Windstorm damages houses in Sakteng
A windstorm on a snowy evening of February 28 damaged 18 houses and two government structures in Sakteng, Trashigang. The windstorm also blew off the roof of an old drungkhag office and store of...
View ArticleRecent windstorm damages 90 structures in 10 dzongkhags
The windstorm earlier this week damaged 90 structures, including houses, community lhakhangs, schools and agriculture extension offices. It also damaged 60 areca nut trees. According to the report...
View ArticleReforming tourism
Work to take tourism to the top has begun with a vigour the country has not seen in the past. A two-day national tourism conference was successful in bringing together everyone who depend on it to take...
View ArticleGovt. to discuss if tourism policy is needed
A tourism development board with 13 members has been established to enhance the tourism sector. Establishing the board was one of the government’s pledges to be implemented in 120 days. The government...
View ArticleWork begins to draft flagship programme for tourism
The flagship programme for tourism is yet to be approved since there are no details planned for the flagship nor the plans listed, Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering said at meet the press yesterday....
View ArticleGovt. to address undercutting in tourism sector
The cancerous issue of undercutting, understood to be spreading rapidly among tour operators, would be treated once the government unleashes its plan to boost the industry, Lyonpo Dr Tandi Dorji said....
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Red sander wood smuggler handed prison sentence
The bench II of the High Court upheld the Paro dzongkhag court’s judgment that sent a man smuggling sander wood (Pterocarpus santalinus) to three years and a month in prison and fined Nu 657,650. The...
View ArticleTeacher couple takes up farming
A teacher couple from Chukha, Tenzin Thinley, 46, and Karma Wangmo, 44, gave up teaching to return to Boeri village in Bongo, Chukha to become farmers. The couple wants to make use of their fallow land...
View ArticleOssey bypass to open next month
The Department of Roads (DoR) has completed the first cutting of 3kms new bypass road at Ossey in Gelephu. Officials said formation cutting works would complete by April and the 4.4km bypass would open...
View ArticleGovernment plans bi-annual all-party meeting
The government is planning all-party meetings to make governance inclusive. “We will be soon sitting with all the registered political parties to discuss several issues,” Foreign Minister Dr Tandi...
View ArticleDifferent version of cultural products needs to be developed for tourists:...
Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB) is working on a plan and strategy to make the sector the number one contributor to the economy. The dzongkhags are also identifying tourism products in the communities...
View ArticleIn the divine power we trust
Construction experts or hydropower gurus might find it strange, even funny, to hear management of a mega hydroelectric project seeking divine intervention to get rid of obstacles. But it is the way in...
View ArticleIHPP encourages raising persimmon nursery
To encourage and provide farmers with enough seedlings to grow persimmon, a team of staff from Agriculture Research and Development Centre (ARDC) at Bajo in Wangdue visited farms in Dagana last week to...
View ArticleMongar aims 100 percent egg sufficiency this year
With about Nu 5.17 million (M) worth of eggs produced in Mongar last year, the dzongkhag was 87 percent egg sufficient. The dzongkhag is estimated to have produced 7.27 million eggs. The dzongkhag...
View ArticleCommittee terminates contract for poor progress on EW highway works
The Department of Roads’ (DOR) regional office in Trongsa would terminate the contract works of Druk Lhayul Construction in Trongsa tomorrow. The construction company was executing a package of the...
View ArticleGovernment puts Earn and Learn programme on hold
The government has decided to not entertain the Earn and Learn programme until the on-going issues are solved. This applies not only to the programme in Japan but also to other countries like Malaysia....
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His Majesty’s Representative and the President of the Bhutan Olympic Committee, His Royal Highness Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck was reappointed as the Chairman of the International Relations Committee...
View ArticleKMMU camp saw 4,455 people in Samdrupjongkhar
His Majesty’s Kidu Mobile Medical Unit (KMMU) saw 4,455 people in 12 days last month in a series of medical camps held in Samdrupjongkhar. The medical camps were held in the BHUs of Gomdar, Lauri,...
View ArticleNima and Dawa Palden to reach home tomorrow
Nima and Dawa Palden, the first conjoined twins from Bhutan will return home today, five months after they arrived in Melbourne, Australia for a separation surgery. The girls who are now 19-months old...
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