Officials from Rural Development Training Centre, Zhemgang is at Yoseltse gewog to conduct  a 10-day leadership and conflict management training. Training coordinator, Karma Wangchuk, said the program will help villagers to strengthen local groups and avoid conflicts.

The ramshackle Dechencholing market which was shifted next to the Thimpchu river in 2008 from its earlier location below the Royal Body Guard premises will be getting a new location. Lyonchhen said that His Majesty the King has granted approval to use the land opposite the new township (near the …

After the earthquake last year, Monggar gewog got a budget of about Nu 160,000 to renovate the Tshenphu Lhakhang  there. But, a  six-kilometer road towards the lhakhang was also damaged. Though there are people who said the money should also be used for the road, budget rules do not allow …

Gang members who pledged to dissociate their gangs and abandon gang violence are still operational as individuals or in smaller groups. Many unlawful offenses are committed by ex-gang members, according to police records. Police officials said though now large gangs do not exist, ex-gang members still commit crime when the …

Come the new academic session, droves of tracksuit clad students walking to school will be replaced by droves in ghos and kiras. The Ministry of Education (MoE) recently decided that it will allow track suits in health and physical education classes only. Except for schools like Lungtenzampa, most Thimphu schools …

The month of February came and went again. It was time for children to go back to school. For some it was their first day at school. For others it was like going back to their second home. Some children would have just turned six years old last month. Some …

  In the past, the Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) floated ideas of setting up a hydropower construction company but it failed to see the light of day. However, DGPC managing director Dasho Chhewang Rinzin, said that setting up a hydropower construction company is not a major mandate for the …

  On this losar eve, back dropped against the many stabbing cases in the country, I decided to spend the night with the patrol team of the Royal Bhutan Police. As a rookie reporter assigned the crime beat, I thought I should learn first hand the hardships our police personnel …

A high level scanning was carried out by the Druk Holdings and Investment (DHI) to identify business and economic opportunities in eastern Bhutan. The business opportunities identified are cement bonded particle board, Silicon Carbide, fruit processing,  gypsum-based value-added product, industrial township development and maintenance, maize processing (Industrial Starch), dolomite refractory …

  If there are those who still doubt the Prime Ministers oratory skills then his 22 minute response on the ‘land scam’ would have erased any doubts. By the end of his reply he had managed to create a hero out of a former Gup (now DPT Vice President) who …