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The literacy rate has increased to 71.4 percent currently which among the youth stands at 93 percent. “This is a major achievement as unlike other nations we did not have centuries of mass modern education other than the monastic order” Lyonchhen said in his state of the nation report. “For …

The Government of Japan handed over seven medical equipments for the national and regional referral hospitals to the Ministry of Health on friday. The total cost incurred for the equipment is around 4.5 million USD (Nu 306 million) inclusive of insurance, installation, operational training and maintenance service for four years. …

Service Legal Agreements (SLA) were signed between the Department of Intellectual Property (DoIP) under Ministry of Economic Affairs and the three host institutions, which are College of Science and Technology, Jigme Namgyel Engineering College and Bhutan Innovation and Technology Center to establish a Technology Innovation and Support Center (TISC) in …

The mismatch between teachers’ subject qualification and subject teacher requirement in the schools continues to remain as a challenge, as per the education ministry. A related major challenge also remains in deploying the teachers as per the level of training they received. The national average student teacher ratio as of …

A 47-year-old housewife in Kabesa, Thimphu was informed that she had just won USD 1 million. She had ignored the call which was made on WhatsApp – the free messaging and call mobile application. After frequent calls to get her to respond, she finally relented. On 14 June, the housewife …

On 23rd  May BKP welcomed Mr. Lhakpa Tamang, Mr. Dhan Kumar Ghalley, Dr. Dechen Zangmo and Mr. Dorji Wangchuk to contest for the upcoming National Assembly elections. Dechen Zam to contesting from Kabji-Talo constituency. She brings with her 29 years of working experience in the education sector. In the past, …

Carefully serving hot rice porridge or thukpa to partygoers near Viva City discotheque is a 44-year-old street hawker, Penjor Tshering. Originally from Punakha, Penjor is now settled in Thimphu. Penjor is male biologically male but her mental orientation makes her a female trapped in a man’s body. Penjor has no …

Owing to the need to get everybody on board of its mission and goals, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF) has launched the Renewable Natural Resources (RNR) Professional Development Programme (RNRPDP) for its field staff. According to MoAF, the objective of the initiative is to make the RNR field staff …

Within a month and a half, starting from April and till now, Thimphu police has apprehended 36 people, aged between 17 to 32, including one female, for the abuse of controlled substances. Similarly, for illicit trafficking of contraband substances, the police arrested 6 people in April with a total seizure …

The annual Business Idea Competition of Bhutan (BICOB) saw 139 entries for the competition where 7 were awarded cash prizes at TechPark. The special category introduced this year was for the best entry from students in order to raise awareness on entrepreneurship among the high school and junior high school …