Bhutan in News
- 6 October, 2008 - “This is still news to me,” said Bhutan Post’s chief executive officer select, Tseten Geltshen, responding to the Anti Corruption Commission’s (ACC) revocation of his new appointment. - 6 October, 2008 - Diabetes and hypertension will become two of the major causes of kidney failure in Bhutan within the next ten years, say doctors. - “I n Bhutan the best deal is every day!” Karma Singye Dorji had no hesitation when I asked the question framed by my generation of world travelers raised on the “$5 and $10 a day” series of books. After reading his recently published “Dreaming of Prayer Flags,” a multi-sensed window into Karma’s remote Himalayan homeland, the Kingdom of Bhutan, I’m convinced that he is right. - Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Forty people are dead in India's northeastern Assam state, including 17 shot by police, after four days of ethnic clashes that forced thousands to flee their homes. - Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- At least 39 people are dead and more than 80,000 were forced to flee their homes in India's Assam state after four days of ethnic violence, officials said. - Tribal people armed with guns and bows and arrows have raided a village in India's troubled northeast Assam state, killing three Muslim villagers in the latest clashes with Bangladeshi settlers, police said. - Indian police battled with rampaging mobs on Sunday, killing four people, in a bid to contain clashes between Muslims and tribal groups in the northeast that have claimed 30 lives, officials said. - Tribal people armed with guns and bows and arrows have raided a village in India's troubled northeast Assam state, killing three Muslim villagers in the latest clashes with Bangladeshi settlers. - GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Tribal people armed with guns and bows and arrows raided a village in India's troubled northeast Assam state, killing three Muslim villagers in the latest clashes with Bangladeshi settlers, police said on Monday. - By Biswajyoti Das
