The Royal Civil Service Commission’s (RCSC) first year of its performance assessment system results, that track the individual performance of all civil servants, confirmed some long standing conventional wisdom on the civil service. The wisdom being that roughly around 20 percent of the civil servants are very hardworking and take …
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None other than the Opposition Leader, Dr Pema Gyamtsho took to his own Facebook account on 9th June to clarify that Samrang is not a slaughterhouse, based on a recent visit there. The OL said, “Yesterday, I visited Samrang Farm and was pleasantly surprised to see that all the hype …
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The Bhutanese Embassy in Delhi confirmed that three Bhutanese women have been rescued by the Mumbai police from a Sri Lankan travel agent for allegedly trying to fly to Sri Lanka. She told The Bhutanese that a cop in Mumbai confirmed that the three Bhutanese girls, in a statement, said …
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In keeping with the wishes of Their Majesties, people from all walks of life have been welcomed at the Lingkana Palace over the years, for an opportunity to offer their wishes to Their Majesties on important occasions. As Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen turned 28, representatives from the Taxi Tshogpa, Centenary …
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The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has written to the SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SAARC CCI) saying that BCCI might consider withdrawing from SAARC CCI if Bhutan’s BCCI is not given its rightful turn to be the President for 2020 to 2021. This letter sent on …
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Bhutan’s largest facebook forum ‘BHUTANESE News and FORUMS’ and also the biggest source of fake news in the country recently had a post by a fake account ‘Kappor Devan’ that announced that the former National Council Chairman Dasho Sonam Kinga had joined DPT. The post was accompanied with the facebook …
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29 May 2018, Thimphu: His Majesty The King granted Dhar to the members of the National Council, in a ceremony that was also graced by Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen. The third National Council election was held on 20 April 2018.
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If there is one negotiation to keep an eye on, then it is the ongoing electricity tariff rate negotiations for the 720 MW Mangdechu project scheduled to be commissioned by November 2018. This is because in the ongoing negotiation between Bhutanese and Indian officials the method of setting the tariff …
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In line with sharply increasing international crude prices the Department of Trade announced another hike in petrol and diesel prices effective from the midnight of 1st June 2018. The price of petrol has gone up by Nu 3.23 to Nu 3.28 depending on the region and that of diesel has …
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Namgay Dorji, is the Managing Director of the Namgay Heritage Hotel in Thimphu, Hotel Namgay in Phuentsholing and a beer factory and restaurant in Paro. He said that the loan interest rate reductions from September 2016 has meant that he pays upto Nu 200,000 less per month to the banks …
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