Students of Khuruthang Vocational Training Institute will have to exit for job markets after they are certified with National Certificate 2 (NC2) as per the labor ministry’s (MoLHR) Competency Base Training (CBT) which is being implemented in the Institute. But the students are unhappy as they think this will deprive …

Call it winter’s boon or more accurately the efforts of health officials, the Samtse hospital did not record a single case of malaria as well dengue cases this year. Samtse’s District Health Officer (DHO) Sonam Dorji said, the main reason for zero malaria and dengue case would be because of …

Two Indian teachers in Trongsa teamed-up to batter a 19 year old student of Sherubling Higher Secondary School (HSS) whose offence was entering a classroom to study. In a follow-up move that was very Bollywood-like (Indian film), the school authorities attempted to buy-out the silence of the victim’s mother with …

A 35 year old man despite serving almost 23 years in the prison for burglary was once again caught red handed by the Paro police for burglarizing a house and has been sentenced for three years and three months prison term on 13th December by the Paro dzongkhag court. On …

The Department of information and media (DOIM) conducted a 12 day workshop on “Film making” which ended yesterday with the awarding of certificates to the participants. There were 40 participants in total and most of the participants were from the Motion Pictures Association of Bhutan (MPAB) who are well known …

In the last five years some physical infrastructure, especially in the rural areas has been strengthened but the same cannot be said for the democratic fabric in Bhutan. Through a combination of factors Bhutanese democracy has now become ‘too unique’ to be called a normal democracy, and rather is headed …

A nine day art exhibition themed “There is nothing more important than small silly things” was organized in the Voluntary Artist’s Studio (VAST), Thimphu by Atsuko Takai to promote contemporary art. Atsuko Takai has worked in Bhutan for the last one year as an art teacher in Gaselo lower secondary …

Development activities still pending in Gomdar gewog A new multipurpose hall (MPH) is under construction for a budget of Nu 230,000. The only community primary school (CPS) in the gewog is under maintenance with the budget from the education sector. The development activities which have been completed in the gewog …

In what the hydroelectricity department is calling the ‘most prized’ hydro project out of the 10,000 MW target, the earlier 1,800 MW run of the river hydro project is now scheduled to become a 2,640 MW reservoir project. After a promising Pre Feasibility Report (PFR) the decision to carry out …

Through the operationalization of Himalayan Environmental Rhythms Observation and Evaluation System (HEROES), Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE) in Bumthang together with schools and a community will monitor temperature changes, snowfall and rainfall events, phenology and river flows in the Himalayan region. UWICE will select about 10 to …