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His Majesty the King granted an audience to the Officer in Chief, Eastern Command, Lieutenant General Bikram Singh at the Tashichhodzong today. He arrived in the Kingdom yesterday on a four day visit.

The health ministry will be re-introducing the Pentavalent vaccine in June next year. The vaccine was launched in September last year. But a month later it was suspended after eight babies died following the launch of the nation-wide vaccination.

The curriculum of the technical institutes will see a major shift. It will now become competency based. As a pilot project, the department of human resources launched the new curriculum for plumbing, carpentry, auto mechanic and masonry from this month.

A student of Monggar Higher Secondary School has been sentenced to five years in prison for raping a minor. His accomplice, also a student of the same school, received three years in prison. Both the boys are 19 years old.

Police in Bumthang have arrested a 33-year-old man for possessing marijuana at his residence on July 30. Police said they were constantly keeping a watch on the man as he was previously convicted of robbery in Thimphu and Paro.

A 32-year-old man from Dorji Goenpa in Trongsa was mauled to death by a tiger on Sunday. Forest range officials confirmed that the man was mauled by a tiger after examining the body. It was the Royal Bengal Tiger, the only tiger sub-species found in Bhutan.

The cremation ground in Hejo is the only place for people in and around Thimphu to bring dead bodies for cremation. With increasing number of people bringing dead bodies to cremate, the ground remains packed most of the time.

Parks are meant for recreation and enjoyment. It is an area where children can play around during free time. However, the Centenary Park in Monggar is half complete and has not fulfilled its purpose. Our correspondent in Monggar says the park has instead become a breeding centre for mosquitoes.

(H1N1 UPDATE) The 10 students of Autsho and Tangmachu Middle Secondary Schools in Lhuentse whose throat swabs were sent to the National Public Health Laboratory last week have been tested positive of H1N1.

A 29-year-old man was found dead in a passenger bus coming from Phuentsholing to Thimphu today. The deceased is suspected to have died from drug overdose. He had got in the bus from Gedu this morning.