Monthly Archives: December, 0

The eighth Moenlam Chhenmo of Pema Gatshel conducted in Nganglam ended yesterday.

The finance minister presented the budget appropriation bill for the financial year 2018- 2019 in the National Assembly today. The budget appropriated for the current financial year is Nu 47.698bn.

The Thimphu District Court has convicted four men from India in a kidnap case and sentenced them to twenty-three-and-a-half-years in prison.

The government of India will provide Nu 4bn to Bhutan as trade support in the 12th Five year Plan. The prime minister said the fund would be utilized for making the country’s trading system more efficient.

The tariff for the Mangdechhu Hydropower Project Authority (MPHA) has been agreed at Nu 4.12 per unit, the prime minister said.

A group of children recited Lolay, wishes for a good year, before Their Majesties The King and Gyaltsuen and His Royal Highness The Gyalsey at the Lingkana Palace yesterday on Nyilo.

The government will help the Bhutanese youths placed in Japan under the Earn and Learn programme with their loan repayment. Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering said this in the National Assembly today.

Doing away with the telecommunication tax is one of the campaign pledges of the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT). The finance minister says the tax waive off is likely to come as a part of a major tax reform package being planned.

The Jomotsangkhag Dungkhag Court in Samdrup Jongkhar sentenced a 22-year-old man from Serthig to five years in prison for illicit trafficking of cannabis and its derivatives.

Bhutan made headlines as it banned the sale and use of plastics in 1999. Almost two decades on, the efforts to make the ban effective continue.