Monthly Archives: December, 0

Three Men Yangphel Style Compound Bow open archery tournament is taking place in Samtse and fourteen teams are participating. The annual event started yesterday and till date, two teams have been eliminated. The elimination will continue until three teams are left for the final.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has forwarded an embezzlement case to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) in which the incumbent Goshing Gup Sangay Letho is alleged of misusing public funds of about Nu 10.5m from 2011-15.

While meeting with the villagers of Gangzur, Kurtoed, and Khoma gewogs in Lhuentse yesterday, Prime Minister Dasho Tshering Tobgay comforted the villagers not to worry about human-wildlife conflicts and that the government is there to address the issue.

Phuentshogling Police recovered a stolen Bolero that went missing in April this year. Similarly, the town saw many cases of carjacking, especially the bolero pick-up trucks. To avoid car thefts, the police have now initiated a separate registration for the boleros at the main exit and entry gate.

A group led by the administrator of the two largest monasteries in Ladakh, India, offered their Ku-Sung-Thug-Ghi-Mendrel to His Holiness the Je Khenpo at the Kuensel Phodrang in Thimphu today.

Thailand is all set for the funeral ceremony to bid final goodbye to its late King Bhumibol Adulyadej on October 26. His Majesty passed away on October 13, last year at the age of 88.

After remaining closed since yesterday evening, the road block at Ossey along the Gelegphu-Zhemgang highway opened to traffic today.

Every year, October 20 is observed as the World Statistics Day. Reliable and up-to-date statistics are vital for planning socio-economic development of a country. Here in Bhutan, the theme for the day was “Better Statistics, Better Decisions.”

Bumthang's agriculture sector plans to upscale rice cultivation in the district in the next five year plan. Paddy cultivation, a relatively new farming practice in Bumthang, was pioneered in 2002.

The deadline for the completion of the new Gelegphu Central Regional Hospital has now been extended to November.