THE NATION

The Foreign Minister Tandi Dorji yesterday during a panel discussion highlighted the government’s plan for a second phase for essential item delivery if the lockdown has to prolong. After some recent commotion and frustration of people on social media on the initial days of the lockdown, the government recently deployed …

Due to COVID-19 and large job losses, a large number of people have started taking up Professional Driving (PD) courses leaving the full time taxi drivers with minimal business scope.  As of 30 June 2020, Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)issued more than 125,041 ordinary driving licenses and 19,673 PD …

The Ministry of Labour and Human Resources (MoLHR) has registered 1,664 employees (594 females and 1,070 males) since the launch of Build Bhutan Project (BBP) on 1 July. Of the total number, 913 employees will be directly employed while 658 will be sent to TTIs for skilling. As per the …

Meat self-sufficiency at 44.95 percent in 2019 as 4,323.89 MT was imported Although Bhutan has the highest consumption of meat per capita in South Asia, however, there is no viable meat industry in the country largely due to the social and religious norms of eating meat. The hypocrisy was always …

Youth Employment and Rural Entrepreneurship (YERE) project will be commissioned this fiscal year through the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF) with the financial support from the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) and managed by the World Bank.The project is designed and implemented to facilitate and contribute in the generation …

Four soldiers of the Royal Bhutan Army lost their lives during a brave rescue operation to save the lives of people caught in the flash floods in Gelephu yesterday. His Majesty The King travelled to Gelephu on Tuesday, accompanied by the Prime Minister and Chief Operations Officer of the RBA, …

Over-crowding in the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) is unavoidable as almost 1,500 people visit JDWNRH in a day. People are advised to visit hospital alone unless a patient has some disability or if a patient is an elderly person who needs an attendant. Despite repeated requests health …

Dzongkhags along the border, like Samtse, Phuentsholing, Sarpang and Samdrupjongkar are in the process of making the usage of facemask mandatory after the implementation of the new normal. Moreover, they are making people use Druk Trace App compulsorily.  100 additional DeSuups are deployed in each of the dzongkhags for a …

At a meeting with the ministers and executives on 16 July at the Royal University of Bhutan Hall, the Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering said that the preparations to contain COVID-19 have been very effective, even if there should be a community transmission. PM said, “From a health perception, with …

According to the Agriculture and Forests Minister, Yeshey Penjor, tons of cabbages are rotting in storage, as there is no export market for the vegetable due to the lockdown in potential markets caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. “Since the cabbage export is not happening, tons and tons of cabbages are …