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iMerit is an exclusive for-profit social enterprise to build the digital livelihoods for the future while affecting positive social and economic change. TechPark launched iMerit in Bhutan to provides tech-enabled data services for applications in areas like machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, e-commerce and Fintech. iMerit’s global client …

Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) has been planning to have new Psychiatric ward for a long time but due to lack of budget or fund, the hospital still uses the old boys’ hotel of Royal Institutes of Health Sciences (RIHS) which was built in around 1974. Currently there …

In an effort to reinforce ‘Developing Accountable, Moral and Transparent Systems and Individual’ (DAMTSI) as the core Bhutanese value, Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering launched the National Integrity and Anti-Corruption Strategy (NIACS) 2019-2023. An official from ACC said that this strategy is an outcome of progressive consultation at various stages …

Easily preventable if detected and treated in the early stages but deadly when caught too late With an increase in awareness programs on cervical cancer and increase in the number of Pap smear screenings in the country, 77 cervical cancer cases were detected in 2018. The record with the JDWNRH …

A three-day training on GeneXpert Machine Operation and Maintenance for Laboratory Personnel will be held in Thimphu from 6th to 8th August 2019. The training course is jointly organized by the Ministry of Health and the SAARC TB and HIV/AIDS Centre in Kathmandu, Nepal. The primary objective of the training …

Four machines have been deployed at Omchhu bridge in Phuentsholing for 24 by 7 dredging purpose no matter what the weather forecast is. The four machines which were deployed from June 27 will be deployed until 27 August and if required they will further extend the timing. Ironically, the problem …

The monsoon season as always has cut off Pasakha from Phuentsholing and they have been cut off for two to three days in spite of the Bhawanijhora Bridge. Though the newly constructed Bhawanijhora Multicellular Box Culvert Bridge was opened to traffic since May this year, the commuters and people face …

After the Cabinet Secretary wrote to the Secretary of the Gross National Happiness Commission (GNHC) on 24th July, 2019, regarding the decision of the Prime Minister to include Sarpang as one of the four focus dzongkhags in the tourism development flagship program in the 12th plan in place of Zhemgang, …

Of late, Bhutan is witnessing the rise of taxis and other vehicles transporting illegal immigrants for large sums of vehicle fare, which can be ten times the actual fare or even more. These illegal immigrants are mostly construction laborers but there are also domestic helps and other categories. There are …

“Be it for surgery or in order to prescribe medicine, medical practitioners look for evidence in the patient. Similarly, in our eight months of governance, in the proposals that come to us, and decisions we are required to make, we have to base it on evidence. Almost everyday, if not …