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To continue strengthening the skills of auditors through exchange programs, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) and the Office of Comptroller and Audit General of India was renewed for another six years. The MoU, signed in Thimphu this week, is aimed to strengthen existing friendly …

The Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC) and Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) has signed a memorandum of understanding to set up sports scholarships for students in colleges. Every year, 20 scholarships would be provided in the various colleges of the RUB to study diploma or under graduate programs. The press release …

Representatives from member countries of International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Bhutan, Nepal and India, discussed the effects of natural and human disturbances on wet land during a three day-long consultation meeting held in Thimphu. A book on the changes in the region of Phobjikha conservation areas and also …

Bhutan is moving closer to achieving e-governance, as the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) concluded the second phase of its ICT e-Gov master plan on April 14 at Banquet Hall, Thimphu. The point to institutionalize e-Gov governance structure was to manage and ensure effective implementation of the e-Gov master …

The 5th edition of Annual Info-comm and Transport Statistical Bulletin 2014 states that the number of vehicles in the country has increased by 0.71 %, whereas the number of taxis has declined by 3.04% during 2012 to 2013. The bulletin also reveals that although there is a temporary prohibition on …

The overseas employment program is one of the strategies adopted by the government to ease the unemployment problem in the country. The Ministy of Labour and Human Resources plans on sending some 30,000 Bhutanese to work abroad over the next five years. According to a labour official, under RGoB initiative, …

Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF) has identified five places in the country to establish advanced cold storage facilities to retain home grown vegetables, especially potatoes, to make it available for the Bhutanese consumers, and also to help reduce vegetable import. The estimate and plans for setting up the cold …

In order to control vector-borne diseases in the country, the Ministry of Health (MoH) will observe the World Health Day in Phuentsholing with the theme of vector-borne diseases on April 7. A clean up campaign will also be held on the day. The Chief Program Officer (CPO), Rinzin Namgay, of …

National and international participants gathered for the first ever Better Business Summit, in the capital, that started on March 26. The summit was held to promote policies, strengthen institutions and generate ideas to improve the prosperity and well being of Bhutan’s economy through means such as entrepreneurship development and private …

Bhutan will join rest of the world today, in observing the Earth Hour, by switching off the lights. The day is observed on the last Saturday of March every year because it is a time of spring and fall equinoxes in the northern and southern hemispheres respectively. The Earth Hour …