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India, Bhutan to have 7 more entry-exit points for trade: Govt

India TV 03 Nov 2021

India and Bhutan will have seven additional entry and exit points for trade as part of measures to increase trade connectivity, the government said on Wednesday ... meeting held between India and Bhutan on trade and transit issues.

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India, Bhutan formalise seven entry-exit points for trade

The Economic Times 03 Nov 2021

The Indian delegation was led by Department of ...

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India, Bhutan to Have Seven More Entry-exit Points for Trade

News18 03 Nov 2021

The decision was taken ...

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View: The cat and MoU games in China-Bhutan relationship

The Economic Times 03 Nov 2021

... agreements and has done very little to counter Bhutan's threat perceptions.

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India, Bhutan formalise seven additional entry-exit points

Live Mint 03 Nov 2021

Indian and Bhutan on Wednesday formalised seven additional entry-exit points for trade during a commerce secretary-level meeting on trade and transit issues in New Delhi, as per a statement from the ministry of commerce and industry ... This will form an addendum to the Protocol of the 2016 India-Bhutan Agreement on Trade, Commerce and Transit.

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Love, hate and tragedy: A three-part history of Bhutan-Cooch relations

Kuensel 01 Nov 2021

The founding of Bhutan as a nation-state in the seventeenth century was completed based, among other conditions, on the affirmation of its new sovereign status by existing polities in its neighbourhood ... He also emerged as a key political ally and played a central role in securing Bhutan’s sovereign status.

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Import of vehicles surge in vehicle rich Bhutan

Kuensel 30 Oct 2021

If the progress of a country’s development were measured by the number of vehicles on the roads, Bhutan is a rich country ... A policy document, the Bhutan Transport 2040 Integrated Strategic Vision, states that population growth, large volume of intercity travel, and more travel within Thimphu will increase congestion and environmental degradation.

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Bhutan to go to polls for LG elections on December 22

Kuensel 29 Oct 2021

MB Subba. In five days, dhamngoi zomdus (selection of candidates) will begin for the third local government election, according to the notification issued from the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) on October 27. Dhamngoi zomdus will be held from November 3 to 20, and the election will be held on December 22 ... Edited by Tshering Palden .

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WFP Bhutan Country Brief, September 2021

Reliefweb 27 Oct 2021

WFP continued with its various capacity building and technical assistance programmes ... • The Regional Agriculture and Marketing Cooperatives (RAMCO) Gelephu conducted financial literacy trainings for eight farmer groups of upper Kheng and ten farmer groups of lower Kheng ... .

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Diversifying Bhutan’s energy sources by investing in renewable energy

Kuensel 26 Oct 2021

Over the past decades, Bhutan has ambitiously pursued electrification, especially in rural communities ... Yet approximately 70 percent of the energy demand in Bhutan continues to be met by fossil fuel and biomass, in large part because the transport sector is so heavily dependent on it ... Bhutan is soon to submit its own energy compact ... UNDP Bhutan .

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Bhutan to integrate smooth transition strategy in next Plan for LDC graduation

Kuensel 25 Oct 2021

…Bhutan will graduate from LDC list in 2023 ... The least developed countries LDC) graduation task force has recommended that Bhutan will integrate its smooth transition strategy (STS) for Bhutan’s effective and sustainable graduation into the next 13th Five-Year Plan (FYP), according to the Gross National Happiness Commission secretariat.

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'Extremely Concerning': China-Bhutan MoU Could 'Spell Disaster' For India, Warns Congress Party

Sputnik 24 Oct 2021

China shares a 477-kilometre border with Bhutan and lays claim to more than 700 kilometres of Bhutanese territory ... .

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Bhutan and Japan signs document to digitally map various parts of the country

Kuensel 23 Oct 2021

Ambassador of Bhutan to Japan V Namgyel and Ambassador of Japan to Bhutan Satoshi Suzuki signed the exchange of notes for the Project for the Development of Digital Topographic Map yesterday in New Delhi, India ... topographic map of parts of Bhutan that are not digitally mapped.

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Manish Tewari | After China-Bhutan deal, India requires fresh eyes

Deccan Chronicle 23 Oct 2021

On October 14, 2021, China and Bhutan entered into a memorandum of understanding crystallising a three-step roadmap for intensifying parleys to resolve their outstanding border disputes ... China endeavored to extend a road in an area that Bhutan asserted belonged to it. Bhutan and China share an over 400-kilometre long border.

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Bhutan: Plastic and Bamboo Furniture Market and the Impact of COVID-19 on It in the ...

MENA FN 22 Oct 2021

(MENAFN - Comserve) Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Japan, Oct 22, 2021, 01.07 /Comserve / -- This report presents a strategic analysis of the Bhutanese plastic and bamboo furniture market and a forecast ... .