Monthly Archives: December, 0

The Thimphu District Court sentenced a 33-year-old woman to three years imprisonment for selling tobacco products in Thimphu.

A burglar broke into a shop in Kanglung, Trashigang, and stole a steel box containing cash about Nu.300,000 at around 2 am today.

Tobacco products worth about Nu.200,000 was seized from the passengers and travelers alike, in a surprise check at Damchu, in Phuentsholing-Thimphu Highway. Tobacco products were found in most of the vehicles plying from Phuentsholing to Thimphu.

People of two villages under Khamdang Gewog in Trashiyangtse are accusing the local leaders of failing to construct a farm road, which was promised earlier.

To equip the prison inmates convicted for drugs related offence with necessary life skills, a workshop is underway in capital. The two day workshop is the first of its kind to be initiated.

A bird flu outbreak has been detected in Rinchending area near the Phuentsholing check post. The outbreak was confirmed after the laboratory test carried out at the national centre for animal health at Serbithang in Thimphu following the death of three birds on Monday.

People of Rangja Village under Yangtse Gewog in Trashiyangtse are crying foul over the recent Dzongkhag Tshogdu’s approval to establish a stone quarry near their village.

In a press conference last month, Bhutan Kuen-Ngyam Party (BKP), one of the aspiring political parties, had said two  civil servants will be resigning to join their party soon. After a month, the party reveals one of them, making Tshewang Tashi the first civil servant to officially declare her intention to join politics.

Many people feel the traditional architectural design have become a mere imitation. They say, it has all got to do with Bhutanese using imported construction materials to construct houses.

The UN resident coordinator, Claire Van der Vaeren, said poverty in Bhutan has a rural face. She added, around 98 percent of the poor are living in the rural areas, according to the latest estimates.