Singh, who is on a two-day visit, assured Bhutan that India would stand by the Himalayan country as a factor of stability and support. The Indian prime minister is the first world leader to address the Bhutan Parliament after the historic March ...
It was a meeting between the leaders of the world's largest and the youngest democracies. PM Manmohan Singh met his just-elected counterpart from Bhutan, Jigme Y Thinley, seeking to deepen the ties between the neighbours by pledging infrastructural ...
Dr. Singh made this commitment to his Bhutanese counterpart, Jigmi Y. Thinley, on the first day of a two-day visit to the country the first by an Indian Prime Minister in 15 years. Hashimara in West Bengal and Phuentsholing in Bhutan, a distance of ...
IST(17/5/2008) Bhutan asked India to double its targets for hydel power generation in the plants maintained by India by 2020 to 10,000 megawatts. It also wanted to hold a third round of meeting before firming up projects in which it would like Indiaâ...
Thinley, Bhutan’s first elected Prime Minister, Dr. Singh answered, “This is very exciting. Bhutan has just witnessed elections a marvellous development, of peaceful transition to a democratic monarchy.” As a democracy, he said, India ...
IST(17/5/2008) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh landed in pristine Paro Valley on Friday, his first visit to a south Asian neighbour in four years. The trip comes 50 years after Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, with daughter Indira in tow, reached the capital ...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here this morning at the start of a two-day visit to Bhutan, hoping to shape a bilateral relationship based on the solid foundations of the past and building on each other's national interests in the 21st ...
Asked about his feelings about India, the world's largest democracy, meeting Bhutan, the world's youngest democracy, Dr Singh said, "This is a very exciting event," referring to the elections in March in which the people of Bhutan voted for the ...
Briefing journalists after the talks, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said Bhutan had promised to ensure that its territory was not used by elements inimical to India and keep their 700-km long open border safe and secure. India also promised to ...
India today said it looked forward to continuing its cooperation with Bhutan on issues related to the national interests of the two countries and ensuring that their territories were not used for activities harmful to each other's national security ...