This day is indeed a special day. I’d have used the word auspicious but I get a queasy feeling it’s become a tad commercialized. Be as it may, in the end, a rose by any other name might still be a rose but if you can call it a rose …

The Department of Roads (DoR) will soon start boundary works for the proposed Education City even while the project is still in its infancy and has not seen any serious interest from developers. Apart from the boundary works, the developer has to bear the costs for technical designing, survey and …

Welcome to Bhutan’s first broadsheet paper. We hope that this paper will not only stand out in size from its other competitors but also in content. The Bhutanese must first clarify that though the paper intended to start as a daily paper, an unexpected and a dramatic increase in printing …

After the formation of a jersey group in this gewog, villagers were told milk would be collected from houses for sale, creating a good economic opportunity. Sixteen households joined the group and each member has a jersey cow or two. The members were given a loan of Nu 50,000 to …

One hundred and nineteen teachers, including participants from as far as Lunana and Darjeeling joined the ranks of Desuups, citizens trained in disaster relief operations. The integrated training program, Desuung, initiated by His Majesty based on values of personal development and  aimed at encouraging active citizenry through volunteerism has seen …

With the new Road Safety and Transport      Authority( RSTA) rule, all taxis in the country will be either red or white with a dash of yellow atop.  “When we have so many colors it becomes so colorful and it is difficult a layman to identify a taxi,” said Karma Pemba, …

Gopa Karma Tobgay, 41, the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) personnel who was injured in the gunfire during the bomb blast that occurred at Rinchending, Phuentsholing last Friday is recovering at the Thimphu Hospital though he has difficulty in eating solid food. The small stich on his right cheek and a …

The sum of Nu 21, 240 may not sound big these days. But for the members of Genrab Cithuen Community Forest (CF) in Khame gewog, Gasa dzongkhag, it is a fortune, after they earned the amount from the sale of non-wood forest products, the highest generated from any community forest …