SKW-Tashi Metals shuts down temporarily
Employees reported of not being paid for two months Employment: About 83 employees of SKW-Tashi Metals and Alloys Private Limited of Pasakha have sought the Phuentsholing labour office’s intervention...
View ArticlePM remedies red tape on the spot
…and Chapcha gewog’s yearlong wait for an approval came through yesterday Visit: For the past one year, Chapcha gup Dorji Penjore has been running from one agency to another in the capital seeking...
View ArticleFirst modern bus stop opened
The World Bank is funding the upgrade of 77 more bus stops in the city Transport: As part of an effort to improve public transport in Thimphu city, a model bus stop was inaugurated along the...
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Sports among new insurance schemes
Insurance: Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Limited launched five new insurance policies yesterday including two life insurance schemes. Life insurance policies are Endowment plan for senior...
View ArticleClimate resistant rice released
Agriculture: Climate change might already be affecting rice yield in Bumthang going by an increasing reports of yield decline although ADB’s recent report on assessing climate change costs in south...
View ArticleBhutan’s gender disparity one of worst in South Asia
The gender index assesses countries across health, education, economic opportunities and political empowerment Ranking: Although Bhutan has moved two places up in the recently released Global Gender...
View ArticleBongo and Darla gewogs seek bifurcation
The gewogs’ vast size and scattered settlement makes service delivery a challenging task, the gups informed the PM Visit: Bifurcation of a gewog each from Bongo and Darla gewogs, admission of children...
View ArticleACC is not a terror organisation: ACC Chairperson
Workshop: Anti-Corruption Commission is an organization that promotes integrity to reduce corruption and not a terror organization, chairperson Kinley Yangzom said. The commission is working towards...
View ArticleGIS to make planning more efficient
Conference: In what could be taking the method of infrastructure planning to the next level, a Geographic Information System (GIS) will be used in the 12th Plan. That means any government agencies...
View ArticleRising ARI cases concern health officials
Pollution: Although common, health officials in Nganglam are calling on relevant authorities to look into addressing the increasing dust pollution in the town after they received more than 4,000...
View ArticleImmigration rules tightened
Working visa to foreign interns or individual volunteers will not be issued unless they are from institutionalized agencies Labour: Foreigners willing to work in the capacity of any professional...
View ArticleCabinet endorses six months paid maternity leave
Health: The Cabinet has endorsed the proposed six months paid maternity leave along with six months flexi time. Works and human settlement minister Dorji Choden said the cabinet reviewed and made...
View ArticleBest public health approach is ‘beneficial disclosure’ of HIV status
This is in response to Kuensel’s editorial, “Who are we protecting” on December 9. Unfortunately, there are still people – even today in 2015 – who do not know enough about HIV, the virus that can...
View ArticleJapan to help fulfill farm road targets
Agrees in principle to supply 30 excavators and 20 backhoe machines Grant: The government of Japan will grant machineries by June 2017 to help the government accomplish the farm road construction...
View ArticleVillage seeks to leave yenlag thromde
… as their land falls on both sides of the boundary which would mean they would be paying both rural and urban taxes Boundary: Villagers of Thangchu Gonpa have once again appealed to Phuntshothang...
View ArticleIllegal occupants asked to vacate govt. land
While four land owners cry foul over compensation PHPA II: Kinley Dorji, 54, has been living in a single storied structure at Kamichu market along the Tsirang-Wangdue highway for more than 23 years....
View ArticleJDWNRH’s dialysis unit short of space
Four dialysis machines are lying idle for want of space but work has begun to establish a new unit Health: The country’s biggest hospital is short of space. Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral...
View ArticleWhat about the others?
After much speculation, the cabinet has endorsed the six-month paid maternity leave along with another six months of flexi time. The leave for civil servants could come into effect from January 1. This...
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