Drayang employees say they are most vulnerable after work
Working during odd hours, inadequate monitoring from stakeholders, unfavourable internal legal provisions and improper pay scale are some of the challenges facing those working in drayangs. This was...
View ArticleOAG withdraws one tax evader case, ACC to return two seized trucks
The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has withdrawn a case from the 18 importers who were charged at the Phuentsholing drungkhag court for alleged tax evasion. OAG wrote to the Anti-Corruption...
View ArticleE.Coli bacteria found in Thimphu and Paro rivers
Water samples collected at various locations from the rivers in Thimphu and Paro were found to contain bacteria E.Coli. E.Coli is commonly found in the faeces of humans and other animals, indicating a...
View ArticleMaking Table Tennis popular in Bhutan
Bhutan Table Tennis (TT) Federation conducted week-long TTIF level I coaching course for 18 sports instructors, teachers and trainees. The participants were taught the skills required to plan and...
View ArticleSarpang Strikers win women’s T20 club championship
Sarpang Strikers overwhelmed Dechencholing Nazhoen at the Women’s T20 club championship final at the Pelkhil oval yesterday. Dechencholing Nazhoen won the toss and decided to bat first. The decision...
View ArticleTownship building begins in Tshangchuthang
A township development area has been identified for the people of Tshangchuthang in Samdrupjongkhar. Samdrupcholing drungpa, Lobzang Dorji, said the present town is located on a high-risk flood zone...
View ArticleDamphu CS principal deny allegations against him
The principal of Damphu Central School has denied all allegations made against him by the school cook, Harka Bahadur Subba, who went missing for almost nine days in Bangkok in January this year. In the...
View ArticleFire guts Thangrong gup’s house
The Gyaltshab’s office in Gyalpoizhing, Mongar has provided a semso of Nu 30,000 to Thangrong’s gup after a fire gutted his house on July 23 afternoon. The fire started from a shop. The gup claimed he...
View ArticleWetland managers discuss conservation issues
Infrastructure development, colonisation by invasive species, overgrazing, pollution, and lack of proper boundary demarcation are among the challenges facing the conservation of wetlands in Bhutan....
View ArticleThe spectacle called drayangs
The concept of drayangs tends to conjure varying notions. To some, the mere existence of drayangs threatens our culture and tradition while others argue that drayangs play a role in the promotion and...
View ArticleTrongsa-Gelephu highway closed to traffic
With about 50ms of road’s formation width completely washed away by landslide near Bubja in Trongsa, the Trongsa-Gelephu highway is closed to traffic since the midnight of July 23. Mangdechu...
View ArticleValue chain in Agro-industries need to advance
Acquiring local farm produce does not make economic sense for the agro-industries unless a technological transformation occurs throughout the value chain. This is because the best quality locally-grown...
View ArticleA lone school in an isolated community
Since its establishment eight years ago, Naro gewog’s lone school, Barshong Community School, has been facing shortage of students. The school has one of the highest teacher-student ratios in the...
View ArticleMoEA cancels 10 education consultancy licences
Economic affairs ministry cancelled licences of 10 Education Consultancy and Placement Firms (ECPF) on the grounds of non-compliance with the guidelines for ECPF and for being non-operational. Regional...
View ArticleUgyen Academy FC slips to third in National league
Ugyen Academy FC suffered their first defeat of the championship against the home team Thimphu FC at the Changlimithang Stadium yesterday. In a match of equals, Ugyen Academy FC, consisting of young...
View ArticleSamdrupcholing-Dewathang road to be blacktopped after monsoon
Motorists plying along the 67kms Samdrupcholing-Dewathang highway are worried about the worsening road condition every day. The highway connects Samdrupcholing drungkhag to Samdrupjongkhar via...
View ArticleHaa police forwards Rangtse BDBL case to OAG
The case involving a Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL) branch in-charge of Rangtse, Haa, who allegedly robbed more than Nu 4.6 million (M) from the branch’s safe on the night of June 4, will be...
View ArticleMan sentenced to 16 years for stabbing mother
Dorokha drungkhag court on July 21 sentenced a 24-year- old man to 16 years imprison for murdering his mother this year. According to the judgment, the man is charged with second-degree felony and...
View ArticleResidents allege monastic structures were constructed without approval
Three years after the Department of Culture (DoC) issued a circular in 2014 stating that it would not issue any permits to construct new monastic structures, it was found that there was a lhakhang, a...
View ArticleCSOs familiarise themselves with SDGs
A workshop was organised in Thimphu Monday to strengthen Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) advocacy capacity of Civil Society Organisations (CSO) at national and sub-national level. Participants...
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