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Sri Lanka’s Tillekeratne Dilshan celebrates after completing his … - Tribune
Tillakaratne Dilshan produced a scintillating century as Sri Lanka put up a spirited batting display to leave the first cricket Test against India evenly poised at the end of the second day here today. After polishing off the remaining four wickets …    [read more]

India- Bangladesh energy talks to begin today - Newstrack India
New Delhi, Nov 18 (ANI): Bangladesh Power Secretary Abul Kalam Azad is visiting New Delhi on Wednesday to hold a preliminary round of energy cooperation talks ahead of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s India visit next month. Azad, who is also …    [read more]

Region’s top bureaucrats eye better ties - Bangladesh News 24 hours
… Public Administration Training Centre in Savar next year, they may well be joined by a number of young would-be-bureaucrats from India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal Bhutan and Maldives. Bangladesh Civil Service rookies may in turn rub …    [read more]

Bangladesh among highest risers in TI index - Bangladesh News 24 hours
Dhaka, Nov 17 (bdnews24.com) – Bangladesh is among the highest risers in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index this year. It rose twelve places to rank 139 among 180 countries, coming among the nine countries that improved most …    [read more]

US Army suicides set to hit new high in 2009 - Bangladesh News 24 hours
Suicides in the US Army will hit a new high this year, a top general said on Tuesday in a disclosure likely to increase concerns about stress on US forces ahead of an expected buildup in Afghanistan. A new food price crisis is only a matter of time …    [read more]

Building a basketball team from the base - Kuensel Online
… playing experience for around 17 years, said, Bhutan would first have to aspire to reach a regional level standard of play before aiming for higher tournaments. “We can do quite well,” said Tokey Dorji, pointing out that Bhutanese basketball …    [read more]

Expand All News - Bangladesh News 24 hours
… Public Administration Training Centre in Savar next year, they may well be joined by a number of young would-be-bureaucrats from India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal Bhutan and Maldives. The United Nations said on Monday that a climate …    [read more]

Misuse of power tops corruption pile - Kuensel Online
ACC Annual Report 2008-09 18 November, 2009 - The anti corruption commission (ACC) received 418 complaints of corruption from October 2008 to September 2009, of which 77 qualified for investigation, according to its annual report for 2009. Twelve …    [read more]

MoIC to introduce clean feed in foreign channels - Himalayan Times
South Asian nations like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Bangladesh have adopted clean feed policy for foreign broadcasters. Australia has adopted voluntary clean feed policy and generated Australian $48 million revenue from local advertisements.    [read more]

Share this on Twitter - The Ayn Rand myth - DAILY KOS
… some follower of Ayn Rand being interviewed on the Thom Hartmann show, consider that this person is less relevant to current American politics than the Marxists in the hills of Bhutan are to the politics of South Asia. So I have to reject the …    [read more]

Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper

Only quake-insured house awaits compensation

Only house in Drametse town that was insured specifically against earthquake

18 November, 2009 - A couple from the satellite town of Drametse, Mongar, is doubtful whether they will be able to rebuild their house with the compensation from the royal insurance corporation of Bhutan limited (RICBL).

Their two-storied traditional house was the only one among 17 houses in Drametse insured specifically for earthquake, along with general rural insurance.    [read more]

Building a basketball team from the base

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH – First a junior before the senior national team

18 November, 2009 - Bhutan will have to wait a few more years before it can have its own national basketball team competing in the international arena. The Bhutan Olympic committee (BOC) recently scrapped plans to form a national team that would have represented the country for the next SAARC games in 2010, and other international tournaments.    [read more]

Dratshang adopts old man

Karma taken care of From wishing for death to living in a kind of heaven

18 November, 2009 - 90-year-old Karma can barely stand straight without the support of his walking stick. Old and abandoned, he has wished for death for the last year and a half.    [read more]

Picture story

17 Novermber, 2009 -

Lyonchhoen Jigme Y Thinley, cabinet ministers and parliament members see off Holiness the Je Khenpo and the Central Monastic Body that left Thimphu yesterday for Punakha, the monk body’s winter residence.
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Development disturbs elephant habitat

Distribution of elephant habitat in Southern Bhutan (NCD)

17 Novermber, 2009 - Disruption of traditional migratory routes due to rapid industrialisation and infrastructure development is one of the main reasons for the rising number of human-elephant conflicts, say nature conservation division (NCD) officials.
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Bhutan Observer

The call for responsibility
“Our King entered the coffee house, hugged us and asked how we were. I said thank you,” my niece burst out. She made me laugh so hard that after some time tears dropped down my cheeks. I do not remember the last time this happened to me or whether I ever experienced such a moment. […]    [read more]

Finally, FCB gets the auction yard land
After having waited for the last six years, the Food Corporation of Bhutan (FCB) has now acquired 29,000 sq ft land at the auction yard to augment its infrastructural needs for increasing transactions.
This year, in July, after the dry port land was shifted to Tori Bari near Pasakha, the State Trading Corporation of Bhutan (STCBL) […]    [read more]

Making the right cut
His love for movies started at a very early age, but movie industry had not actually been a career option for him. He aspired to become an army officer. However, the movie industry gained big time on what the military lost out.
Talop Wangchuk, 25, director and editor, is all about determination and faith.“This sounds like […]    [read more]

Organic is not necessarily green
Wealthy housewives are loading their shopping trolleys under a cringing weight of organic produce sold at twice the price its non-organic version.
I am talking here about the wide spectrum now available from beautiful, humble, red tomatoes to exorbitantly expensive organic hemp denim jeans pinned to their shapely bottoms by a bespoke tailor on her last […]    [read more]

Funeral site proposal comes through
The government has approved the construction of multi-religion funeral facilities at Hongtsho after receiving report from Thimphu Dzongkhag on the feasibility studies at Pungshi in Mewang Gewog and Hongtsho in Chang Gewog.
The report found Hongtsho more feasible as there is no human settlement nearby and the site has been used for the last 40 years. […]    [read more]

Dipping business in Gedu
More than seven months after Tala hydropower project was handed over to Druk Green Power Corporation on April 8 this year, shopkeepers and house owners in Gedu town say their business has become cold.
Most businessmen say they did well when Tala hydropower plant (THP) staff worked at Gedu headquarters as they were their main customers.
Now […]    [read more]

Khandro Drowa Zangmo’s reincarnation?
Ugyen Cheki Nima, five, from Trashiyangtse is at once different and precocious for her age. She has been wearing a nun’s robe since she was six months old.
At three, she started talking about her past life. She said that she is the reincarnation of Khandro Drowa Zangmo, a legendary divine queen, and that she has […]    [read more]

Sewing a living
More than 60 people in Lingmithang, Mongar, know how to use a sewing machine, and almost every household owns a sewing machine. That could be the reason why the two tailoring shops there do not run well. All thanks to Lopoen Phuntsho who is a tailoring master.
Three years ago, Lopoen Phuntsho, 55, started tailoring classes […]    [read more]

OL visits disaster affected areas
Opposition Leader Tshering Tobgay is visiting the earthquake affected areas in Mongar and Trashigang Dzongkhags.
In Mongar, he visited some of the worst affected areas in Walaktang, Thangrong, Dramtse and Narang Gewog. In Trashigang Dzongkahg, he visited Yangnyer Gewog and Durung village where almost all the houses were damaged by the earthquake. According to the Opposition […]    [read more]

It is gold for Yurung school
On a cold December day in 1958, a group of 23 children and their parents from Dungmin village was summoned to the residence of Shumar Dungpa, Babu Tashi (Chief Justice Sonam Tobgay’s father).
Among them was a boy who nursed a better chance of receiving kidu to bypass mandatory schooling that was being introduced for the […]    [read more]

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