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Forest officials in Nganglam Range Office, Samdrup Jongkhar have rescued a four-month- old female Himalayan Black Bear cub (Ursus thibetanus), deemed to be in illegal possession of a resident of Yangmalashing village in Dechenling geog under Nganglam Dungkhag. The forest officials have only recently come to know of the illegal …

The villagers in the remote village of Pantang are happy with the supply of electricity that has finally reached their homes on 26th April. Up until now, the village made use of solar and fuel lamps, while those in the more urban or semi-urban places had electricity to light their …

A floating body of a three-year old girl child was spotted in the Dangchhu River in Wangduephodrang on 26th April, after the child had gone missing a day earlier. The body was found downstream of the river, about 30 meters away from the house of the deceased child. The child …

The Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) has completed five years of governance, but some promises have not been met. The roads in a certain area in Dagana are in dire need of repair. The people in Dagana were promised better roads, if not new roads by the former Dagana MP Sonam …

The Gelephu Thromde completed maintenance works on its roads in the town. The municipality under the road division mainly focused on the pot holes, black topping existing roads and resurfacing roads in the core areas. The Thromde signed a contract with M/s Daniyal construction in Sarpang in 28 November, 2012 …

  A Parent-children interaction program was conducted in Zilnon Primary School in the capital on 19 April in collaboration with the Career Education and Counseling Division (CECD) under the Department of Youth and Sports (DYS) where over 500 participants gathered at the RBP ground. The participants included both parents and …

Tashi Dorji was elected as the National Council rep with his 5,848 votes secured by 5,426 Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) votes and 422 postal ballot votes (PB). The incumbent NC member Sonam Yangchen managed 3,540 votes with 3,156 EVM votes and 384 postal ballot votes while Chado Namgyal with 629 …

  Incumbent National Council (NC) member Tshering Dorji with 1,866 total votes (EVM-1630- Postal Ballot- 236) won the NC elections to be re-elected as the dzongkhag’s NC representative. His contenders Choda Jamtsho received 631 votes (EVM-603, PB- 28), Khadu Wangchuk got 634 votes (EVM- 546, PB-88) and Tenzin Norbu got …

Lone candidate, Dasho Dr. Sonam Kinga, former National Council representative from Trashigang is once again victorious securing an overwhelming 11,219 ‘yes’ votes and just 2,620 ‘No’ votes. Dasho Dr. Sonam Kinga secured 7,826 yes votes through the EVM and 3,393 votes through postal ballot votes. He was nominated from Shongphu …

Nima Gyeltshen, 29 nominated from Chang Gewog secured the most votes in Thimphu Dzongkhag. 2,250 people voted for him, of which 137 were postal ballots. After the elections, Nima said “people have shown faith and trust in me. They really understood whatever I said during the common forums.” He worked …