December is actually a low season time The month of December is usually regarded as a low season for tourism in Bhutan, but the country is in the midst of a huge rush of regional tourists coming in from India and also Bangladesh. The main reason seems to be rumors …
Read More »Hotel Bubble: TCB advises people to not invest in new Hotels in Western Region
TCB draft study found Thimphu, Punakha and Paro already had an excess of 35 tourist standard hotels with 232 more cleared for construction from 2016 to 2019 By now even an average Joe on the street would have noticed the excessive number of hotels coming up in Thimphu and Paro, …
Read More »MoE to reduce admission age from 6 to 5 years by 2020 or 2021
Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering, during the Meet-the-Press session, on 27 December announced that in order to make it possible for the children in Bhutan to join the National Service at the age of 18 years, the admission age to enroll children in pre-primary grade will be reduced to 5 …
Read More »National Service: The reform of our times to be instituted by 2022
The key focus and main announcement of His Majesty The King’s 112th National Day address was the announcement of Gyalsung or National Service. His Majesty’s address did not announce the Gyalsung right away but the entire address built up to it by identifying some key challenges and issues for Bhutan …
Read More »Bhutan’s National Team Football Players only get paid Nu 10,000 a month: Chencho Gyeltshen
The Under-23 football team recently made history for Bhutan by winning the first-ever silver medal in the South Asian Games (SAG) in Nepal. The team, with its professional and disciplined performance, along with a lot of heart, also won the hearts of the Nepalese fans, with the unprecedented scene of …
Read More »Students come out in support of National Service
The biggest announcement of the 112th National Day was the announcement of the Gyalsung or National Service for youth at or above the age of 18 from 2022 onwards. The Bhutanese following the announcement talked to an array of of youth over the next few days to gauge their reaction …
Read More »RBP says investigation still on after forensic report says strangulation is probable cause of death of Dena Koirala
The report says exact cause of death could not be determined It also does not confirm or rule out rape though no sperm samples were found In what has come as a major surprise to the police, the forensic report submitted by the forensic team under the Department of Forensic …
Read More »‘We had great difficulty making ends meet but what gave me hope was that Dena said she would become a doctor and help her family’: Mother
Dena’s father and grandfather are in prison unable to pay a private moneylender Mother says RBP Thimphu did not send any personnel to search for her girl on the first day despite an official complaint Geeta Maya Adhikari, 33, the mother of the deceased Dena Koirala, not only threw more …
Read More »Citizens gear up for biggest ever National Day celebrations
There is much excitement in the air as Bhutan gears up to celebrate the biggest event of the year, the 112th National Day. His Majesty The King will address the nation from the Changlimithang Stadium, Thimphu this year. People from all walks of life are eager to hear the Royal …
Read More »Animal attack as probable cause of death of Dena
Chief Forest Officer, Gyeltshen Drukpa, said the fang marks on the neck of the deceased 9-year-old girl, Dena Koirala, a class 2 student in Dechencholing Higher secondary school, could confirm it to be the cause of her death. However, it is yet to ascertained which wild animal had exactly inflicted …
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