Bear mauls a 17-year-old boy

August 29: The boy from Chokhor geog in Bumthang was mauled by a bear on August 22. The incident took place when he was on his way to Nga-Lhakhang from his village. Doctors at the Bumthang hospital said, the boy suffered multiple injuries on the forehead and the bones of his left forearm has been fractured. He is currently being treated at the Bumthang hospital. The Chokhor Gup said similar incidents were reported in the past. He said bear attacking cattle has also become common in the village especially... Read more

ICTing Bhutan

August, 28 – That e-governance is first about people and then processes and technology was one of the understandings top leaders came to after attending a two-day “training” on how ICT can make Bhutan a knowledge-based society. “A knowledge society is about ideas and innovation; about bringing humans to the centre,” information and communications secretary, Dasho Kinley Dorji said in a presentation of Chiphen Rigpel, the project that aims to transform Bhutan. Deciding... Read more

An educational hub of Asia

August, 20 - Bhutan has the perfect environment for being an educational hub for Asia. This was the general consensus of the project advisory group, who met the Druk Holding and Investments (DHI) and advised the investment company on the education city project this week. DHI officials said the project is more defined after the formation of the advisory group, composed of a group of five eminent persons involved in various aspects of education, and with experience and expertise in developing educational... Read more

A new and more exact yardstick

August, 20 – “If we have a measure of poverty which is not perfect but which is a little bit better, then it is like shining a light in a different part of a dark room,” said Dr Sabina Alkire, director of the Oxford poverty and human development initiative. “You can see different aspects of their lives, and therefore you can address their predicaments in new ways.” Dr Alkire was giving a lecture yesterday in Thimphu on the multidimensional poverty index (MPI), which... Read more

Psychology with a Buddhist tinge

August, 20 – A memorandum of understanding recently signed between the royal university of Bhutan (RUB) and US university, Naropa, is expected to improve and expand counselling services in the country. “Naropa has a long history of integrating Buddhism and Western psychology, and I believe a partnership between our two institutions is desired by all parties,” said Naropa U provost and vice president for academic affairs, Stuart Sigman (PhD). “Naropa is pleased to have signed a memo of... Read more

300-year-old relic displayed

August 18: Hundreds of devotees got a glimpse of sacred relics which belonged to the fourth Druk Desi Gyalse Tenzin Rabgay. The 300-year-old relics were displayed to the public at the Tango Shedra coinciding with the Yarney or the summer retreat yesterday. Terma Drapoi Serku, Dorji Tse-guma and the cup made by the Gyelsay in the 16th century were some of the Nangtens displayed. For the first time in 300 years, His Holiness the Gyelse Trulku Jigme Tenzin Wangpo, wore his ancestral ceremonial cap which... Read more

Getting heads around e-governance

August, 17 – The Nu 2.04B Chiphel Rigpel project to “enable a society and empower the nation” through information and communications technology switched on yesterday, with 18 leaders, including the heads of the executive, judiciary, the legislature, the army and cabinet ministers, attending a two-day course to understand what ICT can do for a society and e-governance. Despite the prime minister, Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley, the chief operations officer of the royal Bhutan army, Major General... Read more

Phasing out HCFCs by 2020

August, 11 – To cut down carbon and promote energy efficiency for a green economy by 2020, Bhutan will gradually stop using appliances that produce an ozone depleting substance (ODS), called hydro-chlorofluorocarbons (HCFC) starting 2013. Since Bhutan is not a big consumer nor a producer of this gas that is responsible for depleting the ozone layer and global warming, environmentalists say that Bhutan can easily phase out HCFC, ten years ahead of the Montreal protocol phase out schedule. Bhutan,... Read more

World Peace Mission

August, 11 – With a mission for world peace, two men from Bangladesh have reached Bhutan, after touring the world asking for a better world without war. The chairperson of the world peace mission, based in Bangladesh, Kamal Kumar Saha, accompanied by his vice chairperson, Sheikh Habibur, have already visited Bhutan since they started in 2003. This time, they are here to invite Bhutan for the world peace conference in the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, next month. After touring over 37 countries,... Read more

32 Infosys free slots

August, 6 – The government’s high-speed plans to create a skilled information technology (IT) workforce that will spearhead an envisioned business processes outsourcing (BPO) industry by next year recently hit another speed bump. Only 96 graduates registered for a ‘free of costs’ training opportunity with Infosys, despite the multinational IT company offering 100 slots last month. Of the 96, only 68 were determined eligible for the training, prompting the labour ministry to schedule... Read more

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