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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 …

With the new vehicle tax coming in, many Bhutanese will opt to import vehicles from India rather than third countries as the tax difference is at 45-125 %. The General Manager of Bhutan Hyundai Motors, Pema Loday, said, “Only few would be able to buy the cars from the third …

Just as ties are forged between countries, families, neighbors, so can similar bonds be struck between people in rural and urban areas. The enthusiasm to build rural-urban bond is visible with the first-ever camp called ‘Rural-Urban’ Friendship (RUF) due to start in December 22. A total of 140 students from …

During the last session of the Parliament, the government informed the House that they were working with the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) on doing away with the preliminary examination (PE), a pledge made by the government. RCSC has not entertained the letter from the Ministry of Labour and Human …

Addressing the members assembled for the event on Thursday, Lyonchhen reiterated that the performance agreements signed between the Prime Minister and the respective agencies meant that the Government lead by Prime Minister himself would fully support the performance agreement which is comprised of a defined set of objectives, mandates and …

The first ever RUB (Royal University of Bhutan) Inter College Literary Meet will be held at Gaeddu College of Business Studies (GCBS) from 28th – 30th June 2014. The meet will see six college participate which includes host GCBS, co-organizer Sherubtse College, Samtse College of Education, Institute of Language and …

The two suspects who were arrested and detained for vandalizing two chortens at Athang gewog in Wangduephodrang on the night of January 1 were slapped with a prison term of 15 years each by the Wangduephodrang Dzongkhag Court on June 20. The convicts are a 27-year-old man from Dangchu gewog …

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during the first foreign country visit to Bhutan, graced a number of milestone events to mark the Bhutan – India relations, one of which was the formal inauguration of the Supreme Court building on June 15. Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Justice of …