Unlike other days, when they are dressed in school uniforms, the students of Tshangkha Lower Secondary School (LSS) in Dagana dzongkhag wearing shorts and pants, gathered at the school ground to take part in the annual marathon race organized every year by the school. Excited about the race, the students …

Annual Sports Day at Tshangkha LSS Tshangkha Lower Secondary School will observe its Sports day today where students from classes PP till VIII will participate in various events on the day. The day will start with a Marchang ceremony and later the students will take part in a march past. …

Hydropower construction will be a major factor Though the government has said that the rupee situation would improve in the near future especially with the commissioning of the mega hydro projects in 2017-2018, the Bhutan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) does not agree. In fact the BCCI has said …

The Anti Corruption Commission in its review of the Trowa Theater case has said that the commission did not find it appropriate to investigate it as a corruption case as corrupt intention cannot be established. The ACC has, however, pointed out a litany of administrative and procedural lapses and weaknesses …

Five civil servants who are all looked at as potentially strong candidates for the three political parties of Bhutan KuenNgyam Party, Druk Nyamprup Tshogpa and Peoples Democratic Party have to either pay up hefty training bond fees or not resign at all. The civil servants who have been told this …

The Wangduephodrang dzongkhag court on 5 April pronounced a prison term of nine years on a 29-year old man from Punakha for the offence of rape of a minor, a child above 12 years on the night of 1 February. Though the convict had argued that it was a consensual …

The Zhemgang district court granted bail to six suspects involved in the burglary of a 330-page sergi jatongpa (a religious scripture written in gold). The six are among the 10 people arrested for their involvement in the burglary from Nyakhar lhakhang in Nangkor, Zhemgang. Four of the suspects were granted …

The mother requested the police to take care of her child as she is busy. When a child about two years old was abandoned and was brought to Woman and child protection unit (WCPU) of Thimphu police station, it not only shocked the police but also those who knew about …

The SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children and SAARC Convention on Regional Arrangements for the Promotion of Child Welfare in South Asia were signed on 5 January 2002 during the Eleventh SAARC Summit (Kathmandu, 4-6 January 2002). These Conventions call for cooperation amongst Member States …

The Phuentsholing municipality has hauled out new capital developments in the town this financial year in different places. All these works would be implemented within 30 June this year. The municipality is upbeat about the construction of a new road and the construction and commissioning of new water supply in …