The Taj Tashi’s corporate initiative called Eco-Innovators is presently ongoing in order to observe a 100 days’ journey to give back to planet earth in an endeavor to reinforce environment-friendly practices into the ethos of the company. A conference on this matter was held at Taj Tashi hotel on 21 …

As you may be aware, Bhutan Power Corporation has submitted a proposal to revise the domestic power tariff rates from July 2013 to July 2016. This is laudable in principle, as the Bhutan Power Corporation is seeking to both increase Government revenue and curtail the wastage of power. However, what …

As the Druknet division plans to abandon the Druknet email service by 2013, Tour operators across the country are already bracing for the negative impact it will have on their businesses. The email informing the abandoning of the service was forwarded by the Druknet Division, General Manager Tshering Norbu to …

  Secretary General of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in Law (SAARCLAW) Mr Hemant Batra, President of SAARCLAW Bhutan Justice Tshering Wangchuk, and Director General of SAIEVAC Dr Rinchen Chophel held a press conference with the local journalist in Bhutan last Thursday. SAARCLAW is an association of the legal …

An everyday Bhutanese is for the most part simple, and does not require codified language or tact to be demystified or clearly understood. That’s generally speaking, about a person’s daily routines, his or her likings and to a certain extent whether the person is a true Manchester fan or a …

Response to, “National Statistical Bureau shows higher employment rate at 2.7% than Labour Ministry’s rate of 2.1%” Bhutan is different from rest of the developed countries. The statistical methods that are used in USA cannot be used in our country because farmers in USA are not like our farmers who …

  After all the talk and complaints at dinner tables, social gatherings and among friends, your ability or inability to cast your vote on the poll day will decide if you have an impact or not. A democracy, no matter how decentralized or free, with all its checks and balances, …

At times developmental activities come as a double-edged sword, and this is particularly true for the villagers of Chhema and Monangkhola villages in Khaling under Trashigang who interpret such an intervention as both a boon and a bane. The recent visit of a bull dozer cutting roads to their villages …

Intense rainfall in Trashigang and Samdrup Jongkhar highway have caused road blocks in numerous areas, and the vehicles plying between the two dzongkhags have been stranded for about two days, and it is likely to remain so as the rains have not ceased. The block has stranded more than 300 …

For not fulfilling the biggest promise to the people of Phangyul Gewog The Druk Phunsum Tshogpa (DPT) candidate for Nyisho-Sephu constituency under Wangduephodrang, Gem Dorji expressed regret for not being able to deliver his biggest promise to the people of four villages in Phangyul gewog- of solving the irrigation problem. …