THE NATION

  One of the oldest towns in the country, Golabaazar in Samtse, is slowly degrading while the fate of its survival is being decided. The residents say the town which was booming in the early 40s started to degrade when the government stopped collecting taxes in 1992. Since then, numerous …

  layaps will be connected by a road till Trongshu drak, a three-hour walk from Laya by next year, but the nomad community is not exactly jubilant. “We would be happy, if the road to connect Laya community would start from Gasa Hot spring (Tsachhu),” said Laya Gup Kinley Dorji …

  As per the annual judiciary report of 2011, there are 225 cases filed with Bench 1 of the district court alone from which 73 were related to money, 53 matrimony and the rest were crimes and land disputes. Of the total of 45 cases registered in the last two …

On March 13, the larger bench of the High Court held an opening statement on the case against Dechen Wangmo, the former principal of Phajoding Lower Secondary School, and a social worker versus the Office of the Attorney General (OAG). Dechen Wangmo had been sentenced by the Phuentsholing Dungkhag Court …

The recent decision of the government to discontinue the Constituency Development Grant (CDG) has created skepticism among general public. The questions doing the round are that has the government really dropped CDG as the decision did not go through the Parliament as per procedure, and whether the ruling government will …

Bhutan’s hydropower projects, the engine of the country’s economy, is affecting the ecosystem and migratory patterns of native fish stock. To mitigate the threats, the department of livestock has begun breeding program for native species like golden mahseer and snow trout. Studies conducted by the department has found that regulating …

The farm road connecting Yoeseltse Higher Secondary School and Kuchidaina is not really living up to its intended functions, say the residents at Kuenzangling village under Yoeseltse Gewog, Samtse. This is because the inclination of the road is quite high making it tough for   tractors to ply on it. The …

A proposal for a second animal feed unit for Bhutan, proposed by two entrepreneurs in the East, is still on paper after the National Environment Commission (NEC) rejected it saying their environment impact report was not satisfactory. Their proposal was submitted last December following a rising demand for a feed …

  The Election Commission is organizing a three-day workshop for aspiring politicians and political parties from March 19 at Paro. The three-day workshop is led by BRIDGE (Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Election), an international organization which conducts trainings on the electoral process. “This project is ongoing from 2011 …

Despite consistent registration, a big shortage of drugs remains in the health sector. In the months of January and February this year, about 88 drugs were registered with Drug Regulatory Authority (DRA) excluding temporary registration. Till date, the total number of drugs registered was around 1,759. In the recent Meet …