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The Nu 2mn Grant shall be used to create income and employment generating programs and activities in the gewogs To further strengthen good governance, decentralize power and responsibility at the grass root level, and to deliver services as required by respective communities, the government has initiated a system of Gewog …

Delays in budget release have left the construction of gewog connectivity roads, assigned to the Department of Road (DoR) under Ministry of Works and Human Settlement (MoWHS), incomplete or stalled. Six projects were undertaken by DoR, which includes Jhomotshangkha-Lauri in Samdrup Jhongkhar with a stretch of 58.75 km, Broksar-Nagor in …

Jigme Pelden, 36, who once contemplated suicide after all the pain he went through in life, is now a happy responsible father who earns for the welfare of his children, and also writes about his life. Jigme, originally from Goenpakarp under Lhuentse, was painting a four-storey building in Phuntsholing when …

In the year 1987 His Eminence Barstsham Rinpochey Lam Naku told us that the Bhutanese people would first earn their living by selling timber, then next would be water and at last stones. Mining in Bhutan has become a polemic subject although almost every item in the house comes from …

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on November 4 held a meeting with major partner agencies towards implementation of the Debarment Rules, 2013 at the commission’s conference hall in Thimphu. Debarment means a determination by the committee, the evaluation panel and the competent authority that a respondent is not responsible and is …

United Nations (UN) Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, UN Women representative, Rebecca Reichmann Tavares met local journalists yesterday at Taj Tashi, Thimphu. UN Women is a part of the UN family in Bhutan working on the four key areas of gender responsive governance, women political participation, …

Within a span of a week’s time, two cases of people being mauled by a bear in the same dzongkhag were reported to the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP). On October 17, Sangay, a 51-year-old man was mauled by a bear, the second incident reported to Paro police following a similar …

Cho Duba earns a maximum of Nu 54,000 per month on the streets Cho Duba, a street hawker is one of the many men who sell rice porridge in the capital city to sustain his family. It’s an everyday routine for him to get to business by late evening around …

The interface between news media versus social media in Bhutan was discussed at length during South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) – Bhutan Chapter Seminar, conducted amidst Bhutanese media practitioners, lawmakers, and social media users in Thimphu yesterday. With the emergence of social media, particularly Facebook and Twitter which has …

Thousands of graduates attended the National Council (NC) members’ address at the National Graduate Orientation Programme (NGOP) in Thimphu, yesterday. The NC Chairperson, two council members and Director of the house attended the session. NC Chairperson Dasho Dr Sonam Kinga shared mandates and functions of the house as an apolitical …