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05/08/2025

By Meenakshi Niroula (Youth Coordinator, GCRPPB), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA I was born in exile from a country known around the

06/05/2025

Top News The Bhutan Watch Dedicates 6th Edition of The Bhutan Journal to the Late Dr. Govinda Rizal May 5, 2025 Bhutan News Network Intensively Focused on the Gelephu Mindfulness City—A Subject of His Deepest Concern The Bhutan Watch is honored to announce the release of the 6th edition of The Bhu...

04/05/2025

Top News A Life of Purpose: Bhutan Watch to Launch Special Publication in Memory of Dr. Govinda Rizal May 4, 2025 Bhutan News Network Tomorrow is May 5 2025. Exactly a year ago on this date, the Global Bhutanese Diasporic community lost one of its finest scholars, researchers, educationists, leaders...

06/04/2025

Top News Bhutan PM’s Praise for ICC-Wanted Junta Leader Sparks Global Firestorm April 6, 2025 Bhutan News Network Image from https://www.facebook.com/tsheringtobgay Tobgay faces calls for apology and resignation after public praise of Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing — accused of genocide and crimes ...

03/04/2025

Top News Gelephu, Bhutan to America: A Journey of Resistance, Exile, and Survival April 1, 2025 Bhutan News Network “They grabbed me by the chest and took me to the police station,” he recalls. “They asked me where I was from, and when I said Gelephu, Bhutan, they mocked me. ‘What Bhutan?’...

29/03/2025

Top News Uprooted Twice: Resettled Bhutanese Refugees Deported from the USA and Expelled from Bhutan March 29, 2025 Bhutan News Network March 29, 2025 – In a deeply troubling development, the United States has deported ten Bhutanese citizens who were originally evicted from Bhutan in the 1990s. Th...

19/03/2025

“Human Rights Watch and GCRPPB have documented that the remaining prisoners are held in dire conditions without adequate food, clothing, or medical facilities. The government of Bhutan did not respond to the UN Working Group’s communications.
Bhutan’s international partners should call on the Bhutanese government to release all remaining political prisoners immediately”.

The Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan presents itself to the world as an enlightened land that promotes “gross national happiness,” but the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that the government has locked up people for life without parole for expressing their political opinions...

18/03/2025

Top News UN Working Group Condemns Bhutan for Arbitrary Detention and Human Rights Violations March 17, 2025 Bhutan News Network The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has released Opinion No. 60/2024, exposing Bhutan’s continued human rights violations and the arbitrary im...

17/03/2025

Top News Bhutan Added to U.S. Travel Ban List: A Shift in Global Perception? March 16, 2025 Bhutan News Network Bhutan’s Inclusion in the U.S. Travel Ban: A Wake-Up Call for the Himalayan Kingdom By Ram Karki Bhutan, long romanticized as the land of Gross National Happiness, now finds itself in an...

01/10/2024

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27/09/2024

पूर्वराजा ज्ञानेन्द्र शाह आगामी हप्ता भुटान जाने भएका छन् ।

निजी भ्रमणको सिलसिलामा उनी भुटान जान लागेको उनका सम्वाद सचिव फणिराज पाठकले जानकारी दिएका छन् ।

भुटान भ्रमण कति दिनको हुने र भुटानमा रहँदा उनले केके गर्ने भन्नेबारे भने खुलिसकेको छैन ।

यद्यपि भुटानमा रहँदा उनले धार्मिक क्षेत्र भ्रमण गर्ने र विभिन्न व्यक्तित्वहरुसँग भेटघाट गर्ने बताइएको छ ।