Archive for January, 2010
GOSHI STUDENTS: WRETCHED OF THE EARTH?
People of Goshi geog under Dagana are crying foul, as the plan to reopen the Goshi Junior High School by the beginning of the 2010 academic session seems to be slipping out of their hands. Reopening of the school which had put been under Royal Bhutan Army almost two [Read More]
RECORD SURGE FOR TASHI GROUP’S GOLDEN JUBILEE MARATHON
A record number of participants have registered for the Golden Jubilee Marathon that is being organised in Phuentsholing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Tashi Group of companies on January 31. Some 950 participants from different walks of life are taking part in [Read More]
PRICES, MRP AND CONSUMERS
The consumers have been at the receiving end these days. The prices have been galloping like the runaway horses. Add on to it the 10 percent increase in house rent, which the landlord/lady can legally impose. Living in Thimphu is no more as beautiful as before, many said. A [Read More]
FARM ROAD TO DOBAN BRINGS HOPE TO THE INHABITANTS
The 11-km farm road being constructed from Toribari, Sarpang to Doban geog is soon expected to ease the problems of the inhabitants of the geog. Doban is one of the remotest geogs in Sarpang, and it takes a two-day walk to come to Dzongkhag headquarters and their nearest [Read More]
PM INVITED TO RECEIVE DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD (2009)
The Prime Minister, Lyonchhen Jigme Thinley is one among the three who has been invited to return to Pennsylvania State University in June this year to receive his Distinguished Alumnus Award (named in 2009). The Prime Minister was the first student from Bhutan to select [Read More]
DRUK-PNB:SMART BANKING COMES TO BHUTAN
Competition will now ensure that the other banks gear up to push up their products, facilities and speed or face customer erosion With an ATM card facility that will allow Bhutanese to travel cashless to India, along with the promise of easier and smoother funding of [Read More]
SPORTS TRAINERS TRAINED, BUT WARY OF LOSING JOBS
The games and sports division under the Department of Youth and Sports conducted a week long refresher course for 50 school sports instructors at Sarpang Higher Secondary School. The course ended on 24 January. According to the camp instructor, Sangay Rinzin, a course of [Read More]
HINDU SAMUDAYA CONCLUDES SUCCESSFUL SAMTSE TOUR
Though devotees said they needed more temples and priests, they also felt greatly confident, having had this patronage of the Royal Government The religious tour programme of Hindu Dharma Samudaya of Bhutan (HDSB) comprising of three pundits completed the tour of Samtse [Read More]
THE ICE GOLA MAN IN JAIGAON
Life wouldn’t have been better as it is today for Amit Kumar Bhandar, 25 from Jalandhar, India, if he hadn’t started the ice gola business. Back in 2005, when he first came to Jaigaon with a dream to do something in life, he had to struggle for months to sustain. After [Read More]
BUSY GELEPHU AUCTION YARD
The otherwise silent Gelephu auction yard is busy this winter with lots of business transactions taking place every day. A transaction of course is dominated by oranges as it usually happens in winter. Middlemen collect oranges in large quantities from Sarpang and Tsirang [Read More]
