Kathmandu: Nepalese Minister for Information and Communication Krishna Bahadur Mahara has assured to provide recognition to Bhutanese journalists in exile who have been publishing newspapers, running radio programme and online.  Addressing a function to release the first book on Bhutanese media ‘Becoming a journalist in exile’ written by T. P. Mishra, editor of Bhutan News [...]

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Beldangi, March 26, 2009: Camp Management Committee of Beldangi II and Beldangi II Extension camps have jointly organized awareness program about possible fire hazards in dry seasons. A rally went through two camps asking the people to remain aware on possible fire breakouts and adopt all possible measures to prevent huts from being caught by [...]

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Damak: At least 1850 grade 10 students of seven refugee camps in Jhapa and Morang districts of Nepal have begun writing their School Leaving Certificate (SLC), also called as ‘iron gate’ examination from today.  Students from Beldangi-I, II and extension are writing the examination in the exam centers allotted for them inside their respective camps [...]

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Kathmandu, March 23: Bhutanese Community Support Organization in America (BASCO) said today in a press statement that the concept to form a new organization in California was evolved after the Bhutanese in the state concurred that there is a need, purpose reason to form a new organization to lead the Bhutanese people and establish a [...]

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New York: Krishna Kumar Rai, 31, from Nashville city of Tennessee State committed suicide by hanging in a closet rod on March 17 at around 2.30 PM. A temporary inhabitant of Goldhap Refugee Camp, Sector B/3 Hut No 23 in eastern Nepal, Mr Rai was resettled in Tennessee in September 2008 along with his parents. [...]

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March 22: At least one exiled Bhutanese was killed in a bus accident at Kalchadi in Assam, India on March 16. Khadga Bahadur Gurung, 20, of Khudunabari camp in Sector E/1-20 met accident while on his return to camp from Meghalaya. According to his relatives in camp, Gurung had been to Meghalaya to work as [...]

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Thimphu: The government will implement the strategies formulated by Druk Holdings and Investments (DHI) in 63 public agencies shortly to lay off ‘unnecessary’ officials recruited by the former governments.  The plan named Administration Burden Reduction Program aims at cutting down the bureaucracy for reducing recurrent expenditure and provide fast and quality public services.  Monitored by [...]

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Kathmandu: Police authority at the Damak-based Sub-Police Post in Jhapa said it has decided to file a charge case against one who was arrested in having connection to the cause of recent fire in Beldangi-II camp. Kamal Thapa, Inspector at the police post, responding to a query of BNS said preparation were underway to file [...]

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Timai: Speakers at a program organized yesterday in Timai camp have stressed on the need of kick starting repatriation process for exiled Bhutanese.  Addressing the third anniversary program of Birat-led Communist Party of Bhutan (CPB-MLM)-affiliated Republic Youths Organiastion of Bhutan (RYOB), ‘Suren’, the chief guest of the program said there were no options left than [...]

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Kathmandu: Exiled Bhutanese organised a protest program in front of the Asian Arts Museum in San Francisco where the exhibition, “The Gift from Dragon: Sacred arts of Bhutan” is going on and will continue till May 10. Conscious people of San Francisco were taken by surprise to note the reality behind the “cultural curtain” of [...]

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