THE NATION

To address the ever-increasing waste management concerns, the National Environment Commission (NEC) Secretariat implemented the Revised Penalty and Fine Schedule for Waste-Related Offenses, which includes an incentive and reward system, on 15 December 2022. According to the NEC’s Chief of Waste Management, Thinley Dorji, people dump waste wherever they feel …

Layaps and Lunaps under Gasa depends on cordyceps as their main source of income, and they are now worried as there is decline in both the quantity and quality of cordyceps. One contributing factor for the decline could be a decrease in rainfall, they shared. In the past, they used …

Notable research done globally have found that climate change has wide ranging impacts on the livelihoods of the people, especially women. Therefore, the disparity in the way it impacts men and women reveals that climate change is not gender neutral. According to the findings on climate change and gender report …

Despite all odds, this group of dreamers has finally given shape to their agri-business aspirations Two years ago, Tendrel Zangmo, and many other women like her, mostly single mothers, and those struggling to make ends meet, had no avenue to earn a decent income. The daily grind of endless household …

The Civil Service Reform Bill of Bhutan 2022 was supposed to be a bill to reform the civil service but a curious insertion took place in section 31 which had nothing to do with the reforms, but would have hugely inflated the powers of the Office of the Attorney General …

The Chairperson of the Good Governance Committee (GGC), Member of Parliament (MP) Tenzin presented the committee’s review report on the Anti-Corruption’s Annual Report 2021-2022 in the National Assembly (NA). After presenting the review report, he submitted five recommendations to the House, to enhance the effectiveness and efficient functioning of ACC …

The National Assembly today accepted all the five changes recommended the National Council to the Civil Service Reform Bill. The four changes were minor changes in language and does not affect the bill while the main and fifth change was the removal of section 31 by the NC which said …

The International Day of Elimination of violence against women was celebrated on friday with the launch of Her Majesty Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck’s Lunana Initiative, the gender assessment in hydropower, road and bridge construction sites report by NCWC and the launch of RENEW’s movie titled Gencha. Respect, Educate, Nurture and …

A first of its kind assessment was done on gender issues in major hydropower, road and bridge construction project sites in Bhutan, including communities in the vicinity of those sites. Though the construction industry accounts for more than 5 percent of the total labor force, only 13 percent of them …

With the expansion of hospital infrastructure in Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH), the opening of new operating room facilities in the district hospitals, and the introduction of new services, the need for anaesthetic human resources is increasing. According to WebMD these specialists give you medicine to prevent pain and, if …