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Bells, chants launch Bhutan’s first daily newspaper - Reuters India
THIMPHU, Bhutan (Reuters) - Buddhist monks prayed for the success of Bhutan’s first daily newspaper, which was launched on Thursday but could take a week to reach remote areas of the tiny Himalayan nation carried on ponies and on foot. Bhutan Today …    [read more]

News Buzz: Recession Fears After More Bad Economic News on GDP and … - US News and World Report
Economy Shrinks as Consumers Cut Back on Spending : The government reported today that the economy shrank over the summer—the strongest indication yet that the United States may already be in the middle of a recession, which is defined as two …    [read more]

India’s Assam Hit by 12 Bombings; 60 Die; 300 Hurt (Update3) - Bloomberg
Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) — More than 60 people were killed and about 300 injured in 12 bombings across the eastern Indian state of Assam, where indigenous groups have clashed this month with immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh. Devices containing high …    [read more]

Bombs kill at least 33 in India’s Assam state - Los Angeles Times
Reporting from New Delhi — A series of bomb blasts ripped through India’s restive northeastern state of Assam today, killing at least 33 people and injuring more than 100. At least 13 bombs exploded in four towns including Guwahati, Assam’s main …    [read more]

13 blasts tear through northeast India, killing 61 - San Diego Union-Tribune
GAUHATI, India – A series of coordinated blasts tore through northeast India on Thursday, killing at least 61 people and sending police scrambling to find any unexploded bombs in a province troubled by years of separatist violence and ethnic …    [read more]

Bomb Blasts Kill at Least 61 in India - Wall Street Journal
GAUHATI, India — A series of coordinated blasts tore through northeast India on Thursday, killing at least 61 people and sending police scrambling to find any unexploded bombs in a province troubled by years of separatist violence and ethnic …    [read more]

Serial bombs kill at least 65 in India’s Assam state - International Herald Tribune
Eleven bomb blasts in quick succession ripped through the main city of India’s troubled northeastern Assam state and three other towns on Thursday, killing at least 65 people and wounding 335, police said. No one has so far claimed responsibility for …    [read more]

Bombs Kill at Least 7 in India’s Assam State - The Ledger
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Ten bomb blasts in quick succession shook the main city of India’s troubled northeastern Assam state and three other towns Thursday, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 80, police said. Firefighters doused …    [read more]

56 killed in India explosions - MSN UK News
A series of co-ordinated blasts have torn through India’s volatile north-east, killing at least 56 people, wounding more than 300 and setting police on a frantic search for any unexploded bombs The region is torn by dozens of militant separatist …    [read more]

Multiple bomb blasts rock India’s Assam state - Times Online
A dozen bombs exploded in towns and markets around India’s northeastern state of Assam today, killing 48 people and injuring at least 300 in the impoverished tea-producing region. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but local officials …    [read more]

Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper

His Majesty The Druk Gyalpo

29 October, 2008 - It is the end - and the beginning - of history. On the morning of November 1, the third day of the ninth Bhutanese month, His Majesty the King will be empowered as the Druk Gyalpo in a unique and sacred empowerment ceremony, which symbolises his transcendence of the ordinary and the temporal and the personification of divine wisdom.    [read more]

Late rainfall gives farmers a fright
Damage to crops could have been worse had
rain continued

SHOCKING SHOWER – A Rongthong farmer salvages his paddy harvest to higher ground

30 October, 2008 - The clear blue skies last morning left thousands of farmers across the country thanking their luck after the retreating monsoon, which lasted for about 48 hours since Sunday night, threatened their harvest of the year.    [read more]

Impounding dogs: A mere stopgap measure
The long-term solution
to the stray problem is a systematic and sustained
sterilisation program

30 October, 2008 - To impound 18,000 or so dogs, the government has spent Nu 27 million, about Nu 1,500 for every stray, yet most of them are finding their way back from the pounds.    [read more]

Clean Bhutan: a gift to the King

All in a Day’s Work – Trashigang residents at work

30 October, 2008 - Determined to offer a “Clean Bhutan” as a gift to the new King, about 1,300 civil servants, police, business people, school children and local villagers equipped with shovels, sickles, spades and RSPN sacks carried out the “Clean Bhutan” campaign in Trashigang municipal area October 28.    [read more]

Bhutan Observer

Is pay hike for the politicians along with the Civil Servants justified?
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Keeping the family heritage alive
Ap Loday could be one of the few craftsmen who faithfully keep their trade going. Eshori Gurung reports.
Every morning, 60-year-old Ap Loday Gyeltshen wakes up, wears his spectacles and climbs the steep ladder to a small adjoining room – the room he has been working in for the past two decades.
The red bricks at the […]    [read more]

The legacy of Toeb Chandana
A journey into the spiritual significance of an idyllic village revealed the vibrant and inexhaustible legacy of an illustrious lineage. Phuntsok Rabten reports.
The legacy of Toeb Chandana village is firmly rooted in the arrival and activities of Lama Drukpa Kuenley and intertwined with the flourishing of the Drukpa lineage in Bhutan.
At about a few […]    [read more]

Aiten Brokpa lugso: How sustainable is it?
Can nomadic villages of Merak and Sakteng in Trashigang sustain their age-old practice of rotational grazing in the face of the present day environmental concerns? Does the environment support the conventional practice of owning as many cattle as possible depending on the natural regeneration of tsamdro? What are the environmental and economic implications of overgrazing?
Today, […]    [read more]

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Dzongkha 24 October
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The Bounties of our Dear Country
Land of Menjong Norbui ling
Named by the people from forbidden land
Since with abundance of herbal plants
Up hills and down dales in the land
The land of prophecy by enlightened one
Flourished with distinguished dharma
West to east; north to south
Fabricated into fertile society
The true dharma-holder of Drukpa
Ngawang Namgyal stepped into the soil of Dragon
Established the government of dual […]    [read more]

The glories of the last shangri-la
Bhutan as she emerged in the 17th century, was the life work and the legacy of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal. By 1650, Zhabdrung was universally recognized as the legitimate soul of Bhutan. But the history of modern Bhutan began only in 1907, when Ugyen Wangchuk, the monarch of destiny, assumed the throne with the title Druk […]    [read more]

Table tennis championship starts today
The 14th National Table Tennis Championship will start today as part of centenary and coronation celebration. 52 participants have registered for the tournament majority of whom are male and Thimphu residents. The table tennis coach, Dala, said, “We have fewer female participants because they are too shy to come for practice.”
There will be seven categories […]    [read more]

BFF stops funding for Wangdue and Paro
Bhutan Football Federation (BFF) has stopped its annual funding for Wangdue and Paro dzongkhags as a result of non-payment of dues of approximately Nu 0.8 million. According to the federation, the dzongkhags were required to submit bills reflecting the expenditure of the funds, which the two dzongkhags failed to do. The federation uses its internal […]    [read more]

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