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Should the teacher always know more than the pupil? General question! Should the teacher teach if he/she herself stands on a pedestal of mediocrity and below par performances? That would be the burning question which ensues from the immediacy of Teacher Needs Assessment (TNA), 2011 results. An evaluation was carried …

Import ban on vehicles/heavy equipment While neither the government nor the central bank provided any clues on the vehicle ban, vehicle importers in the capital met again at the Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) conference hall yesterday to discuss serious on-going issues caused by the Indian Rupee (INR) …

BICMA directed the Kamji Middle Secondary School principal to withdraw the allegations In the last week of July, 2012 during the monthly meet the press, two reporters from The Journalist newspaper came under a scathing attack from the Education Minister Lyonpo Thakur S. Powdyel for improper personal behavior in investigating …

144 similar buses were recently recalled in China over safety concerns After driving through a series of allegations of procurement violations and unfair tendering practices 15 ‘Golden Dragon’ Chinese buses have finally made it to Thimphu. However, coming out of one controversy the Bhutan Post buses are headed for another …

Druk Chirwang Tshogpa’s symbol of a mythical bird with its wings spread and beak surging skyward from a blooming pink lotus from water back-dropped against a jewel represents  the party manifesto, a functionary said.  The symbol, he said is a pre-manifesto of the party. The water represents a life of …

The Office of the Attorney General’s ‘opinion’ that there is no legal basis to pursue the matter through the court and that no laws were broken in the Gyelpozhing case has provoked a strong public reaction. The Acting Prime Minister Lyonpo Yeshey Zimba said,” They (OAG) are the legal experts …

Says no laws were violated and there is no legal basis to pursue the case against anyone Twenty days after the Gyelpozhing land case investigation report was submitted by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), the Office of the Attorney General (OAG), in its ‘opinion’ found no legal basis to pursue the …

Both diseases if not addressed will have a huge health and socio-economic impact on Bhutan   Though HIV, Malaria, Dengue, Cholera etc. may have grabbed the national headlines for decades there is increasing concern over the rise in the number of Hepatitis B and also C cases.  High prevalence of …

With the government yet to respond to their earlier grievances, the private sector representatives proposed a host of solutions saying the economy is going through an unprecedented crisis If the government and the central bank does not address the current liquidity crunch for another few months the whole economy is …

The capital may see a silent protest, if the government chooses not to pay heed to the business community’s proposal Members of the business community said they have waited enough for the government to look into the Pedestrian day policy and declared they will hold a ‘silent protest’ against the …