Iron and steel products have become the country´s largest exports to Bhutan over the past two years, thanks to massive electrification drive in Bhutan and subsequent rise in demand for electricity poles from Nepal. A consortium of Hulas Steel, Bhagawati Steel and Mainabati Steel that was selected through a...

KUCHING: More than 50 people attended a talk titled ‘Insights Discoveries of Bhutan: The Land of the Thunder Dragon’ which was held at the Sarawak Biodiversity Centre yesterday. Presented by Mani Prasad Nirola from the National Biodiversity Centre of Bhutan, the talk revolved around the country’s rich culture and...

Voice of Shangrila 24 July 2011...

During the recently concluded parliament session, confusion had arisen regarding a Dzongkha word for ‘institute’. A same word for both University and Institute was used in the new bill introduced to the parliament for establishment of Bhutan Institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS). One of the media surveys last year...

भुटानमा हाल भारी बर्षाका कारण बिभिन्न स्थानमा क्षति भैरहेको खबरहरु आइरहेका छन् । राजधानी थिम्पु लाई दक्षिण भुटानलाई जोड्ने उत्तर दक्षिण राजमार्गहरुमा आएको पहिरोका कारण यसता यात ठप्प छ । गेलेफु-चिराङ, फून्छोलिङ-थिम्पु, गेलेफु-जेमगाङ, दइफाम-ट्रासिगाङ लगायत धेरै सडकहरुमा कुनै न कुनै ठाउँ पहिरो आएको छ । कैयौ दिन सम्म पनि...

In 1990, I, along with my family, was evicted out of the country after a census that was carried out exclusively in southern Bhutan. Census in Bhutan was a means to determine who is Bhutanese and not which eventually helps government to identify government and formulate policy of eviction....