“Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait,” has been awarded a Special Mention by an international jury for being placing second in the prestigious Toronto Platform Film Competition. Hema Hema was invited to have its North American premiere at the renowned 41st Toronto International Film Festival (September 8th-18th, …

William Shakespeare’s Play is going to get reintroduced in the school curriculum for 11th and 12th standard from 2017. As part of the launch students from schools in Thimphu staged The Merchant of Venice. To celebrate the event Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay also delivered a Shylock’s Monologue.

Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, the Ozone Ambassador graced the occasion. Various ministries, agencies and schools participated at the event. The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone layer is an international treaty that addresses the depletion of Ozone layer by gradually phasing out the use of Ozone Depleting Substances. …

The Ground Breaking Ceremony of Construction of Urban Infrastructure for Lower Taba (LAP) in Thimphu took place on friday morning. Infrastructure such as road and drainage, water supply, sewerage Net-Work System, electricity, communication facilities will be put in place in the next 30 months. Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay spoke about the need to …

Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay drive towards Trongsa yesterday and on the way Lyonchhen stopped at various points to inspect the progress and the quality of East -West Highway. Lyonchhen commended the site supervisors and the contractors for the job well done. Core cutting for the road which was already blacktopped between Thimphu and …

The Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) in a press release issued yesterday said that it would start the election process for the vacant North-Thimphu seat of the former DPT MP Kinga Tshering from October onwards. The ECB said that it received a letter on 22nd of August 2016 from the Speaker of …

The government is expected to launch the Public Debt Policy this Wednesday which for the first time will set a limit on the debt that can be taken by the country. Bhutan previously did not have a Public Debt Policy. The policy has set a 35 percent debt ceiling for …

With 2016 being a special year for Bhutan, the seventh edition of Mountain Echoes Literary Festival started out on a special note. For the first time, the Bhutanese authors outnumber the Indian panelists, as festival director Tshering Tashi noted. Following the traditional lighting of the lamp,  Ambassador Jaideep Sarkar thanked …

Renowned author Amitav Ghosh kicked off the seventh edition of Mountain Echoes Literary Festival with a hard-hitting session on climate change, in The Great Derangement: Politics of the Carbon Economy. Amitav pulled no punches; when asked if he saw himself as part of the solution to climate change, he said that …

The 11th Annual Consultations between Bhutan and Japan on Economic Cooperation took place in New Delhi on 23 August 2016. Ambassador Kesang Wangdi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs led the Bhutanese delegation comprising of officials from the Gross National Happiness Commission, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Works and Human Settlement, …