All the students with Special Education Needs (SEN) will follow the same guidelines as the students in general schools. The opening of SEN schools will be as per the COVID-19 protocols and respective inclusive schools have developed their own guidelines for the students to report to the schools. However, SEN …

The ECCD and SEN Division in the Ministry of Education (MoE) trained 20 private Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) facilitators to ensure more stringent adherence to rules regarding the trained facilitators of the private ECCD centers in the country. The training aims to help the facilitators to be equipped …

Tendruk Central School, the only inclusive school in Samtse, is facing difficulties in providing Special Education (SEN) to students with disabilities. Having the highest diversity of special children, the school has limited facilities. SEN coordinator and a SEN provider in Tendruk CS, Tara Devi Giri, said there is only one …

So far Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) has done more than 8,000 COVID-19 RT-PCR tests for the health staff, patients and attendants. Medical Superintendent of JDWNRH, Dr Gosar Pemba, said around 3,500 tests was done in January and 4,340 in February were done. On an average, 18 to …

Many youths showed interest to work in the construction sector after the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources (MoLHR) announced a wage increment on 29 January under the Build Bhutan Project (BBP). The wage increment was supposed to be given by February, but that did not happen, leaving many workers …

Tsirang police apprehended a 38-year-old man on 3rd March from Gelephu for raping an eight-year-old boy. The victim is a class II student in one of the schools in Tsirang. He was raped (unnatural sex) on 2nd March 2021. The incident was reported to police by the officiating principal of …

Police detained the Khamdang-Ramjar’s Member of Parliament (MP) Kuenga Loday  on 1st March for an alleged illegal road construction case in Trashiyangtse. The gewog’s Mangmi and his three sons were also detained a few months ago in connection to the case, but were out on bail till date. And along with …

Only 22 electric cars are on the way to the country According to the Project Manager of Bhutan Sustainable Low Emission Urban Transport System, Phub Gyeltshen, the importation and supply chain of electric vehicles (EVs) have been affected due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. He said that it has been …

In 2011, based on investigative reports by the Editor of this paper a special RAA report said that in 2007 the actual legal Bhutan Lottery turnover in India was Nu 263.6 bn but Bhutan was only getting a fractional Nu 210 mn of this. Bhutan being taken for such a …

The Check-Post Management System (CPMS) is found to be handy, effective and useful, especially in contact tracing during the outbreak of COVID-19 in the community due to access to instantaneous information on the movement of people. Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) along with the Department of Information Technology & Telecom (DITT) …