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Updated: ( 4:17:47 GMT)
Tuesday February 09 , 2010
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Prime Minister talks to former Indian ambassadors to Bhutan at an informal gathering in New Delhi
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Record slump in tourist arrivals
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THIMPHU: Tourist arrivals dropped by 15 percent in 2009 from the year before, prompting people in the industry to call it one of the worst slumps in recent years. Arrivals fell to 23,480 in 2009, compared to 27,636 tourists in 2008, a drop of 4,156 tourists. Tourist arrivals have been increasing by 35 percent annually for the past six years, but 2009 saw a drop mainly because of the global recession, said tour operators. They said that other reasons could be the political unrest in neighbouring countries such as Bangkok, Thailand and the H1NI outbreak.
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PM, NIIT Chairman discuss IT project
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THIMPHU: The chairman of Indian ICT giant NIIT, Rajendra S. Pawar, and Prime Minister Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y. Thinley met in New Delhi, India, to take the Nu 2.05 billion Total Solutions forward. The project, funded by the government of India, is aimed at creating a knowledge-based Bhutanese society by harnessing information and communications technology. The Information and Communications Secretary, Dasho Kinley Dorji, who also attended meeting.
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Hydropower construction company by 2012
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THIMPHU: Druk Green Power corporation’s (DGPC) planned hydropower construction company, once formed, will bid for a slice of the Nu 525 bn construction pie of the 10,000 MW projects.
The DGPC plan is to set up the construction company by 2012 with Nu 500 mn investments.
“As a first preference, we’d want private partners to take part and they could inject in equity in the form of cash or construction equipment.
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Two accidents take two lives
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THIMPHU: A six-year-old girl was killed yesterday morning after being hit by a maruti-swift vehicle on the Mongar-Trashigang highway. The car struck her when she was walking across the road near Changshingpeg village. The victim, a class one student of Mongar lower secondary school, succumbed to head injuries. Medical officials at the Mongar referral hospital said that the student was already dead when she was brought to the hospital.
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Indian rally teams take top three prizes
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THIMPHU: The lost time in navigating the traffic in Siliguri during the first leg did not stop the professional rally team from Kolkota, Arindam Ghosh and Somdeb Chanda in bagging the first prize of Rs 75,000 and a Bhutan India Friendship Association (BIFA) trophy, during the third Indo Bhutan friendship rally (IBFR), which ended on Saturday in Thimphu. Mr Ghosh, an entrepreneur has been rallying for the last 30 years.
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PM meets former Indian ambassadors
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THIMPHU: “If Bhutan is a subject of some degree of admiration around the world it was attributable to ‘the special benefits’ that Bhutan enjoyed through its ‘special relationship’ with India.” Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinley told former India’s ambassadors to Bhutan at an informal gathering at the Bhutan embassy in New Delhi yesterday. “Each of you has considerably contributed in making Bhutan what it is today,” he told former ambassadors.
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South Asian Policy Analysis Network
South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) and the South Asian Journal have initiated a project to develop an interactive network of experts for the South Asian Policy Analysis (SAPANA) Network which was launched in April, 2006. SAPANA is a non-partisan, South Asia-wide research and policy analysis network, the first independent South Asian think-thank in the region and is expected to play an influential role in guiding discussion, analysis and policy both in South Asia and outside the region.
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South Asia Media Commission was formed in April 2007 to monitor journalists’ safety and violation of media rights and to publish periodical reports. It was envisaged to respond with speed to such violations to press for remedial action.
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South Asian Media School
In 2007, SAFMA, a network of South Asian journalists and media practitioners, aware of the political nuances of the region and sensitive to the demands of the new media age, felt the need to cultivate a new generation of South Asian media persons. With this in mind, the South Asian Media School was set up at South Asian Media Centre, a hub of media activity.
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