Chairman of CPN-UML, Jhala Nath Khanal, on Wednesday opined that exiled Bhutanese should try to fight for their repatriation and democracy through peaceful means as before. He also said that Nepali people would always be ready to support such activities. “UML has always been supporting democratic struggle in Bhutan and would remain so in the [...]

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Sometime this week the number of Bhutanese refugees who have departed Nepal for the United States will reach 30,000.  At about the same time, the number of this group to be resettled in any country will reach 35,000. In a press statement issued by the US Embassy in Kathmandu, it said these two milestones come [...]

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan are extending a $3 million grant to Bhutan to rebuild damaged schools using earthquake-resilient materials and designs which could potentially be replicated around the country. The grant from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction for the Upgrading Schools and Integrated Disaster Education Project will be used to reconstruct [...]

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At a time when the quality of Dzongkha is being questioned and discussed in every possible medium comes an opportune attempt to apprise Bhutanese of their national language. Beginners can take a plunge into the language, starting with the alphabets illustrated in elementary pictures and interpretations. Students can refer their Dzongkha textbook contents in a [...]

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In less than two weeks of her resettlement in Buffalo in New York, Dhan Maya Gurung (Poudel) has committed suicide on Friday night. Reports received late from Dhan’s sister in Arizona confirmed that she committed suicide in her new temporary house in Buffalo days after her resettlement. A permanent resident of Chirang district in Bhutan, [...]

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A delegation of Bhutanese leaders led by RK Dorji has met former foreign minister and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum chairman Upendra Yadhav at the latter’s residence in a bid to lobby Nepalese leaders for the repatriation of refugees. During the meet, Yadav said “India always chose to remain silent whenever the Government of Nepal sought its [...]

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President of Druk National Congress (DNC), RK Dorji, who is in Nepal after his extradition case was rejected by Delhi High Court, has been asked to lead the democratic struggle of exiled Bhutanese by Bhutan People’s Party (BPP), Bhutan National Democratic Party (BNDP) and Bhutanese Movement Steering Committee (BMSC).  Top brass of these parties and [...]

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Finance ministers of the eight SAARC nations will be attending a conference due to be held in Thimphu from August 24. The conference will draw guidelines for the recently operationalised SAARC Development Fund (SDF), discuss implementation of the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) and regional connectivity projects, among others. Another major item on the [...]

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Aimed at bringing all the Bhutanese in the Netherlands together and to assist them keep their spirit high, Bhutanese Community in the Netherlands (BCN) organized a cultural program to welcome the new arrivals. The organizing committee informed BNS that various cultural shows including typical Nepali cultural dances and songs were performed during the program. Meanwhile, [...]

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In a bid to open up democratically, the government has appointed Daw Tenzin as the country’s first Governor of the freshly conceptualised Central Bank of Bhutan, which was recently transformed from the Bank of Bhutan.

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