Failing DoR seeks corporate entity
13 March 2010
The Department of Roads (DoR) will be corporatized if the revised Road Act is passed in the forthcoming session of the parliament in July. The revised Road Act provides for the establishment of National Roads Corporation, which will be an autonomous agency with funding from the government. Proposed by McKinsey, the change is aimed at improving productivity and efficiency. It is expected to help achieve... Read the story »
His Majesty meets dzongdas
12 March 2010
His Majesty with the dzongdas His Majesty the King today granted and audience to the dzongdas of 20 dzongkhags at the Lingkhana Palace Read More →
Nobel Laureate in Bhutan
12 March 2010
His Majesty granted an audience to Dr R K Pachauri at the Lingkhana Palace today His Majesty the King today granted an audience to Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri who is on a two-day visit to the kingdom. A Nobel Laureate and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dr Pachauri also called on the Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigmi Y Thinley. Dr Pachauri and the prime minister had discussions... Read the story »
Phuentsholing’s architectural identity crisis
12 March 2010
From a bird’s eye view, one can barely differentiate Phuentsholing from the bordering Indian town of Jaigaon. This, town planners and architects say, is because Phuentsholing town suffers from an architectural identity crisis. Phuentsholing Thrompoen Kinzang Norbu said Phuentsholing town has little that is Bhutanese because it had been planned before the proper building rules were in place. “The... Read the story »
45% hike for armed forces
12 March 2010
Royal Bhutan Police, Royal Bhutan Army and Royal Body Guards will receive a 45 percent pay hike with effect from April, next month. The proposal for the raise was put up to the government of India last year after the civil servants had been given a 45 percent raise. The proposal came through in the beginning of this year, according to a source from RBA. The raise comes as a big relief to the armed... Read the story »
Constable and prisoner to be tried
12 March 2010
Chuma Sonam Tenzin, the prime suspect in poisoning Lhuentse police officer in-charge’s family, and Kencho Chophel, his accomplice, a detainee in Lhuentse police station, will be prosecuted in the Lhuentse dzongkhag court. Sonam Tenzin was court-martialled on February 22 after he confessed to attempting to kill Major Tashi Tobgay and his family members. He admitted to poisoning the officer’s... Read the story »
Teachers robbed and abused
12 March 2010
Two school teachers were robbed and physically abused on their way back from school at Chinese Line in Jaigaon on March 9. According to the victims, four youngsters aged between 18 and 25 years attacked them from behind at around 8 pm and whisked away their belongings. Laxmi, 45, a teacher from south India, who has been working in Bhutan for five years, was battered. She was robbed of jewellery worth... Read the story »
Man dies from drug overdose
9 March 2010
Police today reported that a 21-year-old man had died of drug overdose in Thimphu. At around 7 am, police found an intoxicated boy at the VIP enclave in Motithang. He was wearing a T-shirt and half pants and was shivering. Police officer on duty recovered 19 capsules of Spasmo Proxyvon from him. Immediately, the boy was sent to hospital for medical checkup but was declared dead. The medical certificate... Read the story »
Students say GNH transforms them
8 March 2010
Students report to the Prime Minister that they are bringing GNH into schools and their communities their way A GNH wave – if one may call it that – is apparently building up with school students vouching that their beliefs, attitudes and even their lives were transformed by what they learned during the recent GNH meetings in Thimphu and Paro. They said they have become much more humane, practised... Read the story »
Schools take first GNH steps
6 March 2010
This year, there is an unmistakable air of earnestness in the Bhutanese schools. Students in most schools meditate for a few minutes before the morning assembly. And each teacher leads a class meditation before starting any lesson. A few weeks after the schools reopened, some principals and teachers are already implementing GNH values in their schools. The principal of Chungkha Lower Secondary... Read the story »
Loading ...Zakar for Friday March 12 2010
28th Day of the 01st Month - Iron Male Tiger Year
Auspicious for: Carrying out daily chores and offerings.
Inauspicious for: Construction of new ten-sung, conducting consecration and blessing ceremonies, lue-cho, starting construction of houses, sowing seeds, planting flowers, entering new houses, shifting houses, calling upon superiors, starting business, doing charity work in the name of the deceased, taking death body out of the house, paying grain debts and undertaking a long journey.
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