THE NATION

Around four households in Guma-Wolokha chiwog under Punakha Dzongkhag have still not received land substitution for land which was slashed off during last September’s earthquake. According to the Gewog officials, there was delay in giving the land substitute as the community themselves had disputes on land, which was supposed to …

A has-been, a confident second timer and a probable public favorite will stand hopeful as less-than 2000 residents go to polls today Dangribu chiwog under Dagana Dzongkhag will have a new Tshogpa after today’s polling day where a Tshogpa will be elected. All the preparation for the day was done …

Nutrition deficiency has affected 18 students in Dagsa Community Primary School in Mongar. The case was first inspected by Dagsa’s Basic Health Unit’s Health Assistant (HA) Suk Bahadur since it would take about five days for the people to reach the Dzongkhag,. The HA said the students complained of muscle …

Over 15 cartoonists and artists from the Bhutanese media attended a Bhutan Media Foundation (BMF)-conducted training for Cartoonists. The training was not just about the usual drawing and termed as cartoon. It was more about conceptualizing news and events visually, minimal use of text, how to develop caricatures that can …

One month and 10 days, after 23 year old Zangmo was cruelly knocked down to death on the evening of 17 September, the Thimphu traffic police have sent blood samples for DNA test to Genetech Laboratory in Sri Lanka by post on 25 October. A total of five samples were …

In most stable relationships, paternity is a rare issue. However, it has been observed that some children have the wrong man identified as their father. It is easy to identify a child’s mother; this is not always the case for the father. Only scientific testing can confirm paternity, which means …

Single parents, especially single mothers in the capital face huge challenges every day to raise a child on their own. Some of these mothers receive partial help from their ex-husbands, family members while in some cases a single parent may receive no help at all. One such single female who …

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 …