By Tshering The Public Private Partnership (PPP) Policy 2016 and PPP Rules and Regulations 2017 was officially launched by the Finance Minister on Friday in the capital. The government recognizing the importance of investment in infrastructure to accelerate socio-economic development has embarked on promoting PPP as a key strategy for achieving sustainable economic growth. Considering the substantive role played by …

The economic affairs ministry has warned traders to not consider GST benefits as profit and asking them to pass down the benefits to consumers. The warning comes at the right time when Bhutanese have started feeling the impact of the GST regime in India. Bhutan imports almost everything from India and there will be direct impact on Bhutan from the …

Farmers look forward to a good future By Phurpa Wangmo After years of anticipating, famers who partnered with the Mountain Hazelnut have started harvesting the nuts. Officials said the results (harvest) are positive and that they are looking forward to having their first largest commercial harvest soon. Although the price is not fixed as of now, officials said MH will …

Parking space rule not followed and monitored strictly By Tshering Thimphu city and its periphery are finding it an uphill task to adjust the increasing number of vehicles. Parking space is the biggest problem and this is congesting the already congested road. Without building owners providing parking space, most vehicle owners are parking on the roadsides risking their vehicle to …

By Tshering Roads in the extended town of Olakha and Babesa will see a major facelift soon. The Thimphu thromde has finalized the plan and will begin repairing roads from next month, October. The thromde is in the midst of repairing footpaths. For over a year people of Olakha and Babesa had been experiencing or living with the damaged roads …

The launching of three courses at the Jigme Wangchuk Power Training Institute is a good initiative and should be welcomed and lauded. There are not many programmes that seem realistic than those launched at Gelephu. In just more than a year, we will Bhutanese who will be able to fix or lay underground cable, transmission lines and maintain transformers. There …

By Staff Reporter UNICEF South Asia on September 5 launched the first South Asia Religious Leaders’ Platform for Children in Kathmandu. The launch brought together more than 30 influential leaders and distinguished representatives from various religious communities across South Asia to underline the critical role they can play in promoting the fulfilment of child rights and also to harness regional …

By Staff Reporter Finance Minister, Namgay Dorji launched the Official Credit Card for the budgetary bodies on Friday at the Tashichhodzong. The introduction of Official Credit Card for budgetary bodies is one of the many new initiatives undertaken by the Ministry of Finance to digitalize the payment systems. The objective of the Official Credit Card is to make the government …

By Staff Reporter As per Mongolia’s national news agency, Montsame, Ts. Munkh-Orgil, Foreign Minister of Mongolia, and Foreign Minister, Damcho Dorji held an official talks in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday in Mongolia. During the talks, the Foreign Ministers said the two countries have common shares on history, religion and culture, and affirmed that the two nations as …

Regita Gurung a 18-years-old from Reserboo, Tsirang is model. She started her modelling career since she was 13-years-old. Regita is the youngest model to represent outside the country in fashion world. She had done more than 30 shows in and outside the country and was awarded the title of supermodel by Project Bhutan in 2016. Regita will be representing Bhutan …