| English | Dzongkha | Friday, October 20, 2017 |
The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has charged a 47-year-old man with a second degree felony for raping and impregnating a 14-year-old girl student.
The ongoing renovation works at the Trongsa Dzong is expected to complete ahead of schedule. About 80 per cent of the renovation work has already been completed.
For sustainable production of seeds, 20 farmers from six eastern districts attended three-day long training on vegetable seed production in Monggar recently. It is to make vegetable seeds easily available in the eastern region and also encourage farmers to earn higher returns.
Samdrup Jongkhar will have an artificial turf football ground by the end of this month. The laying of the artificial turn at the dzongkhag’s football ground is going on in full swing.
It has been over a month since people in Dorokha Drungkhag in Samtse have been rehearsing traditional dances to be performed during the consecration ceremony of their much awaited Gatsheling Lhakhang next month. As part of rehearsals, villagers are learning Zhungdra and Boedra dance moves which never crossed their minds before.
The revenue generated by the three major hydropower projects- Mangdechhu and Punatsangchhu I and II will be set aside as part of the government’s Stabilisation Fund.
Starting next year, the Ministry of Health will introduce the shorter regimen for the treatment of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis or MDR TB in the three referral hospitals in the country. In this, the treatment period will be shortened from 20 months to nine to eleven months.
Come January 2018, all state owned enterprises (SoEs) will have to implement the revised parental leave, which is six months of maternity leave and 10 working day paternity leave.
Bhutan dropped 16 places to 190 in the latest FIFA rankings released yesterday.
In a tragic accident in Tsirang, a 15-year-old student of Tsirang Toe Lower Secondary School has been electrocuted to death.