair- the eldest man in Adelaide from Bhutanese Community whom I had accompanied along with. After some 12 hours of flight from … Read more
Source: Kuensel Government organisations can now offer on-line facilities on e-platform By 2010, obtaining a citizenship identity card, or a land ownership certificate may not take as long as, like some applicants humorously describe it, “after a pair of shoe soles are worn out.” With the launching of an electronic-platform (e-platform) yesterday in Thimphu, government … Read more
The National Assembly has seen a majority of its members opposing the section in the local government bill (LG), which states that a local government will be removed if it loses the confidence of the people. Local governments include dzongkhag tshogdu, gewog tshogdu, and thromde tshogdu. After two days of discussion on dissolution of LG, … Read more