Last week, Bhutan’s government took two important decisions which could impact its regional ties, especially with India. The first was to end free entry for regional tourists from India, Bangladesh and Maldives, by levying a daily Sustainable Development Fee on them for the first time. The other decision was to confirm that Bhutan will stay out of the proposed Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal …
On his second visit to Bhutan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched stamps to commemorate five decades of India-Bhutan hydropower cooperation Thimphu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bhutanese counterpart Lotay Tshering held wide ranging talks on Saturday during which they discussed steps to further expand the bilateral partnership across several sectors as the two nations signed 10 Memorandum of Understandings …
Editor’s Note: Bhutan prime minister Dr Lotay Tshering praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s book Exam Warriors, written for children appearing for school-leaving examinations, in a Facebook post on Thursday. *** In anticipation of the visit Out of the collections I was sorting out recently came out the book called Exam Warriors by Narendra Modi. In this book, as he highlights …
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called Bhutan’s newly elected Prime Minister Lotay Tshering, president of Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa party, to congratulate him on his election win. “Prime Minister Modi congratulated Dr. Lotay Tshering on his party’s victory in the third general election in Bhutan and his own election to the National Assembly. Prime Minister Modi welcomed the …