The Thimphu police have detained a 32-year old man in connection with the death of a JDWNRH hospital security guard who died of severe head injury, while on duty on the night of February 8. The 24 year old security guard from Wangdue working under Jachung Security Service (JSS) for …

Two men aged 25 and 45 are being held for further investigation by the Thimphu police after they were caught with a stash of prescription drugs. The men were arrested on the afternoon of February 7 by a Thimphu police crack down team. Police seized from them 3 bottles of Corex …

Following a tip-off Phuentsholing police arrested a woman at Rinchendeng check post on 31 January with 5,341 capsules of SP and 200 tablets of N10. The woman was travelling to Thimphu in a taxi when she was arrested at the checkpost, four kilometres from Phuentsholing. She told police that she …

Every gewog in the country has a Nu 10,000 budget to celebrate Gyelsay’s first birth anniversary, which is being utilised to offer Kurim and Karmey Tongchoe and recite Kanjur and Bum and conduct other religious activities.   Thimphu Dzongkhag The eight gewogs under Thimphu Dzongkhag are taking different initiatives in …

With Bhutanese jobseekers already being placed in India, Dubai, Kuwait, Qatar and Thailand, the labour ministry is now looking at Japan and Australia, as the next destinations of the overseas employment programme. The ministry will help job seekers secure loans required for visa processing, training fees, institutional cost and air …

Phuentsholing police have detained two men for stealing a spare tyre and fuel from a parked vehicle in Phuentsholing on 30th January. Police arrested both the suspects after receiving a complaint about a 31-year-old man from Trashigang stealing fuel from a vehicle parked near the new truck parking area. The …

It is too early to say whether the Khengrig Namsum Cooperative (KNC) in the central district of Zhemgang has become a successful project but in the past two years of operations, it has not defaulted on loans and profits are being ploughed back into the project, according to the cooperative’s …

Poor Internet connectivity is proving to be a major obstacle in getting work done in the gewog offices of far-flung locations such as Laya and Merak. Laya Gup Lhakpa Tshering said that they face lots of difficulty in transferring official documents because of poor Internet connection. “So we have to …

In a span of two days Thimphu police apprehended five people in connection with possession of controlled substances. Police seized from them 123 capsules of SP, 23 tablets of N10 and 2.77 grams of hashish. On 24 January at around 9:50 pm police apprehended two men in their early 30s …

The RBP is coming up with a new initiative, Gewog Based Policing, where 3 to 5 police personnel will to deployed to gewog centres to address chorten and lhakhang vandalism, the most common crime in rural areas. The initiative is also aimed at increasing security and safety in the villages. …