According to the Department of Home Affairs of Australia a total of 25,339 Bhutanese were granted education visas to Australia in the last two financial years (FY) of 2022 July to 2023 June and 2023 July to 2024 June end. This is comparable to two full Changlimithang stadiums during events …

The four-storied Wangdi Plaza sitting opposite the Post Office on the Chang Lam road is one of the landmark buildings in the core Thimphu area. This building has now achieved a different kind of fame among the mainly tenant business community in town as its landlord increased his rent by …

The Head of Bhutan Cancer Society, Karma Tobgay, was delighted to receive a brand-new Toyota Hilux as a grant from Japan. He planned to use the vehicle for official work, including extensively travelling around the country for advocacy and awareness work on cancer. However, barely a year after using the …

Photo published by paper helped identify this missing link Some of the things that did not make sense in the murder of 13-year-old Sumitra Chhetri was on why did she talk to her accused killer Cheten (pronounced Choiten) Tshering, an apparent stranger, why did she ask him a loan for …

How BDBL went from 192 mn loss in 2022 to 378 mn profit in 2023 If there is a bank that serves farmers and rural folk in Bhutan, then it is the Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL), and so it was a matter of major concern when the bank went …

In yet another sign of the state of the economy, Financial Institutions are unable to auction properties and even vehicles with most going unsold. This is a problem affecting all FIs who have tried auctions in the past few months like T-Bank, NPPF, BoB, BNB, RICBL and BDBL. Druk-PNB and …

On the night of 27th June 2024, 100-year-old Tshering Yangzom Dorji or Tess La, the wife of the late Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigme Palden Dorji, passed away in her small and quaint two-bedroom cottage in Lanjophakha located within the estate of her son, Kalden Dorji. Tess La did not hold …

In December 2010, the first elected government announced the shelving of the 20 MW Begana hydropower project proposed by the Bhutan Power Corporation (BPC) aimed at providing energy security to Thimphu and also a massive new source of drinking water. The BPC at the time remained hopeful that the project …

The second-hand one that RBP has is not working On 12th June 2024, a 22-year-old Desuup lost her life when a fire engulfed a 4-storey building she was staying in after she fell off the roof after hanging on to it for a few minutes. Her husband sustained injuries as …

The much delayed 1,200 MW Punatsangchu-I hydro project is finally on the verge of taking off after a recent meeting of the Technical Coordination Committee (TCC) in Delhi. In the TCC meeting in Delhi both the Bhutanese side and Indian side made their presentations and are putting up a proposal …