THE NATION

Please forgive me: I’m a Hungarian ‘chilip’ who doesn’t permanently live in Bhutan and I’m not a GNH expert. However, I dare to offer some additional thoughts to the healthy discussion provoked by Dr David L Luechauer in The Bhutanese hoping to contribute to Bhutan’s future development. Some of you may think I am …

Once again, the concept of Gross National Happiness (GNH) took center stage at the United Nations as Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinley, an ardent advocate of GNH, elaborated on the topic and how Bhutan has been able to make progress through the pursuit of this policy in his keynote address …

It looks like even wild deers know where to go for wildlife protection especially when chased by a pack of stray dogs. Office-goers walking to work on a Pedestrian Day on October 2 were shocked to see a male barking deer, around four years old, chased by a pack of …

The increase is attributed to the introduction of favorable technical courses for women, congenial environment and heightened awareness creation An increasing number of women are now willing to dirty their hands alongside their male counterparts, particularly going by the escalating turn over of female trainees in Technical Training Institutes (TTIs) …

Lyonchhen Jigmi Y Thinley arrived in New Delhi on 19 September en-route to Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh, India where the Prime Minister will attend the foundation stone laying ceremony of Sanchi University of Buddhist and Indic Studies on 21st September, along with Mahinda Rajapaksa the President of Sri Lanka. Lyonchhen was …

Sherubtse College under Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) will prepare a new module for all the colleges under RUB called environment, climate change and poverty mainstreaming (ECPM) module to uplift the rural poor. The new module would most  likely be an awareness tool for fragile environment, which is vulnerable to …

The health ministry’s Vector-borne Disease Control Program (VDCP) team detected five asymptomatic malaria carrier cases from Punatsangchhu Hydropower Project Authority (PHPA) laborers. In medicine, a disease is considered asymptomatic if a patient is a carrier for a disease or infection but experiences no symptoms. A condition might be asymptomatic if it fails to show the …

The best rules are perhaps those, which need not be implemented with punitive measures, or those that don’t need publicity through flashy bumper stickers or repeat broadcast mediums. For that matter even in the days of yore, a rule silently, sincerely and devotedly followed without the assistance of a loud …

The suspension of the import of alcohol earlier this March has presumptively received silent thanks and prayers from the housewives but for the ‘socially drinking’ and those who are thrill seekers of the intoxicating kind, it has not really been a pleasant ordeal. After the Indian Rupee (INR) problem earlier …

In a month or two, Bhutanese consumers especially in Thimphu will get to taste or apply a natural, local and purely organic edible oil. The product once in the market will be launched under the brand name, “Local Hero, inspired by Gross National Happiness.” This oil will be brought to …