The Minister of Agriculture and Forests, Yeshey Dorji, said that the electric fencing is an effective and cheaper way to ward off the human-wildlife conflict. He was speaking at the 14th Meet-the-Press yesterday. Lyonpo said the government plans to carry out a mass solar powered or electric powered fencing project …

The east, being far off from the capital and lacking in many fronts, will be the focus of a balanced regional and equitable development. The government has integrated an eastern development initiative into the 11th FYP, said Minister of Works and Human Settlement (MoWHS) at the 14th Meet-the-Press held yesterday …

The steep increase in the price of eggs, with each egg costing Nu 15, has affected the people in the east. The price was at an affordable Nu 8 per egg earlier. The price increase started in December, forcing the consumers to buy the imported eggs from India. The import …

The Media Owners Association of Bhutan (MOAB) was formed on 6th January 2015 to fulfill the role of a much needed media association in Bhutan according to a release.  The MOAB represents media houses – its members are owners, CEOs, MDs and management representatives of 13 media houses, including both …

To provide understanding and clarity on the roles and responsibilities of Information & Media Officers (IMOs), the Department of Information & Media (DoIM) organized a weeklong IMO training from December 1 to December 5. There were 35 IMOs from Ministries and Autonomous agencies who participated in the training. It is …

Regarding the leaked English II paper, this was the decision made by the Bhutan Council for School Examination and Assessment, BCSEA: I belief that this decision is unfair and unscientific for reasons I shall present here. The board mentions that it will take anywhere from about 4-11 million Ngultrum to redo the …

Background and Evolution of the Bhutanese Media   Media, in a modern sense of the word, started only from the 1970’s onwards in Bhutan.  Media, like much else, took off as a part of Bhutan’s process of planned development and modernization that started from 1962 onwards with the country’s five-year …

If anybody wanted to see one of the reasons for the state of our economy, the collective outrage of 417 B.Ed graduates at 182 job vacancies is a good pointer. Anywhere else in the developing work, graduates of any college would be overjoyed at the 50 percent chance of finding …

Education minister says final decision from BCSEA coming in next one or two days   Though no minister in the monthly, meet the press, said it explicitly yesterday, there was a clear preference from the cabinet and the PM to give the students their original English II marks and then …

Taking a clear position on the issue of RCSC issuing a limited number of Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) jobs, the Prime Minister Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay said that the assumption that every B.Ed graduate student would automatically get a government job is wrong to begin with. There were 182 vacancies for …