There could be nothing more glorious than the heights of glory encompassed in the defeat of evil by undying good in the eternal battle of the two most prominent forces which dictate every small consequential actions in the person of every breathing soul on earth. Perhaps that is why victory …

Experts contemplated and suggested measures at the Asian Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation When the pace of development takes priority and precedence over nature and its animal population’s need to survive in the common ecosystem, few players on the environmental chess board naturally take a hit. The fine balance in …

Haa Dzongrab Jamba Tsheten, takes a historical look at how fire has ravaged our important heritage sites and suggests some practical and workable solutions to prevent such further disasters Our country is endowed with a very rich cultural diversity handed down our forefathers. This heritage is losing its battle to …

In what could be both the discovery of a new species as well as a correction of historical botany facts, the Bhutanese blue poppy has been declared as a different species different from its yellow colored cousins found in Sikkim and Nepal. The Bhutanese plants were named separately as blue-purple …

Over 200 women and men from all over the world gathered this week in Thimphu, Bhutan to set new agendas for gender-positive change in natural resource management in rapidly changing mountain contexts. A decade following the success of the ‘Celebrating Mountain Women’ conference in 2002, participants at the Bhutan+10 Conference …

Response to ‘Bhutan gets 20 out of 193 votes in UNSC elections’ “Bhutan did better than many other losing contestants. Bigger countries like Cuba, Barbados and Congo got only one vote each while Tanzania got around three votes”. Those countries were not contestants! Rwanda and Argentina were the only contestants …

The case of a Dzongkha teacher injecting his students with an unsterilized syringe as punishment, symbolizes the vulnerability of Bhutanese children in a system and society that is yet to fully understand them. Though it has been globally established that corporal punishment is an ineffective and counter-productive way to discipline …

Leader of the opposition party, Tshering Tobgay insisted, the government needs to reconsider its foreign policy priorities, attend to pressing national needs with scarce resources and claimed an explanation from the government be made public as to why so much expenses were made towards an undertaking that Bhutan had no …

The Forensic unit with the national referral hospital (JDWNRH) and Royal Bhutan Police are waiting for the approval from the concerned authorities to send five samples collected from the red Toyota Hilux for DNA test. The tests will confirm whether the vehicle and its driver are involved in the gruesome …

Just when people thought they bid adieu to those ‘sneezy’ mornings and itchy nostrils – infamous highpoints of summer maladies, winter comes-a-calling and together with it, brings its own brand and package of diseases. One goes and a dozen follows. And so went the days of Malaria, Dengue, but with …