LOCAL NEWS

A number of city buses parked for almost two months near Lungtenzampa School has resumed plying the Thimphu city routes with the schools reopening last week for the 2017 academic year and construction work once again picking up pace. According to the director of Thimphu City Bus Service, Sonam Dendup, …

Waste is being illegally dumped on public land around Changbangdu Residents of Changbangdu locality want the local government authorities to publicise and reinforce the new solid waste management rules because waste is still being illegally dumped by the roadside and on public land in Changbangdu. “Implementing agencies should ensure that …

Even as the Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority (BAFRA) has banned the slaughter of animal and import and sale of meat, restaurants are in the fix as they say the one month ban will negatively impact their business. Irked with the decision that will not only affect meat traders …

The Phuentsholing police have apprehended three men in connection with the illicit trafficking of controlled substances into Bhutan from Jaigaon. Following a tip off, police apprehended a 32-year-old man from the Phuentsholing main gate at around 1:30 pm with 12,960 capsules of SP. The man from Balamnang, Haa, was carrying …

Three woman and two men are being held for further investigation by the Thimphu police in connection with the trafficking of illegal prescription drugs. Following a tip off, police arrested the 26 year old man on February 6 around noon from the vegetable market area. The man from Tendu, Samtse, had in …

Following a tip-off Phuentsholing police arrested a woman at Rinchendeng check post on 31 January with 5,341 capsules of SP and 200 tablets of N10. The woman was travelling to Thimphu in a taxi when she was arrested at the checkpost, four kilometres from Phuentsholing. She told police that she …

It is too early to say whether the Khengrig Namsum Cooperative (KNC) in the central district of Zhemgang has become a successful project but in the past two years of operations, it has not defaulted on loans and profits are being ploughed back into the project, according to the cooperative’s …

A new traffic diversion is in force in the border town of Phuentsholing to ease traffic congestion. Vehicles entering the city now have to exit via the STCBL area by passing YDF. Phuentsholing SP Wangchukla said there are pros and cons but their observation shows a smooth and systematic flow …

Cardamom prices have been falling continuously in Dagapela, Dagana, due to low demand. According to farmers, the prices are half of what they received earlier. “It started falling from the beginning of the harvest season and at present it is around Nu 700 a kg,” a cardamom farmer in Dagapela, …

Forty-one monks of the Chokyi Gyatso Buddhist Institute in Dewathang, Samdrupjongkhar, are taking part in organic gardening classes that aspires to teach sustainable nurturing of soil through practical activities. The Organic Gardening class is part of Lhomon Education’s curriculum to provide opportunity to learn the basics of livelihood and give …