During this time of the year, it is not uncommon to find your family, friends and colleagues down with the flu. It seems everywhere around, someone is either coughing or sneezing or suffering from a fever. The annual health bulletin record on respiratory diseases show a yearly increase in common …

The police officer who has been accused of taking bribe last year has been slapped with seven charges by the Office of Attorney General (OAG) after the completion of investigations. The case has been forwarded to the Phuentsholing Dungkhag Court on March 12 by OAG. The seven charges framed against …

The two men involved in the murder case of a 48-year-old Indian man on the night of November 7 last year at Changjalu, Thimphu have been convicted by Thimphu District Court on April 21. The verdict was passed by the Bench I of the district court. The convicts were given …

As a country steeped in tradition and culture our idea of teachers is not only in the western concept of a Teacher being an educator but we have also assigned additional roles like authority figure, absentee parent, etc. But how much of life lessons, moral lessons and parental care can …

There is a saying in English that the ‘grass always looks greener on the other side.’ Off late, for many Bhutanese, given our economic and other woes, the grass has started looking a lot greener on the other side. For the first time, in a long time, Bhutan is not …

Nowadays meat shop vendors are selling only pork, chicken and fish. The vendors say beef import has stopped for more than a month and this is not good as sale of beef fetches in the most business for them. The beef supply in the mar¬ket has stopped due to the …

Mountain Echoes Literary Festival, which turns five this year, aims to bring together writers, biographers, historians, environmentalists, scholars, photographers, poets, musicians, artists and film-makers to engage in cultural dialogue and share stories for three blissful days in the mountains. The festival is being held on May 22- 24 in Thimphu …

Brief Background Dangchu Gewog in Wangduephodrang dzongkhag was considered one of the remotest Gewogs until it was electrified and feeder road was built from Nobding in recent times. The Gewog has over 207 households. Godang, Takshar, Tomla, Tashidingkha, Yusagang, Rethangwog and Tokaling are its villages. Dangchu alone has over 19 …

His Majesty the King in a royal statement said that Bhutanese people are good at framing policies but weak in implementation. On close observation this is true in many ways. I have a few examples here. Teacher training and placements The right policy is education for all and quality education. …

I am not sure whether we call manual jobs in the construction sector ‘skilled or highly specialised’ or ‘unskilled’. Here it is called skilled, elsewhere we call it ‘unskilled’. This designation seems to change depending on what we would like to convey. It is true that we have lots of …