COVID transmission in relaxed Dzongkhags relatively low During the live session, the member of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG), Dr Sonam Wangchuk, said that the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 is not important, but rather the percentage of population testing positive will be the basis on which the …

During a recent virtual press conference with the media, a concern was raised over possibility of waiver or reduction of electric bill by a resident in Thimphu. To which the Prime Minister Dasho Dr Lotay Tshering replied, “Yes, we have talked to the BPC regarding that. The Government doesn’t have …

The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) team has also done some estimation on how many people will require hospitalization and ICU care if 60 percent of the population is infected. If 60 percent of population are infected, then the projection by the TAG is about 44,000 cases will be detected, out …

Many business entities have been affected in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially now, after the lockdown 4.0 is imposed. To make matters worse, the loan deferment scheme, which is valid until June 2022, is coming to an end. Since most business entities have been running on losses, they …

The Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) recorded 88 complaints in January and February 2022, of which 81 complaints have been successfully resolved, with aggrieved consumers being compensated, unethical practices being rectified, and business entities penalized. The remaining seven cases are under mediation or investigation. Out of the 88 complaints, 57 …

MoLHR to use skills development to help youths get jobs According to the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources (MoLHR), there are about 13,000 unemployed youth who are actively looking for jobs and registered with the job portal currently, as opposed to 6,922 jobseekers in 2021. But the figures may …

The recent unprecedented snowfall, which no one was expecting in decades, disrupted the power supplies in a number of dzongkhags across the country and the BPC front-liners were faced with daunting tasks of restoring power lines, poles and insulators in treacherous locations. The affected areas were mostly from Paro, Thimphu, …

After a wet and cloudy January, Bhutan saw its first heavy snowfall in a decade not only for valleys of Thimphu, Paro, Gasa, Haa and Bumthang but also for low-lying regions like Trashiyangtse, Wangduephodrang, Trongsa, Dagana, Zhemgang and Punakha. In Punakha, it was the first snowfall in 64 years coinciding …

Despite the repeated reminders by the Office of Consumer Protection (OCP), many shops have been turning a deaf ear by choosing to take advantage of the lockdown to hike the prices of vegetables and grocery items. From the start of lockdown from 16 January till 10th February 2022, 43 business …

Karma Yonten, Head of Office of Performance management under His Majesty’s Secretariat, said the country is divided into four zones according to the extent of spread of the virus.  “When the first case is detected in a dzongkhag, the dzongkhag is declared as a black zone and blackout is declared …