Bhutan News

Thimphu to get its first mobile emergency trauma team by yearend through the good graces of Bhutan Foundation 1 July, 2009 - Whether for a vehicle or a fire accident, most people in Bhutan would probably not dial 112 first - the number for the emergency medical service.

Archaeologists from the University of Innsbruck and the University of Vienna of Austria said on Wednesday that they have found witnesses of human habitation in the late Neolithic period some 5,300 years ago in the East Himalayan region.

Almost for as long as I could remember, Bhutan had been a dream - " and a remarkably familiar one.

After two years of ongoing discussion, Humane Society International is pleased to announce the beginning of a nationwide spay neuter program in the country of Bhutan.

India Gazette Friday 3rd July, 2009 New Delhi, July 3 : India and Bhutan will hold a meeting of the Empowered Joint Group to fast-track implementation of hydropower projects next month.

The discussion surfaced after the public accounts committee presented audit reports showing the financial weaknesses of the two political parties - DPT and PDP.

In 1972, the number one priority of new King Jigme Singye Wangchuck of Bhutan was the country's Happiness.

THIMPHU: The royal Bhutan police arrested two people in connection with the royal insurance corporation of Bhutan embezzlement case involving over Nu 10m, after the corporationa s cashier, Kencho Namgay, went missing on June 15.

Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y. Thinley Monday categorically ruled out the existence of any anti-India insurgent group in his country ever since the Royal Bhutan Army conducted a successful operation in 2003 to flush out ultras from within its territory.

Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y. Thinley will become the first head of a foreign state to visit India during the second tenure of the Manmohan Singh government when he arrives here on a four-day visit Tuesday.

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THIMPHU: The proprietor of Discovery electronics has alleged corrupt practices and lack of transparency against the ministry of education in the tender and purchase of computers and laptops worth around Nu 40m.

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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.

Sources tell Kuensel that Kencho Namgay had embezzled cash over the years, when he was with the RICBL branch in Thimphu.

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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 ministry said Saturday.

The foreign ministers of Bhutan and India inaugurate the first flight June 19, 2009 - Bhutanese, travelling to and fro the north-east Indian states and south Bhutan, will now have the option to fly and avoid the hassles of the tedious, and often hazardous, roads.

Thimphu, Jun 19 External Affairs Minister S M Krishna today wrapped up his two-day "rewarding" visit to Bhutan with an MoU under which scholarships will be provided to Bhutanese students to study at prestigious universities in India.

June 19, 2009 - This week, in Pemagatshel district court, a woman waited to settle a dispute that could determine the future of her child.