Khandu replaces Pradhan as chairman of DHI
Retired chairman Om Pradhan. Photo: International Institute for Sustainable Development New chairman of DHI Sangay Khandu. Photo: Kuensel Om Pradhan has finally left the Druk Holding and Investment...
View ArticleCrane festival in Bhutan
A glimpse of crane festival in the past. Photo: The Raven magazine Bhutan will be hosting the annual Black-Necked crane festival on November 11 coinciding with the birth anniversary of Fourth King...
View ArticleKing Khesar celebrates sixth coronation anniversary
Photo: boston.com The fifth King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk is celebrating his sixth coronation anniversary today (November 1). His coronation event was held in 2008, nearly two years later he took...
View ArticleFirst dignitary to travel southern Bhutan in decades
Photo: CNN-IBN Indian president will be the first foreign dignitary to travel to southern Bhutan in almost three decades. Bhutan government has arranged that Indian President Pranab Mukherjee will...
View ArticleBhutan king to visit Nepal
Photo: boston.com Bhutanese king is set to visit Nepal after 27 years, if the plan for SAARC summit goes as per plan, this month. The last time Bhutanese king visited Nepal was in 1987 when King Jigme...
View ArticleDNC’s birthday wishes to Fourth King
Jigme Singye Druk National Congress has expressed wishes to the Fourth King Jigme Singye on this 60th birth anniversary on Tuesday (November 11). “We pray for Your Majesty’s long life and may Your...
View ArticleFormer army officer becomes chief justice in Bhutan
Tshering Wangchuk, new chief justice of Bhutan. Photo: Wanghuck’s Google+ A former army officer has been appointed as the Chief Justice of Bhutan, after the former Chief Justice Sonam Tobgay retired....
View ArticleKing talks against corruption
This year king king warned against growing corruption in the country. Days after the government sacked three secretaries on corruption related scandal, King Jigme Khesar has given out strong signal...
View ArticleNepal perspective: Bhutan through a Looking Glass
Madhukar SJB Rana By Madhukar SJB Rana, Background: I have known Bhutanese people from my school days in Darjeeling District from 1949-58; this extended to, in my adult days, as follows: friendship...
View ArticleWho is a Bhutanese?
Writer By Om Pradhan I recall that it was in New York in 1980, when I was Bhutan’s permanent representative and ambassador to the United Nations that Dale Djerassi(1) interviewed me for the 1982 PBS...
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