Dec 04: Indian police arrested three Bhutanese students in Kalimpong for possessing drugs and other illegal narcotics on November 29. The were released the following day. The three boys were arrested along with some other youngsters from Kalimpong along the Siliguri-Kalimpong route.  The students told the police that drugs they carry was not for self [...]

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Nov 21: The government has delayed the eviction of wet sweepers in the country by another one months. In a notice the immigration department said, the sweepers who are not Bhutanese have to leave the country by end of December. The government said, consideration is being made since most children of these sweepers are attending [...]

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Nov 20: Thimphu has more than required while district face shortage of teachers. The teachers deny traveling to remote areas. However, despite resistance from teachers, the Ministry of Education have now come up with plans to transfer teachers out of Thimphu city.  In the first phase, the teachers who stayed in Thimphu for more than [...]

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Nov 18: As the elephants destroying houses in villages increase in recent years, Nature Conservation Division (NCD) and World Wildlife Fund concluded a three-day workshop to understand the movement patterns of elephants, their numbers and interactions with human beings in Phuentsholing recently.  The aim was to educate field staff to conduct census of elephants so [...]

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The eleventh congress of the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) concluded here in Paro on Tuesday. The congress is held every two years. The congress discussed the technical, economical and other kinds of constraints and challenges faced by the broadcasting companies across the world and measures

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Phuentsholing, April 13, 2009: The first of the major infrastructure development in southern Bhutan since 1990, the officials of the Department of Roads hope to complete the road Samtse-Phuentsholing highway and the Samtse-Dorokha road on time. The first width cutting of 50.56 km up to the suspension bridge at Phurbhay – a two-hour walking distance [...]

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Thimphu, April 13, 2009: The existing biggest power project of the country Tala Hydropower Project, was officially handed over to Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC), a member company of the Druk Holding and Investment (DHI) on April 8. The chairperson of the Tala project Economic Affairs Minister Khandu Wangchuk and its managing director R N [...]

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Thimphu, April 09, 2009: Bhutan Management Development Consultancy (BMDC) in collaboration with Ministry of Labor and Human Resources has begun 10-day training in Bumthang to 25 private sector and corporate managers to improve their management capabilities. The participants will be taught several modules and strategies that will help implement plans and evaluate their effectiveness. They will [...]

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 Gelephu, April 09, 2009: A young boy has been killed and two other seriously injured in a road accident at Bhur of Sarpang April 5. Driver has been charged under Penal Code for the accident. Police in Gelephu has confirmed the accident and mentioned that the driver failed to inform and surrender to the police [...]

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Thimphu: Bhutan Telecom has announced that as a planned strategy of doing away with obsolete technology, it will be replacing the DRMASS system in Bubja and Tshangkha under Trongsa district and in Jigmecholing under at Gelephu sub-division with GSM FWP (GSM Fixed Wireless Phones). As such, the telephone numbers of subscribers at Bubja, Tshangkha and [...]

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