July 3: The National Council adjourned today’s sitting because the Home and Cultural Affairs Minister Lyonpo Minjur Dorji failed to attend the session.

July 3: The National Assembly began discussions on the Civil Service Bill today. The bill will help strengthen the civil service and create conditions conducive for promotion of good governance.

July 3: The news is bad for motorists. The fuel price has shot up once again.

July 3: Taxi drivers have been talking about this problem over and over again. Civil servants driving taxis are eating into their earnings. Not only that. Civil servant taxi drivers are slashing the rates. If the actual fare is Nu. 100, civil servants driving taxis charge only Nu. 70 to Nu. 80.

July 3: More than 30 people attended the promotion of The Circle of Karma in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Thursday.

July 1: A man was killed when a falling boulder hit the taxi he was driving in Takti, about 73 kilometres from Phuentsholing. He was coming from Phuentsholing when the accident occurred today. The boulder crashed onto the driver’s side of the taxi.

July 1: The National Council member and Vice Chairperson, Dasho Karma Ura, has resigned.

July 1: The 1st sitting of the 3rd session of the National Council began today. In his inaugural address the chairperson, Namgye Penjore, expressed gratitude and felicitations to His Majesty the King for touring remote villages to grant land Kidu to the landless and poor people.

June 30: A 75-year-old woman has been killed in Namgaycholing village of Leherini Geog in Samtse.

June 30: The National Assembly saw extensive discussions on the problem of wild animals damaging crops and attacking livestock.

June 29: His Majesty the King granted audience to the India's Chief of Army Staff, General Deepak Kapoor today.

June 28: The Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley left for a six day visit to the Indian capital New Delhi today.

June 28: The potato price at the Phuentsholing Food Corporation of Bhutan (FCB) auction yard is set to set a record high. The price of potatoes is expected to reach a record Nu. 25 a kilogram this year according to the predictions made by the FCB.

June 28: Not long ago, children would sit around their grandparents at night after dinner listening to stories of fairies, prince and princess, and distant lands. This tradition of oral story telling is dying. Many say it is already dead.

June 28: The 14 Kilometer Khebisa-Drujegang farm road in Dagana Dzongkhag benefits more than 200 households. It was completed about six months ago.