Thinley takes over as Bhutan Premier (The Hindu)
Thimphu: Jigmi Y Thinley, who has had close ties with India, has taken over as Bhutan’s first elected Prime Minister, a post he held twice under the monarchy. Mr. Thinley, 56, assumed office on Wednesday after receiving the …

Rulers also Opposition in Bhutan (The Telegraph)
Thimpu, April 10: Bhutan’s ruling party will also play the role of the Opposition in the country’s first elected Parliament in what could be a unique experiment in a virtually “Opposition-free” parliamentary democracy.

Second GSM Network Launches in Bhutan (Cellular-News.com)
Bhutan’s second GSM network has launched its services, breaking the monopoly held by Bhutan Telecom. Tashi InfoComm was granted a license in 2006, but had difficulty raising funding for the network deployment.

Thinley takes over as Premier (The Hindu)
Thimphu: Jigmi Y Thinley, who has had close ties with India, has taken over as Bhutan’s first elected Prime Minister, a post he held twice under the monarchy. Mr. Thinley, 56, assumed office on Wednesday after receiving the ceremonial …

Grenade-packed auto seized near Bhutan (The Telegraph)
Guwahati, April 8: Police today seized 30 high-explosive grenades along with 30 detonators from an auto-rickshaw near the Bhutan bus stop at Rangia in Kamrup district.

Bhutan’s first ever publisher’s fair (Kuensel)
7 April, 2008 - A variety of books ranging from encyclopedia, sports and physical education, to leisure and children books are on display in the first ever book fair organized by the ministry of education at the new YDF complex in Thimphu.

Watch Tower: Bhutan after the polls (Central Chronicle)
Bhutan must be a truly unique country, something more than an idyllic nest high on the Himalayas.

ULFA eyeing Bhutan again for setting base? (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
Guwahati, April 9 (IANS) Separatists in India’s northeast may again become active in Bhutan. The Assam Police have seized a large cache of explosives from two people, one of who hails from Bhutan, authorities said Wednesday.

Jigmi Thinley, Bhutan’s Prime Minister-elect (The Hindu)
Kolkata: Jigmi Y Thinley, president of the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT), that won a landslide victory in Bhutan’s first parliamentary elections held on March 24, has been unanimously endorsed by the party as the country’s Prime …

ULFA trying to set up base in Bhutan (rediff.com)
Police on Tuesday recovered 30 grenades along with equal number of explosives laden in an auto rickshaw that was coming from Daranga Mela on the India-Bhutan border in Baksa district of Assam to Ghograpar in Nalbari district where some ULFA militants were awaiting the consignment. Police, which intercepted the auto rickshaw midway near Bhutan bus stop at Rangiya in Kamrup district, arrested two …

The DPT government's cabinet ministers

11 April, 2008 -

On election duty in Lunana

Polling officers and party representatives at their stations

11 April, 2008 - On January 25, three polling officers for Lunana experienced “the most nerve wracking 30 minutes of their lives”.

With the country’s northernmost gewog completely cut off by snow, Yangka, Thuji and Krishna were airlifted by an IAF (Indian Air Force) chopper to Lunana, where they would live for more than two months to manage the National Council and National Assembly elections.

Being a ‘politician’ in St Stephen’s College
10 April, 2008 - St Stephen’s College (Delhi University) is India’s most elite and well known humanitarian college with a high profile alumni of India’s current batch of top leaders, journalists, academics, intellectuals, corporate, senior bureaucrats and so on. Even some of Bhutan’s ministers and senior bureaucrats graduated from there, including the newly elected Prime Minister.

Global warming guarantees GLOF
First phase of mitigation work to begin this year

There’s a real danger, as the picture shows, of the two lakes merging

10 April, 2008 - If UNDP’s projection of a possible outburst of Thorthormi glacier-lake in Lunana by 2010 comes to pass, the destruction downstream may be catastrophic.

TashiCell formally launched

HRH Ashi Kesang Wangmo Wangchuck does the honours

10 April, 2008 - With its infrastructure in place in the six western dzongkhags, the first private cellular company, Tashi InfoComm Limited, was formally launched on April 6.

GREF employee gets egg on his face

The contraband that was seized by BAFRA

10 April, 2008 - A general road engineering Force (GREF) employee of Project DANTAK was slapped a fine of Nu 5,680 by Bhutan agricultural food regulatory authority (BAFRA) officials for attempting to illegally import 16 live birds and six cartons of eggs on the evening of April 6.

Spate of chorten desecrations in Bumthang

The unholy work of vandals

10 April, 2008 - Chorten vandals struck Bumthang valley last week desecrating four chortens in Gaytsa, Chakar and Kurkubi.

Sentences handed down in tourist theft case
10 April, 2008 - Thimphu district court sentenced three men and a woman yesterday to prison terms ranging from 3 to 9 years in connection with the robbery of an American tour group in October last year.

Child rapist sentenced to 12 years
10 April, 2008 - Sarpang district court sentenced a 33-year-old man to 12 years in prison this week for raping a six-year-old girl in Singye gewog on January 13 this year.

The treacherous Tshachugang trek

An uphill battle with a high mortality rate for mules

10 April, 2008 - Every time 32-year-old Chimi from Digala goes out to buy basic necessities, she literally risks her life.

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