THE NATION

People in the construction sector currently face a new nuisance added to the already prevalent critical INR crisis. Procured materials from manufacturing sectors get lost on the way and the ordered amounts of materials hardly reach the site. Just like materials procured for hydropower project construction were secretly taken from …

Experts contemplated and suggested measures at the Asian Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation When the pace of development takes priority and precedence over nature and its animal population’s need to survive in the common ecosystem, few players on the environmental chess board naturally take a hit. The fine balance in …

Over 200 women and men from all over the world gathered this week in Thimphu, Bhutan to set new agendas for gender-positive change in natural resource management in rapidly changing mountain contexts. A decade following the success of the ‘Celebrating Mountain Women’ conference in 2002, participants at the Bhutan+10 Conference …

Leader of the opposition party, Tshering Tobgay insisted, the government needs to reconsider its foreign policy priorities, attend to pressing national needs with scarce resources and claimed an explanation from the government be made public as to why so much expenses were made towards an undertaking that Bhutan had no …

The Forensic unit with the national referral hospital (JDWNRH) and Royal Bhutan Police are waiting for the approval from the concerned authorities to send five samples collected from the red Toyota Hilux for DNA test. The tests will confirm whether the vehicle and its driver are involved in the gruesome …

Just when people thought they bid adieu to those ‘sneezy’ mornings and itchy nostrils – infamous highpoints of summer maladies, winter comes-a-calling and together with it, brings its own brand and package of diseases. One goes and a dozen follows. And so went the days of Malaria, Dengue, but with …

Bhutan will host its first Buddhist film Festival this October with a selection of six films which includes the premiere of a film on Yangsi Rinpoche-Reincarnation is just the beginning- a 97 minutes story on Dilgo Khyentse’s reincarnation living in Bhutan that is just released worldwide. Director Mark Elliott, who …

Despite regular trainings and awareness programs by the labor ministry (MoLHR) to the construction sectors and related agencies, much required Occupational, Health and Safety (OHS) measures could not be applied effectively. A labor official said that there is a need for proper mechanism to institute and implement the rules and …

One after another there have been two minor bomb blasts in the south, first at Lhamoizingkha on the night of 19 September and another in Samtenling gewog (Bhur) in Gelephu dungkhag on the night of 15 October. The explosion took place at around 12 midnight at Bhur, which is about …

All eyes were on Chimi Dorji from Bhutan who swept the prestigious gold medal in corporate law as “Best Male Student in Corporate Law” at the 10th annual convocation organized by the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR University of Law), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India organized on 2 September …