The Thimphu Thromde office has come up with new constructions to address roadside drainage problems in some of the areas in the town. The existing road side drainage which is still under construction is from Kuengacholing gate (Upper Motithang) to Zilukha (Below Sangaygang) as per the Thimphu Thromde. Drainage system …

In 2008 the Bhutanese society in many places divided into two groups, two factions, and two sections along party lines and in support of the two parties who contested the country’s first democratically held elections. This year, for the 2013 elections, there are five contesting parties, which means the nation …

The Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) has released its ‘Strategy for the Conduct of Parliamentary Elections 2013 for National Council’. The document highlights the legal provisions related to elections, use of social media, polling stations and conducting campaigns. It also has provisions on security and many other technicalities related to …

Ministers respond to Ministers Buildings on rent story The Bhutanese newspaper’s issue dated March 13, under an article titled “Government offices make a beeline for Buildings owned by Ministers and Spouses”, has reported on some serving Cabinet Ministers and their spouses to have rented out their private buildings to government …

News of 50 Druk Phuensum Tshogpa supporters planning a trip to the capital on behalf of the Speaker and the Home Minister in regard to the Gyelpozhing verdict caused some disquiet in a country not used to political activism. Though the DPT members withdrew their petition as of yesterday the …

The Druk Chirwang Tshogpa’s President, Lily Wangchhuk, the first Bhutanese woman to make it to the list of among 15 women across the globe was honored as Top Global Women of 2013 by Diplomatic Courier, a magazine on diplomacy and foreign policy based in the United States on International Women’s …

“The clarifications on the Opposition Party’s comments on the State of the Nation Report have been compelled by the need to dispel the doubts and clear misunderstandings created by the comments in print as well as on national television. The need also arose from our respect for the civil servants …

During a routine checking, Police at the Tanalum check point arrested a man on March 7, after he was found with contrabands. Police had recovered 1,425 capsules of Spasmoproxyvon (SP), two bottles of cough syrup, 199 tablets of Nitrosun 10, and eight packets of cigarettes (Flake) which were concealed in …

To celebrate the annual incense festival the women in Bumthang venture into the forest in search of a particular herb called Lobelia nubigena of Campanulaceae family. The seventh month of the Bhutanese calendar is celebrated as the incense festival day across the country in dedicated to Mazang Phurba the native …

The Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB) has plans to promote Bhutan in numerous ways. As of 31 December 2012, 951 travelling agencies are registered with the tourism council out of which only 428 agencies are actively functioning in the market and 528 agencies are inactive. The TCB has undertaken a …