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Gross National Happiness (GNH), the most talked about subject is also least known to many in the remote pockets of the country. 22 peer coordinators under Nazhoen Yarab, an organization under Yarab Communication which deals with youth-related issues has started a project on education and advocacy on GNH in far …

The Wangduephodrang Dzongkhag Court, last week, pronounced its verdict on Dorji Gyeltshen who was alleged of sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl on the night of June 26. The court found him guilty of the offence and was slapped a prison term of nine years. In the verdict, passed on November …

The Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) has embarked on the post-parliamentary elections review process which is being undertaken in the form of the Learning from Experience Programme (LEP) for the second parliamentary elections. This process follows the completion of the conduct of the elections, the preparations for which began as …

The Nu 2mn Grant shall be used to create income and employment generating programs and activities in the gewogs To further strengthen good governance, decentralize power and responsibility at the grass root level, and to deliver services as required by respective communities, the government has initiated a system of Gewog …

Delays in budget release have left the construction of gewog connectivity roads, assigned to the Department of Road (DoR) under Ministry of Works and Human Settlement (MoWHS), incomplete or stalled. Six projects were undertaken by DoR, which includes Jhomotshangkha-Lauri in Samdrup Jhongkhar with a stretch of 58.75 km, Broksar-Nagor in …

Jigme Pelden, 36, who once contemplated suicide after all the pain he went through in life, is now a happy responsible father who earns for the welfare of his children, and also writes about his life. Jigme, originally from Goenpakarp under Lhuentse, was painting a four-storey building in Phuntsholing when …

In the year 1987 His Eminence Barstsham Rinpochey Lam Naku told us that the Bhutanese people would first earn their living by selling timber, then next would be water and at last stones. Mining in Bhutan has become a polemic subject although almost every item in the house comes from …

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on November 4 held a meeting with major partner agencies towards implementation of the Debarment Rules, 2013 at the commission’s conference hall in Thimphu. Debarment means a determination by the committee, the evaluation panel and the competent authority that a respondent is not responsible and is …

United Nations (UN) Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, UN Women representative, Rebecca Reichmann Tavares met local journalists yesterday at Taj Tashi, Thimphu. UN Women is a part of the UN family in Bhutan working on the four key areas of gender responsive governance, women political participation, …

Within a span of a week’s time, two cases of people being mauled by a bear in the same dzongkhag were reported to the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP). On October 17, Sangay, a 51-year-old man was mauled by a bear, the second incident reported to Paro police following a similar …