Two caught in gold smuggling case
Police in Paro is investigating a case involving a 36-and a 31-year-old men who are involved for the alleged smuggling of 11.04 kilograms of gold into the country on August 27. Based on a tip off,...
View ArticleBhutan welcomes disengagement of troops at Doklam area
Bhutan welcomes the disengagement by India and China at the face-off site in the Doklam area, the foreign ministry stated in a press release yesterday. “We hope this contributes to the maintenance of...
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Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay speaks to the dzongdags and thrompons at the signing of the Annual Performance Agreements, 2017-18 with 20 dzongkhags and three thromdes of Gelephu, Phuentsholing and...
View ArticleTaking the lead
The Royal Civil Service Commission supporting the national effort to deter substance abuse by instituting mandatory tests for pre-service and in-service civil servants is a commendable move. Starting...
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Works and Human Settlement minister Dorji Choden and Chief executive officer of Ugen Auto, Ugen Norbu Jamyang, launched Bharatbenz in Thimphu yesterday. Bharatbenz is one of Daimler’s commercial...
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Landslides triggered by heavy rain on August 29 blocked the Trashiyangtse highway between Chazam and Doksum yesterday afternoon. Officials from the Department of Roads have deployed men and machinery...
View ArticleSamdrupcholing BHU in need of ultrasound and x-ray services
Samdrupcholing Basic Health Unit, grade I in Samdrupjongkhar needs an ultrasound and x-ray machine, according to health officials. This, the medical officer Dr Ugyen Thinley said is because expecting...
View ArticleLhuentse DT endorses request to upgrade Minji MSS to central school
The Lhuentse dzongkhag education office will write to the education ministry, requesting for an up-gradation of Minji Middle Secondary School (MMSS) to a central school in the 12th Plan. Lhuentse...
View ArticlePreparing for earthquake in Bhutan
Sitting on an earthquake belt in the Himalayas, Bhutan has preparation issues to work on. The two-day consultation workshop on earthquake preparedness in Bhutan that ended yesterday at Paro was aimed...
View ArticleGovt. undecided on how to utilise Edu City land
Waiting for review of Education City Act Three years after the Education City Project was shut, the government is yet to decide on the utilisation of the land earmarked for the education city at Wang...
View ArticleFirst six years determines the child’s future
Adulthood depends on how the first six years of a child is forged. During a lecture on ‘zero to six’ on August 29, senior consultant and pediatrician Dr Ang Poon Liat, said that nurturing a child...
View ArticleTshethar tshogpa coordinators to sue Kanglung gup for defamation
The two coordinators of Drukyul karzay tshethar tshogpa, Yeshi Dorji (also know as Sangay Wangdi) and Karsang claimed that they will file a defamation case against the chairperson of the Trashigang...
View ArticleMachinery distributed
In a handing-taking ceremony, agriculture minister Yeshey Dorji handed over an excavator and a backhoe each to the 20 dzongdags in Bumthang yesterday. Thanking the Government and people of Japan for...
View ArticleTime to change health focus
The bomb is going off. And we are talking about reforms. Reforms are good. What is bad about reforms in any system is that they take time. So we talk about bureaucratic inefficiency. The civil servants...
View ArticleCulture, key to Bhutan’s survival
It is only apt that the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) Standing Committee on Social and Cultural Affairs meet in Bhutan to discuss culture preservation, National Assembly Speaker Jigme Zangpo said....
View ArticleExhibition on trima opens to public
Her Majesty the Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck inaugurated an exhibition on trima, a discontinuous weft pattern, at the Royal Textile Academy (RTA) in Thimphu yesterday. Trima is a complex weaving...
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As part of the Nationwide Financial Literacy Roadshow, the Governor and officials of the Royal Monetary Authority and financial institutions were in Paro on August 25. The roadshow is organsied to...
View ArticleFlash flood damage Gelephu-Assam highway, again
It took less than half an hour of heavy rainfall to wash away the temporarily reinstated Gelephu-Assam highway on August 30. The flooding did not cause any damage to property and settlement. Gelephu...
View ArticleYou are what you eat!
For a healthy life, one should be aware of the power of food and have self-control and determination towards the choice for healthy food. Pediatrician and nutritionist Dr Ang Poon Liat said this during...
View ArticleClimate change and TB in WHO’s regional meeting agenda
Health minister of 11 member countries will attend the 70th Regional Committee meeting of World Health Organisation South-East Asia Region (WHO SEAR) region in the Maldives from September 6 to 10. WHO...
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