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PM to address new Bhutan Parliament - Statesman
NEW DELHI, May 13: When the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh lands in Thimpu on May 16 on a two-day visit, he would have the distinction of being the first foreign leader to address the worldâs youngest Parliament. During the visit, Dr Singh will …
Bhutan and India: History stays alive - Kuensel Online
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with the Fourth Druk Gyalpo and His Majesty the King in New Delhi in 2004 (File picture) 14 May, 2008 - Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh of India is visiting Bhutan in one of the most historic years of the kingdomâs …
Drugs and youth today - Kuensel Online
14 May, 2008 - At a glance Ugyen Tenzin, 23, looks normal. Heâs a tall, well dressed, good looking young man. But he is perpetually in a warped state of mind. Heâs been that way since his college days in India when he first tried two spasmo …
PM to address Bhutan Parliament - Hindustan Times
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address the first elected Parliament of Bhutan when he undertakes a two-day visit to the Himalayan country from Friday. Singh will be the first international leader to address the Parliament which was elected in the …
PM to visit Bhutan on energy diplomacy - MSN India
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will go to Bhutan on Friday on a two-day visit, the first by an Indian prime minister to the youngest democracy in South Asia after more than a decade. Manmohan Singh will address a joint session of the first …
Teen transvestite gets Bhutan thinking about sex - Reuters
THIMPHU (Reuters Life!) - In Bhutan, the men wear gowns and often carry women’s names, but this has not stopped a teenage transvestite from causing a stir by publicly coming out in this tiny, secluded Himalayan kingdom. Names in Bhutan are often …
PM to address Bhutan’s first Parliament - Business Standard
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be the first foreign dignitary to address the first ever Parliament of Bhutan during his two day visit from May 16. Singh, who is visiting the Himalayan Kingdom after recent elections for the 47-member national …
Media expected to monitor historic govt: Bhutan PM - MSN India
Thimphu, May 12 (IANS) Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigme Y. Thinley has said the media and people of the Himalayan kingdom would play the role of a watchdog to monitor the performance of the government in the absence of a formidable opposition …
Rain fails to dampen Pinoys in 1-0 win vs Brunei - ABS-CBN
A heavy downpour failed to stop Team Philippines from winning against the squad from Brunei, 1-0, in the opening game of the Asian Federation Confederation Challenge Qualifying Competition Tuesday afternoon. The Filipinos and the team from Brunei …
Everett Theatre - Everett Herald
⢠Next hit to your shopping list? Chicken and por… A refugee is a person who is unsafe in his or her home country due to documented persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, political persuasion or affiliation with a specific social …
Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper
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| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with the Fourth Druk Gyalpo and His Majesty the King in New Delhi in 2004 (File picture) |
14 May, 2008 - Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh of India is visiting Bhutan in one of the most historic years of the kingdomÂs modern history. Bhutan and India have planned a string of historical events for the two-day visit.
14 May, 2008 - The first pay commission of Bhutan will have its hands full over the next four months in deciding a revised pay structure for government employees. Already rumours of a substantial hike are making the rounds. However, the commission will be facing a series of daunting issues like fund availability, performance improvement, inflation, fiscal health, effect on society and the corporate sector.
14 May, 2008 - Having gone through an average of one article a day, the parliamentary debate on the Constitution is moving at a slow pace. The debate has focused on whether they should debate the contents or not. But the discourse in the first session of the new parliament has already been significant for many reasons.
14 May, 2008 - At a glance Ugyen Tenzin, 23, looks normal. HeÂs a tall, well dressed, good looking young man. But he is perpetually in a warped state of mind.
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12 May, 2008 - As the old saying goes: God couldnÂt be everywhere, so he created mothers. Yes mothers are, you could say, omnipresent, getting everything done to keep the home and family together.
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12 May, 2008 - She carries us for nine months. No one can understand the pain she goes through during delivery. She sings lullabies, tells you a story when you are not able to fall asleep, and gives you a warm hug when you are down. She even understands the silence of a baby, the language that no one can understand.
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12 May, 2008 - Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in Bhutan after stomach cancer. ItÂs a silent disease, which develops in the lining of the cervix, the lower part of the uterus that enters the birth canal.
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| Swiss Bakery 15 years ago |
12 May, 2008 - Swiss Bakery is the first bakery to be operational in Bhutan. It was opened in 1970 to provide Bhutanese people a break from their regular rice diet.
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12 May, 2008 - Dechen Zam, 37, from Tongja, Trashiyangtse, is a homemaker and mother of three. She tells City Bytes how life is being a mother.
1. How long have you been married?
ItÂs been 15 years now.
12 May, 2008 - Students and parents can clarify doubts and strengthen/reinforce ideas that have begun to take shape in their minds by visiting Âcareer fairs  a sort of exhibition on careers.
Bhutan Observer
Gelephuâs medicine man
Nine years ago, 65-year-old Jagir Man Ghalley cut off his own right middle finger and fixed it himself. He learned the art of medicine when he was 12. Later at the age of 18, he became a full-fledged medicine practitioner. Heâs from Dekiling.
Jagir Man has treated more than a 100,000 people. âSometimes people from India […]
The last vestige of Shumar Drungpas
The crowning of the first Druk Gyalpo, Gongsar Ugyen Wangchuck, as the first hereditary king of Bhutan on 17 December brought to an end a period of intermittent civil war. Major administrative reforms took place in the country through the establishment of local administration under regional dzongpons and dzongtshabs.
Under such transformations, the people of Pemagatshel, […]
Incommunicado: losing your tongue?
Iâm the great pretender. I eat, walk and sleep Dzongkha, yet I take pride in saying, âI can only write in Englishâ
Trying to presume the garb of the hypocritical attitude of, âI only know how to correspond
in English and am poor in Dzongkha,â sounds a bit absurd sometimes. In striving to be what we are […]
Type of rose in the college garden
Floods of tear washed away the dreams of hopes that glimmered YOUNGDRELâs face. The abrupt end of nurtured relation turned out to be fake and dream turns to be a dream like. Good grounds of expectation become worst of all.
On the third day presence of Youngdrel in the College he resigned loving one bountiful lady […]
âThe change: old habits die hardâ
Everything in life is impermanent except the Change. If we can cope with it then true and long lasting happiness can be enhanced both for the present and the future. Change can ravage anybodyâs sanity if untamed. The change must come and it is unavoidable but as human beings, we can nurture it for our […]
Everyday is a winding road
The government has toiled hard in creating schools even in remote areas to provide easier access to education, leading to an increase the numbers of children going to school, however, a mode of transportation is something that has been sidelined.
Its 5 am, Phub Dema and her younger brother, Kezang, are up. After a quick wash […]
The old man and the mani: an old wheel still in spin
Observerâs Kunga T Dorji meets a man without possessions. All he has is a mani
Itâs breakfast time at the Punakha Higher Secondary School in Lekithang. As the students file up in the dining hall for their servings of fried rice and tea, a lone figure in a shabbily worn sun-bleached gho limps […]
The story of the times
I was born in the boondocks â an obscure village that is. No nurse delivered me for the health unit was too distant. Besides, there was the chance that she may not have been there at the time.
There was a school I attended rather late in my adolescence. Early learning was not possible because my […]
HM opens first parliament
His Majesty the King yesterday graced the first session of parliament under the democratic constitutional monarchy. In age-old tradition, His Majesty was received and escorted in a chibdrel ceremony to the parliament where the members of the political parties offered kusung thukten mendrel, followed by the zhugdrel phuensum tshogpai ceremony. During these auspicious ceremonies, the […]
Of distant lands and dreary procedures
The local area plans within the Thimphu municipal boundary have been complete â not so with land demarcation. That makes land allocation a very distant dream.
The Thimphu municipal boundary was identified from Olarongchhu through Ngaberongchhu
in Chang and Mewang geogs and the structure plan approved in 2002. Work on local area plans started right after.
Since then, […]
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