The national level entrepreneurship stakeholders meeting with special focus on collaboration and integration took place in the capital on Monday, December 16. The Ministry of Labour and Human Resources (MoLHR) has always laid the utmost emphasis on entrepreneurship development in the country. This comes in recognition of the fact that …
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Response to, “NA’s Legislative Committee discusses RtI with relevant agencies”
RTI will automatically generate information, which in turn, will be transformed into knowledge that is useful to the people and the country to create a knowledge society. A knowledge based society is the only secured source of security and sovereignty for Bhutan in this present knowledge-century. This knowledge, developed due …
Read More »The State of the Nation and the National Day Address.
If one reads the State of the Nation Reports in the last couple of years then one would get a feeling that everything was going on very well and the ‘untrustworthy media’ except for a ‘credible few’ was blowing everything out of proportion. Even when the rupee and credit crisis …
Read More »Taking MoF’s advice of keeping Kuensel for ‘political, social, strategic’ reasons new govt decides to not privatize Kuensel
The Cabinet in a decision on 4th December 2013 has decided not to privatize Kuensel, which will mean that the government will continue to hold on to its 51 percent majority share in the paper and can have the final say on management issues. The decision sent to the Ministry …
Read More »World Cup Trophy in Bhutan for the first time
In what could be a historic moment for the country, the official FIFA World Cup Trophy was brought to Bhutan for the first time yesterday. This gave hundreds of football enthusiasts in Thimphu a life time opportunity to get an upclose look at the most coveted prize in football. The …
Read More »His Majesty highlights national challenges
The King urged citizens to work in unity and to confront the challenges, and also acknowledged civil servants across the country for their service to the nation While the limelight of the National Day this year was on civil servants, His Majesty the King, in his address to the nation …
Read More »Anti-Corruption Day celebrated
The International Anti-Corruption Day (IACD) was celebrated in Thimphu on December 9 with the launch of a report titled “Integrity and Value Education in Schools” and a debate competition on “The Present Generation Upholds Better Values than the Earlier Generation” within four higher secondary schools in the capital. This year, …
Read More »Long-serving government employees motivated and inspired by medals and certificates before National Day
The social media, these days, is often taken as a good barometer of public opinion. In the past few days, the same social media which until recently was used by civil servants and corporate employees to complain, underwent a magical transformation. Social media outlets, especially on Facebook, saw civil servants …
Read More »Four poachers nabbed
The apprehended miscreants who were poaching inside protected park areas in the high altitude zones of JSWNP were caught after officials recovered one of the culprit’s CID from the vicinity of the crime scene Poaching in the country, like in many other nations, is fast becoming rampant with reports of …
Read More »GoI releases Nu 1.5bn for ESP
This is the second release of funds by GoI for the ESP The Ambassador of India to Bhutan, V.P. Haran handed over a cheque amounting to Indian Rupee (INR) 1.5bn to Finance Minister Namgay Dorji yesterday for the government’s Economic Stimulus Plan (ESP), in the presence of Prime Minister Tshering …
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The Bhutanese Leading the way.