Aimed at achieving full employment, as pledged by the government, its scheme of overseas employment for Bhutanese jobseekers may soon materialize as interested local private agencies obtain licenses to export workers. Besides easing unemployment problem, the program is expected to help the country earn foreign currency, encourage transfer of knowledge …

The shocking lesson isn’t that politics demands dirty hands, but that politicians shouldn’t care You remember the photograph: President Obama hunched in a corner of the Situation Room with his national-security staff, including Hillary Clinton with a hand over her mouth, watching the live feed from the compound in Pakistan …

One of the many ways the government interacts with the general public is through its ‘Meet-the-People’ program initiated after it took up office in August. Meet-the-People program is a feedback and public grievance redressal system where the people can directly meet the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Ministers, without seeking …

His Royal Highness Dasho Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck and Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay graced the prize distribution ceremony of the India House Golf tournament 2013 on November 10. The tournament was organized at the India House Golf Club, Thimphu, over a period of five days from November 5 to 9 to commemorate …

The Nu 2mn Grant shall be used to create income and employment generating programs and activities in the gewogs To further strengthen good governance, decentralize power and responsibility at the grass root level, and to deliver services as required by respective communities, the government has initiated a system of Gewog …

Delays in budget release have left the construction of gewog connectivity roads, assigned to the Department of Road (DoR) under Ministry of Works and Human Settlement (MoWHS), incomplete or stalled. Six projects were undertaken by DoR, which includes Jhomotshangkha-Lauri in Samdrup Jhongkhar with a stretch of 58.75 km, Broksar-Nagor in …

Jigme Pelden, 36, who once contemplated suicide after all the pain he went through in life, is now a happy responsible father who earns for the welfare of his children, and also writes about his life. Jigme, originally from Goenpakarp under Lhuentse, was painting a four-storey building in Phuntsholing when …

In the party’s news release yesterday, Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) has criticized the government’s 100 days pledges. “As a Bhutanese, one should receive the right information on the achievements of the government, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has unfortunately failed,” the news release read. The release states that as a constitutional …

Bhutan InfoComm and Media Authority (BICMA) recently downsized more than five channels from the only two cable operators, Norling cable and Etho Metho cable, in Thimphu for exceeding the 68 channels limit. BICMA maintained that cable operators have to keep the total channels at 68 limit, and from the existing …

However, the country’s economy grew by only 4.6 percent, one of the slowest in recent years Despite recording a sharp fall in growth rate, the tertiary sector’s performance at the broad aggregate level for the year 2012 has been much better than the primary and secondary sectors. Recent reports published …