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India launches Nehru-Wangchuk scholarships for Bhutanese - Thaindian.com
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, on his maiden visit to Bhutan, announced a new series of scholarships for young students from the Himalayan kingdom to study in prestigious Indian institutions, the external affairs …    [read more]

Urgent bills tabled - Kuensel Online
Third Parliament Session 24 June, 2009 - The third session of parliament from 26 June to 30 July will discuss the civil service bill and local government bill, both of which were placed under the ‘urgent category’ by the government, meaning that …    [read more]

Govt. takes business on board - Kuensel Online
24 June, 2009 - In what could be a major boost towards developing the private sector, the private sector development committee (PSDC) has been reconstituted with more representatives from the private sector. “Business people will now have more say …    [read more]

India to offer scholarships to Bhutanese students - Daily News and Analysis
Thimphu: External affairs minister SM Krishna on Friday wrapped up his two-day “rewarding” visit to Bhutan with a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under which scholarships will be provided to Bhutanese students to study at prestigious universities …    [read more]

External Affairs Minister Krishna arrives in Bhutan for talks … - Newstrack India
Paro (Bhutan) June 18(ANI): Foreign Minister S M Krishna arrived in Paro in Bhutan on Thursday, for a two-day visit to the Himalayan kingdom. This is the first foreign visit by Krishna after he assumed charge of the Foreign Ministry. Bhutanese …    [read more]

S M Krishna arrives in Bhutan - Daily News and Analysis
Paro (Bhutan): External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, on his first foreign visit after assuming office, arrived here on Thursday on a two-day visit during which he will hold bilateral meetings with Bhutanese leadership. Krishna, who is accompanied by …    [read more]

External Affairs Minister S M Krishna arrives in Bhutan - Zee News
Paro (Bhutan), June 18: External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, on his first foreign visit after assuming office, arrived here on Thursday on a two-day visit during which he will hold bilateral meetings with Bhutanese leadership. Krishna, who is …    [read more]

NEPAL: Repatriation or resettlement for Bhutanese refugees? - IRIN
BELDANGI, 22 June 2009 (IRIN) - Over the past year thousands of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have resettled in third countries - mainly the USA - but many others, especially the elderly, hope only for repatriation to Bhutan. Pahalman Bhattarai, aged …    [read more]

Bhutan-India ties get new wings - Thaindian.com
Thimpu, June 18 (IANS) External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Thursday visited Bhutan, his first trip abroad after assuming office, and stressed upon the “special relations” between the world’s largest and youngest democracies. He also flagged …    [read more]

NEPAL: Bhutanese refugees find new life beyond the camps - IRIN
Thousands of Bhutanese refugees who are Nepalese origin, after having lived in camps in Nepal for as long as 20 years, have been resettled to the United States and six other countries with the assistance of UNHCR and IOM KATHMANDU, 10 November 2008 …    [read more]

Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper

Govt. takes business on board
Private Sector Development Committee : As a confidence building measure, the govt. agrees to more private representation in reconstituted committee

24 June, 2009 - In what could be a major boost towards developing the private sector, the private sector development committee (PSDC) has been reconstituted with more representatives from the private sector.    [read more]

Yeedzin too hot for Drukpol to handle
24 June, 2009 - In a one-sided game yesterday at the Changlimithang ground, Yeedzin FC beat Drukpol 3-0.    [read more]

Sacred thread wards off snakes
Bartsham’s snake-free status is widely attributed to its reptile-devouring protective deity
24 June, 2009 - The climate in Trashigang is getting warmer and wetter, making the place a magnet for snakes. But there is one village in the dzongkhag, which claims to be snake-free - Bartsham.    [read more]

Potatoes get good price
24 June, 2009 -
Potatoes prices are good this year.

As the auction yard in Phuentsholing, the price of the tuber is going as high as Nu 1,600 per quintal. Last year, the highest price was Nu 1,000.

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Senior citizens on the streets
The number of old and abandoned people on
the streets flies in the face of our GNH philosophy


23 June, 2009 - His wrinkled right hand wrapped tight around a stick, Lhakpa, 74, sits on a roadside pavement near the Thimphu vegetable market, staring at no one in particular. Land-cruisers zip by leaving a cloud of dust. The
specks descend on his faded gho, dusty from days of sitting by the
roadside. He lights a bidi, takes in a deep puff, and is ready to talk
to Kuensel.    [read more]

Bhutan Observer

Education standards
A blushful salute to my little Tshering Dendup’s small-big verse, penned in Class VII in 1988, in Paro:
Rusted spades scratch the soil/ To earn a crumb of bread and oil.
What an irresistible visual image! What felicity! What a bundle of focused suggestions!
In 2008, I stumbled upon rare felicities across the pages of my Reading Club […]    [read more]

Row over road
The route taken by a 5.7 km farm road in Sherimuhung in Mongar has flared up a controversy between two villages of Senakhar.
The farm road passes through Khatey or upper Senakhar which, according to the people from Khamey or lower Senakhar, was not decided by the Gewog Yargye Tshogchhung.
Sangay Chophel from Khamey said a meeting […]    [read more]

Bamboos to save villages
Farmers from Changmey, Dangrey and Kharmey in Trashigang planted bamboo rhizomes, hedgerows and fodder in Pemachojey landslide area.
Around 2023 bamboo rhizomes, two varieties of hedgerows and two varieties of fodder were planted besides banana sucker and erithina species. The dzongkhag agriculture office gave some 300 citrus saplings to the villagers to be planted in the […]    [read more]

Drainage brings relief to farmers
The Department of Roads in Pemagatshel is completing about 1.67 km of box drain on Gonpasingma- Ngangmalam farm road in Zobel Gewog. This is expected to benefit a part of Ngangmalam village from the monsoon rain water which collect on the farm road and empty into different parts, causing soil erosion on lower part of […]    [read more]

Leading by doing
He has been in Pemagatshel for over two years now, yet he remains relatively unknown to most people. Unlike most people in his league, he likes to lead labourers by working physically with them on equal footing. Many people, therefore, mistake him for a new mason in the roads department, and a dedicated one at […]    [read more]

Home for the homeless
In nooks and corners of Thimphu city, one finds many homeless people. Many of them come from far off places in search of food and shelter. Their families and relatives have left them behind on the cold deserted streets of the city or they don’t have any family members to fall back on at all.
Many […]    [read more]

Feed mill in Trashigang
Trashigang Dzongkhag has set up a feed mill in Pam to help the dairy development activities with a cheaper feed cost.
According to the Dzongkhag Livestock Officer, Dr Tshering Dorjee, the intensive dairy development in the dzongkhag led to a bigger demand for feed which drove the feed price higher. He said the core concentrate containing […]    [read more]

Auto-stripping on rise
Auto-stripping or removal or intentional destruction or defacing of any part of a vehicle has increased significantly over the years, according to the police. There had been 12 cases of auto-stripping across the country until March this year.
According to the police, auto-stripping is a petty crime. The sentence is value-based, which means the fine for […]    [read more]

Recovered addicts speak
Parental love and guidance in adolescence are very important. It is the time when children experiment with drugs, alcohol and other anti-social activities, say recovering addicts.
They said there should be a number of drop-in and rehabilitation centres in the country.
Krisna Kumar Subba, 21, a recovered addict, said, when parents took their children for granted, children […]    [read more]

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