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 …

An 18-year old succumbed to injuries after he jumped from a truck, when one of the wheels of the truck nearly went off the road at Bjena Gewog in Wangduephodrang. The accident occurred when the truck attempted to give way to the vehicle coming from the opposite direction. The incident …

In two separate incidents, two chortens were vandalized in Bumthang and Paro. The suspects in both the cases are at large without any clue. Bumthang On 28 February, the Kadem chorten in Chhokor Gewog being vandalized was reported to Bumthang police station. Some unknown miscreants had dug the chorten and …

New community Information centre in the gewog A new community information centre (CIC) has been constructed in the gewog where the people awaited its construction from a long time ago. The budget allocated was Nu 1mn as per the contract given by the gewog’s administration. The farm roads have all …