Sighting a Red Panda in the wild is believed to bring good luck. The belief gets more stronger since the animal is sighted on rare occasions and only few people see them in the jungle. All the beliefs aside, and more importantly, the animal is precious in the ecosystem for …

On 12 April the Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre (WRRC) under Wildlife Conservation Division (WCD) of Department of Forests and Park Services, rescued three wild animals in a single day.  The rescued wild animals included a calf of Himalayan serow, a fawn of a Sambar deer and another fawn of …

The Gelephu municipality means to address in all earnest, the complaints lodged by residents and presently the office and its officials are in set-mode to take action. For starters, works have been initiated based on the water problems which is a constant source for complaints by residents. For this issue …

  With a mission to ‘inspire youth to take ownership of their community through youth-based volunteerism and channel their potential into socially meaningful actions’ a youth group called Go Youth Go (GYG) have conducted community services which has socially useful results for the communities and places. For instance the group …

The Gelephu Thromde completed maintenance works on its roads in the town. The municipality under the road division mainly focused on the pot holes, black topping existing roads and resurfacing roads in the core areas. The Thromde signed a contract with M/s Daniyal construction in Sarpang in 28 November, 2012 …

  A Parent-children interaction program was conducted in Zilnon Primary School in the capital on 19 April in collaboration with the Career Education and Counseling Division (CECD) under the Department of Youth and Sports (DYS) where over 500 participants gathered at the RBP ground. The participants included both parents and …

New water supply in the gewog   A new water supply has been constructed in the gewog in Phuentshogang chiwog with the budget of Nu 597,000. Almost 90%of developmental activities for this financial year are complete in the gewog and in the meantime the gewog is constructing a new suspension …

The Prime Minister Jigmi Y. Thinley in a recent meeting with the private sector in the Bhutan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) hall on 21st march 2013 took a strong and public position against mining. He said that Mining was going to be strictly controlled and that it has …

It will also have to circumvent vehicle import restrictions to get the new vehicles The Bhutanese has found that the new incoming government after the 2013 general elections will have to spend up to Nu 52 mn to replace the Toyota Land Cruiser of the Prime Minister and 13 Toyota …

DCT President said that a condition to have attested graduation certificates in the primary round itself could disqualify DCT and other new parties With the National Council elections over political parties expect the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) to soon come out with the Election Notification giving the dates for …