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The government will encourage the establishment of colleges in Bhutan, especially involving the private sector. Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, during the last monthly Meet-the -Press session in Thimphu, said the colleges must meet the quality standards. PM said thousands of the Bhutanese students are studying in the colleges abroad, especially …

The College of Natural Resources (CNR), Bhutan and Saint Louis University, USA in a collaborative research on fish diversity in the country, in October last year, has discovered a new species of torrent catfish from Khalingchhu in eastern part of Bhutan. It is an endemic species to Bhutan and found …

The Home Minister Lyonpo Damcho Dorji addressed the 13th annual ministerial meeting of the Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) in the United Nations this week. The minister started by thanking Kalaba, Foreign Minister of Zambia for convening this annual ministerial meeting of Landlocked Developing Countries on the sidelines of the …

The Young Volunteers In Action (Y-VIA), Youth Development Fund (YDF) have come to the rescue of a 76-year-old man, Chari, who was living in a dilapidated hut without electricity. Y-VIA of Tsebar Lower Secondary School have built a small concrete house and a pit toilet for him a few days …

A Foreign Ministry release said that a Chinese cultural troupe from the People’s Republic of China is visiting Bhutan from 26 September 2014 to 1 October 2014 to perform the ‘Chinese Shaolin Kungfu’ on the 27th, 28th and 29th of September 2014 in Thimphu. The cultural troupe is being led …

The Cordyceps has been a financial boon for many highlanders in the country. Around 672 kilograms of Cordyceps was collected in seven gewogs, worth about Nu 470 mn with the average price per kilogram at Nu 0.7 mn in 2014. According to the Cordycep Marketing Report-2014, prepared by the Department …

The Indian flag hoisting ceremony and the Indian National Anthem followed by patrotic songs reveberating in air added to the commemorative spirit of India’s 68th Independence Day celebration held at the Embassy of India, Thimphu on August 15. In the morning, Ambassador Gautam Bambawale read out the message of the …

The Department of Information Technology and Telecom (DITT) is looking at making the government to citizen (G2C) services more user friendly for citizens.  An official, DITT said the initial aspect of the G2C service was focused on the technical aspect and on availabilty of the services relevant to the agency. …

The DHI BEGIN (Business Entrepreneurship Growth and Innovation) is one of DHI’s mandates to lead and stimulate the private sector development through a culture of innovation, creativity and enterprise. The 5th batch of DHI BEGIN, that began three months ago, ended on July 29. In the closing of the program, …

An inflation report of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MoEA prepared re¬cently by the Office for Consumer Protection under MoEA and the National Statistics Bureau titled ‘Report on Price Increases & Inflation Management’ tracks among other things inflation trends in the last four years. It says that headline inflation in …