| King-size ambitions | 27-OCT-09 |
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| Small appliances maker Maharaja Whiteline hopes to double its growth tapping the unorganised market. |
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| Thimphian week | 17-OCT-09 |
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| So there I was stuck in Thimphu, Bhutan, so delirious with fever that I could have sworn that my friends were out bar-hopping rather than sitting by my bedside. But then these fevers make you think the darndest things; for instance, on the way back from the Bumthang Valley we stopped in a tiny restaurant for lunch, and I’ll be buggered if I didn’t imagine that columnist Jug Suraiya was sitting at the next table. I put it down to the antibiotics and swallowed another paracetamol. |
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| Don't worry, be happy | 26-SEP-09 |
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| There are many things I have striven to do in my life but never managed. One is to write these columns in advance so that I can travel without my laptop. Another is to visit Bhutan, that beautiful, sensible little country snuggled into the north-eastern border of India. One of the main reasons I want to visit is that they are best known for being less concerned with GDP than with what they call GNH, or Gross National Happiness. |
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| Bhutan to step up vigil at its border with India | 06-AUG-09 |
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| Bhutan has dismissed the reports of presence of permanent camps of the Indian militant groups on its territory but said it can't rule out occasional incursions by the terrorists in the country. |
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| Airtel bags project from Bhutan govt | 04-AUG-09 |
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| Telecom firm Bharti Airtel has entered into an agreement with the Bhutan government for creating a new terrestrial cable network in the neighboring country. |
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| Crystal ball gazing the 'Big Budget' | 29-JUN-09 |
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| While the euphoria of thumping mandate may still be settling down, the new government has its task cut out before the finance minister rises to deliver his Budget speech in a week's time. An unprecedented mandate not witnessed in last decade is evidently weighing in the minds of the Mandarins at North block as the Budget proposals are being given a final shape. |
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| Cyclone Aila a blessing for Bhutan | 02-JUN-09 |
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| Cyclone Aila may have brought destruction in countries like India, Bangladesh and Bhutan but the hydropower sector in the Himalayan nation got a major boost due to the heavy rains triggered by the high-velocity storm. |
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| Sunil Sethi: Bhutan's political spring | 02-MAY-09 |
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| Thimphu: When Jigme Singye Wangchuk, the outgoing king of Bhutan, coined Gross Domestic Happiness as a development index some years ago, the world probably dismissed the idea as a monarch’s whimsy conjured on a spring morning in his idyllic kingdom. But in 2006 he got bolder. At the age of 51 he decided to abdicate in favour of his eldest son, the 26-year-old Jigme Khesar. |
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