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Assam blasts triggered by IED - Times of India
GUWAHATI: The blast which killed six persons and injured over 80 in a market in Lower Assam on Sunday was triggered by a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by the banned ULFA, police sources said on Monday. They said that the IED was …

Ask AP: Car buying incentives, European gas prices - Associated Press
Gas prices have long been sky-high in Europe. So given what’s happened to prices at the pump in America recently, has a gallon of gas in Paris or Rome gone from expensive to ridiculous? Curiosity about European gas prices inspired one of three …

6 killed in blast at Assam market - Hindustan Times
Six people were killed and more than 80 injured in a powerful blast at a weekly market in Kumarikata in Baska district of Assam on Sunday. Security forces, however, managed to recover a second bomb from the market. The explosion occurred at 1.15 p.m …

Mongolians go to polls - Turkish Daily News
On horseback, foot and motorcycle, Mongolians cast their ballots yesterday in a tight race that will see the election of a government tasked with fighting inflation and tapping into huge mineral wealth. A poll showed the ruling Mongolian People’s …

Market bomb kills eight, injures 45 - News.com.au
AT least eight people were killed in a bomb blast at a crowded village market in India’s troubled northeastern Assam state today, police said. The separatist United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), fighting for an independent homeland for the state’s …

Assam hit by blasts: 5 killed 80 injured - Newstrack India
Assam’s busy Kamarikata market encountered a powerful explosion in he afternoon time on Sunday taking the lives of five people and injuring around 80. The bomb blasts took place in the weekly pig market close to Indo-Bhutan border at Kamarikata under …

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Travel dispatches from a shrinking planet - Discovery Travel
With mixed feelings, Rob Verger recently signed on for a tour of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. He looks back on the experience—and the photos he was allowed to take. I finally watched that seminal road movie Easy Rider for the first time. I’m …

Blast in India’s restive northeast kills 6, injures 40 - International Herald Tribune
GAUHATI, India : A local official says a blast at a roadside pig market in the northeastern state of Assam has killed six people and injured 40. Local magistrate P. Gohain says the blast occurred Sunday in Kumarikata near the Bhutan border. About 20 …

Explosion in India’s Northeast Kills 6 - ABC News
An official says an explosion at a roadside pig market in India’s northeast has killed six people and injured 40. Local magistrate P. Gohain says the blast occurred Sunday afternoon in Kumarikata in the state of Assam near the Bhutan border. Roughly …

Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper

Will India’s new-look cinema influence Bhutanese films too?

30 June, 2008 - Picture this scene: The hero fights off 10 or so bad guys and gets hit by several bullets. What wouldn’t the good guy do for his lady love? But that’s nothing. After whipping the villains into a pulp and, in the process, catching a few stray bullets mid-air with his bare hands, the hero walks away unscathed. The lovebirds, dressed in their best, then do a song and dance to celebrate. It’s either a tango in the middle of a desert or a bhangra on top of a mountain.

School’s out for summer!
It’s footloose and fancy free time

30 June, 2008 - With school summer break to start July 1, countless parents in the country’s urban centres are desperately looking for ways to ensure their children don’t just while away their holidays.

Flip flops – The footwear to slip into this summer

30 June, 2008 - Stash those sneakers and converses this summer and let your feet get a breath of fresh air. Because flip flops — those slabs of rubber or plastic or wood with leather or straws between the toes — are suddenly in!

Changing seasons means sniffles and sneezes

30 June, 2008 - In every change of season people suffer from common cold due to viruses re-circulating in the air. Common colds manifest with nasal blockage or running nose and sometimes with fever and body ache.

Gardening things-to-do in summer

30 June, 2008 - Mid-summer is mainly a time to enjoy your garden. Most things are already sown or planted. Now the emphasis is on weeding and watering. To maintain a continuous display of blooms, it is most important to dead-head plants such as petunias, verbenas, pansies and gazanias. Regular dead-heading keeps the garden tidy as well.

Handprint Butterflies
Handprint Butterflies

30 June, 2008 - Did you know there are around 20,000 different types of butterflies? Make your own this summer!

Materials
paper
pencil
scissors
glue

10?

30 June, 2008 - Rinzin Dorji, 17, is a class X student at Lungtenzampa MSS. The literary captain shares his plans for the summer holidays.

1. What are your plans for the summer holidays?
I plan to prepare for my school concert.

The handy monk of Tangsibji

30 June, 2008 - Monks have always played an important role in Bhutanese society. But Nawang Rabsel of Tangsibji, in Trongsa, is taking that role a little further.

Gelong Nawang Rabsel: A self-taught repairman exclusively by touch

Excess land payment put on hold
30 June, 2008 - The national land commission has issued a public notification deferring payment for excess land until further notice.

Selling family heirlooms and cattle, or leasing out orchards to pay for excess land holdings

Bhutan Observer

You ask, We answer
The Opposition Leader on party, politics and policies
Q. Well into the first session, what is your opinion of how the ruling party perceives you?
A. I don’t dwell on how the ruling party perceives me. Instead, I am more concerned about doing my job well and serving the tsa-wa-sum meaningfully.
Q. Is every issue deliberated keeping the interest of the […]

Campus of the distinguished(Lyonpo Zangley Dukpa, Minister of Health)
Alma Mater
Yurung Junior Secondary School, Yurung, Pemagatshel Teachers’ Training Institute, Samtse

Higher Education: National Institute of Education, Singapore Moray House College of Education, Edinburgh, Scotland University of Bristol, England

Memories of Campus Life: Three different institutes in three different countries and different cultural settings as well as learning environment gave me a holistic campus life experience. In […]

Is civil service being compromised?
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It’s not broken, but we still got to ‘fix’ it

Briefly
As part of the celebration of the Centenary of Monarchy, the consecration of the National Memorial Choeten Restoration will take place on June 28.

The Bhutan Narcotic Control Agency observed the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking yesterday at the Yangchenphug HSS.
The Punakha district court has sentenced six men between 19 and 28 years […]

“Bhutan – 100 Years of Wangchuck Vision”
“Bhutan – 100 Years of Wangchuck Vision” by Maj. Gen. (Retd) Shubi Sood was launched at the Royal Bhutanese Embassy, New Delhi on 17 June 2008 by Lyonpo Dago Tshering, Ambassador of Bhutan to India.

Surprise – you got early retirement
When the RCSC issued a press release on BBS on June 19 about the premature retirement of senior civil servants, it’s impact was no different from the ‘shock and awe’ approach taken in Iraq by President George W Bush. That is the complete surprise in which the release was received by the senior civil servants […]

Is civil service being compromised?
The establishment of 14 parliament committees with chairpersons and vice chairpersons has ignited a debate among civil servants that the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa is compromising the independence of the executive from the legislative body.
The big question making the rounds is ‘how can the government maintain the system of checks and balances by having the MPs […]

10 killed in accident
Phuntsholing: In an accident, at around 3 pm on June 25, that circumvented every existing traffic regulation, 10 people were killed and seven injured with severe head injuries and fractures.
A Maruti van jam-packed with 17 passengers went off the road and plunged about 40 ft below in between Pasakha and Paktsina in Phuentsholing because the […]

Special interest in land pooling?
Land pooling is a must for the delivery of necessary services and land owners have reluctantly accepted the relocation of plots away from the Babesa expressway. Some landowners have, however, become skeptical after finding that there are constructions coming up on their earlier plots.
The relocation of land from commercial areas, the clubbing of plots and […]

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