| WB approves USD 12 mn grant to Bhutan for institutional reform Times of India, India – WASHINGTON: The World Bank on Thursday approved a USD 12 million grant to Bhutan to support the country’s institutional reforms and on-going medium-term … |
| Television irks Bhutan?s authorities Daily Times, Pakistan – By Karishma Vyas For generations, the government limited foreign influence to preserve Bhutan?s Buddhist, rural traditions. But with TV?s advent, … |
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Bhutan?s GDP growth hinges on the Tala project Hindu, India – 20: With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dedicating Tala power from Bhutan to an energy-hungry nation, Bhutan?s revenues are set to get a boost from Tala?s … Manmohan allays fears on hydro-electric projects Govt sets up national power board |
| ‘This is done to get cheap publicity’ Times of India, India – Tejaswini, who is married to writeractor-director Pankaj Saraswat, and Raja were doing a play, Chandramukhi v/s Paro, where Raja was playing Devdas and she, … Balaji’s interfering, says Raja |
| Bhutan to spend Rs 277.4 million for 2008 polls Times of India, India – THIMPHU: The Bhutan government has earmarked Rs 277.4 million for the country’s general elections next year. Of an estimated budget of Rs 22.2 billion for … |
| Govt plans to set up NPPMB Economic Times, India – Singh said the Tala Hydro project and Tala Transmission System symbolised the determination of India and Bhutan to find new pathways of regional cooperation … |
| Human bone smuggling racket uncovered Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia – Officers found the latest collection in Jaigaon, a town in eastern India on the border with Bhutan, and arrested four people who said they were smuggling … |
| Yellow, red, blue, green colours ‘banned’ for Bhutan polls Times of India, India – THIMPU: Political parties in Bhutan will not be allowed to have symbols and even colours — blue, green, red and yellow – used in the two-phase dummy … |
| Bhutan again votes for tradition as mock poll ends Reuters AlertNet, UK – By Bappa Majumdar PHUENTSHOLING, Bhutan, May 29 (Reuters) – Bhutan voted for tradition and reinforced its faith in monarchy, officials said on Tuesday, … |
| Bhutan refugees protest on India border Hindustan Times, India – The protests came after Bhutan held its second ‘mock election’ this week as a dress rehearsal for the kingdom’s transition to democracy in 2008 after a … |
Small family happy family?
23 June, 2007 – The size of the average
Bhutanese family is getting
smaller.
Bhutanese families were having fewer children and the numbers were likely to shrink even further in the years to come, according to officials of the National Statistical Bureau.
According to the bureau, Bhutanese women in their prime reproductive age were giving birth to fewer children than in the past.
Project coordinator sentenced
23 June, 2007 – After more than one year of
proceedings at the High
Court the former coordinator for the bio-mass briquette project of the national women association of Bhutan (NWAB), was sentenced to six and half years in prison on June 21.
Civil Service Bill may not be passed
23 June, 2007 – The 87th session of the National
Assembly may not be able to
enact the Civil Service Bill, which was discussed earlier this week, according to officials of the Assembly Secretariat.
IT student dies in bike accident
23 June, 2007 – A final year Bhutanese IT
student studying at the
Pondicherry Engineering College in Tamil Nadu, India, was killed on the spot when the motorcycle he was riding crashed into a truck on June 19.
The role of civil society
23 June, 2007 – With the civil society
expected to play an
important role in the political transformation of the country the Civil Society Organisation Act would ensure proper functioning of the organisations by specifying its roles and responsibilities, say judiciary officials who were involved in drafting the Act.
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| Baichung takes a shot at a different sport |
23 June, 2007 – Baichung Bhutia does not remember the first time he kicked a ball but the poster boy of Indian football has definitely kicked his way to the top to become a household name in the region.
30 communist party members apprehended
23 June, 2007 – Thirty people, including
three students, who had
joined the Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) based in Jhapa, Nepal, have been apprehended by the Royal Bhutan Police in Samtse since May 25 this year.
To teachers
23 June, 2007 Democratisation creates a structural change in the government. It is not meant to alter the priorities and values that are inherent in our system. In fact we hope it will preserve them. We therefore welcome the National AssemblyÂ’s resolution to give teachers greater incentives so that good people will be attracted to the teaching profession.
22 June, 2007 – Bhutanese policy makers, senior government officials and private sector executives were introduced to what is regarded as the oldest science in the world – toxicology – in an executive seminar led by Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol of Thailand, on June 20 in Thimphu.
Nu. 1,543 million collected as direct taxes
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Economy 21 June, 2007 – Personal, business and corporate tax collected in 2006 amounted to Nu. 1,543.21 million, an increase of about 24 percent from the previous year, according to a report published by the tax administration division.
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