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News of Bhutan
Happiness should have greater role in development policy
The General Assembly today called on United Nations Member States to undertake steps that give more importance to happiness and well-being in determining how to achieve and measure social and economic development. In a resolution adopted without a vote, the Assembly invited countries “to pursue (...)

20 - 07 - 2011
India struggles to control ethnic violence in Assam
GUWAHATI - Police shot dead four rioters in India's northeastern state of Assam on Tuesday as security forces struggled to contain ethnic fighting that has killed 26 people and left remote hamlets in flames, forcing tens of thousands from their homes. Rioting between Bodo tribespeople and Muslim (...)

24 - 07 - 2012
Human rights group says Bhutanese refugees tortured in Nepal
KATHMANDU: A human rights organization has reported that Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have been tortured by the country's Central Investigation Bureau in the capital, Kathmandu. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) issued an urgent appeal on Monday concerning reports that 29-year-old (...)

14 - 05 - 2012
India's rhinos get new lease on life in Manas
MUMBAI: Two rescued rhinoceros have been given new homes in Eastern India at the Manas National Park, officials said. The two rhinos, Maju and Raja, have journeyed from Bokahat-based Center for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) to the Manas park. The move is part of India's (...)

11 - 03 - 2012
Screening a spiritual quest
Dedicated to holistic health, Insight Inside screens movies that are related to "spirituality, well-being, personal growth, and awareness. This week, Bernardo Bertolucci's "Little Buddha (1994) is the movie of choice. Starring Bridget Fonda and Keanu Reeves, "Little Buddha is a fantastic story - (...)

30 - 08 - 2007
Refugees flee ethnic violence in India's Assam
BIJNI - Trucks loaded with women, children, mattresses and bags of rice rolled into a refugee camp in India's northeastern Assam state on Thursday as security forces tried to stamp out some of the worst communal violence in a decade with shoot-on-sight orders. The death toll from clashes between (...)

26 - 07 - 2012
Soldier donates village a hospital on his 100th birthday
JAIPUR: It's not very often that man lives to blow the candles off his 100th birthday cake. This former army man, a World War II veteran, not only has done that, but also gifted a village with a new hospital. For Rao Kabool Singh, it was indeed a proud moment as his grandsons, Krishan and Madan, (...)

15 - 05 - 2012
Football teams to play against hunger in Asian Champions League
Asian football clubs competing in this year's top continental competition will not only be scoring goals for glory but also against hunger, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced on Monday. In a repeat of last year's successful campaign, which saw the Asian Football (...)

18 - 09 - 2012
UN praises literacy programs in Bhutan, Colombia, Indonesia and Rwanda
Literacy programs in Bhutan, Colombia, Indonesia and Rwanda won the 2012 International Literacy Prizes of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The awards, worth $20,000 each, will be distributed on 6 September in a ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, (...)

22 - 08 - 2012
Indian north eastern states feel culturally alienated, ostracized
NEW DELHI: People from the north eastern states of India, which is connected by just a narrow strip of Indian territory feel alienated and ostracized in their own country Members of Parliament who represent the region have warned. People from the seven north eastern states of India bordering the (...)

30 - 04 - 2012
The official pursuit of happiness
CAMBRIDGE: In a time of tight budgets and financial crisis, politicians nowadays look to economic growth as the centerpiece of their domestic policy programs. Gross domestic product is taken to be the leading indicator of national well-being. But, as we look ahead to 2011 and beyond, we should ask (...)

05 - 01 - 2011
Indian, Pakistani PMs hold direct talks
THIMPHU - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani met on Thursday afternoon on sidelines of 16th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). However, no concrete agenda has been announced by either side though the hope (...)

29 - 04 - 2010
India: Text message rumors came from Pakistan
NEW DELHI - Most of the threatening mobile phone text messages and website images that spread panic among migrants from cities in the south and west of India last week originated in Pakistan, India's interior ministry said on Saturday. Thousands of students and workers from India's northeast fled (...)

18 - 08 - 2012
Electionnaire: Egyptians find their political match
CAIRO: With the first post-uprising parliamentary elections just around the corner, Egyptians are scrambling for a crash course in politics, mostly to overcome their general confusion. To this end, two NGOs launched Egypt Electionnaire last Thursday. Egypt Electionnaire is a website where (...)

08 - 11 - 2011
Can we increase gross national happiness?
PRINCETON: The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is known internationally for two things: high visa fees, which reduce the influx of tourists, and its policy of promoting “gross national happiness” instead of economic growth. The two are related: more tourists might boost the economy, but they (...)

14 - 09 - 2011
UN votes once again to end executions
The UN General Assembly's human rights committee today adopted a resolution on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, the third since 2007. The resolution was adopted by 107 votes in favor, 38 against with 36 abstentions at the UN General Assembly's Third Committee in New York. The (...)

12 - 11 - 2010
Growth in a Buddhist economy
NEW YORK: I have just returned from Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom of unmatched natural beauty, cultural richness, and inspiring self-reflection. From the kingdom's uniqueness now arises a set of economic and social questions that are of pressing interest for the entire world. Bhutan's rugged (...)

01 - 09 - 2010
Study says, Shrinking glaciers to spark food shortages
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Nearly 60 million people living around the Himalayas will suffer food shortages in the coming decades as glaciers shrink and the water sources for crops dry up, a study said Thursday. But Dutch scientists writing in the journal Science concluded the impact would be (...)

17 - 06 - 2010
India-Pakistan talks only the first stepping stone
London--When Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao meets her Pakistani counterpart on Thursday, she is aiming, she says, to find a "graduated" way back into talks broken off after the November 2008 attack on Mumbai. But before any progress can be made, the two countries have to agree not just which (...)

25 - 02 - 2010
The importance of Kashmir for regional peace
SRINIGAR, Kashmir: At long last, a series of conferences and engagements has given us tentative hope for the resolution of the 62-year-old Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. If these efforts reach their goal, it could not only transform long-troubled relations between the two nuclear-armed (...)

20 - 02 - 2010
Asian giants inch closer
India and China move to settle the border dispute between the two countries and strengthen economic relations, reports Rajeshree Sisodia in New Delhi Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to India this week was acclaimed as a success in terms of improving strategic ties between Asia's two giants. (...)

14 - 04 - 2005
India tops world with most 1st-day deaths
India tops the list of countries in the world with the most first-day deaths at 309,300 annually, according to “State of the World's Mothers 2013" report released on May seven by London (UK) headquartered Save the Children International. Nigeria trails behind India at second position in the world (...)

07 - 05 - 2013
SAFE To Hold Annual Meeting In Egypt: EGX
The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) announced on Sunday that the South Asian Federation of Exchanges (SAFE) has decided to hold its annual general meeting in Egypt at the beginning of December as a sideline to the16th Annual General Meeting and Flagship Conference of the African Securities Exchanges (...)

04 - 11 - 2012
Malaysia, Thailand citizens to get visas on arrival in India
NEW DELHI: The India government and ministry of tourism announced it is planning to extend its visa on arrival facility to countries including Thailand and Malaysia to attract more Buddhism-linked travelers, said Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahai. India, being the land of origin of Buddhism, was (...)

30 - 09 - 2012
Accused of wanderlust, India's woman prez says foreign trips for country's sake
NEW DELHI: Heckled in the India media for her record number of ‘official' visits abroad, India's first woman president Pratibha Patil's secretariat has claimed that her visits were in sync with India's “growing global profile” which requires “more engagement with nations through State (...)

29 - 03 - 2012
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