That, service providers say, will be coughed out once the crowd, the town is inundated with, disperses This time around, it is usual to find a deluge of people from various parts of the country crowd Phuentsholing town. This year, however, that crowd has swelled with more people having flocked to the border town for [...]
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31st Jan, 2012
Phuentsholing experiences Cellular, cyber network choked
A Drukair aircraft experienced a bird strike during approach to New Delhi, yesterday. The damage suffered was enough to ground the airbus aircraft and to cause the return flight to Paro airport to be cancelled. The damage could be repaired by today, in time for a return flight to Paro, according to Drukair. But the [...]
26th Jan, 2012
The kudung (body) of His Holiness Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche will be brought to Bhutan in February
The kudung (body) of His Holiness Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, who passed away on December 27 in the United States, is scheduled to arrive in Paro on February 1, where the purjang (cremation) ceremony will be held. The final rites will take place on March 3 on a plot of land in Lango facing taktshang [...]
26th Jan, 2012
Living standard survey starts in March for 2012
Results will be out only at the end of the year In the next three weeks expect someone to knock your door and ask about your place of birth and previous place of residence if you live in town outside the capital. A total of a 130 enumerators are already out and about in 19 [...]
25th Jan, 2012
Winter basketball coaching camp
About 120 students between 8 -16 years across the country are attending the winter basketball coaching camp at Changlimithang in Thimphu. The camp is organised by the Bhutan Basketball Federation and BOC with the help of voluntary coaches from abroad. Source: Kuenselonline
24th Jan, 2012
Australian aid to Bhutan
There are also initiatives to provide practical dimensions to academic work on GNH and its nine domains Australia’s assistance to the country has been mainly in human resource development through scholarships for higher studies in Australian universities it provides for Bhutanese every year. Leader of the Australian delegation, former deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer said [...]
20th Jan, 2012
Bhutan hosts its first Asia Pacific Network meeting
Bhutan hosts its first APN meeting Twenty environmental scientists from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka spent four days in Paro this week learning to develop competitive proposals that can get funding from Asia Pacific Network. Asia Pacific Network (APN) is an intergovernmental body headquartered in Kobe, Japan, which funds research and capacity [...]
19th Jan, 2012
Asiatic golden cat in Bhutan
Four different types were sighted at altitudes between 2,500m and 4,000m at various parks of the country Four different types of Asiatic golden cat (catopuma temminicki) were sighted in the country on a camera trap between 2008 and 2010. A medium sized-wild cat, Asian golden cats range in body length from 30 – 41 inches [...]
19th Jan, 2012
Bhutan Tobacco amendments up for joint sitting
A decision will, most likely, be reached today A joint committee comprising members from both the National Assembly and the National Council sat together yesterday to settle their differences on the tobacco control amendment bill. The consensus they reach will be up for deliberation at the joint sitting today at the Parliament. While that’s that, [...]
18th Jan, 2012
Bhutan Education City bill
The minority who voted against endorsing the bill fear the project would be much like the IT Park Assembly Following three days of deliberation on the Education City bill, National Assembly yesterday endorsed it with a unanimous vote. Of the 40 members present at the assembly, 37 had voted for the bill. The assembly needed [...]
