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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 …

The National Assembly passed the Budget Appropriation Bill 2014-15 and the Supplementary Budget Appropriation Bill 2013-14. The Opposition Leader, Pema Gyamtsho, said there are no clear plans on how to reduce the poverty rate in the country in the Budget Appropriation Bill. He said that to reduce the poverty rate, …

The recommendations from the experts who evaluated the government website competition for the first time, this year say the government websites are static and not updated limiting their benefits and use. The competition was held as per the directives of the Prime Minister of Bhutan with the generic objectives and …

A chorten located near Dorikha village of Samar gewog under Haa was vandalized in the night of June 4. This is the third time that the chorten has been vandalized by miscreants. First time, the chorten was vandalized back in 1995, where all the Nangtens were stolen and no suspects …