NC members who resigned said they only followed ECB’s directives Prime Minister Jigmi Y. Thinley said the National Council (NC) members of the incumbent house resigning before the end of its term is a clear violation of the constitution. Lyonchhen said the serving incumbent house has to be replaced upon …

In response to a question by a reporter on the poor state of the economy, the Prime Minister threw back some questions of his own to the media gathered for the last meet the press. He asked the reporters gathered there if any of their friends and relatives lost jobs, …

How the hell can the recommendation to shift the dam have been made without the full geological study? It’s not like you are moving a bulldozer from one location to another. What were our own engineers and technical advisors doing? This has implications on how we depend on incomplete information …

Although geographically-dictated to remain an agrarian nation, farming still is considered to be more of drudgery than a source of livelihood. And the observation receives support through the visible lack of innovation for the occupation. Farmers of generations have stuck to the conventional and orthodox way of farming as if …

Private individuals who set up poultry farm businesses are off late with the mindset that although they foster the government and thereby the country’s self-sufficiency goal in egg production, they have been handed a short end of the stick in terms of support. Respective individuals in the line of business …

The dzongkhag municipality has set many new town-planning measures to advance the town area. As per the Thrompon and engineers of the Dzongkhag they have looked on the maintenance and the renovations of the specific places, roads and the undergoing constructions. Some of the activities included under this grand scheme …

Living in a one room bamboo makeshift house, Dhan Kumari, a 61-year old from Homa village under Lhamoizingkha dungkhag, Dagana Dzongkhag, has been living there for more than seven months. Ever since she fell from a one storied house about 10 feet tall, back in her village, her legs got …

Police have apprehended an expatriate worker in connection with the murder of the 13-year-old girl in Sarpang. The suspect was arrested the same day. The suspect has, however, not confessed to the crime A minor girl was brutally murdered by unidentified assailant(s) and was found about 20 meters away from …

Samdrup Jongkhar dzongkhag has come up with new drainage and treatment plants, roads, flood protection walls, traffic post and town planning for the 11th year five year plan. The drainage in the town is spread in two places with one in the National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC) colony below the …

Samdrup Jongkhar residents complain about mobile connectivity Residents in the dzongkhag say mobile connectivity has been on an erratic overdrive which has resulted in severe inconvenience for everyone. The border district had faced the situation for almost two days last week. The cause has been rooted to heavy rainfall and …