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Only two of the eight gewogs in the south eastern district of Samdrup Jongkhar re-elected former gup candidates with the remaining gewogs choosing new faces as their gup. The former gup of Wangphu gewog, Sangay Tenzin, secured another term with 719 votes, of which 113 were postal ballots. His opponent …

The Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan has released 3.42 mn worth of Nu 1000 denomination Commemorative Banknotes to celebrate the birth of His Royal Highness the Gyalsey, Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck. The colour scheme and all the other features of the commemorative banknote are as same as the series 2008 Nu …

Bhutanese who have availed various training courses in India gathered at the Embassy of India, Thimphu, on the evening of September 21 to meet, greet and exchange experiences and knowledge acquired during their training and celebrate  the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation programme or  ITEC day. Under ITEC, India offers …

Applying and renewing licenses for business can now be done online, which means no need to go the trade office and stand in a queue to get paperwork done. The G2C office under the Prime Minister’s Office launched a total of 34 online Government to Business Services (G2B) on September …

A former monk, a graduate of the Institute of Language and Culture Studies or the incumbent could become the next gup of Trong gewog. Trong, in the central district of Zhemgang, whittled down its choices for gup to these three nominations in the recently concluded village cluster (chiwog) level meetings …

Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay drive towards Trongsa yesterday and on the way Lyonchhen stopped at various points to inspect the progress and the quality of East -West Highway. Lyonchhen commended the site supervisors and the contractors for the job well done. Core cutting for the road which was already blacktopped between Thimphu and …

The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) decided to appeal against the Chukha district court’s judgment, passed earlier this week, on the case of the four men accused of smuggling 7kgs of Chinese gold. The judgment that the Chukha district court passed Wednesday, 7th September 2016 convicted Chundu Wangchuk and …

For months the government and the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) has been promising a more fair and realistic loan interest rate. The RMA worked on a Minimum Lending Rate policy (MLR) which was a much more scientific and flexible improvement over the rigid and exaggerated old base rate system below …

One of the three contestants for the Gup’s post in Chapcha gewog, Chukha, is Jamtsho, 34, who believes that he represents youth in the upcoming second local government election. “Youth today think that being unemployed is better than taking part in LG election because they have a wrong notion of …

The price of the smaller and spicier fresh green chilli has been rising ever since the agriculture ministry banned import of Indian chillies after detecting high content of pesticide residue in July this year. A slump in domestic production because of the heavy monsoon has not helped to ease the …