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Yesterday, Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) revealed their second group of candidates. Like the earlier eight candidates, the eight new candidates belong to highly qualified backgrounds with strong professional experience. The DNT website was also launched today, dedicated to the Bhutanese youth DNT’s first eight candidates were revealed just after a …
Read More »The Bhutanese completes one year
The Bhutanese with today’s issue completes one year from the date of its launch on 21st February, 2012. This was also the first Bhutanese paper to publicly publish its editorial policy so that people could hold it accountable to it. The paper also published the names of its owners. In …
Read More »Endangered Monal Pheasant snared in large numbers by poachers near Thimphu
Monks in Phajoding Monastery who were concerned about decreasing numbers of the protected and endangered Monal Pheasants, that frequented the monastery, discovered that poachers have been snaring the exotic birds on a regular basis. Many of the birds residing around the monastery premises are known to visit the monastery early …
Read More »41 dead and counting: Bhutan’s growing Drug problem
A 29-year old man died due to drug overdose at the Intensive Care Unit of the Thimphu national referral hospital, on Monday. The 29-year old was brought in a state of coma to the emergency ward at around 5:30 pm on 4 February. Hospital staff had recovered some Spasmo Proxyvon …
Read More »Lyonchhen meets Indian leaders in New Delhi
Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigmi Y Thinley called on the President of India Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Friday. The Prime Minister said he was visiting India to convey the gratitude of the Bhutanese people for the substantial support and assistance rendered by the government and …
Read More »Young Bhutanese gymnast hopes to get an Olympic Medal for Bhutan
Born to a Bhutanese mother and a Danish father, Zelden has excelled as a gymnast in the United States of America (USA). Zelden and her parents dream is that she would one day represent Bhutan as the first ever Gymnast at the summer Olympics. While Drak-Tsho special athletes, body builders, …
Read More »Three new Private colleges tied up in red-tape
Though the government is actively promoting the Education City Project, in part, to address the need of domestic students, three private colleges proposed to be established in various parts of Bhutan are stuck in red tape. The promoters of these colleges alleged that the red tape was taking longer than …
Read More »Bhutan’s press freedom index ranking drops by a record 12 places
Bhutan’s ranking has dropped down the ladder for the third year in a row The France-based international non-governmental organization, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) which conducts an annual ranking comparing each nation’s state of press freedom, has placed Bhutan at 82nd, 12 places down in the rung from last year’s 70th …
Read More »Steel Industry on the brink
Faced with low demand Industries say they will all have to close shop if the current economic climate continues Barley after recovering from the 2008 global financial crisis and the consequent slump in steel prices, Bhutan’s domestic steel industry comprising of five major factories employing around 1,500 Indian and Bhutanese …
Read More »Forest officials on the lookout for culprits
Forest officials at the Paro range office have stepped up surveillance for miscreants involved in illegal logging especially along the five kilometer road to Sanchoekor Buddhist monastery and Institute in Lamgong gewog. This is after The Bhutanese broke the news of the rampant illegal activities in its previous issue. …
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