Thimphu, March 19: Stating that the proposed political parties may start collecting making their party funds, the Election Commission has announced the ceiling on registration fees, membership fee, and voluntary contribution. Party registration fee for a person is Nu 3,000 while annual membership fee has been fixed at Rs 5,000. A person can contribute at … Read more
Damak, March 18: Thousands of people in Beldangi camp have strongly protested against the United State’s offer of third country resettlement on Saturday. Students and their guardians who participated in the protest program chanted slogans against the US government for proposing the resettlement offer. “We want to return homeland. Bhutan is our country” reads the … Read more
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.