Month: January 2022

Foundational Skills Training Under BBP

Foundational skills training is available under Build Bhutan Project (BBP) at Technical Training Institute (TTIs) for job seekers, laid-off employees, and overseas returnees. For further information, please contact Training coordinators from the respective Institutes.

๐’๐š๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐‰๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ค๐ก๐š๐ซ ๐จ๐ง ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ

๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘†๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐ฝ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”๐‘˜โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘› โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก, ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘’๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ Karma Tenzin from S/Jongkhar Despite seeing a surge in the number of Covid-19 community transmissions this week, which prompted the National Covid-19 Taskforce to extend the ongoing lockdown in the […]

๐Œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐‡๐š๐ณ๐ž๐ฅ๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ• ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ž๐ž๐ฌ

๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™, โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘› 64 ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘“ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜ Staff Reporter from ThimphuIn restructuring its operation, the Mountain Hazelnuts (MH) will be laying off 157 staff by giving them30 daysโ€™ notice this month.However, the Company will retain 64 staff to manage the streamlined scope of work.ย โ€œWhilst the layoffs are inevitable […]

๐Š๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ž๐ฆ๐ข๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ง

True to the WHOโ€™s declaration about the capability of the new Covid-19 Omicron variant to spread fasterthen any previous strain, we are perhaps seeing a similar development here too with many new cases ofthe Covid-19 proliferating and emerging from many parts of the country this week.ย As of Friday night, the health ministry announced about detecting […]

๐€ ๐ง๐จ๐ง-๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ซ ๐ ๐ข๐ซ๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž ๐ญ๐จ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ

๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘Ž 77-๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ-๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘›ย ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐ฟ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘”๐‘—๐‘œ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘˜โ„Ž๐‘Ž ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘š๐‘โ„Ž๐‘ขย A non-national girl, aged between 13 to 14-year-old, was reported to have committed suicide byhanging herself with a Khadhar (scarf) at Langjopakha in Thimphu on the evening of January 17. Thedeceased was found hanging inside the toilet.ย ย The deceased was living with a 77-year-old woman who […]

๐–๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ค: ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก ๐Œ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ

๐ป๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‚๐‘š๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘”๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘œ With the upsurge in Omicron cases in the country, the health ministry has developed the Omicron strategy in the worst-case scenario for the country. This was divulged by Health Minister Dasho Dechen Wangmo while updating the nation about the scenario of Covid-19 in the country […]

๐†๐จ๐ฏ๐ญ. ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐๐ž๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ

๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘†๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘–๐‘“ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ With an increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the country, a concern prevalent among people iswhether there are adequate quarantine facilities to house the contacts of the Covid-19 positive cases. However, during the Zoom Meeting among […]

๐„-๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ž: ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐จ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐›๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ

๐ด๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐ฝ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ 2022, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ 70 ๐‘’-๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘”๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ E-commerce is increasingly taking over the traditional ways of doing business around the world and the growth of e-commerce worldwide has been explosive, even more so during the pandemic with the global lockdowns and travel restrictions. Likewise, Bhutan needs to be prepared […]

๐–๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ซ๐š๐ฉ๐ž ๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ข๐ฆ

๐˜œ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ A 36-year-old married woman from Lhuentse, who after having consensual sexual intercourse in Toepisa gewog in Punakha in November reported to the police that she was raped, has been convicted for one month and two days by the Punakha district court on January 3. The convict was charged for reporting false information by the […]