The Gasa Dzongkhag Tshogdu intends to propose to the home ministry that civil servants posted in Gasa’s Khatoe gewog also be paid high altituted allowance. According to existing civil service rules, civil servants working in places above 3000 metres are admissible to a high altitude allowance of Nu 3,000 a …

The Department of Air Transport (DAT) in consultation with its ministry will declare parking zone three, below the airport cafeteria till the BCAA office, as a free parking area from 1st April. Currently the parking charges for zone three is Nu.20 for thirty minutes or less. “After implementing the parking …

The 1,200 MW Punatsangchu I (P 1) & 1020 MW Punatsangchu II (P II) projects will be subject to significant further delays, which among others will affect the revenue projections in the coming years. The Bhutanese Editor, Tenzing Lamsang had a candid question and answer session on the issue with …

Kinley Dema, 23, will be the first paraplegic to train with the Bhutan Shooting Federation (BSF) so that she may be able to participate in  Paralympic Games in the future. Kinley Dema from Wangduephodrang dzongkhag was born physically challenged and has not even been to school. She is supported by …

Don’t let Marcus du Sautoy’s  title of Mathematics Professor at  Oxford University throw you off as Marcus has also built quite the opposite international reputation of doing unprecedented work through his books, TV programs, public appearances, popular culture and work with teachers and students to popularize maths. Though a brilliant …

Mathematics, too often, strikes a combination of fear and boredom in many students in Bhutan. However, that was to change on Saturday evening on 18th March as Professor Marcus Du Sautoy (OBE)  from Oxford University, with an international reputation and body of work in popularizing maths,  kept a hall full …

Ever since the agriculture ministry established two mega poultry farms with 80,000 birds, the smaller privately run poultry unit in Sarpang has been struggling to find a market for their produce. According to the Chairman of Sarpang Layers Cooperatives (SLC), Nima Lama, poultry owners are struggling with various problems. The …

Many private and government schools in Thimphu along with their students and parents are in a fix with the Thimphu Thromde’s tracksuit rule. Thimphu thromde pronounced, both private and government schools in Thimphu will not be allowed to wear tracksuits during the morning assembly and in classes. It was decided …

Last Friday at around 1:30 am Thimphu police received a complaint from a shopkeeper in Semtokha that they caught a boy stealing from his shop. Police on reaching the location found the boy had stolen five bags of edibles. The 15-year-old boy confessed to police that nine school friends were …

Mobile snatching is a new crime that is surfacing in Thimphu, say the city’s police. On 22 March police arrested three teenagers from Changjalu, in connection with phone snatching phone from a student girl who was walking back home after her tuition. The incident took place near the Lungtenphu Helipad. …