Travel Guide - SAARC

After a continuous growth in the tourism market, the Nepali government is planning ways to ride the surging wave to build a sustainable tourist market. The goal is to mark the year 2011 as the ‘Visit Nepal Year’ drawing at least a million visitors that year. Already many sites in rural Nepal is underway [...]

A more stable government and a huge surge in public expectations of a better economy has started bearing fruits for the himalayan kingdom. The Nepal Tourism Board’s (NTB) new slogan “Naturally Nepal” has shown a 60% increase in tourist arrivals in the country this year. 
Nepal is moving towards improving the quality of their tourist stay [...]

Taj Mahal, one of the wonders of the world was built as as icon of love and eternal devotion  by the Emperor Shah Jahan of India. The construction on the  giant mausoleum was started when his favorite wife Mumthaz Mahal died while giving birth to their fourteenth child. Master crafts men from all over the [...]

Kathmandu has a wide range of accommodation facilities catering for unique tastes of tourists. If you have just showed up with everything strapped to your backpack ready to track across the vast ranges of Nepal or like to enjoy in leisure and style, we have got just the thing for you !  Most hotels and [...]

A team of Bhutanese delegates from the chamber of commerce is in Dhaka to encourage foreign investment in Bhutan.Bangladesh and bhutan has been engaged in commerce for centuries but the volume has so far been conservative. Bhutan’s main exports to Bangladesh are Vinegar, Vegetables, tobacco,wool and some processed foods while Importing Garments, pharmaceuticals,and electronic equipment [...]

Nepal is faced with a new crisis just a week after a cabinet expansion and a government shake up. Kosi a water way that leads into the neighboring India’s  3rd largest (by population) state spilled over. The water way started to reach its peak capacity and according to locals the technical staff as the site [...]

Bhutan The kingdom of the dragon, has a long history and a strong cultural background. Originally it is thought that people migrated from Tibet. Theses aboriginal bhutanese also known Monpa planted the seed of a nation in one of the highest reaches of earth. Bhutan is a land locked  nation full of rugged and often [...]

Heated exchanges of words took place in the infant democracy of Nepal in the mountains regarding the eligibility of a caretaker prime minister representing Nepal. Nepal one of the newest democracies in the world after the king was removed under sweeping reforms that the country underwent is still in the process of transforming its institutions [...]

Afghanistan Fact Sheet

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
 

Population
32738376

Population growth
2.63%

GDP(2007)
USD$ 35 billion

GDP Growth
12.40%

GDP per capita
USD$ 1,000

Telephone lines (land)
280000

Telephone lines (mobile)
4.668 million

Airports
46

Languages spoken
Pashto,Dari (also known as Afghan Persian),Uzbek,Turkmen,Balochi,Pashai and many more dilects

Literacy
28.10%

Suffrage
18 Universal

Government type
Islamic Republic

Religions
Islam - Sunni, Shi’a and 1% other

Maldives Fact Sheet

Republic of Maldives
 

Population
300000

Population growth
2.69%

GDP(2007)
USD$ 1.588 billion

GDP Growth
6.60%

GDP per capita
USD$ 4,600

Telephone lines (land)
32500

Telephone lines (mobile)
317800

Airports
5

Languages spoken
Dhivehi (local official language)

Literacy
96.30%

Suffrage
18 Universal

Government type
Republic

Religions
Islam - Sunni