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Manmohan’s visit to boost ties: Bhutan PM - newindpress
THIMPHU: Bhutan has accorded great significance to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the country, saying it will give the new government the opportunity to discuss regional and global issues and create room for further collaboration …
Indian PMâs visit will boost bilateral ties: Bhutan PM - Zee News
Thimphu, May 15: Bhutan has accorded great significance to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the country, saying it will give the new government the opportunity to discuss regional and global issues and create room for further …
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 …
More countries, leaders offer condolences to China over deadly quake - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, May 15 (Xinhua) — More leaders and officials from around the world sent messages of condolences to Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday, offering deep sympathies over Monday’s deadly earthquake in southwest China …
Economic, hydropower cooperation to be key focus areas of PM’s Bhutan … - NetIndia123.com
Enhancing economic and hydropower cooperation between India and Bhutan will be the key focus areas of the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh’s two-day visit to Bhutan from Friday. Briefing the media about the visit, Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar …
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 visit Bhutan on Friday - Business Standard
Singh will hold wide-ranging talks with his Bhutanese counterpart Jigme Y Thinley on issues of mutual interest, including India’s development cooperation with the Himalayan kingdom.
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 …
A New Bhutan Calling - Outlook India
Prime Minister Manmohan Singhâs visit this week to address Bhutanâs brand new parliament, minted freshly after its first ever election, is to highlight the “unique” relationship, which has prospered despite the pressures of the neighbourhood. But …
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 …
Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper
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| Lack of quality material has hampered constructions |
15 May, 2008 - Contractors in Bumthang say that they are facing problems in meeting the quality of construction materials like stones and sand, which they get from natural resources development corporation limited (NRDCL).
15 May, 2008 - Thirty-six-year old Tandin Wangmo, a tenant in one of the Changjiji government housing units in Thimphu, was shocked when she received a warning notice from the housing development corporation last week stating that they had not paid their rent for more than two years.
15 May, 2008 - With a huge deficit in convertible currency trade, the trade department is exploring opportunities to link trade relations with the US and EU countries to narrow the deficit.
15 May, 2008 - One place, always busy on weekdays in Trashigang, is the dzongkhag court. Trashigang may not be the dzongkhag with the highest crime rate, but officials in court are constantly kept on their toes with hundreds of people visiting the court for various reasons.
15 May, 2008 - Civil servants and villagers in Zhemgang dzongkhag are resisting the dzongkhagÂs revised Âdolam (official walking distance covered by a porter in a day) rate, which has been shortened by almost half and subsequently reduces daily allowance claims payable to porters and officials.
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15 May, 2008 - One man was electrocuted and another suffered severe body burns when they accidentally touched a live wire from an 11 kv transmission line on the evening of April 10 in Phuentsholing.
15 May, 2008 - Some armed with resumes, some clueless and some with tenuous hopes of getting admissions in good colleges, about 3,000 class XII students turned up for the three-day career fair at the Kelki high school auditorium.
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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.
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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 […]
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