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Updated: 1 hour 33 min ago

Packed to no purpose

1 hour 33 min ago
Crossed wires between lower courts and police have led to overcrowding of Thimphu detention centre

Thimphu Centre Box 8 March, 2010 - Miscommunication between the district courts and police is causing an unnecessarily high number of citizens to be arrested and detained at the detention centre (centre box) here in Thimphu, Kuensel has found.

Backlog builds on empty bench

1 hour 33 min ago
More than a hundred appeal cases await the appointment of HC judges

Appeals to the High Court continue to increase in absence of judges

High Court 8 March, 2010 - The hunt for nine high court judges, including the chief justice, has not even begun even as appeal cases continue to inundate the high court.

200 million to the good

1 hour 33 min ago
Domestic revenue exceeds previous year’s by Nu 1.7 billion

National Revenue Report 8 March, 2010 - Domestic revenue in the first year of the 10th plan, 2008-09, amounted to Nu 14.049 bn, a Nu 1.7 bn rise from the previous year, and exceeding the revised target by more than Nu 200 mn, according to the national revenue report.

Blueprint for ICT-literate society

1 hour 33 min ago
5-pronged program expected to kick off by late April 2010

Total Solutions 8 March, 2010 - The Nu 2.05 bn total solutions project will see 7,200 civil servants, including the prime minister, cabinet ministers, government secretaries and dzongdas attending specialised ICT courses to improve the ICT capacity of the government.

Thimphu to Paro run against domestic violence

1 hour 33 min ago

8 March, 2010 - Calling attention to advocate against domestic violence in Bhutan, Ms Robin Martz, an American living in Bhutan will run the 50 km highway between Thimphu and Paro, as Bhutan joins the world to observe International Women’s day today.

Alcohol: Catching them young

1 hour 33 min ago
8 March, 2010 - Youth are a nation’s prized possession, for they are the harbinger of changes that the present generation envisions for the country in years to come.

Therefore, the state of our youth today determines what becomes of the country in future.

Home fires — with a vengeance

1 hour 33 min ago
A mysterious fire — an evil spirit, some say — plagues a Thrimshing village

Mystery: The fire burns even inside locked boxes

8 March, 2010 - Norbu Wangdi’s two storeyed traditional house in Tsangpo village, Thrimshing, is famous in the area for a unique reason – mysterious fires that spring up from nowhere inside their home.

Raising the dropout census issue

1 hour 33 min ago
Lyonpo Minjur Dorji with the dzongdas

Dzongda’s Conference 7 March, 2010 - The government should review the cases of people, whose census were dropped after the nationwide census registration. Dzongdas voiced this concern during the 18th annual dzongdag’s conference, which began yesterday.

Traffic fines get stiffer … tenfold

1 hour 33 min ago
7 March, 2010 - Motorists will soon land up paying fines, 10 times higher than today, if they are caught violating traffic rules. This means that a motorist, who paid Nu 50 for parking in the wrong area, will now have to pay Nu 550.

The pink elephant in the room

1 hour 33 min ago
Health ministry study reveals that more than half Bhutan’s drinkers are its youth

Feature 7 March, 2010 - Bhutanese down 12.5 million litres of alcohol a year and a staggering 54 percent of the country’s total 56 percent youth population below 24 years are the main consumers.

Private schools take up the slack

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 09:44
Class XI Admissions 17 February, 2010 - The 13 privately run higher secondary schools around the country will get more admission applications than they can handle, with almost 5,000 students passing the X examination but scoring below 62 percent and failing to qualify for government institutions.

Lowering the plot size ceiling

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 09:44
Draft National Land Policy 17 February, 2010 - In what could be a practical decision, the national land policy states the minimum plot size of 13 decimals in urban areas and 10 decimals required in rural areas, as per the Land Act 2007 should be liberalised to allow smaller plots.

Glad To Be Back

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 09:44

Picture Story 17 February, 2010 - Shakespeare’s ‘creeping like a snail, unwillingly to school’ doesn’t seem to apply here.

Absconder nabbed in Bumthang

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 09:44
17 February, 2010 - The Thimphu district jail prisoner, who escaped from the national referral hospital on February 11, was re-arrested in Bumthang on February 15. The prisoner, Taula, absconded while waiting to be being treated at the hospital.

What to do at India’s Buddhist holy sites

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 09:44
Book Preview 17 February, 2010 - Maybe you are missing grandparents, relatives and friends, who are away on pilgrimage to Bodhgaya or Varanasi in India. Perhaps you have decided you might just accompany them the next time, but aren’t quite sure what a pilgrimage is all about, or what you’re supposed to do during one.

Possible death by overdose

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 09:44
17 February, 2010 - A 23-year old man, who was found dead early last morning in front of the building where he lived in Phuentsholing town, may have overdosed on banned substances, say doctors.

Human capital

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 09:44
17 February, 2010 - The greatest asset of a nation is neither its natural resources nor its economy, but its people.

While Samtse stagnates, house-owners do great

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 09:44
Same Old Samtse: But not for much longer, residents hope against hope

17 February, 2010 - Payden works in Bhutan and resides in India. This is what the 42-year old corporate employee’s friends say when they discuss the housing crunch in Samtse town.

Picture Story

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 09:44

17 February, 2010 - Parents in Pangthang, Kanglung, help children to wear the school uniform for the first day of school on February 16

Nu 500 mn workshop in Gelephu

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 09:44
Druk Green Power Corporation 17 February, 2010 - The Druk Green Power corporation has acquired 20 acres of land in Gelephu to construct a Nu 518 mn workshop that will carry out repair and maintenance of existing hydro plants and the upcoming 10,000 MW projects.
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