Kuensel Newspaper

2 in operation by year-end

Single operator of domestic air service to be decided on March 15

Bathpalathang Airport: The govt. owned land in Bumthang identified for the purpose

Domestic airports 9 March, 2010 - Work on the domestic airport at Bathpalathang in Bumthang will begin early next week to have it ready for use by the end of September this year.

GNH in action

16 Class XII students explain to the PM how they practise the philosophy

Feedback Session The prime minister interacts with participants of the Education For GNH workshop

9 March, 2010 - A few students in the capital, who lived within walking distance from school, but would rather have their parents chauffeur them to school in a car, have now begun walking.

The why�s and wherefore�s of the Wagon R�s

The old controversy of misuse of official vehicles

9 March, 2010 - In addition to their designated Toyota Prado vehicle, the 10 cabinet ministers were issued with a Wagon R small car each in August 2009 for secretarial duties, like delivery of letters and documents during office hours.

Picture Story

9 March, 2010 - (From left: Director of department of school education, Tshewang Tandin, and Proprietor of Yana Expeditions, Tashi Kelson Tobgay)
Yana Expeditions, a tour company based in Thimphu, and president of Unique Journeys International in Canada, Linda Sawyer, donated the first batch of around 3,000 English library books to the education ministry for rural students yesterday. The proprietor said that they would be donating more library books to the department this year.

Ministry holds up allotment

The Grass Is Growing For reasons unknown, a long awaited township is still awaited for

Dekiling Town 9 March, 2010 - The much-awaited new Dekiling town site in Bumthang is ready with 75 plots ready for development, but it is not clear when the plots will be allotted.

Women still playing catch-up

While female unemployment rose, they remain under-represented in governance

International Women�s Day Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck at the College of Business Studies in Gedu for the celebrations

Asia-Pacific Human Development Report 2010 9 March, 2010 - Although Bhutanese men and women enjoy equal inheritance rights, men still continue to lead in the political sphere and labour force participation, states the Asia-Pacific human development report 2010, launched yesterday coinciding with the international women�s day.

Road block on the information highway

9 March, 2010 - Even as the government plans to drive down the information highway, riding on broadband, one irony today is that we are communicating less. It is common to see mistakes made at all levels and by everyone because of lack of communication or miscommunication.

Packed to no purpose

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

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

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.