She was a good student, raised with morals and values by her parents like any normal teenage children are these days. But somewhere along the lines of the teenage life due to her poverty or ill fate, she got involved with a 73-year old, where she subsequently got pregnant and …

Enhancing the enrolment and quality education The dzongkhag Administration in Gasa with Policy and Planning Division (PPD), Ministry of Education (MoE) completed a meet to discuss proposal for enhancing the enrolment and quality of education in Lunana Community Primary School (CPS). The enrolment and quality of education is reported to …

When Meditation was first introduced in schools a few years ago, it was received with good humor. Students found it funny in the beginning and boring gradually. Most teachers never believed in it and some believers soon forgot it. I never really understood why this was happening. But I tried …

Hispanic voters, who were instrumental in putting Barack Obama back in the White House, now hope the president will work diligently in his second term to cross some big to-dos off their legislative wish list: jobs, affordable education, health care access and immigration reform. Hispanics voted for Obama over Mitt …

Two underpasses put in prioritized areas for the pedestrians’ safety by the Thimphu City Cooperation (TCC) have failed to fulfill the purpose they were built for. Contrarily the designated passes have turned into a venue of filth and stench from the decay and stink generated from down below which is …

 Dzongkhag Tshogdu begins A two-day Dzongkhag Tshogdu started on 8 October in Monggar dzongkhag. Of the many important discussions on agenda one in particular during the session was about the importance of the Local government leaders in all 205 gewogs and their benefits. During the session, local government official raised …

The Prime Minister at the Thursday Meet the Press dubbed the OL ‘very irresponsible and unpatriotic’ and definitely not speaking the words of a ‘loyal citizen’. He said a small nation’s sovereignty and independence could never be taken for granted. And establishment of new ties with countries would only strengthen …

Response to 14, 281 cases of violation and 80 deaths in nine months The attitude of passang dorji is bad, how can he say he will fix people. His job sounds more of a punishment rather than correction. His thoughts are negative rather than positive. GIVE NO HAPINESS GET NO …

And those are not the death toll accounts from a natural catastrophe or that from a massive crime scene. It would actually come as a bit of a revelation that an everyday thing such as commuters, highways and pedestrians could amount to such nauseous concoction of unending paper works and …

The index is jointly compiled by the Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal  The government in Bhutan may not yet have acknowledged the severity of the economic crisis facing the domestic economy but a slew of international economic rankings show that all is not well with Bhutan’s economy. Just short …