The country will begin quantifying GNH by measuring what GDP leaves out, such as its natural wealth including human, social and culture ones like GDP does goods and services.
During a press conference yesterday Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinley said while the country continued to focus on its financial and manufactured wealth, it would also create balanced GNH accounts.
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The kudung of His Holiness Dungse Rinpoche was moved to Bartsham yesterday. It was kept at the Rangjung Woseling Dratshang for five days. The kudung will be flown to Paro on February 15.
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Dungtse Rinpoche’s kudungwas moved to Bartsham after it remained for five days at Rangjoong Woseling Dratshang in Rangjung for people to pay their last respects.
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On August 6, 2007, the People’s democratic party became the first registered political party in Bhutan after formally submitting its application for registration.
It also began its politicking much earlier but secured only two seats in the National Assembly in the March 2008 elections.
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Building the Sunkosh hydropower project, downsized by almost 1,500 megawatts, will cost Nu 116 B less according to new estimates.
The downsized version of Sunkosh will need Nu 97.6 B instead of Nu 213 B to build.
“These figures will be confirmed when the detailed project report is finalised,” economic affairs minister Khandu Wangchuk said yesterday at a press briefing in Thimphu.
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New taxis will now have to be either red or white in color with yellow top. The Road Safety and Transport Authority, RSTA, introduced this rule to maintain uniformity of taxi colour code in the country. However, this has left many taxi drivers unhappy.
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The argument, otherwise, wore a smack of the chicken and egg riddle
It is unlikely the government would go back on its decision to have, in another five months, the country’s first medical college, beginning its academic session.
Despite many arguing that it was an ambitious project, the only rational stated so far to start a medical college in the country was to address the current shortages of healthcare personnel.
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The GNH index based on results of the GNH 2010 survey shows that 41 percent of Bhutanese can be classified as happy, while 59 percent are “not-yet happy”, according to an analytical presentation available on the GNH website.
The categorising was determined by a sufficiency threshold and a happiness threshold. For a person to be considered happy, sufficiency in at least six of the nine domains of GNH needed to be met. (See box)
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It’s 11 pm in remote Lauri but the lights are still on at the gewog centre.
Under a dim glow of a solar light, two fatigued officials from the National Cadastral Resurvey Program (NCRP), the gup and a few helpers are busy with Thram or land transactions and its registration.
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The people of Pemagasthel cheered and sang along with their parliament members as they celebrated the Chunipai Losar together yesterday.
Prime minister Jigmi Y Thinley conveyed losar greetings from Their Majesties and told the thousand people, who had come to celebrate their new year, that the concept of ‘traditional day of offering’ began during the time when people paid taxes to the government annually during the eleventh month of the Bhutanese calendar.
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Rhododendrons are rapidly dwindling in north Bumthang where cordycep collectors and yak herders are using it as fuel wood a study done by the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE) says.
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