Bhutan

We have set up a National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology at Dehradun to measure, monitor and model what is happening to our glaciers," he said adding the issue cannot be discussed in isolation and there was a need to take China, Nepal, Bhutan and ...  

In preparation for the upcoming SAARC summit, the Bhutanese capital Thimphu is undergoing a massive cleanup drive. Tshering Tobgay comments: “We, (the) residents, must ask ourselves if our city really is as clean as it might look. And, if not, what we, residents, should do about it.”  

THIMPHU (Agencies) – The 16th SAARC summit, scheduled to be held in Bhutan in April, will provide an opportunity where politics, hopefully, will not come in the way of cooperation, according to Nobel laureate and Chairman of the Intergovernmental ...  

The one thing that people seem to know about Bhutan is that it is a “happy” country. As many news sources have covered (including our own Change.org), Bhutan employs the “Gross National Happiness” (GNH) index, rather than standard GDP, to measure its success as a nation. GNH sparked an international 2006 survey called the Satisfaction with Life index in which Bhutan ranked 8th out of 178 of the world’s countries. But here’s a question: how...  

Bhutan is a democratic, constitutional monarchy with a population of approximately 700,000. The current king, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, is the head of state, and executive power is vested in the cabinet, headed by the prime minister, Jigme ...  

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) members are India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. The two-way trade between India and other South Asian nations was a meagre USD 10.3 billion ...  

The United States said Thursday it saw progress in human rights in parts of South Asia last year, as Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives and Nepal all solidified democracy. The positive signs belied a grim situation in much of South Asia, where the US State ...  

... Development, ICIMOD, is a regional knowledge development and learning centre serving the eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan , China , India , Myanmar , Nepal , and Pakistan - and based ...  

New Delhi: The government has vested powers of search, arrest and seizure to the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) - a para-military force which guards the open Indian borders with Nepal and Bhutan. The Union home ministry, in a recent notification covering ...  

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