THIMPHU – Hollywood movies and Indian soaps are the biggest draw, but amid a mass of programmes there is growing unease about the cost to traditional culture. Residents of the tiny nation, wedged high in the mountains between India and China, were given their first taste of television in 1999 following widespread discontent over missing […]
July 19, Geneva – The number of refugees in the world has increased for the first time since 2002, largely as a result of the crisis in Iraq, the UN refugee agency said today. UNHCR's "2006 Global Trends" report, released today, shows the number of refugees under the agency's mandate rising last year by 14 […]
New Delhi, June 20: Indian police have discovered hundreds of human skulls and femurs and arrested a gang for smuggling bones to Bhutan for use in Buddhist monasteries. According to Indian media reports, the smugglers during the interrogation confessed that the hollow human thigh bones were in great demand in monasteries and were used as […]
The official census jointly conducted by UNHCR and government of Nepal has kept 1278 cases pending. These cases are termed as ‘Census Pending.’ As per the study conducted by Association of Human RIghts Activists (AHURA-Bhutan), the number os such pending cases are 186 in Beldangi-I, 392 in Beldangi-II, 146 in Beldangi-II Extension, 249 in Sanischare, […]
Kakarvitta, June 20: The Siliguri district court in the Indian State of West Bengal granted bail to two exiled Bhutanese who were arrested from Mechi Bridge during the 'Long March' program on May 29, on Tuesday. The Siliguri court ordered the police to release Chetan Khanal and Dinesh Rai on bail. Police produced them in […]
Kathmandu, June 18: South Asian Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR) has asked the Indian government to allow the exiled Bhutanese to get back to their country voluntarily through the Indian soil. In an appeal published, SAFHR said it strongly condemns the violent action taken by the Indian security forces against a group of people whose […]
Timai, June 17: Bhutanese refugees languishing in camps here in Jhapa and Morang districts have been deprived of medical treatment owing allegedly to apathy from the referral committee comprising representatives of Amda-Nepal Damak, Amda-Nepal Birtamod, Mechi Hospital and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Due to delay in treatment, the condition of refugees urgently needing […]
New Delhi, June 18: The Druk National Congress celebrated its 13th 'Founding Day' on June 16 with a pledge to continue its democratic struggle for the establishment of democracy in Bhutan. The members of Indo-Bhutan Friendship Society and Bhutan Solidarity participated in the revelry of foundation day held in New Delhi. They expressed their solidarity […]
Thimphu, June18: Bhutanese authorities have chosen from 164 entries the logo for the Coronation and Centenary celebrations of the wangchuk dynasty next year. The two winning entries were from Bhutan Times Ltd., which won Nu. 100,000 and Jigme Loday, an artist with the education ministry, who won Nu. 50,000, government mouthpiece Kuensel said. The chairman […]
Kakarvitta, June 18: India has tightened security along the border with Nepal in the east to avoid any exiled Bhutanese going towards Bhutan as part of the long march. On Sunday, the Inspector General of Police of North Bengal, R. J. S. Nawla, said reinforcements of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and the West Bengal […]