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A perennial grouse within the civil service is that irrespective of whether civil servants are hard working or lazy they all get the same treatment when promotions are around the corner. This, civil servants say has lead to a system where some people shoulder the majority of the work load …

The Opposition party Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) has issued a review of the government’s report on its first 100 days in office. This comes six days after the government claimed of having achieved 74 % of its pledges to be delivered at a press conference on November 9. Save for …

The government also mentioned that the rest of the nine pledges are partially fulfilled Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, at a press conference on November 12, on behalf of the government announced to the media that of the People’s Democratic Government (PDP) government’s 34 pledges, promised to be fulfilled within the …

The Ministry of Health (MoH) will henceforth follow the new design for constructions of Basic Health Units (BHU) across the country in the 11th plan after having found that some of the existing structures are either too small or too big. MoH has now come up with a third design, …

The Ministry of Economic Affairs has formed a task force to study BCCI’s proposal Many residents in Thimphu and other urban areas can be found grumbling and scratching their heads due to a significant jump in their latest electricity bills, as the higher tariff rates approved by the government became …

The medication drug being prescribed to treat diabetes, ‘Pioglitazone’ tablet, which is included under the national essential drugs list, is found to increase the risk of bladder cancer in patients who are exposed to the drug. This is what the Drug Regulatory Authority (DRA) through a letter on the regulatory …

Voters of Nanong-Shumar constituency under Pemagatshel will once again go to the polls today to elect their national assembly (NA) representative. Polls at the 17 polling stations across the three gewogs of Nanong, Zobel and Shumar will begin from 9 am and results shall be counted on the same day …

The Nu 213bn 11th plan is not only the largest plan for Bhutan, but it also reflects a trend of growing consumption of national resources by the government itself. To illustrate this, of the Nu 213bn 11th plan around Nu 121bn or 57 percent is for current expenditure like salaries, …

There is a possibility that the Pemagatshel Nanong-Shumar bye-election slated for early next month could elicit a low voter turnout. Despite having 8,247 total registered voters, only 368 which accounts to about 4.5% have applied for postal ballots. The Election Commission’s (ECB) Returning Officer, Sonam Bumthap said that out of …

Any employee is now eligible for consumer loans from the bank without fulfilling the earlier requirement of three years in service   Incorporating feedback from clients, the nation’s oldest and largest bank, Bank of Bhutan Limited (BOBL) has come up with a much softer eligibility criterion for those applying for …