DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

Recently a three day- workshop were conducted on global health diplomacy to enable health officials and focal officials in relevant agencies to understand and learn about the global health architecture including global health security, the roles of the actors, stakeholders and interest groups involved in global health governance and diplomacy. …

Lyonchhen (Dr) Lotay Tshering, during the Friday press meet said the government has neither committed any political discrimination nor does the government have any political interest in replacing Zhemgang with Sarpang for the tourism flagship program. Lyonchhen Dr Lotay Tshering said that re-appropriating Nu 11 million (mn) from a total …

The United Nations (UN) in Bhutan launched its Annual Results Report 2018 on Friday at the UN House. This report documents how the UN has mobilized and disbursed USD 15.1 million to support Bhutan’s national development priorities through the Delivering As One approach in 2018. Resident Coordinator of United Nations …

The parents and students had filed a separate case with the RBP The Royal Bhutan Police will start reviewing the case filed by students and parents against the Bhutan Employment Overseas (BEO) agent for the Learn and Earn (LEP) program in Japan from Monday, 22nd July. If there are strong …

Apollo Bhutan institute of Nursing (ABIN), a new nursing institute, was formally inaugurated on 18th July, 2019 by the health minister Lyonpo Dechen Wangmo in presence of the Foreign Minister, Chief Justice, the Vice Chairperson of the Apollo group of hospitals, and dignitaries from various agencies. The institute is the …

19 girls had come forward and lodged complaints against the accused lecturers and staff A College survey had shown majority of respondents saying there are illicit relationships The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has returned the cases of sexual offences, criminal attempt to rape, custodial rape and official misconduct …

The National Assembly (NA) during the presentation of Budget Appropriation Bill in NA endorsed most of the recommendations of the Economic and Finance Committee including the recommendation for all SOEs to submit their annual budget proposals for review through the Ministry of Finance (MoF), to the Economic and Finance Committee …

The State of The Nation Report says that the government is concerned about the sustainability of the private media as Bhutan is only left with five private newspapers and one state owned daily. One of the key pledges of DNT in its manifesto is to strengthen the Bhutanese news media …

The government shared that water issue, both irrigation and drinking will be addressed within their tenure. They have come with a flagship program on water and they also have allocated adequate budget to address water shortage. Question on water issue and its progress were raised during Friday meet yesterday whereby …

The Royal Audit Authority (RAA) conducted the ‘Review of Government Vehicles and Foreign Vehicle Quota System’. The study was carried out with an overall audit objective to determine whether the government vehicle and foreign vehicle quotas were operating economically, efficiently and effectively. Apart from that, the review was conducted also …