Monthly Archives: December, 0

The six former lecturers and a supporting staff of the College of Language and Culture Studies (CLCS) in Trongsa, who were compulsorily retired without any benefits in May this year for alleged sexual harassment, filed a case against the CLCS and Royal University of Bhutan at the Trongsa District Court today. 

The 720MW Mangdechhu Hydropower Plant in Trongsa is carrying out inspection, rectification and maintenance of all four power generating machines alternatively in this lean season. The lean season for the hydropower generation starts in October and lasts till March. 

To regulate the number of sawmills, Haa Dzongkhag Tshogdu decided to allow two sawmills each for the three gewogs of Sangbay, Gakiling and Samar. This is following the concerns amidst growing number of sawmills in the dzongkhag. With 23 stationary and three mobile sawmills,  Haa has the highest number of sawmills in the country today.  

More than Nu 50 M has been allocated in the financial year 2019-2020 to blacktop gewog center (GC) roads at Gongdue and Silambi gewogs in Monggar. Gongdue and Silambi are the only two gewogs in the district without blacktopped GC roads.

According to the Civil Society Organisation (CSO) mapping report 2019 which was launched yesterday, 68 per cent of CSOs cannot continue without accessing external resources. And Bhutan graduating from Least Developed Countries' (LDC) category by 2023, external resources aiding the CSOs are withdrawing.

Bhutan gets an opportunity to come up with a name for an exoplanet and its host star. Planets that are located outside the solar system are called exoplanet. The naming is a part of celebrations to mark 100th anniversary of International Astronomical Union (IAU), the authority responsible for assigning official designations and names to celestial bodies.

On a monthly basis, consumer prices remained unchanged in August and September despite civil servants across all categories getting significant salary raise in July. Consumer prices in the country reached a new low, falling continuously in the third quarter. Annual inflation in September fell to 2.5 per cent according to the National Statistics Bureau. 

The Dorji Lopen presided over the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the Utse or the main tower of the Lingzhi Dzong in Lingzhi...

Haa Dzongkhag is preparing to host the 6th Royal Bhutan Flower Exhibition in June next year. The preparation is in full swing.

For the Lhop people in Ngawang Dramtoe in Samtse, the wait for a university graduate from their community continues, at least for a couple more years. The community is grappling with the problem of its children leaving school before completing high school.