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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 …

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 …

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 …

  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. …

Bhutanomics.com, a satirical website has been blocked by Druknet, one of the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country. This was confirmed by a Druknet employee though he and his colleagues did not share who gave the instructions to do so. Nobody is really sure whether the website is operated …

The party president of Druk Chirwang Tshogpa (DCT), a cancer survivor, the Gynecologist with the Thimphu National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) Dr. Ugyen Tshomo and Dechen Wangmo who lost her mother and grandmother to cancer are the names of individuals who have formed the Bhutan Cancer Society (BCS) with an objective …

  Apart from being the Chief Guest at the  symbolic and prestigious Republic Day, His Majesty the King and the Indian Prime Minister had important delegation level talks that focused on support for Bhutan’s 11th plan, expediting the 10,000 MW projects and strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries. A …

With the entry of a new wild rice species discovered in Lhamoizingkha under Dagana dzongkhag, Bhutan is richer by one more species of rice. This wild relative in the rice family scientifically called Oryza Officianalis Wall.ExWatt locally known as ‘Jungali dhan’ (wild rice) with the local people is a perennial …

The first meeting of the International Expert Working Group (IEWG), established by Royal Kasho is in session since 28 July, 2012, in Thimphu to work on a New Development Paradigm, a mandate given to Bhutan during a high-level meeting on 2 April, 2011, at the United Nations in New York. …

  ‘Ghost lumberjacks’ take advantage of proper roads and modern technology to facilitate their modus operandi to smuggle timber In an era of climate change and drying water sources rampant illegal logging at an industrial scale in Paro is fast depriving the Dzongkhag of its precious forest wealth as mainly …