Bhutan seeks India’s support to build toilets
Bhutan, which rests heavily on India for development, has now sought from this largest democracy to build toilets in the capital city
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Meat ban is in force: BAFRA
Within few months the government announced to lift ban on sales of meat during holy Buddhist months, Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority (BAFRA) said the ban would continue
UNHCR, donors reps visit camps
Chief of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Nepal Daisy Dell, accompanied by chief donor representatives toured the Bhutanese refugee camps in Jhapa and Morang districts on Wednesday
Resettled Bhutanese being attacked in Denver
The newly resettled Bhutanese in Denver, Colorado are getting passing sleepless nights due to increasing attacks on the in the recent days
OL writes to government on unconstitutional CDG
President of People’s Democratic Party, who is also the opposition leader in National Assembly, Tshering Tobgay filed a complaint at the Ministry of Finance opposing the government decision on constituency development grant (CDG)
Will they rejoin their sons?
In the case you ever visit the Bhutanese refugee camp in Jhapa district, Nepal at Beldangi II, Sector I-1, Hut No 39, the first question you will be asked is whether you are the one who will take them to see their sons. The aged couple, Ram Chandra Guragai, 73, and Yasoda, 69, are living […]
An orientation class on Bhutanese politics, life
Resettled Bhutanese youth in Forth Worth, America gave two hours orientation classes to Catholic charities case workers and staffs on May 14 at the initiation of the Catholic Charities
First internet radio starts operation
One of the private radio stations in Thimphu join hands with a Swiss to start a 24 hour live streaming online
Thimphu likely to host SAARC summit
Bhutan is all set to host South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit in 2010. This is the first time Bhutan will host the summit since the regional body formed in 1985
Democracy in Bhutan: a silver lining
‘Democracy is the government by the people, for the people and of the people,’ a definition taught at school level rings in my mind. It was the ICSC curriculum of Indian history and civics taught in Bhutan that gave a cursory knowledge of democracy to younger generation of Bhutan. Had it not been for the […]