Lyonchhen Jigmi Y Thinley arrived in New Delhi on 19 September en-route to Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh, India where the Prime Minister will attend the foundation stone laying ceremony of Sanchi University of Buddhist and Indic Studies on 21st September, along with Mahinda Rajapaksa the President of Sri Lanka. Lyonchhen was …

The first match of the fifth day of the summer basketball tournament yesterday was quite a well organized match considering that it was Jajins first match on the court. Jajins took the lead by scoring 45 beating the Gryphons who lost by more than five baskets with their score of …

Sherubtse College under Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) will prepare a new module for all the colleges under RUB called environment, climate change and poverty mainstreaming (ECPM) module to uplift the rural poor. The new module would most  likely be an awareness tool for fragile environment, which is vulnerable to …

The health ministry’s Vector-borne Disease Control Program (VDCP) team detected five asymptomatic malaria carrier cases from Punatsangchhu Hydropower Project Authority (PHPA) laborers. In medicine, a disease is considered asymptomatic if a patient is a carrier for a disease or infection but experiences no symptoms. A condition might be asymptomatic if it fails to show the …

The best rules are perhaps those, which need not be implemented with punitive measures, or those that don’t need publicity through flashy bumper stickers or repeat broadcast mediums. For that matter even in the days of yore, a rule silently, sincerely and devotedly followed without the assistance of a loud …

Response to BCCI says Bhutan will have ‘No Economy’ soon if govt does not step in Can someone explain to me the headline of “No Economy soon”? My limited understanding of this issue, is that maximum employment is in the civil service, farming or self employment in small businesses. Would …

The nine page ‘opinion’  of the OAG on the ACC’s Gyelpozhing report, according to a practicing lawyer in Thimphu reads like arguments put forward by a defense lawyer defending the accused in the Gyelpozhing case, instead of a government prosecutor doing his job. Some have also seen a degree of …

The Office of the Attorney General’s ‘opinion’ that there is no legal basis to pursue the matter through the court and that no laws were broken in the Gyelpozhing case has provoked a strong public reaction. The Acting Prime Minister Lyonpo Yeshey Zimba said,” They (OAG) are the legal experts …

Says no laws were violated and there is no legal basis to pursue the case against anyone Twenty days after the Gyelpozhing land case investigation report was submitted by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), the Office of the Attorney General (OAG), in its ‘opinion’ found no legal basis to pursue the …

Both diseases if not addressed will have a huge health and socio-economic impact on Bhutan   Though HIV, Malaria, Dengue, Cholera etc. may have grabbed the national headlines for decades there is increasing concern over the rise in the number of Hepatitis B and also C cases.  High prevalence of …