Preparing for disasters
Fire season is just around the corner. There is a need to prep up for the major disasters that threatens to visit us come. An eight-year-old boy died in Samdrupjongkhar on Monday when fire razed a...
View ArticleDoing online businesses in commercial scale not allowed
Rajesh Rai | Phuentsholing Doing businesses online through social media sites on a large scale is illegal, according to officials from Department of Trade (DoT). Officials also said people into...
View ArticleOAG charges three Indian businessmen for gold smuggling
Rinzin Wangchuk The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) charged three Indian businessmen for smuggling 1.49kgs of gold worth Nu 5.065 million (M) into the country from Thailand to Paro dzongkhag...
View ArticleThai medical team treats 538 ENT patients in Mongar
… conducts 55 ear surgeries in its 8th ENT camp Tshering Namgyal | Mongar A mobile medical team from Thailand treated 538 ears, nose and throat (ENT) outpatient department cases from the eastern region...
View ArticlePM asks education ministry to lower school admission age
Choki Wangmo Prime Minister’s Office wrote to the education ministry yesterday telling them to start work on bringing down the admission age to five years beginning this academic session. Despite...
View ArticleGovt. braces for crucial session
MB Subba The winter session of Parliament beginning January 15 is expected to be crucial for the government in terms of passing the legislations that it believes would achieve the objective of...
View ArticleTVET as optional subject begins this academic session
…will be piloted in seven schools near existing TTIs and zorigchusum institutes Younten Tshedup | Gelephu With the completion of the competency based learning material (CBLM) for technical and...
View ArticleA programme to groom future businesspersons
Jigme Choden & Sonam Chukey Pema Tamang observed her friends folding edges of pages repeatedly to mark their reading. She decided to give them an alternative: her handmade book marks. The student...
View ArticleGuides on treatment after testing positive for controlled substance
Dechen Tshomo Two male tourist guides are undergoing treatment at the Bhutan Narcotics Control Authority (BNCA) after testing positive for controlled substances during the Tourism Council of Bhutan’s...
View ArticleSTCBL will now supply LPG
Phub Dem State Trading Corporation of Bhutan Limited (STCBL) will now distribute 200 metric tonnes (MT) of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) to consumers. This is to maintain uninterrupted supply and...
View ArticleBeautification audit is welcome
Haa is preparing to host the sixth edition of Royal Bhutan Flower Exhibition and is bringing in something called beautification audit. Simply put the idea is that the investment made for the...
View Article12 years on and Singeychhu bridge is still incomplete
Rajesh Rai | Phuentsholing Twelve years after the construction of a 55ms ‘through-type bridge’ over Singeychhu in Pasakha began, people are still waiting for it to open for traffic. At the bridge site,...
View ArticleAmbulance accident kills three
Kelzang Wangchuk | Samdrupjongkhar Three died and another person was critically injured when the Nanong BHU ambulance fell 170 metres off the road at Kenadrang, Pemagatshel at around 10.20am...
View ArticleMoE notification asking students to register for private schools confuse...
Yangchen C Rinzin The education ministry’s notification for online admission for class XI on January 8 confused many students, who appeared Bhutan Certificate of Secondary Education and Examination...
View ArticleStudents attend camp in Paro
Staff Reporter Forty one students from 10 schools in Paro dzongkhag attended a three youth camp at Nemjo, Paro last week. Royal Institute of Governance and Strategic Studies alumni in Paro organised...
View ArticleThe fourth-generation shagzop
Neten Dorji | Trashiyangtse Trashiyangtse, is known for hewing Dapa(wooden bowl). However, only few people in the dzongkhag can narrate the history of its origin. The art is long associated with people...
View ArticleA brief history of Yongla Goenpa and its successive lams
Yongla Goenpa or Yongla Riwo Pelbar Dargeychholing Goenpa in Pemagatshel was reconstructed under the Command of His Majesty The King after the 2009 earthquake caused major damage to the goenpa. It is...
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What can we learn from current Australian bush fires
Let me start by putting Australian bush fires into perspective. The 2019 Amazon rainforest fires burned more than 900,000 hectares. California in the USA lost 100,000 hectares in 2019 to fires....
View ArticleHaa introduces beautification audit
…as it prepares to host the sixth edition of RBFE Tshering Dorji As Haa gears for the sixth edition of Royal Bhutan Flower Exhibition later this year, the Dzongkhag Tshogdu has decided to introduce an...
View ArticleParents of minor murder victims wait for justice
Sonam Pem Tshoki Four months after the brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Satsam Choeten, Paro, the mother is still waiting for justice. She doesn’t have an update of the case but said...
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