Fans screaming and mooning at the sight of actor Tandin Bidha or Chencho Dorji, singers Namgay Jigs or Ugyen Panday forced to take on a disguise to avoid passionately charged mobs of female or male fans hungry after a close-up shot with them. That, is currently, not the scene in …

Phub Wangdi pursuing his studies in Australia gives his take on Bhutanese Democracy so far As the 2013 elections draw near, the country is embroiled in a tumultuous wave of gossip and speculation about everything from ‘scams’ to corruption to political gamesmanship and horse-trading. A sense of enthusiasm and edginess …

One month and 10 days, after 23 year old Zangmo was cruelly knocked down to death on the evening of 17 September, the Thimphu traffic police have sent blood samples for DNA test to Genetech Laboratory in Sri Lanka by post on 25 October. A total of five samples were …

In most stable relationships, paternity is a rare issue. However, it has been observed that some children have the wrong man identified as their father. It is easy to identify a child’s mother; this is not always the case for the father. Only scientific testing can confirm paternity, which means …

  A second session of Moenlam Chenmo in Samtse Dzongkhag More than 4000 people gathered in samtse gewog to attend Moenlam Chenmo, which started on 22 October. The gewog’s Gup Wangchuk Lepcha said the annual ceremony is conducted by the Je Khenpo Trulku Jigme Choedra. The ritual will continue for …

Single parents, especially single mothers in the capital face huge challenges every day to raise a child on their own. Some of these mothers receive partial help from their ex-husbands, family members while in some cases a single parent may receive no help at all. One such single female who …

Experts contemplated and suggested measures at the Asian Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation When the pace of development takes priority and precedence over nature and its animal population’s need to survive in the common ecosystem, few players on the environmental chess board naturally take a hit. The fine balance in …

Haa Dzongrab Jamba Tsheten, takes a historical look at how fire has ravaged our important heritage sites and suggests some practical and workable solutions to prevent such further disasters Our country is endowed with a very rich cultural diversity handed down our forefathers. This heritage is losing its battle to …

Over 200 women and men from all over the world gathered this week in Thimphu, Bhutan to set new agendas for gender-positive change in natural resource management in rapidly changing mountain contexts. A decade following the success of the ‘Celebrating Mountain Women’ conference in 2002, participants at the Bhutan+10 Conference …

Response to ‘Bhutan gets 20 out of 193 votes in UNSC elections’ “Bhutan did better than many other losing contestants. Bigger countries like Cuba, Barbados and Congo got only one vote each while Tanzania got around three votes”. Those countries were not contestants! Rwanda and Argentina were the only contestants …