In a Teacher Needs Assessment (TNA) study conducted by the Royal Education Council (REC) teachers of MSS scored on an average 55.1% in the Mathematics Pedagogical Skills, while teachers of Community Primary Schools (CPS) managed to score 47.2%. The TNA tested teachers of CPS, Primary Schools (PS), Lower Secondary School …

The S.M United defeated Rigsum 3-2 in the ongoing Thimphu Futsal championship currently underway at the Changlimithang open stadium. The league/knock-out tournament has 18 teams in total playing for the championship and 18 matches have been played till now. The tournament started from 1 November and will end on 11 …

Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigmi Y Thinley returned to the capital this week after a three day visit to the remote gewog of Laya, Gasa. During his visits Lyonchhen interacted with the local government members of Khamed and Laya gewogs, civil servants and the people of Laya. At the meeting with …

Ambassador of Thailand to Bhutan, Madurapochana Ittarong, called on the Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigmi Y Thinley at the Gyalyong Tshokhang yesterday. Ambassador Madurapochana Ittarong arrived in the country on 4 November to present her credentials to His Majesty the King. Lyonchhen welcomed the Ambassador and congratulated her on being appointed as …

A historical book on Bhutan which took 10 years in the making finally made it to its launch last week. In a manner of speaking that is. “Not that I worked on it continuously for 10 years but it has been over a decade. I wouldn’t have had much of …

At the end of a week-long survey, park officials have come out with the detail checklist of birds in the Royal Botanical Park for autumn. The team recorded a stunning list of 65 different bird species, with majority sighted on the spot while few were indentified through their calls from …

The case of the five year-old girl, who was run over by a DCM truck in Changbangdu in Thimphu on the afternoon of 7 October, has reached the Thimphu district court almost after a month. The case was forwarded to the court on 22 October after the Thimphu traffic police …

It’s that time of the year again for Citrus growing areas across the country, and not really a great time at that. And the reasons are apparent in the fact that most of their citrus trees around this time are drying-up and dying. Farmers called it a strange disease when …

Druk Chirwang Tshogpa yesterday registered as the second party to enter the 2013 fray at 11.30 am in the Election Commission. This will now push the list of prospective players from three to four parties in 2013. “We submitted a list of 45 candidates out of which some are tentative …

The recent incident of a 15 year old shooting his 36-year old father to death has raised the question whether we really need guns in a relatively peaceful country. Guns should be banned – the sooner the better. That’s’ what many people along with some members of parliament feel. Today …