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More than half of the graduates from Technical and Vocational Education Training institutes (TVET) in the country have not been able to get relevant jobs since 2013 according to the  TVET Tracer Survey Report, released yesterday by the labour ministry.

National and international experts, senior judges, and faculty members of Bhutan National Legal Institute (BNLI) are facilitating a training for private advocates on Nangkha Nangdrig or mediation skills in Thimphu.

Two truck drivers coming from Phuentshogling to Gomtu to pick up cement have been quarantined after they had close contact with tollbooth operators at Madhya, an Indian town near Birpara, yesterday.

Samdrup Jongkhar Dzongkhag COVID-19 task force is implementing various measures to prevent cross border transmission of the virus with increasing cases of Coronavirus in the neighbouring Indian state of Assam.

Bhutan now has 95 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with two more cases detected in the last 24 hours in a 24-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman returning from the Middle East. Both of them were quarantined at a facility quarantine in Paro and have been moved to the isolation ward today.

The Works and Human Settlement Ministry recorded the highest unresolved irregularities in 2019. According to the Annual audit report 2019, this significant unresolved irregularity...

The first batch of 400 DeSuups who were deputed to the south to support the various agencies patrolling along the borders have completed their month-long duty period. They were serving in Samtse, Phuentshogling, Gelegphu and Samdrup Jongkhar.

The Tshogpas of Chaling and Shongphu under Shongphu Gewog and Tongling under Radhi Gewog submitted a petition to Trashigang District Court, on overturning Dzongkhag Tshogdu's decision by the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement on Merag Gewog centre road blacktopping issue.

Fluctuation is best defined by the price of local green chilli in the Bhutanese context. After hitting a record low of Nu 30 a kilogram, these days, the spice is getting expensive by the day. The current market price in Paro crossed the Nu 200-mark per kilogram.

Rearing goat is popular among farmers in Tsirang district for both commercial and personal consumption. And in recent years, farmers of Barshong Gewog in Tsirang started rearing hybrid imported goats. The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) financed the goat farming through its support to rural livelihoods and climate change adaptation project.