Monthly Archives: December, 0

The Agency for Promotion of Indigenous Crafts (APIC) has come up with a comprehensive catalogue of the country’s arts and crafts.

The people of Dangchhu Gewog in Wangdue Phodrang will not have to travel all the way to Bajo for fuel and LPG services and to buy or repair farm machinery. That’s because they now have a Petroleum Oil and Lubricants (POL) service centre in their gewog.

Gone are the days when the people of Bartsham Gewog had to travel to Trashigang, 30 kilometres away, to avail themselves of banking services. Thanks to the Bhutan Development Bank (BDBL) Gewog Extension Office opened in the gewog.

The National Assembly passed the Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances, and Substance Abuse (amendment) Bill 2017, today. 38 of the 42 members present in the house voted in favour of the changes in the bill.  

A survey by the National Council’s Special Committee has found most housewives and farmers in the country to be unaware of the government's G2C services. The...

Lingzhi dzong, once an important frontier dzong in the country’s north, built sometime in between 1667 to 1680, has now fallen into ruins.

Team Miniature Bhutan has beaten 13 other teams to win the first prize at Thimphu’s 5th Techstars Startup Weekend that happened over the weekend.

Police in Paro have arrested a 41-year-old man after he was caught in possession of close to 7,000 capsules of Spasmo Proxyvon Plus (SP+).

Decked out in their finest, hundreds of people in Trashigang thronged the courtyard of the dzong today as the annual tshechu began.

His Holiness the Je Khenpo appointed Ugyen Tenzin as the new Lam of Sinphu Goenpa in Sinphu village under Nubi Gewog in Trongsa.