Monthly Archives: December, 0

Even after introducing professional allowance of 20-45 percent in 2010, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) still continues to be under-staffed.

Not a single Bhutanese has availed legal aid service, the state provides free of cost. The state allocates Nu,100,000 annually for economically-disadvantaged Bhutanese to have access to legal counsel.

Despite weak home-learning environment and less learning materials, children in Early Childhood Care and Development Centres (ECCD) in rural areas learn and develop as equally as children in urban areas.

A 14-year-old defending tennis champion, Tenzin Singye Dorji won the National Junior Championship held in Thimphu, today.

His Majesty The King granted an Audience to the director general of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) of India, Lt. General, Suresh Sharma.

Three new bridges, worth Nu 1 B, will be constructed, through grant aid from Japan, along the Eastern Highway by 2018.

Punakha Police are still looking for the driver, 62, of an Alto, feared to have drowned, after the car plunged into Mochhu River, at around 1 PM, yesterday.

A boxing instructor with the Royal Bhutan Army, Nima Dorji, 29, finished the Himalayan Marathon in three hours and 36 minutes, coming in first place.

His Majesty The King graced the ground-breaking ceremony for Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law at Pangbisa, Paro, yesterday.

Bhutan, along with other SAARC countries, dwelt on climate-change-trigged common challenges; the region faces during a conference in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, last week.