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Agitating Bhutanese agree to withdraw protest programs

Following the assurances of registration and other facilities as enjoyed by other fellow-countrymen from the Chief District Officer of Jhapa, Yadav Prasad Koirala, the struggling committee conducting a relay hunger strike in all seven camps decided to withdraw their programs from Saturday. “We are told that the government of Nepal will soon initiate the verification to [...]

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» Bhur to have a domestic airport
» Refugee day celebrations finally ended
Media Monitor

The media is the message

 With all the discussions, disagreements, suggestions, allegations and assumptions making it to the pages of the local print media on the government’s advertising policy that is still being fine tuned, there seems to be agreement at least on one aspect – content is important. Good writing, accuracy, objectivity, analysis, sensitivity, would be some of the basic [...]

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» A media vehicle vandalized
» Ad firm takes media to court
» Students learn journalism tricks
» Students, public to learn about media
News Analysis

Eve teasing, taxi-drivers in top list

It might seem a little outlandish to find women, especially in Thimphu, carrying chili powder or tiny Swiss knives with their cosmetics in their handbags these days. While they carry make-up sets to apply on their faces from time to time to accentuate the way they look, chili powder and knives are reserved to keep people, [...]

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» Bhutan projects itself for unstable politics
» Conflict between the Shabdrung and Kings
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Commentary

Census exercise boomerangs

BY S.B. SUBBA: The most pernicious and contentious census has now started pricking the mind of the other northern Bhutanese too. In 1990s it was only to the Nepali-speaking southern Bhutanese, the exercise was laden and rest of the northern fellowmen felt well ensconced and any errors deliberately or inadvertently committed by the census and [...]

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» My attachment with Bhutan
» The politics of religion
» India’s Role in the Bhutanese Democratic Movement
Opinion

Long journey from Burma to United States

Enough property, land and prestigious life of Kadel family in Burma (Myanmar) were always a source of jealous for his neighbors. Kewal R. Kadel’s mother was a self-learned spiritual jumping doctor (a woman who treats patient by praying and playing with the ghosts; believed in the conventional Nepali society). They earned a big cash and [...]

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» Building a house of diversity
» Open letter to Jigme Y Thinley
» Reporting death and life
Human Rights Monitor

Most suggestions accepted

March 20, 2010 – The government accepted a majority of the recommendations it received for its first universal periodic review (UPR), during the 13th session of the human rights council (HRC) held on March 18 in Geneva. Of the remainder, the delegation pointed out that some are already addressed by existing laws and the rest [...]

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» Domestic workers arrested, flushed out
» Fatherless children remain unregistered
» Three injured in capital’s road accident