The strongest earthquake hitting Nepal in over 80 years on 25th April 2015 caused massive destruction and damage around the epicenter area and in the capital of Kathmandu. As of the last count more than 6,000 people are estimated to be dead with the death tolls set to go up …

BBC was showing a video of a street in London shot over hundred years ago and they were amazed at the architectural farsightedness of their ancestors, that even after a hundred years they didn’t have to change the slightest bit to accommodate modern metropolitan city. Here in our country, where modern towns are only a few …

For quite some time now there has been hue and cry over the growing rural-urban migration figures in the country. Everything has been blamed from the decline of agriculture, to the breakdown of traditional village communities to even universal education. It has been assumed that it is the duty of …

The records maintained with the Public Grievances Redressal Division, as of March 28, show that there have been 77 Meet-the-People program with about 770 people having attended the meetings. The program sees the highest number of appeal for employment search at 205 cases, and it is followed by the census …

Significance of Modi’s Visit to Bhutan Two significant diplomatic events took place soon after the BJP-led NDA government was elected to power in 2014. Both events signaled the diplomatic intent of the new NDA government for its immediate neighbourhood. The first event was that all Heads of Governments, SAARC were …

Although Bhutan aims to achieve food security through increasing the production of cereal crops especially rice the effort has been mired with many challenges such as lack of irrigation water and loss of potential wetland to the developmental activities. According to a study carried out by the Research Development Centre …

The Agriculture Machinery Centre (AMC), with support from the Jigme Dorji National Park (JDNP), has developed an improved method of oil extraction, in order to keep the organic oil production going. The traditional practice was found to be labour intensive and time consuming, discouraging the farmers from the oil extraction …

Even with the garbage pickup service provided by Greener Way, some of the residents in Thimphu are illegally dumping their garbage along roadsides, backyards, and streams and river. The Chief Operational Officer, Greener Way, Dorji Wangchuk, said 90 percent of the people residing in Thimphu are segregating wastes and disposing …

In what will be an important period of transition for Bhutan’s Constitutional bodies the heads and commissioners of three constitutional bodies will be finishing their term around August 2015. The constitutional bodies in question are the Chairperson and two commissioners of Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), the Chief Election Commissioner and …

The Opposition Party, Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT), wants to withdraw an entire lawsuit it filed against Dasho Paljor J Dorji (also known as Dasho Benji), stating that it is being done in the greater interest of the nation, to Bench V, Thimphu District Court on April 23. The legal representative …