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The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) will be looking to an extraordinarily high Nu 167.20 mn estimate for a 2.5 km road widening project in Phaling Thromde next to the Lhuentse Dzong. According to a source the ACC had done a review of the issue and it had decided to gather …

According to the information provided by the Department of Disaster Management (DDM) under Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs (MOHCA), heavy rainfall and windstorm from Cyclone Fani lead to some damages like roadblocks and landslides, damage of crops and Chortens and a bus accident where eight people, four male and …

A recent piece of advice by the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) party to the cabinet on the pay commission report took the government by surprise. At a time when even the DPT and the PDP had not yet criticized the government, its own party consisting of those outside Parliament sent …

Be it Thimphu, Paro, Phuentsholing or Bumthang, there is a growing crisis of oversupply of hotels leading to dwindling hotel occupancy rates and along with it rock bottom rates. This is also encouraging cheaper tours and budget tourists to come to Bhutan. So far, it has only been hotels owners …

In what will be good news Kinley Wangchuck (second from right in the photo), an 18 year old student with hearing loss, and his family will not be deported from Australia. Australian Immigration Minister David Coleman MP has used his discretionary powers to grant permanent residency to Kinley and his family. This …

Today morning a Bumpa Transport bus going on the Thimphu-Tsirang route was hit by falling boulders which pushed it below the road. The bus, as a result, fell and landed in the Punatsangchu river  below. The RBP said that the final death count for the Thimphu-Tsirang Bumpa bus accident is eight …

According to the National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM) Bhutan will most likely not feel the direct impact of cyclone Fani, but it will feel its peripheral impact. This will mean heavier than normal rains from 4th May onwards going on to 6th May by when the effects should …

Cheaper than many mass tourism sites in India the added incentive for Bhutan is being a cheap foreign destination along with Kathmandu Bhutan has been groaning for a while now with the explosion in the number of regional tourists, with their numbers going from 50,722 regional tourists in 2012 to …

The cost is higher than that for constructing an entirely new road An anonymous letter addressed to the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) with copies to the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) and The Bhutanese raises some serious concerns on the abnormally high estimate of Nu 167.20 mn for a 2.5 km …

JDWNRH says deaths mainly due to complications from premature birth The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) unit of JDWNRH had 22 cases of infant death until 10th April this year. 18 were pre-mature births and four were term babies. Out of 22 cases of death, nine were in January, two …