Category: Human Rights

It was not a surprise but surely a setback to read in a recent interview with a Nepalese daily Bhutan’s Information and Communication Minister Nandalal Rai saying that he sees the possibility of communal violence in the country if the government revives the Nepali language version of the state-controlled...

It was not an amazing but surely a set back to read in a recent interview with a Nepalese daily newspaper that Information and Communication Minister Nandalal Rai see the possibility of communal violence in the country if the government initiated to revive the Nepali language version of the...

The 16th SAARC summit is scheduled for this month end in Thimphu, the first summit of the regional body to be hosted by Bhutan in 25 years of its life. Preparations are in hectic schedule. Gates are erected along Paro-Thimphu and Phuentsholing-Thimphu highway for welcoming guests coming to this...

The ‘democratic government’ of Bhutan has given hints that this country is likely to face insurgency or the political turmoil in future. The government a few years back had announced its intention to form a counter-insurgency force, has finally been materialized. The youth sensitization, under police-youth collaboration, followed government’s...

The Bhutanese government, properly called the first elected government of the kingdom, has completed its second year on the hot seat, without any significant progress at hand to boast for. The biggest achievement for it will be this month end when it holds the SAARC summit for the first...

Two days after I read the 32-page essay in Outlook magazine by Arundhoti Roy about Maoists in Dantewada district, news poured in saying at least 76 paramilitary personnel of the Central Reserve Police lost their life in fighting the Maoists in the same district. To my analysis, the CRP...