Thimphu, June 12: King Jigme Khesar conferred Dakyen to the Chairperson of the National Council Namgay Penjore at a function on Wednesday. Penjore also received orange scarf and Patang from the king. He was elected to the post of Chairperson of the council on April 29. A 1991 commerce graduate from Sherubtse, Penjore is from … Read more
Thimphu, June 12: King Jigme Khesar met with ambassador of Pakistan to Bhutan Alamgir Bashar Khan Babar and SAARC Segretary General Dr. Sheel Kant Sharma. He met Babar on Wednesday and Sharman on Tuesday. Babar arrived Thimphu for a four-day visit on Monday. Sharma was also on familiarization visit to Bhutan upon his appointment to … Read more
Thimphu, June 12: The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) of Australia have signed an agreement to provide 30 scholarships to Bhutanese for Ph.D course in Australia. An agreement to this effect was signed by the RCSC secretary Bap Kesang and the Director of South Asia of the Queensland University … Read more
Beldangi/Kathmandu, April 11: An unidentified gang of youths has attempted for physical attack on family members of Hari kafle in Beldangi-I, Sector C/2-126 yesterday night at around 11 pm local time citing the latter opted for the option of third country resettlement. Krishna Maya, spouse of Hari Kafle, informed the BNS over telephone that the … Read more
New Delhi, June 11: The World Bank Tuesday approved a US$1.5 million grant to Bhutan to improve its national public procurement system. According to a statement from the bank, the Institutional Capacity Building Project for Procurement will create an up-to-date national procurement system recognized by international partners as standard and adequate for all procurement whether … Read more
Damak, June 10: As the resettlement of exiled Bhutanese to third countries accelerates, number of people from Nepal and India seeking registration with UNHCR has begun sharply. Many have approached the UNHCR and Nepal’s local authorities, responsible for administration of the camps, seeking their registration as refugees. Those who claimed Bhutanese have come mostly from … Read more
Beldangi-I, June 10: A joint assessment mission comprising officers of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), World Food Program and AMDA-Nepal visited here today. The team mainly discussed on the issues of malnutrition in camps. "We are really proud that the malnutrition rate is lower in camps as compared to local communities", said Dr. … Read more
Kathmandu, June 06: The governments of Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and the United States, as members of the Core Working Group on exiled Bhutanese in Nepal, noted their deep concern about attacks and escalating threats against exiled Bhutanese seeking third country resettlement and the humanitarian workers who assist them. In a … Read more
Birtamod, June 7: Vikalpa led Communist Party of Bhutan –MLM (CPB), formed in 2001, marked the start of armed revolt against autocratic Bhutanese regime with twin blasts, one near Nainital Primary School in Samtse and another near the Damchen Petroleum depot near Phuentsholing in Chukha on June 5. “We are proud to initiate the armed … Read more
Livunia Limon, Executive Director of the U S Committee for Refugees (USCR) once wrote “What if your world had stood still for the last ten years? What if none of your plans had been materialized? What if the events in your life during the last ten years had been eating, sleeping, births, and deaths- all … Read more