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The perfect solution to all problems is to advertise your Tenders on … - PRLog (free press release)
Please Visit www.tenders.indiamart.com to view 1 Million Tenders. Indian Tenders , Indian projects, Indian Supplier Contractor Database, procurement Get Free Information of Tenders like Domestic tenders, Global tenders, Govt. tenders, Online Tenders … [read more]
ICIMOD Opens its Doors - PR Inside
More than 3000 people thronged the Headquarters complex of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development at Khumaltar on Saturday 6 March. The Open House was the second part of the two-day ‘ICIMOD Nepal Day 2010′ event in which ICIMOD … [read more]
Reality check: UN shows shocking gender disparity - Indian Express
India has the maximum number of women dying in the Asia-Pacific region because of discriminatory treatment in access to health and nutrition and sex-selective abortion, according to a report prepared by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP … [read more]
2 in operation by year-end - Kuensel Online
… from Thimphu. Meanwhile, Yonphula airport in Trashigang is expected to be complete by May end, since it only required some repairs and a transit shelter. âBy end of this year two domestic airports will be connected with Paro … Bhutanese [read more]
The whyâs and whereforeâs of the Wagon Râs - Kuensel Online
However, except for Lyonpos Yeshey Zimba, Khandu Wangchuk and Nandalal Rai, other ministers are using the Wagon R for personal work in addition to the secretarial duties, according to their personal staff. This includes shopping errands and school … [read more]
Governmentâs Role in Happiness is Focus of New Book - Roll Call Online
The country of Bhutan started it. Deciding that happiness was a better measure of government success than economic indicators, the leaders of the South Asian country created a âhappiness indexâ that included the four pillars of âgross national … [read more]
Bhutan to produce hydro power for India - Indolink
Guwahati, Mar 8 (PTI) Bhutan government will produce 10,000 MW of hydro-power for India by 2020 under a joint venture, its Consul General Dasho Tsering Wangda said today. India will provide Rs 35,000 crore for the venture. “On India’s request we will … [read more]
Reality check: UNDP shows shocking gender disparity - Express India
New Delhi India has the maximum number of women dying in the Asia-Pacific region because of discriminatory treatment in access to health and nutrition and sex-selective abortion, according to a report prepared by the United Nations Development … [read more]
Dehradun, March 8 - Tribune
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of International Womenâs Day, Governor Margaret Alva presented Tilu Rauteli awards to 13 extraordinary women, best anganwadi workers to 22 women health workers who toiled day and night implementing health … [read more]
Derry woman’s organs, tissue aid 37 others - Eagle-Tribune
Nancy Paro of Derry remembers her 16-year-old daughter Amanda talking at their dining room table about registering to become an organ and tissue donor when she got her driver’s license. She did. It was a decision that six years later, when Amanda … [read more]
Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper
Single operator of domestic air service to be decided on March 15
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| Bathpalathang Airport: The govt. owned land in Bumthang identified for the purpose |
Domestic airports 9 March, 2010 -
Work on the domestic airport at Bathpalathang in Bumthang will begin early next week to have it ready for use by the end of September this year.
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16 Class XII students explain to the PM how they practise the philosophy
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Feedback Session The prime minister interacts with participants of the Education For GNH workshop |
9 March, 2010 - A few students in the capital, who lived within walking distance from school, but would rather have their parents chauffeur them to school in a car, have now begun walking.
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The old controversy of misuse of official vehicles
9 March, 2010 - In addition to their designated Toyota Prado vehicle, the 10 cabinet ministers were issued with a Wagon R small car each in August 2009 for secretarial duties, like delivery of letters and documents during office hours.
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9 March, 2010 - (From left: Director of department of school education, Tshewang Tandin, and Proprietor of Yana Expeditions, Tashi Kelson Tobgay)
Yana Expeditions, a tour company based in Thimphu, and president of Unique Journeys International in Canada, Linda Sawyer, donated the first batch of around 3,000 English library books to the education ministry for rural students yesterday. The proprietor said that they would be donating more library books to the department this year.
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The Grass Is Growing For reasons unknown, a long awaited township is still awaited for |
Dekiling Town 9 March, 2010 -
The much-awaited new Dekiling town site in Bumthang is ready with 75 plots ready for development, but it is not clear when the plots will be allotted. [read more]
While female unemployment rose, they remain under-represented in governance
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| International WomenÂs Day Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck at the College of Business Studies in Gedu for the celebrations |
Asia-Pacific Human Development Report 2010 9 March, 2010 -
Although Bhutanese men and women enjoy equal inheritance rights, men still continue to lead in the political sphere and labour force participation, states the Asia-Pacific human development report 2010, launched yesterday coinciding with the international womenÂs day.
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9 March, 2010 - Even as the government plans to drive down the information highway, riding on broadband, one irony today is that we are communicating less. It is common to see mistakes made at all levels and by everyone because of lack of communication or miscommunication. [read more]
Crossed wires between lower courts and police have led to overcrowding of Thimphu detention centre
Thimphu Centre Box 8 March, 2010 - Miscommunication between the district courts and police is causing an unnecessarily high number of citizens to be arrested and detained at the detention centre (centre box) here in Thimphu, Kuensel has found. [read more]
More than a hundred appeal cases await the appointment of HC judges
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| Appeals to the High Court continue to increase in absence of judges |
High Court 8 March, 2010 - The hunt for nine high court judges, including the chief justice, has not even begun even as appeal cases continue to inundate the high court. [read more]
Domestic revenue exceeds previous yearÂs by Nu 1.7 billion
National Revenue Report 8 March, 2010 - Domestic revenue in the first year of the 10th plan, 2008-09, amounted to Nu 14.049 bn, a Nu 1.7 bn rise from the previous year, and exceeding the revised target by more than Nu 200 mn, according to the national revenue report. [read more]
Bhutan Observer
National football team selected
The Bhutan Football FederaÂtion (BFF) has selected 25 players to form the national team this year. The selection camp was held from February 23 to 26 at ChanglingmithÂang and Changjiji ground in Thimphu.
Forty-two football players from across the country atÂtended the camp.
The current national playÂers and players of under-23 and under-19 battled for covÂeted 25-man […] [read more]
Namling flashback more than a decade on
One of the survivors of Bhutanâs worst road accident tells our reporter Gyembo Namgyel the heartrending story of that fateful day
Bus accident of June 16, 1998, at Namling between Mongar and Bumthang was the worst road accident in Bhutanâs living memory. Out of 72 passenÂgers jam-packed in a bus with carrying capacity of half the […] [read more]
Students say GNH transforms them
Students report to the Prime Minister that they are bringing GNH into schools and their communities their way
A GNH wave â if one may call it that â is apparently building up with school students vouching that their beliefs, attitudes and even their lives were transformed by what they learned during the recent GNH meetings […] [read more]
Cement plant to make Nganaglm a business hub
The construction of mega Dungsam Cement CorpoÂration Limited (DCCL) in Pemagatshel is in full swing promising many economic opportunities for the local communities.
As part of the project, the 15-km road from Indo-Bhutan border to the project site at Chenkari is being broadened to two lanes. Broadening of the road, which is expected to be complete […] [read more]
Bhutanâs first medical college to come up in Serbithang
The site for the construcÂtion of Bhutanâs first mediÂcal college, Bhutan Institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS), has been identified above the Royal Botanical Garden in Serbithang, Thimphu.
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) will be designatÂed as a teaching hospital.
JDWNRH has 17 cliniÂcal departments out of 20 required for a medical colÂlege. Anatomy, biochemistry and […] [read more]
Community forest entrusts, empowers, sustains, conserves
The introduction of the people-centric forest management has gained momentum in Bhutan. Almost every day, we hear of comÂmunity forests being handed over to the people in different parts of the country. This is a tectonic shift from the earlier fully government-backed forÂest management policy. Now with the people at the foreÂfront of forest management, […] [read more]
First elephant awareness workshop
Elephants and humans are in constant conflict in the southern BhuÂtan. To ease this tension and create awareness among the stakeholders, the Nature Conservation Division under Ministry of Agriculture and Forests is organising the first human-elephant co-existence workshop in Lobesa, WangÂdue. The workshop started yesterday.
Titled âGetting Along with Asian Elephantsâ, the workÂshop will focus on […] [read more]
G4S celebrates Happy Day
March 3 was not a usual day for 26 children of Drak Tsho Vocational Training Centre in Thimphu. It was their Happy Day organized by Group 4 Securicor (G4S). In orange shirts and caps, they rejoiced in dancing, painting, music and games.
G4Sâs third Happy Day was celebrated on March 3 in Thimphu. The day is […] [read more]
Khuru still popular
Archery, the national game of Bhutan, is facing stiff comÂpetition from khuru, which is shining in its own realm among the Bhutanese in the country today. The game is fast gaining popularity among people if the number of tournaments organised are anything to go by.
Khuru is gaining popularÂity especially because of the gameâs simplicity. âUnlike […] [read more]
RSTA found prone to corruption
An integrity assessment jointÂly conducted by Anti-CorrupÂtion Commission (ACC) and National Statistics Bureau (NSB) in 2009 found that veÂhicle registration and licensÂing procedures of Road SafeÂty and Transport Authority (RSTA) was prone to corrupÂtion. The assessment rated the total integrity of the orgaÂnization at 6.48 out of 10.
Under the findings, perÂsonal attitude was rated 5.26, […] [read more]
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