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The Thimphu District Court today ordered three individuals to pay compensation ranging from Nu 100,000 to about Nu 400,000 in a copyright infringement case. The Samuh MediaTech filed the case after the three individuals shared and uploaded movies belonging to Samuh on different online platforms.

To produce graduates who are skilled and work-ready, the Royal University of Bhutan intends to make its programmes and courses relevant to the jobs available in the market. In this regard, the university signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Culture today.

This year, the people of Tashithang in Gesarling Gewog in Dagana won’t have to worry about the family expenses and meeting the expenditure for their school-going children. This is because the farmers there not only had a good yield of cardamom but the queen of spices fetched good prices. A kilogram of the priced spice fetched Nu 700 this season.

Farming in Ramjar Gewog of Trashi Yangtse is becoming a struggle due to the irrigation water crisis that has been worsening by the year. The problem is, however, expected to be solved in a few months. About 60 Desuups are constructing an irrigation water channel for the farmers. 

As though the COVID-19 pandemic is not enough, business establishments at the Gasa Tsachhu were dealt another blow when the hot spring ponds were washed away by a flood last year. Their main source of income is affected without any visitors today.

With over 600 of them still looking for jobs, the number of unemployed engineer graduates in the country is overwhelmingly huge. But with the government’s recent revision of evaluation parameters for large and medium contractors to procure work, it seems their days of struggle are finally over. About 300 selected graduates will undergo Employability Skills training after which they will be certified. And for the contractors to participate in procurement, the employment of certified engineers will be a mandatory criterion. The first batch of the 10-day training began today.

We live in an era where digital technologies are revolutionising the global economy and the way people live, work and play. But in the country, these things seem far from achievable, at least for now, with only a handful of people having access to digital technologies such as computers and laptops. To prepare underprivileged youth to navigate the digital world through digital literacy and technology, an IT training camp was organised at the Gyalpoizhing College of Information Technology in Monggar.

Police submitted their rebuttal statement in the ongoing defamation case against Penjore, a private individual today. The representative of the Police said Penjore defamed the Office of the Attorney General and his post on Facebook was not in the public interest. The case is in the Thimphu district court.

With direct motorable access to the market, the remote village of Bai Kuenza in Bongo Gewog of Chhukha is finally developing like any other village in the country. Just three years ago, ropeway used to be the lifeline for them.

With the digitisation of cable television services in Thimphu since June 2018, the residents enjoy High-Definition (HD) visuals. The Bhutan InfoCom and Media Authority (BICMA) aims to complete the digitisation of cable TV by the end of this year. Soon, people in the east can look forward to having better quality visual in the coming days. Gearing towards this, local cable operators (LCO) of the five eastern dzongkhags were trained on the digitisation of analog TV recently.