The police arrested a 59 year old man on suspicion of committing burglary in his wife’s house in Dhur, 15 kms away from Chamkhar town in Bumthang on 23 July. The incident occurred when the woman was with her friends and families offering butter lamps and visiting few monasteries around …

An eight year old student of Jigme Losel Primary School was washed away while he was crossing a wooden bridge on a swollen stream. The boy while going back home from school had taken a short cut to his home but when he crossed the temporary wooden bridge near the …

Chiphen Rigpel, government’s largest ICT skill building Project in the country has trained over 2500 teachers and set-up computer labs in 168 schools over a period of three years. The remaining teachers will be trained in the remaining project period. All the 27 training centers are fully functional under the …

The agriculture ministry signed a one-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Samden Group to initiate a joint research to propagate locally grown Sea-buck thorn (Hippophae spp. of Elaeagnaceae family). The MoAF Secretary said sea-buck thorn is a commercially viable operation. “This MoU will take us one-step closer to realize the …

Two students of Yangchenphug Higher Secondary were arrested for battering a 24-year old man in the Central Plaza building, Thimphu on June 7. The case was reported to the police by an informant who witnessed the scene at around 7pm. The incident occurred when the victim a school dropout, went …

An undergraduate Bhutanese student in Maejo University, Chiang Mai, Thailand bagged the medal of academic honors award for the year 2011-2012. Nima Norbu, 31 an Animal Science student who majors in dairy-beef production in the Northern Thailand university topped the rank among 30 international students which included four Bhutanese. With …

A child is like a doll and is incapable of crime, so says, provisions in the books of law, but in the case of two minors who burnt down a hut, all loop holes based on this provision failed to save their legal guardians from the lawfully-ordered compensation payments. The …

The community forest management groups (CFMGs) in the country are generating substantial income through timber sales from their Community Forests (CFs). The absence of proper guidelines for timber-marketing however proves a deterrent for many to venture into the same field. The CFMGs can now look forward to better-streamlined timber marketing …

In sync with the government’s vision to have Community Forests managed independently, three Community Forests (CF) in Tsirang recently made the successful transition . Community Forests Management group members of Dangraybu CF under Doonglagang gewog, Chirphen CF under Mendrelgang gewog, Darjeling CF under Rangthangling gewog in Tsirang not only personally …

The Thimphu District court sentenced a man from Samtse to four years of imprisonment for aggravated battery and  criminal attempt to rape a 24 year-old married women. On April 20 at around 10 pm the convict 26 year-old Passang Dorji Tamang eve-teased the victim and later attempted to rape her. …