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दोस्रो चरणको स्थानीय चुनाव सम्पन्न गरेर प्रजातान्त्रिक प्रणालीलाई मूर्तरुप दिएकोमा भुटानका मन्त्रि र राजपरिवार फुरुंग छन् अहिले । गत सोमबार दोस्रो चरण अन्तर्गत देशका २०५ ब्लक र ख बर्गका शहरमा चुनाव सम्पन्न भयो । ३ लाख ४७ हजार १ सय ३३ मतदाता मध्ये करिब ५५ प्रतिशतले मात्र मताधिकार प्रयोग...
Manchester (US) might stop taking refugees
Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas wants to stop new refugees coming to the city for two years. The city has been a major hub for the International Resettlement Program, which allows hundreds from around the world to find refuge from political persecution, ethnic cleansing and natural disasters. But Gatsas said...
Human rights and Bhutanese prisons
When the ICRC delegation visited Bhutanese jails in later 1990s to inquire about the conditions of inmates, the government was hurried to improve their conditions. Only few of the ICRC reports mention the need for improvement of jail conditions. The agreement between the ICRC and Bhutan government was so...
Is Bhutan a failed state?
In a latest press meet, the government ministers were furious over an article published in a newspaper quoting some reports from US that Bhutan is a failed state. Though ministers did not name the paper, I was curious to know which paper was that and what had been written...
ANFREL statement after Thai election
Thailand held general election on July 3 where Thaksin-backed Puea party has swept the polls winning 265 out of 500 seats. The ruling democrats have accepted the defeated. Thaksin’s sister, who leads the Puea party Yingluck Sinawatra is set to become the first female prime minister of the country....
Nature is cruel to Bhutan
Bhutan is undergoing an experience to loose in citizens in series of accidents in the last few days, either to natural hazards or not. Three people- a man, his wife, and their seven-year old child, have been killed in an accident at Bunagu on the Thimphu-Phuentsholing highway on Saturday...