The financial implication of the pay revision is estimated at Nu 17.9bn over the next four years The Fourth Pay Commission’s recommendations, if implemented as it is, are likely to further deepen income disparity in the country instead of narrowing the gap between the haves and the have-nots. The Pay Commission has recommended 29% to […]
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Residents of Doksum town in Trashiyangtse will have to shift to the new township by year end. The residents were supposed to shift to the new township by October in 2018 but the deadline has been extended following a request from the people. They had previously extended the deadline from 2016 to October last year. […]
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The education and labor ministry officials have met to iron out the creases over the TVET program following education ministry’s plans to introduce TVET stream for class XI and XII The education ministry’s plans to introduce Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) as the fourth stream for class XI and XII has apparently complicated the […]
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With 85 % of the physical work completed and a newly designed map for the tower and dratshang approved, project officials are confident that the new Pemagatshel dzong in Denchi will be completed by June 2020. Initially the deadline of the dzong construction was 2018, but later the deadline was revised until June 2020 due […]
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The country’s first instant noodle manufacturer, KP Noodle, has been shut for over five months now Local noodles and chips manufacturers are struggling to remain afloat amid stiff competition from imported products that have flooded the market. The domestic market is in fact saturated with imported instant noodles and chips from India, Thailand, Korea and […]
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Complainants changing their mobile numbers and complainants not having recent pictures of the missing people are the main hurdles in solving cases of missing person The cases of missing people reported with the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) have been gradually increasing over the years. In a span of 17 years from 2002 to 2019 till […]
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The Thromde has asked the works and human settlement ministry for an urban planner and a designer As the current engineers working for different departments of the Phuentsholing Thromde are already occupied and overburdened with their works, the Thromde is in need of more engineers. With development works in full swing, the existing strength of […]
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If need be, the Ministry of Finance will be devising means to improve compliance in taxing of rental income Except for business and commercial establishments, the practice of deducting Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) on rental payments for residential properties is virtually nonexistent in Bhutan. This could lead to possible manipulation of rental incomes by […]
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Despite the plan to establish a the toxicology laboratory for the last 10 years, the laboratory finally sees the light of day from January this year In what comes as a relief to ascertain from natural death to drug overdose, the much-awaited forensic toxicology laboratory has finally become functional at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National […]
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Restructuring, it’s envisioned, would help RICBL become one of the best organizations in the country The Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Limited (RICBL) has completed restructuring works of the organization in January this year by centralizing risk management and decentralizing operations. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of RICBL, Karma, said all the operations will be […]
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