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India's distrust begins against its best friend Bhutan at times of the 3rd general election

In Bhutan, India invests to further its strategic interest. It will do well to invest in some trust. Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Bhutan's king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and former king Jigme Singye Wangchuck in 2014 | AFP If its reactions to Bhutan's election at present is any indication, the Indian establishment does not seem to trust its best friend in the region. By: Gopilal Acarya, 13 Oct '18, Thimphu Many observers in India were surprised by the result of the primary round of Bhutan’s third National Assembly  election  last month: the ruling People’s Democratic Party failed to make it to this month’s run-off.  It appears three sections of the Indian establishment – media, military and South Block’s Bhutan watchers – have been paying close attention to the election. While the media continues to spread unfounded panic about the imminent regime change, the military, going by a number of retired army generals’ remarks, seems worried and testy...

The agony of Amika burned life long like the fire of a wrecked US airplane in Bhutan.

. 26 Aug.18 Schipol . Born at the time and place an American Second World War fighter airplane crashed in   Dagana ,  Bhutan ; Amika has the war tainted fate crashing time and again.  Her struggle to begin a second life like other 80 000 exiled Lhotshampa ethnic minority Bhutanese in   America   ended half way in The Netherlands. Today only at the age of 76 she made a kick off to   America . Amika Dhahal- Forced to The Netherlands Although  forcibly exiled  by the Royal government of  Bhutan  in the year 1991, as part of its ethnic cleansing or to reduce the population of the ethnic minority Lhotshampas, she did not feel the transition to refugee life in  Nepal  miserable.    It’s because she was there along with the entire villagers of Tanju who are always at her side to help her out whatever she would ask for. She has two sons and three daughters. For this single mother, to nurture five children, all of them...

Contrasting living standard of the Dutch and Bhutan's Prime Ministers

. 14 Feb 18, Holland.   The Prime Minister of the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan seems to be so scared of actual and perceived threats that he invested more than 3 million of the local currency in security arrangements for his new penthouse. This was revealed by the Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay himself, during a press conference on 12 th February. He reacted to a statement by the leader of the opposition party Druk Puensum Tshogpa; Dr. Pema Gyamtsho, agitatedly released a week earlier. Gyamtsho demanded a thorough investigation into the alleged misuse of public resources by the PM for the development of his private residence in the outskirts of capital city Thimphu. 'The use of public resources for private benefits', he said, 'is a serious form of corruption. The perimeter of Prime Minister Tobgay’s residential area is protected by concrete walls of nine feet high. They are fitted with CCTV cameras and sophisticated security warning systems. Armed police forces...