PDP launches campaign from Punakha

The shopkeepers in Laya no longer import goods from Punakha, Wangdue and Thimphu. The gewog remains cut off from rest of the country for about six months because of snow and heavy rain. In winter, the shopkeepers migrate to warmer places. At this ...

How Dzongkha became the National Language. It was in 1971 that the third King declared Dzongkha to be the national language. Of the 18 languages spoken in the country it is one of the few languages with a written script. Before this ...

For IT professionals and colleagues Vinod Kumar Menon and Rajaneesh Shanmugham, who work at a multinational company in Technopark, the thrill is in the ride. The duo is just back from a two-week motorcycling odyssey across Bhutan, travelling roughly ...

For an Indian tourist seeking a summer holiday escape, the neighboring landlocked kingdom of Bhutan -- nestled in the southern slopes of the eastern Himalayas -- assures easy accessibility to happiness. And it's not just because of the lack of a ...

Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinley, National Assembly Speaker, Jigme Tshultim, and Cabinet Ministers received a farewell audience with His Holiness the Je Khenpo in Punakha

The recently opened private museum in Paro provides glimpses of artefacts that are almost rare in the only two national museums we have in Bhutan. By any account it will be a visual treat for the visitors. Located 500 metres north of Paro en route ...

The plots at Wophu is where beneficiaries will take up residence in winters This winter might probably have been the last for people of Laya to camp by the roadside between Gasa and Punakha, around Gasa dzong and in the open on the paddy fields ...

I took a group of professors from Naropa University to visit some of the celebration sites of the first International Day of Happiness, observed in Thimphu. I felt rather proud as a Bhutanese to inform my friends that Bhutan has been responsible in ...

As a result of some variety added to the festival performances For the first time, Dawa Dem, 76, from Laya came to watch the annual Gasa tshechu, which ended yesterday. Born, raised and grown old in Laya, Dawa Dem had never been to Gasa ...