The eighth edition of Mountain Echoes began yesterday in the capital with the liberating Drametse Ngacham (dance of the drums), where twelve men who represents Guru Rinpoche’s entourage, celebrate the victory of religion. Students of Royal Academy of Performing Arts performed the dance. Her Majesty the Queen Mother, Ashi Dorji …

The Anti-Corruption Commission conducted five-day sensitization programme for government and private sector agencies to streamline the process of integrating National Integrity and Anti-Corruption Strategy (NIACS), one of the integrity promotion tools. The sensitization workshop was aimed at developing plans and programs where ACC shared their revised NIACS to the agencies …

Complete works to be done by 2021 It has been three years and five months since the reconstruction works of the Wangdue Phodrang Dzong began after the fortress was completely razed down in the tragic fire of 24th June, 2012. With about 47 percent of the works having completed so …

In the wake of the recent hackings of the WeChat accounts of many users where obscene and pornographic contents have been circulated, the Bhutan Computer Incident Response Team (BtCIRT) of the Ministry of Information and Communications has come up with some detailed advisory measures on how to secure the app. …

The National Graduates Orientation Program (NGOP) is being organized every year with numerous objectives of enlightening the graduates on the policies, basic culture and tradition of the country, and instigate positive outlook in life. The more than a week long program also focuses to provide the much anticipated information on …

The Embassy of India organized a seminar on “India’s Journey Since 1947: Reflections from Bhutan” as part of the celebrations of 70 years of India’s Independence this year. The speakers for the seminar were retired Justice Sonam Tobgye, who spoke on the experience of India’s democracy, former Home Minister and …

The country’s biggest cement plant, Dungsam Cement Corporation Limited (DCCL) is facing a financial crisis in commissioning timely payments to its transporters and suppliers as the Corporation has not able to claim huge overdues from the contractors of the major Hydro Power Projects, Punatsangchu I and II and Mangdechu. DCCL’s …

The Natural Resources Development Corporation Limited (NRDCL) is taking steps to address the shortfall in sand supply with demand up by three folds from the previous year because of increasing construction activity. “Although we increased our stock by almost two-folds from the previous year to maintain supply during the monsoon, …

The National Graduate Orientation Program this year will be held from 12th -19th August with the theme, “leadership of the self through integrity.” Around 2727 graduates have registered for the program for now, but the figures are expected to fluctuate after verification of documents, which might culminate in the disqualification …

To accelerate the production of agriculture and livestock, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF) launched the Bhutan Livestock Development Corporation Limited (BLDCL) on the 3rd of August 2, 2017 as the first State Owned livestock corporation of Bhutan under the initiative of the Ministry. The Agriculture Minister said that …