About 48 households in Kanglung town and nearby areas are facing acute water shortage for about a month now after a construction company disposed its construction waste near a water source making the water supply muddy and not usable for either drinking or washing. Funded by the Government of India …
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A relationship with a difference
An observer may wonder about what is common about a people of the great plains of India and and the high valleys and hills of Bhutan, nestled in the Himalayas. We are different not only in our geography but also our language, history, culture, religion, food, way of life and …
Read More »Why Capitalism Needs Populism
CHICAGO – Big Business is under attack in the United States. Amazon canceled its planned new headquarters in the New York City borough of Queens in the face of strong local opposition. Lindsey Graham, a Republican US senator for South Carolina, has raised concerns about Facebook’s uncontested market position, while his Democratic …
Read More »IL&FS: An Indian Company that would have owned 51% of Education City is bankrupt and under investigation
Before the Education City project was cancelled by the PDP government in 2014, due to the National Land Commission pointing out violations of the Land Act 2007, the Education City project had been awarded by the DPT cabinet in April 2012 to a consortium of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services …
Read More »Leak found in Adit tunnel during MHPA Commissioning
To delay Commissioning of project by around a month The 720 MW Mangdechu Hydroelectric Project was supposed to spin its first turbine and export power from its first 180 MW turbine on 10th May 2019. The second turbine was supposed to start from 24th May with the third turbine coming …
Read More »ACC to look into very high road widening estimate in Lhuntse
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) will be looking to an extraordinarily high Nu 167.20 mn estimate for a 2.5 km road widening project in Phaling Thromde next to the Lhuentse Dzong. According to a source the ACC had done a review of the issue and it had decided to gather …
Read More »Honest Samaratian hands over Nu 221,055 in cash
Aum Kinzang Choden, a 60 year old shopkeeper from Trashigang Throm returned a purse containing Nu. 221,055 in cash, that she found near the Manidungkhor in the heart of Trashigang town, on 2 May 2019 to Trashigang Police. The purse and its contents were handed over to the rightful owner, …
Read More »Bhutan takes part in Asia Cooperation Dialogue meeting and reaffirms commitment to ACD
The Sixteenth Ministerial Meeting of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) was held in Doha, Qatar on 1 May 2019. The Ministerial Meeting was preceded by the Senior Officials Meeting on 30 April 2019. A one day business forum was also organized by the Ministry of Commerce following the Ministerial Meeting. …
Read More »Students on govt scholarship for alternative medicine now not recognized by BMHC
The five and half years’ course in Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) was announced in a scholarship scheme in 2011 by the Ministry of Education. 15 slots were created in various fields such as Ayurveda, Sanskrit, Pali, Astrology, Fine Arts and Music, Naturopathy and Yogic Science in India. …
Read More »Jigme Namgyel Naktshang in Dungkar to be turned into a museum
Given the historical importance of the Jigme Namgyel Naktshang in Dungkar—the ancestral home of Wangchuk Dynasty, works are underway by the Lhuentse Dzongkhag administration to turn the 16th-century structure of immense historical importance into a museum within the 12th FYP. According to Jambay Wangchuk, the Lhuentse Dzongda, there are many …
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