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His Majesty The King granted an Audience to the Indian Chief of Army Staff, General Manoj Pande, at the Throne Room of the Tashichhodzong.  General Manoj Pande is on a two-day visit to Bhutan, his first since his appointment as the Indian Army Chief in April 2022.  The General was …

It is an open secret that larger than usual numbers of civil servants have been resigning in recent times with a record 1,023 civil servants voluntarily resigning from July 2021 to June 2022. However, the popular misconception is that this has been happening only in the last 12 months or …

But no pay hike in the horizon given limited resources Until now the Civil Servants have mainly been seeing the stick end of the civil service reforms, be it in the managing out of the executives or the strict Rules for Administrative Disciplinary Actions (RADA). However, it may not all …

In early 2021 all the Australian banks informed their Bhutanese counterpart banks that they could no longer be the Correspondent Banks for the Bhutanese banks. A banker on the condition of anonymity said that the Australian banks found that the business generated by the Bhutanese banks was too small and …

The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) led the reorganization of the civil service agencies along with a group of executives, and has come up with proposals aimed at bringing about a lot of changes in the structure of the 10 ministries and other agencies. The changes The main proposal is …

With tourism opening in Bhutan on 23rd September 2022, under the new USD 200 Sustainable Development Fee (SDF), there are already Bhutanese tour operators selling discounted packages after paying the SDF. Discounted package For example, a tour operations company in Nepal that sells tour packages for a Bhutanese tour operator …

In the second meeting between the government, private sector and Financial Institutions on monetary measures, the entire Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) team was absent. The RMA instead had sent a note to the Ministry of Finance (MoF) either shooting down all the requests put forth by the private sector in …

The Ministry of Education (MoE) in partnership with the Bhutan Narcotics Control Agency (BNCA) will be testing staff and students on the use of controlled drugs and substances in 12 identified schools based on certain information. The Officiating Secretary Karma Galay of MoE said drug test kits have arrived in …

Bhutanese community leaders meet and discuss in Perth The USA may have experienced the California Gold Rush in the mid 19th century, but Bhutan is experiencing its very own ‘Australia Rush’ that started as a trickle around a decade ago, but is now a mighty and roaring river. The city …

Certain provisions of the Royal Civil Service Commission’s (RCSC) new rules for civil servants called Rules for Administrative Disciplinary Actions (RADA) that limit the ability of civil servants to share information or express themselves has set the cat among the pigeons not only among civil servants, but also media professionals. …