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Services of 42 employees to be discontinued
Services of 42 employees of the former Royal Education Council, including the Centenary Institute of Education in Yongphula are to be discontinued from October 1, this year. The Royal Education...
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Women in Drayangs face sexual harassment
Women working in Drayangs in Thimphu say many male-customers are sexually harassing them. They say the customers force them to sit with them and touch them without their consent. Of the 160 working in...
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REC explains the lay off
The Royal Education Council says it decided to lay off 42 staff members since they are non-civil servants and the council is now under the purview of the Royal Civil Service Commission. The 42 staff...
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Bhutan and India review progress of PTA and SDP projects
Bhutan and India reviewed the overall progress of the Project-Tied Assistance projects and agreed to a reprioritized list of projects during the 4th Annual India-Bhutan Development Cooperation Talks....
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Tingtibi-Panbang Highway closed to traffic for two weeks
Tingtibi-Panbang Highway has been closed to traffic due to road blocks for two weeks now. The blocks could not be cleared because of continues rain and landslides. A temporary suspension bridge over...
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Bhutan to battle it out with Qatar tonight
Bhutan National Football team is set to battle it out with Qatar tonight in the second round clash of FIFA World Cup qualifiers. The match will kick off at the Jassim bin Hamad stadium in Qatar’s...
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Sentenced immigration officials appeal
Seven immigration officials have appealed to the Chhukha District Court. The Dungkhag Court had convicted them for three years each for fraud in Phuentshogling, last month. They had not been able to...
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High Court reverses District Court’s Verdict
The High Court reversed the Haa District Court’s verdict and sentenced the former foreign minister, Rinzin Dorje to one year imprisonment with an option to pay a Thrimthue of Nu 45,000. The court has...
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Qatar thrashes Bhutan, 15-0
Qatar handed the Bhutan National Football team the biggest loss in its football history since 2000. The Bhutanese team was outclassed as they were thrashed 15-0 by Qatar in the World Cup Qualifier,...
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Tour of the Dragon to be more challenging
Given the bad road condition from Bumthang to Thimphu, the Tour of the Dragon bicycle race is going to be more challenging, this year. The annual tour kicks off from Bumthang September 6 morning. This...
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Labour ministry supposedly spends Nu 5 M for NGOP
The Ministry of Labour and Human Resoucres is said to have spent quite a sum to organise the National Graduates Orientation Programme. Some sources say the amount spent was over Nu 5 M this year....
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HRH Gyaltshab Jigme Dorji Wangchuck visits Yumchey
His Royal Highness Gyaltshab Jigme Dorji Wangchuck visited Yumchey Village under Jarey Gewog in Lhuntse and met with the affected families of the 24th August landslide, where it damaged four houses,...
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Bhutan-Indo relationship went through stress and misunderstanding: Dalip Mehta
The former Indian Ambassador, Dalip Mehta said there had been time of stress and misunderstanding among India and Bhutan. He was speaking on Bhutan-Indo relationship at the Royal Institutes for...
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BKP slams government on BOIC-BDBL merger
The merger of Bhutan Opportunity Information Centre with Bhutan Development Bank shows government’s lack of thorough research, careless attitude, and incompetence towards governance, Bhutan Kuen-Nyam...
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Two sniffer dogs do the job
In order to strengthen the watch over drug and tobacco trafficking, police in Gelegphu have deployed two sniffer dogs at the border gate. It has been about a month since the dogs have been screening...
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Livestock sector attempts reviving declining yak breeds
In an effort to preserve the existing Yak breeds in Merak and Sakteng Gewogs, the livestock sector is distributing breeding bulls to the herders every year. Besides promoting the existing yak breeds,...
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Four confess forging signature and making unauthorized withdrawals: OAG
Update: Of the six accused of forging signature of a former business man and making unauthorized withdrawals, four confessed to the crime, according to the Office of the Attorney General. OAG says...
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Individuals can carry Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations
Individuals can now carry Indian Rupee denominations of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 to the limit of Rs 25,000 according to a central bank notification. Bankers said the idea was to ease cash handling as it...
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Two children die in fire accident
Two children aged 2 and a half and 3 died in a fire that razed 12 huts near Amochhu River in Phuentsholing this morning. The incident took place at around 11:40 AM. The parents of the two boys, who...
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Thimphu police forward attempt to rape case to OAG
Thimphu Police have forwarded the case, involving a stepfather, who allegedly attempted to molest his nine and a-half-year old stepdaughter, to the Office of the Attorney General. A statement from...
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