5 New irrigation channels for Gewog The Guma gewog is constructing five irrigation channels for its four chiwogs.  By mid-summer Lhakug chiwog and Phulingsum chiwog will get their irrigation channels. Construction works commenced January, 2013 and the gewog officials hope to complete it by June. According to Guma Gewog Gup …

Faced with low demand Industries say they will all have to close shop if the current economic climate continues Barley after recovering from the 2008 global financial crisis and the consequent slump in steel prices, Bhutan’s domestic steel industry comprising of five major factories employing around 1,500 Indian and Bhutanese …

  Apart from being the Chief Guest at the  symbolic and prestigious Republic Day, His Majesty the King and the Indian Prime Minister had important delegation level talks that focused on support for Bhutan’s 11th plan, expediting the 10,000 MW projects and strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries. A …

As part of its bilateral foreign policy Bhutan has now established diplomatic relations with the 50th country of Tajikistan. A release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, “The Kingdom of Bhutan and the Republic of Tajikistan, wishing to strengthen and develop mutually beneficial relations between their countries and peoples, …

“We are blessed as truly cleaver, good looking, and mentally and physically fit people – Happy – this is because we worship our Pholha Tashi Gyeltshen, a local deity of Nasiphel,” said Pema Lhazom from Nasiphel, Choekhor, Bumthang. The deity is very sacred for the people of Nasiphel. People in …

The need for more tshogpas, and merging the chiwogs of Tshatse and Dagor into one gewog have been people’s repeated plea to Lyonchhen since the first time he visited this place. Lyonchhen told the people once again, “this has been a serious concern for a very long time but we …

Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigmi Y Thinley visited Khenadang, a resettlement area that has 44 households resettled from 9 villages of Nanong and 35 villages of Shumar gewogs in Pema Gatshel. During the brief interaction, Lyonchhen reminded the people that despite being originally from different villages, they are now folks of …

The Paro dzongkhag court passed its verdict on the 44-year old, branch manager of Bank of Bhutan (BoB) in Paro on 11 January. The BoB branch manager was indicted for multiple charges of embezzlement, forgery, and official misconduct by the Office of Attorney General (OAG). However for the offence of …

All developmental activities in progress With a budget of Nu 0.3mn, eight kilometers of farm road in Theisa chiwog is still under construction. The gewog’s 20.4 kilometers center road (GCD) is also under construction with the allocated budget of Nu 20mn in Puntshogang primary school. The Rural water supply scheme …

The Druk Chirwang Tshogpa (DCT) is on a mission to form a youth division under its umbrella, heeding to the call of the youths and their problems. The party will target youths from all the 20 pockets of the country appointing youth coordinators. The services are on a voluntary basis. …