THE NATION

If Thimphu thromde is unable to resolve the tracksuit controversy, which has not only divided its senior officials and irked many schools, students and parents, the government will intervene to avoid further argument and controversy. “We try not to interfere when the power and authority lies with other entities and …

The Thimphu Thromde has barred vegetable vendors from selling their products along Norzin Lam, Thimphu’s main thoroughfare on the grounds that they crowd the main walking path and dirty the area. After dusk one can witness street vendors running with their vegetable basket and hiding between parked cars as thromde …

UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, Her Majesty Gyalyum Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck, will be traveling across the eastern dzongkhags on a high level advocacy tour on mother and child health, adult and adolescent reproductive health, STI/HIV/AIDS, substance abuse including mental health/suicide and domestic and gender based violence. The advocacy tour will also …

Marcus du Sautoy’s  Mathematics Professor at  Oxford University is famed for popularizing Maths. The second part of the interview with The Bhutanese Editor, Tenzing Lamsang goes beyond the classroom and takes up a wider area for Maths. Marcus was in Bhutan for a short visit on the invitation of the …

Don’t let Marcus du Sautoy’s  title of Mathematics Professor at  Oxford University throw you off as Marcus has also built quite the opposite international reputation of doing unprecedented work through his books, TV programs, public appearances, popular culture and work with teachers and students to popularize maths. Though a brilliant …

The construction of a Regional Center for Tiger and Cat Research has begun in the south central border town of Gelephu. “Bhutan with more than 70 per cent forest cover and with more than 50 per cent under protected areas in the form of National Parks and Biological Corridors offers …

The Thimphu Thromde is expanding the sewerage network to increase household coverage within the rapidly expanding capital city and address problems of overflowing or leaking septic tanks and lines. Sewerage lines are being laid in Motithang, Changangkha and YHS area construction in Kawajangsa, Jungshina and Pamtsho will begin at a …

Surjey Dhungyel, 25, is one of the few graduates who has taken up farming after completing college. The 25 year old who has a Bachelors degree in Life Science from Sherubtse College is today a proud owner of a semi commercial dairy farm in Penjorling village in Samtse. After college …

Farmers in Mongar dzongkhag are trying to optimise the use of fallow land with government incentives such as seeds and seedlings, irrigation facilities, transportation subsidy and marketing equipment. The dzongkhag agriculture sector and the gewog administration initiated construction of a 2 km long irrigation channel. With this irrigation channel, seeds …

Youth Business Cooperative (YBC) in Thimphu supplies chillies at Nu 55 per kg which many considered to be quite reasonable during the chilli crisis but recently consumers have started complaining that over 50 per cent of the chillies that YBC supplies are rotten and unusable, consumer says. What makes it …