January 27: A woman in Wangduephodrang has been sentenced to nine years in prison for drug peddling. She was also involved in trading tobacco products. The woman is from Kazhi Geog.

Disaster rescue and medical airlift also part of services
27 January, 2010 – The department of civil aviation has invited international and domestic companies to submit proposals to operate domestic air services that should cater to a 100,000 tourists by 2012 and also offer disaster rescue and medical evacuation services.

27 January, 2010 – The ambassador of India to Bhutan, Pavan K Varma, met prime minister Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley last evening in Thimphu to hand over a Nu 250 million (25 crore) contribution cheque towards the government’s disaster relief fund.
Presenting the cheque the ambassador said that the contribution is a small token of deep [...]