THE NATION

Although geographically-dictated to remain an agrarian nation, farming still is considered to be more of drudgery than a source of livelihood. And the observation receives support through the visible lack of innovation for the occupation. Farmers of generations have stuck to the conventional and orthodox way of farming as if …

Private individuals who set up poultry farm businesses are off late with the mindset that although they foster the government and thereby the country’s self-sufficiency goal in egg production, they have been handed a short end of the stick in terms of support. Respective individuals in the line of business …

The dzongkhag municipality has set many new town-planning measures to advance the town area. As per the Thrompon and engineers of the Dzongkhag they have looked on the maintenance and the renovations of the specific places, roads and the undergoing constructions. Some of the activities included under this grand scheme …

Living in a one room bamboo makeshift house, Dhan Kumari, a 61-year old from Homa village under Lhamoizingkha dungkhag, Dagana Dzongkhag, has been living there for more than seven months. Ever since she fell from a one storied house about 10 feet tall, back in her village, her legs got …

The alcoholic mother who abandoned her two years and a month-old son finally turned up to take him back. Sadly, her socially-unfriendly living conditions which will prove hazardous to the child may keep the baby away from her. The child Pema Gyamtsho’s mother Karma Lhamo, 25 is a divorcee and …

An adult Leopard cat (Felis Bengalensis) was killed on the spot when a speeding motorist crushed it on the Wangkha highway in Chukha this week on 9 April. The dead felid having sustained major injury on its body and the lower abdominal area succumbed to the injury. It was first …

The deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Thailand, Yukol Limlamthong, reaffirmed his commitment to strengthen support to Bhutan in the areas of agriculture and cooperatives when he called on Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley at the Gyalyong Tshogkhang yesterday. Deputy Prime Minister Yukol Limlamthong who …

Singapore’s High Commissioner to India with concurrent accreditation as Singapore’s Ambassador to the Bhutan, Ms Karen Tan called on Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley at the Gyalyong Tshogkhang yesterday. Ms. Tan who took over office two years ago as Singapore’s Ambassador to Bhutan arrived in the capital on Wednesday to bid …

Unlike other days, when they are dressed in school uniforms, the students of Tshangkha Lower Secondary School (LSS) in Dagana dzongkhag wearing shorts and pants, gathered at the school ground to take part in the annual marathon race organized every year by the school. Excited about the race, the students …

The first national Doegor (stone throw) tournament started at the Changlimithang on 10th of April. Doegor is a traditional Bhutanese game played with a pair of spherical flag stones that are hurled at two targets (pegs) fixed in the ground at a distance of 27m apart. The size and weight …