Bhutan’s health ministry has notified that a visitor to the country needs to carry a Covid-19 negative certificate, spelling relief for migrant workers and traders of India near the border.
The...
The Bhutan government has decided to start relaxing the nationwide lockdown, prompting loud cheers among traders on the Indian side of the border.
The neighbouring country’s move signals that c...
By Avijit Sinha, Anirban Choudhury
in Siliguri, Alipurduar
Illegal moneychangers are mushrooming at Jaigaon in Alipurduar district that shares borders with Bhutan’s commercial capital Phuentsholing.
Reason: hundreds of traders in Jaigaon are helplessly...
The spike in Covid-19 cases in Bhutan in the past one week has prompted its government to start mass testing and hire extra health workforce for the job.
So far, 138 Covid-19 infections and zer...
The Bhutan government has decided to start relaxing the nationwide lockdown, prompting loud cheers among traders on the Indian side of the border.
The neighbouring country’s move signals that c...
By Avijit Sinha, Anirban Choudhury
in Siliguri, Alipurduar
Bhutan announced a nationwide, indefinite lockdown from Tuesday to battle the spread of Covid-19 in the country, the decision — the first in the kingdom since the pandemic broke out — pres...
By Avijit Sinha, Anirban Choudhury
in Siliguri, Alipurduar
Traffic from India to Bhutan commenced along Asian Highway 48 for the first time on Wednesday.
To mark the start of the trade through the new route that would connect Pasakha, an industrial town in t...
China has opened a new territorial dispute, this time with Bhutan by staking claim to tracts in eastern Bhutan that include the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary adjoining Arunachal Pradesh.
Bhutan had prot...
I am meeting Lotay Tshering, the new prime minister of Bhutan, two days after he hosted the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi. Tshering had received Narendra Modi at the airport on the afternoon of...
A party that is widely expected to win the Bhutan elections later this month is pitching for self-reliance, causing consternation in New Delhi against the aftermath of the Doklam crisis in which the t...