Monthly Archives: December, 0

The Election Commission held bye-elections to elect two Mangmis and three Tshogpas in five districts today. The bye-elections were held in Trashigang, Zhemgang, Chhukha, Pema Gatshel and Thimphu.

The country’s top-tier professional football league, BOB Bhutan Premier League 2024 is set to begin next week. The opening match will be played between...

The Ministry of Education and Skills Development recently issued a list of selected teachers who will be rejoining the service on contract. However, some teachers withdrew their applications. According to the ministry, the teachers who withdrew from the selected list were due to placement reasons. In addition, some were unhappy about not being recruited as regular contract teachers. Over a hundred teachers were selected between February and March to rejoin the service. 

The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority has fined 13 grocery shops in Dagana and Tsirang for selling expired goods. They were fined during the market surveillance, which is the inspection for rectification and prevention of unethical and illegal business practices to protect consumers. Almost a two-week-long inspection was carried out recently.

A medical team including six doctors from Operation International from the US is conducting total knee replacement surgery for elderly people at Central Regional Referral Hospital in Gelephu. The surgery is for elderly people suffering from chronic knee problems due to ageing and injuries among others. The surgery camp started yesterday and will end on Friday. Operation International is a secular, non-political, humanitarian organisation founded in 1996.

The Agriculture and Livestock Ministry has distributed assorted vegetable seeds and maize and buckwheat seeds worth over Nu 3 M to the hailstorm-affected farmers in Tsirang. The heavy hailstorm on the 10th of this month affected vegetables and cereals in more than 290 acres of farmland belonging to 1,265 households in eight gewogs of Tsirang. The storm also damaged more than fifty-eight thousand fruit trees in the district.

A Gewog Centre road connecting three gewogs in upper Kheng of Zhemgang is in dire need of maintenance. The roads need immediate resurfacing. However, the local leaders said that the respective gewog administrations do not have enough budget to execute resurfacing works. They are waiting to hand over the roads to the Department of Surface Transport.

Residents of the Changjiji housing colony can occupy their houses until they retire. However, during Friday’s ‘Meet the Press’ session, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay...

Today is World Day for Safety and Health at Work. Commemorating the day in the capital, the Department of Labour and the Construction Association...

A Bhutanese man studying in Thailand, who trades cryptocurrency on the trading platform Binance says about Nu 500,000 of criminal proceeds were deposited into his account. According to the man, while he thought the money was proceeds from selling cryptocurrency, he was not aware that the person he was dealing with was scamming and hacking into the bank accounts of Bhutanese individuals to send him the money.