The Deputy Chief of Police, Colonel Dorji Wangchuk, who looked after Crime and Operations in the RBP was terminated from service towards the end of May 2021 on the recommendation of an RBP Enquiry Committee to the Police Service Board. When the RBP sent its investigation report into the Criminal …

Given the urgency, the country will have temporary quarantine centers with a total capacity of 1,000 beds which are currently under construction and will be completed by the end of September 2021. There is a 200 bedded quarantine center in Samtse which expected to be completed by the end of …

Although more than 100 government Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) centers have been established in 2019-2020, across the 20 dzongkhags, however, ECCDs are non-operational due to the lack of facilitators. The Ministry of Education (MoE) is awaiting approval for recruitment of facilitators from RCSC, and the sooner the approval …

Although the scheduled pilot project for biometric data collection was over by 23 April but due to the current COVID-19 situation in the country, and growing concerns in the south, the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) deferred the nationwide rollout to begin, after the second dose of the vaccination …

On the 3-4th of August 2021, a National Logistics Preparedness Inception workshop was held by the Department of Disaster Management and MoAF in collaboration with WFP. The workshop was organized as a part of activities under the Global Logistics Cluster Field-Based Preparedness Project. The interactive workshop aimed to support local …

FCBL says export restrictions are designed to safeguard trading partners’ local farming communities, while some are designed to defend against diseases and chemicals According to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Food Corporation of Bhutan Limited (FCBL), Naiten Wangchuk, Buyback is not a good system because it will deplete government …

There are 890 students in classes IX to XII, with 84 teachers, from Phuentsholing, who will be leaving to their new school on 15th and 16th August to continue their second term of the 2021 academic year, in Phaduna, Punakha. The Education Minister Jai Bir Rai said the plan for …

11 new positive cases were detected on Friday from the Medical Supply and Distribution Depot (MSDD) which was functioning in a self-containment mode. Health Minister Dasho Dechen Wangmo said they were not in a containment mode and there was a miscommunication. She said they were working in MSDD and during …

Once upon a time, the government thought a tough Tobacco Law banning import of tobacco will discourage smoking, but what we got was a lot of people getting locked up, legislative backtracking, an elaborate smuggling network that helped bring in COVID-19 and the smokers still continued to smoke. We appear …

The Trashiyangtse court on 13 August convicted six defendants, which are Khamdang Ramjar’s Member of Parliament from DPT Kuenga Loday, Mangmi Sangay Tempa, Sangay Thinley, Sangay Wangdi, Karma Tshering and Karma Loday to a prison term ranging from three to five years. MP Kuenga Loday was charged on 7 grounds …