Domestic credit at Nu 97B
The Royal Monetary Authority’s (RMA) financial inclusion initiative is expected to fuel domestic credit to almost 50 percent of the GDP in the medium term. According to the RMA’s monetary policy...
View ArticleDagana farmers await replacement for felled citrus trees
Until 2015, Phurba Motkan in Tashiding, Dagana used to earn at least Nu 50,000 from his citrus orchard. Since then he has been struggling to earn cash income to feed his family and educate his...
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The national airlines, Drukair, conducted a successful test flight at the Yonphula domestic airport in Kanglung yesterday. The official flight time from Paro international airpot to Yonphula is 45...
View ArticleTake development to the highland
In the first meeting of the highlanders in the capital Wednesday, more than 350 highlanders from 10 dzongkhags met to put before the government a list of priorities for the highland communities in the...
View ArticleWHO gives medical camp kits to health ministry
World Health Organisation (WHO) country representative, Dr Rui Paulo de Jesus handed over two medical camp kits to the health secretary Dr Ugen Dophu at the health ministry in Thimphu yesterday....
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The Phase III of “Capacity Building Programme for Strengthening TVET in Bhutan” ended yesterday with the training of 28 participants. This marks the end of the one year Project on Capacity building...
View ArticlePhuentsholing police retrieves a stolen bolero
After six months of follow up, the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) in Phuentsholing has retrieved a bolero (single cabin) that was stolen in April this year. The bolero had gone missing on April 24 along...
View ArticleNeed to identify landslide prone areas in Thimphu
There is a need to have a landslide inventory study and mapping done for Thimphu to identify risk-prone areas and prevent landslides. Urban Planner of Thimphu thromde, Kezang Dorji said that landslides...
View ArticleRural Bhutan grapples with the misuse of social media
While the penetration of social media has enhanced communication and transformed the information sharing culture in rural Bhutan, users are now seeing the ugly side of technology. Recently, an...
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Thimphu at risk of rainfall induced flood
Among the different types of flood Bhutan experiences, Thimphu is most vulnerable to rainfall-induced floods. This was shared during the Thimphu thromde’s disaster management committee meeting held on...
View ArticleGoshing gup accused of embezzlement
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has forwarded to the Office of the Attorney General a case where Zhemgang’s Goshing Gup Sangay Letho is alleged of embezzling about Nu 10.594 million (M) from...
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Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy (BCMD) and UNICEF is training 20 adolescents including five nuns from Drubthob Thangtong Dewachen Nunnery and five monks from Dechen Phodrang Monastery in Basic...
View ArticleLocal vendors prefer roadside to market shed for business
The footpath along the Methidrang stream leading towards the vegetable market in Trashigang remains covered with the season’s fresh produce. Farmers from Ramjar and Gongthung flock the footpath with...
View ArticleMongar gets 21 contract teachers to address shortage
MoE points out the dzongkhag education sector’s inefficiency in deployment of teachers Mongar education sector deployed 21 contract teachers to address teacher shortage in schools across the dzongkhag...
View ArticlePlastic and restorative surgical camp underway in Thimphu
About 150 patients from across the country were screened in the last two days for the plastic and restorative surgical camp at the national referral hospital in Thimphu. Interplast Australia and New...
View ArticleBureaucratic red tapes and inapt system hinder intl. trade
While Bhutan has leapfrogged in ease of doing business ranking, bureaucratic hurdles, lack of coordination and poor system are still impeding cross border trade. Despite the government’s effort to...
View ArticleHow media literate are we?
As our society evolves, the way we share information is changing. And we are grappling with this difficult evolution today. In the society we live, prudish as we might want to believe we are, change is...
View ArticleThree arrested for possessing 15kg gold
Soldiers of the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) in Gunitsawa apprehended three men from Tsento gewog in Paro for illegal possession of 15kgs of gold on the night of September 30. RBA handed over the three men,...
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PM visits Lhuentse
Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay began his gewog tours in Lhuentse dzongkhag yesterday with Kurtoe. A resident of Tabe chiwog, Tenzin Dhendup raised concerns on how the gewog budget was spent and its benefit...
View ArticleChukha court alters sentence for lack of evidence
Altering the Phuentsholing drungkhag court’s judgment, Chukha dzongkhag court sentenced a 28-year-old man to three years on a reduced charge of aiding and abetting in drug trafficking last week. The...
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