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In order to facilitate tshethar activities or the practice of freeing living beings from slaughter and death, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests has developed guidelines for tshethar practices in the country. Providing the rationales behind the formulation and enforcement of the guidelines, agriculture minister, Lyonpo Yeshey Penjore said a …

Perched centrally between Jarey and Maedtsho gewogs, Zangkhar Primary School in Lhuentse has been distinguished in the 90s despite its remoteness for having excelled remarkably in academics amongst all the schools in the country. It is the second school established in 1962 after Lhuentse Primary School in the dzongkhag. Today, …

Discos in Thimphu will be allowed to stay open till 5 am A committee comprising of members from all relevant stakeholders decided that discotheques under Thimphu Thromde will be allowed to operate until 5 AM. They came to a conclusion after studies and discussions for the past three years. The …

One of the main pledges of the DNT was to provide affordable housing, however, major urban places like Thimphu and Phuentsholing are seeing land prices climb to record levels and along with it rents and apartment prices. In response to a question on the issue Lyonchhen said that the government …

During the Friday meet, the Prime Minister Lyonchhen (Dr) Lotay Tshering, in response to a question said that that the number of hotels in the country has increased over the years because of a flaw in the policy where fiscal incentives were provided to hotels indicating people should invest more …

The Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) , concerned with the rapid rise of loans to hotels touching around 27.935 bn in November 2018, did a comprehensive study on the issue led by the Department of Financial Regulation and Supervision (DFRS). The RMA report recommends that RMA in consultation with the Tourism …

Learning the irrelevancy and taxing nature of the syllabus practiced in the education system, the rationalized curriculum, also known as curriculum thinning will be implemented this academic session. The Director of the Royal Education Council (REC), Kinga Dakpa said the work started since the beginning of 2017 which involved the …

One of the new approaches of the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources (MoLHR) to address unemployment in the 12th FYP has been one of their plans to institute an Employment Responsibility System (ERS). “Employment Responsibility System (ERS) is one of the economic points that is covered under the National …

One of the 25 pledges in 120 days of the DNT government is that it would, ‘Initiate recruitment of domestic workers by reviewing and amending immigration rules and regulation and institute stringent monitoring standards and guidelines for that.” The issue is currently being looked at by a committee under the …

Highlighting some of the discussions held at the first ever National Tourism Conference, Lyonchhen (Dr.) Lotay Tshering said that there is humongous potential to take the tourism sector to the top. Lyonchhen said that going by the statistical importance given by everyone on the tourist visiting Bhutan, permitting regional tourist, …