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The intensive effort put into grooming and training the young national footballers by the Bhutan Football Federation (BFF) has finally paid off with a 1-0 victory in the first round of World Cup qualifying match against Sri Lanka on March 12. Bhutan which is the lowest-ranked team in the world, …

MoEA Minister also refutes allegations made against him by the Opposition Reacting to the stand taken by the Opposition party on the RCSC’s decision to reassign the three secretaries, the Prime Minister Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay said that it was meaningless on one hand and damaging on the other hand. “They …

One major misgiving of the government’s oversea employment program that sent Bhutanese youth to work abroad was on the danger of them getting mistreated. This prophecy seems to have come true at least in one case when a Qatar returned graduate Kencho Tshering, shared his and his friends harrowing experience …

I n response to a question from the writer on the drinking and irrigation water problem facing Bhutan, the Prime Minister Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay admitted that both drinking and irrigation water were major issues and a lot needed   to be done. In the case of urban areas the PM said …

India has allocated its largest share of foreign aid to Bhutan, among its neighboring countries for the fiscal year 2015-2016. This was declared during the presentation on “Indian Budget (2015-16): Opportunities for Bhutan”, organized by the Indian Embassy in Bhutan, for first time, at Hotel Taj Tashi in Thimphu, yesterday. …

The Sales Tax will be only be refunded once the Entitlement Bill receives Royal assent According to a senior official in the Ministry of Finance, the Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) will be asking the three MPs who imported Prado’s over a month ago, without any vehicle quota, to …

The Druk Holdings and Investment board in its meeting on Tuesday gave the go ahead to DHI to implement its own annual salary increment system which will no longer be linked to the ad-hoc salary hikes in the civil service. DHI Chairman Dasho Sangay Khandu said, “The board decided that …

In a move that will be welcomed by industrialists and investors, the government will start allocating plots in all or most of the four new planned Industrial Estates from July 2015 onwards. The Minister for Economic Affairs Lyonpo Norbu Wangchuk said, “The government will finalize the Economic Development Policy by …

The catch is that the performance based allowance has been increased In what will be welcome news for 6,627 employees  of Druk Holdings and Investment (DHI) owned companies, the DHI board has approved a pay hike of 24.5 percent to 32 percent. The hikes have been applied in a staggering …

While the civil servants have to patiently wait for their quotas before buying vehicles, some Members of Parliament (MPs) have already gone ahead and imported their Toyota Prados on quota, even without the Ministry of Finance (MoF) issuing vehicle quotas for MPs as yet. The MoF has not issued vehicle …