Mar 9, 2002
The Indian Accounting Association awarded its annual Young Researcher Award to Dr. Vijay Kumar Shrotryia, a senior lecturer in the department of commerce of Sherubtse College, Kanglung.Dr. Shrotryia has completed a doctorate work in the field of human resource accounting and is currently working on the existing accounting practices in Bhutan, among others. The Indian Accounting Research has also recognized his work on population quality and developing happiness index for valuation of Gross National Happiness [... Read More]
Mar 4, 2002
A tiny town (or call it a village) of Gedu, four years back, was almost in slumber. It was like a small railway station waiting for a train that would never come – a quiet, small settlement with foggy weather almost all the year round.
Gedu grows from a village to a bustling town overnight
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Mar 4, 2002
To most Bhutanese, the Tala hydroelectric project would mean the cluster of attractive buildings in Gedu and Wangkha and the occasional pictures of helmeted people that appear in the media.
Workers drilling rock at the Wangkha damsite
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Very few realize that as they pass between Taktichu and Gedu, around 600 metres below the surface, there are human beings and machines accomplishing feats that many in our [... Read More]
Mar 4, 2002
Inside the dimly lit tunnel, jeans tucked into mud-splashed gumboot, her short hair covered by the helmet and moving with an energy that is not common to women, one might easily mistake Kunzang Choden for a diminutive man.The 23-year old royal technical institute graduate from Haa in fact prefers it this way because she sees herself as mens equal.
Kunzang is not afraid of working in the tunnel and feels perfectly alright working there from 6 [... Read More]
Mar 4, 2002
Boeing is the latest aircraft manufacturer which has shown interest in selling passenger jets to Druk Air, according to the officiating managing director of Bhutans national airline.
Will Airbus A319 (above) replace Druk Airs existing fleet?
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Boeing has sent us a fax expressing their interest, Tandin Jamso told Kuensel. They have asked for airport layout and other [... Read More] |
Mar 4, 2002
Days of hard life in remote parts of Bhutan seem to be nearing an end with the rural electrification project covering hundreds of villages in the six eastern dzongkhags.With only a couple of months left for the Eighth Five-Year Plan to end, power officials are gearing up to achieve the target of electrifying 6,500 households under the rural electrification scheme with assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Trashigang dzongkhag, which has one of the most [... Read More]
Mar 4, 2002
Bhutans annual per capita GDP increased from US$ 674.7 (Nu 29,080) in 1999 to US$ 712.8 (Nu 32,006) in 2000, according to the statistical yearbook of Bhutan, 2001, released by the central statistical organisation (CSO) this week.But the GDP real growth during the same period dropped from 7.4 percent to 5.7 percent even as the GDP at current prices rose from Nu 19, 122 million to Nu 21,698 million, and the investment in the economy [... Read More]
Mar 4, 2002
Transactions of goods at the customs check points around the country will be faster and efficient with the introduction of a computerized system called Bhutan Automated Customs System (BACS) by March end.For the past one month, 25 customs staff from Thimphu and Phuentsholing have been attending a users training workshop conducted by the Druk Information Technology (DIT) in collaboration with STRABUS, a computer firm based in Hyderabad. The BACS software was jointly developed by the [... Read More]
Mar 3, 2002
German photographer and author Mr. Franz Binder has recently released the first pictorial book on Bhutan in German on February 8.
Cover of the book
‘Bhutan’
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Speaking to Mr. Binder he said, “We wanted the book ‘Bhutan’ to be released in time for losar, which we managed. The book will be the most comprehensive publication on Bhutan ever in the German
speaking area such as Germany, [... Read More]
Mar 3, 2002
With the announcement of the Indian budget on February 28 the price of gas cylinders has sky rocketed with a Nu 42 price hike per cylinder.Consumers will pay Nu 318.56 per cylinder.
The kerosene price has also been raised by Nu 1.39 a liter. A litre of kerosene will now cost Nu 9.82
A small consolation after the ministry of trade and industry’s announcement on Sunday regarding the price hike has been the decrease in the [... Read More]
