If housing crunches is one problem, soaring rents are a nightmare. Everyone is on the lookout for a place that does not drain one’s pockets while the ones suffering the most are people from the low-income bracket. However, these problems might be eased, with the National Housing Development Corporation Limited …

The Royal Bhutan Police, fire crew and a few Desups fought a fire at Druk Hotel located near Thimphu Clock Tower yesterday. The fire was reported at 12:10 pm and was extinguished one hour later. In the incidence, a 40-year old maintenance man was injured and taken to the hospital …

Buddhism as a religion gets challenging and even confusing when a child is born to a mother who follows Drukpa Kargyu while the father is a born Nyingma. And it gets chaotic when the father is a sort after master of the school which contradicts the mother’s. Well, Lord Buddha …

Technical Training Institutes play a crucial role in social and economical development of the country.But today, the TTIs image, standards and values remain elusive. Often viewed negatively by society, joining a TTI is considered a last choice, and those who pass out from there are considered dispensable in our system. …

Despite ongoing works to light up the Gelephu international gateway, the country’s second internet gateway which was supposed to be lit last year has still not been operationalised. Bhutan Telecom Limited (BTL) confirmed that the prolonged rental negotiations with Bharti Airtel in India were finalized by the end of last …

Changes are coming – in big and small ways.   The fact that Bhutanese contractors did not have a share in the hydropower pie was an issue much wrangled about by Bhutanese entrepreneurs who aimed to make it big in the area. But the government had closed the doors of …

It has been more than two months since the revered Nyingma master Dungse Thrinly Norbu Rinpoche passed away and since  then his presence is missed around the globe by thousands of devotees. Now, the question doing the rounds is, who will take his place? In the Buddhist context, a lineage …

“If Sangay Khandu is looking for greener pastures, it is his choice,” top DPT activist on Sangay Khandu’s plans to form new party   When this former Samtse chimi took a Bangkok flight after the 2008 elections to finish his graduation, it did not surprise anyone. Sangay Khandu, the DPT’s …