Monthly Archives: December, 0

About 80 De-Suups from Chhukha and Samtse are in Passa Tumdra Ami Ney to manage the crowd at the ongoing three-day Hindu festival Shivratri. De-Suups have been helping in crowd management at the Ney since 2015.

A mega dairy production unit was opened in Tsirang recently under the Priority Sector Lending (PSL) scheme. The unit, which started with yogurt production, plans to minimise the import of dairy products and focus on achieving self-sufficiency.

The government says the job vacancies for contract teachers will be announced within a week or two. There are some 200 graduates from the education colleges of Paro and Samtse who passed the Bhutan Civil Service Examination (BCSE) last year and are yet to be employed.

Bhutan's national women football team is in Nepal for the 5th edition of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Women's Championship 2019. Bhutan will play their first match against team Nepal in the inauguration match of the tournament next week.

The government will be meeting with all the political parties twice a year to include them in a discussion of important issues. At present, the government is in the process of preparing agendas for the first party meeting which is expected to take place next month.

The Green Bhutan Waste Management's owner, Chogyel Lhamo was awarded the ‘SAARC Woman Entrepreneur of the Year 2018’ at a ceremony held at Colombo in Sri Lanka on March 2.

A new frog species called Leptobrachium bompu belonging to class Eastern Spadefoot Toad is recorded in Sarpang. With this, Bhutan now has 57 amphibian species.

The government passed an executive order for the loan deferment for students in Japan, who went through the ‘Learn and Earn’ programme on March 1. This applies to all the students who are in Japan and those who returned to the country.

His Holiness the Je Khenpo ordained more than a hundred nuns from Nepal’s Druk Gawa Kil Nunnery yesterday. The two-day ordination ceremony was held at the Namdroling Goenzin Dratshang in Lhuentse.

The government has established a private sector development board to come up with a policy framework for the development of the private sector. It is also expected to help determine the roles of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) for private sector growth.