Monthly Archives: December, 0

Around 400 students from schools across the country are taking part in the 14th National School Athletics Meet in Thimphu. The event began from yesterday.

His Holiness the Je Khenpo visited the Tala Hydropower Plant in Chhukha today and performed thrue soel for the machines at the hydropower plant’s powerhouse.

Investment in Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) has been found to be a cost-effective way of utilising government expenditure, finds a study conducted by the Education Ministry and the UNICEF.

The Samtse District Court has ordered the civil commitment of woman who stabbed her husband to death last year.

Bhutan, a country where the sale of tobacco is banned, ironically, has the highest number of adolescent smokers and tobacco users in South-East Asia, revealed a World Health Organization (WHO) report.

The new Gelegphu Dungkhag office is being constructed in Thongjazor village in Umling Gewog, 33 kilometres away from the present dungkhag office.

Come December, the people in Samdrupchhoeling Dungkhag will not have to drive to Samdrup Jongkhar town, 68 kilometres away, to refuel their cars. This is because a fuel depot will open in the Dungkhag some six months from now.

With only 2.9 per cent land cultivated of the total 7.8 per cent arable land in the country even today, the growth in the country's agriculture sector has been sluggish.

Police in Thimphu made 85 drug related arrests last month- 57 for drug abuse and the rest for trafficking of controlled substances.

A woman in her 40’s from Wangdue Phodrang is being treated at the national referral hospital after she was mauled by a bear.