Monthly Archives: December, 0

More than 160 staff from Ministry of Agriculture and Forests were trained to use the Google Apps. Google apps is expected to allow for a working collaboration across the whole of the government. The two day training ended today.

His Holiness the Je Khenpo consecrated the academic and administrative building of the Faculty of Traditional Medicine and Faculty of Nursing and Public Health, under the University of Medical Sciences.

Finding a parking space in Thimphu is becoming increasingly difficult. The capital city already has 30,000 vehicles and the number is increasing by the day.

The Indian Ambassador to Bhutan, Gautam Bambawale, presented a grant of Nu.1.29 BN to Bhutan, on behalf of the Government of India.

Besides the organised training programmes, the Department of Employment under the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources is now planning to take the basic entrepreneurship knowledge to the colleges and institutions to prepare the youth build ideas of self employment.

Team KN Construction won the veterans’ football tournament in the finals played, yesterday. The tournament was organised in Gelegphu.

A two-day workshop on the theme “Eco-Tourism for Sustainable Development and Gender Empowerment in South Asia” began in Thimphu, today.

The lemongrass cooperative in Monggar is finding it difficult to retain its members. Members have been leaving the group to work in construction sites, where they are paid more. From 170 members in 2007, the cooperative group is now left with only 45 members.

To support the government in enhancing conservation management plan, the Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation officially handed over a fund worth over Nu.63mn to the government, today.

A 23-year-old woman from Tsirang died after she was washed away by Barsa River in Pasakha, Phuentshogling. The incident happened this morning when the deceased and her friend were crossing the river, on their way to work. According to the deceased’s friend, the deceased dropped her purse in the river and while trying to pick it up, she was washed away. The body was recovered from about a kilometre downstream. Police ruled out any foul play.