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Friendship: A strong friendship between  His Majesty the Third King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck and a Swiss businessman, Fritz von Schulthess, resulted in an equally strong relationship between the two countries.

Lake: Six kilometres away from Lhamoizingkha in Dagana, there is a lake at a place called Khurul. It is an oyster lake significant and sacred to the people.

Charity: Namgay Lhamo’s youngest son was only ten months old when her husband abandoned the family in 2012. For a mother of four, life had suddenly turned upside down.

The ECR is likely to close down from the next academic session

Education: Despite having to walk for more than an hour to reach his school, nine-year-old Kinley Wangchuk’s parents are not willing to send him to a central school.

Conflict: Trongsa Dzong, like farmlands in the deep pockets of the country, is enclosed with an electric fence to keep the intruding monkeys at bay.

Innovation: Stylish, bold and unique. That’s how a motorbike in Kanglung, Trashigang is being described. Ugyen Jatsho, 25, has customised and assembled a motorbike.

Teachers, parents, and their children come together to solve an emerging problem

Parenting: “Two things I dislike are alcohol and We-Chat. These make my parents quarrel,” read one of the quotes on a board at the Khasadrapchu middle secondary school (KMSS).

Culture: Elsewhere in the world, sunflower is cultivated for oil extraction. This is not the case is in Bumthang. They cultivate sunflowers for the seeds. The seeds are a popular snack for the Bumthaps.

Landmark: Chapcha dzong has become an eyesore to the people of Chapcha. They want the dzong to either be renovated or demolished completely.

Profile: Fifty-nine-year-old Partiman Aley of Tsirang has kept his ancestral herbal medicinal practice alive. He clearly remembers the day he began learning the secrets of herbal medicine in 1967 from his grandfather. He was 10 years old. He accompanied his grandfather into the high Himalayas in search of herbal plants. …