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On 21 February, coinciding with the 40th Birth Anniversary His Majesty the Fifth King, the Snowman Race Secretariat and the Royal Government of Bhutan, in partnership with UN Bhutan, WWF and others launched the Bhutan Climate Action Summit “Honoring Ecopreneurs and Climate Champions”. The one-and-a-half-day Climate Action Summit focused on …

The National Assembly adopted the Fiscal Incentives (Amendment) Bill of Bhutan 2020 as on 6th February 2020. The bill was recommended to be put into force ‘retroactively’ by the Economic and Finance Committee from Income year 2019. The House adopted the Amendment Bill with 40 Yes and 1 abstinence out …

City camp on fire just below the Ministers Enclave, Motithang. The Fire division received the complaint at 6.43 PM. Volunteers and police personnel are still fighting the fire to stop it from spreading to a nearby settlement. Update: One female died in the fire incident and around 10 houses (temporary …

185,694 potential workers remained out of the labour force of which maximum were students with 43 percent followed by those attending family duties with 28 percent and old age with 15 percent, in 2018. The Annual Report 2019 by Royal Monetary Authority states that compared to female Labour Force Participation …

During the Question Hour Session of the National Assembly yesterday, the Member of Parliament (MP) from Bartsham-Shongphu constituency in Trashigang, Passang Dorji, informed the House that by February, with the completion of the Mangdechu Hydro Power Project, the project will be handed over to DGPC and the employees might lose …

The Member of Parliament (MP) from Sombaykha, Dorjee Wangmo, and MP from Jomotshangkha-Martshala, Norbu Wangzom, raised their concerns on the Bhutanese women workers being physically abused and tortured in Iraq. Dorjee Wangmo said that as per the sources in the media, there has been a report of more than 400 …

A 52-year-old woman and her 9-year-old son, and a 33-year-old ambulance driver lost their lives after the ambulance they were travelling in veered off the road (170 m) on 9 January 2020 at around 10:20 am. The incident took place at Khenandrang, under Zobel gewog, which is 25 km away …

Despite a lot of initiatives over the last 10 decades, cervical cancer is still the number one cancer among women in the country Bhutan has a high cervical cancer incidence of 20.5 per 100,000 women, and mortality rate of 5.3 per 100,000 women. In the last five years (2014-2018), there …

During the Friday Meet-the-Press session with the government, a question was raised on the issue on the sustainability of football and other sports in the country due to lack of policy support from the government. Though the Under- 23 football team has recently made history for Bhutan by winning silver …

The government along with Department of Law and Order, Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) and National Commission for Women and Children (NCWC) has come up with Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to help those youths who go abroad to work, especially in the Middle East countries. With no employment opportunities in the …