Monthly Archives: December, 0

His Majesty The King graced the Rinchen Terzoed wang at the site of the Guru Nangsi Zilnon Statue in Takila, Lhuentse.

Bhutan will be able to withdraw foreign currency including US dollars, Euro and the Indian rupee from the SAARC Currency Swap arrangement until November 2017. A news release from the Reserve Bank of India mentioned, the government of India agreed to extend the previous facility.

Local leaders of Trashigang are in favour of increasing road blacktopping thickness by 25 millimetres. Many said, if the thickness were not increased, roads would not last long.

Paro International Airport opened its new airport terminal today. The new terminal will be able to accommodate around 500 passengers. The new building will be used only for incoming flights. It is expected to help smoothen airport procedures for passengers as well as airport officials.

More than 40 illegal temporary huts along the bank of Amochhu in Phuentshogling will be demolished soon. Thromde officials said the residents were given enough time to leave the area. There will be no notification this time since the residents have signed an agreement with the thromde to leave the area by December last year.

The Department of Hydro-Met Services is implementing the capacity development of GLOF (Glacial lake outburst floods) and rainstorm flood forecasting and early warning project.

Reversing an all time decrease in fuel prices, petrol and diesel prices were hiked yesterday in India. While petrol price increased by Rs 2.6 a litre, diesel increased by Rs 1.7 a litre.

The recent Indian union budget has provided new hopes to the local steel industry, which has so far been experiencing one of the worst slowdown in their business for over a year.

His Majesty the King granted an audience to the participants of the 6th Senior Leadership Programme at the Royal Institute of Governance Studies in Phuentshogling yesterday.

Her Majesty the Queen Mother, Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, inaugurated a new community radio station in Dophuchen Gewog, in Samtse yesterday. The Swiss Development Corporation in partnership with the Ministry of Information and Communications and Tarayana Foundation established the Lhops Community Radio Station.