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Out of 40 pass-outs, only seven electrical engineers from Jigme Namgyel Polytechnics (JNP) in Dewathang, Samdrup Jongkhar   have been absorbed in the job market this year. As per the labor market information guide for Class X and XII, published by the labor ministry, the number of vacancies projected for electrical …

They have to chauffeur their bosses around during office hours and the rest of the time including weekends they spent their time doing odd chores as per the demands and dictates of their bosses’ wives, often receiving berating for making a slight mistake. They are even made to do farm …

Precursor chemicals are posing a problem worldwide as only a mere fraction of these chemicals is required to produce illegal drugs. Bhutan owing to its geographical location and its growing trade and industry could be in murky waters if used as a transit gateway for such lethal chemicals. Precursors are …

An investigation by The Bhutanese has found that well armed timber mafia from India and local tribes in collusion with corrupt law enforcement officials there are engaged in large scale illegal logging and smuggling of trees from southern Bhutan.An understaffed Bhutanese forest rangers team has been unable to catch most …

  Dzongkha lopen targeted with two bombs and warning pamphlets from gang members Around 11 teachers of Bajo Higher Secondary school were rudely woken up by two loud blasts on the night of March 1. In the morning teachers and staff found that two ‘bombs’  exploded outside Dzongkha teacher Lopen …

In a sign of the rupee crunch panic spreading, fuel stations and gas depots saw people stocking on these products in anticipation of a shortage. In an attempt to address such growing national panic the finance minister Lyonpo, Wangdi Norbu said that there is no need for alarm as the …

The Bhutanese film industry saw its worst year in 2011 with 18 of the 26 releases flopping big time at the box office. Most films that failed were introduced by new directors including fresh graduates who learnt filmmaking elsewhere and wanted to start their own production as soon as they …

Blame it on climate change or animal determination, a four-year old tusker has climbed all the way up a snow mountain at 3,419 meters above sea level in Chukha, Bhutan, posing  serious questions to conservationists on how this tusker, usually seen in tropical areas, scaled this height. This ‘transient solitary …

The Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) has imposed a temporary sanction on the commercial banks in making Rupee denominated transactions. This is in light of the Bhutanese economy grappling with Rupee crisis. The governor of the central bank, Daw Tenzin, said: “Bhutan is selling less and importing more. It is important …

Following the death of two students in Orong Higher Secondary School in Samdrup Jongkhar  due to nutritional deficiency last year, 66 of the 167 Class X students have withdrawn from the school. The 66 students reportedly have withdrawn from the school because their parents did not want them to study …