Samdrup Jongkhar dzongkhag has come up with new drainage and treatment plants, roads, flood protection walls, traffic post and town planning for the 11th year five year plan. The drainage in the town is spread in two places with one in the National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC) colony below the …

Samdrup Jongkhar residents complain about mobile connectivity Residents in the dzongkhag say mobile connectivity has been on an erratic overdrive which has resulted in severe inconvenience for everyone. The border district had faced the situation for almost two days last week. The cause has been rooted to heavy rainfall and …

It is time for high school graduates to choose and decide upon their future goals and the path they take toward it. Colleges are in fact the start of a new beginning to set up a bright future. “Kids nowadays choose colleges based on their popularity, the friends present and …

Pema Jamtsho the two years and a month-old child arrived at the Woman and Child Protection Unit (WCPU) of Thimphu police station on 4 April with swollen forehead, infections on tip his nose, rash on his body, his eyes swollen and watery. But today, he looks healthy except for a …

The out-going Bangladesh Ambassador Imtiaz Ahmed made a farewell call on the Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigmi Y Thinley at the Gyalyong Tshogkhang on Monday. Ambassador Imtiaz Ahmed, who came to Bhutan in October 2010, expressed his gratitude to Lyonchhen, the government and the people of Bhutan for the support and cooperation …

In June 2008 the cabinet based on a presentation by the well meaning MD of the Punatsangchu Hydroelectric Project Authority approved the relocation of the dam from its original site to the current site. It was proposed that the dam location be moved a few kilometers upstream up so that …

Government sits for a year on reform measures to deal with the Rupee crisis It is a matter of great disappointment that the government has been as slowing moving as a sloth bear to deal with a tiger of a problem called the Rupee Crisis which is now affecting every …

Concerns now abound on loan repayment in what has become Bhutan’s most expensive hydro project The Bhutanese has found that a cabinet decision made on the basis of inaccurate technical information in 2008 played a major role in the ballooning of the Punatsangchu 1 (P  1) project cost to Nu …

The alcoholic mother who abandoned her two years and a month-old son finally turned up to take him back. Sadly, her socially-unfriendly living conditions which will prove hazardous to the child may keep the baby away from her. The child Pema Gyamtsho’s mother Karma Lhamo, 25 is a divorcee and …

The deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Thailand, Yukol Limlamthong, reaffirmed his commitment to strengthen support to Bhutan in the areas of agriculture and cooperatives when he called on Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley at the Gyalyong Tshogkhang yesterday. Deputy Prime Minister Yukol Limlamthong who …