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Tsimasham Police, Desuups and relatives will continue the search today for a missing driver after the truck he was driving fell into the river near Damchu yesterday.

A couple of months ago, a student from one of the schools in Phuentsholing had sustained a minor foot injury. The Phuentsholing General Hospital (PGH) treated her and doctors advised her to rest.

People in Dagana are unhappy with the road widening works, as it only includes the 44kms stretch of the highway between Sunkosh and Dagapela.

The national referral hospital’s struggle in disposing of the mounting medical waste has eased with the initiation of waste disposal to the landfill by its own vehicle since September.

With 24 new HIV cases (15 male and nine female) detected between June and November this year, a total of 60 cases have been diagnosed in 2019.

Going conical: With pressure on young pine trees for flagpoles, some are resorting to an environment- friendly way of hoisting mani prayer flags without having to cut down a single tree. 

The government could bring in additional revenue of Nu 336M annually by improving energy efficiency and standards in four major sectors: building, appliances, transport and industry.The energy efficiency and conservation policy, which was pending since 2014 was launched yesterday.

The seven staff, including six lecturers, that the College of Language and Cultural Studies in Taktse and the Royal University of Bhutan relieved earlier this year, sued the two authorities for wrongful charges and unfair dismissal yesterday.  

Two months after the launch of the Youth Engagement and Livelihood Programme (YELP), only 49 youth are engaged in the programme as of October. YELP was initiated to engage unemployed job seekers who completed Class X and above. 

Deviating from the past practice, the National Assembly did not include detailed information about MPs’ constituency visits in its annual report 2018-19.

Standard Operating Procedure for a multi-sectoral response to address Trafficking in Persons (TIP) was launched in Haa yesterday coinciding with the International Day of the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Bhutan and Canada held its first biennial consultations yesterday in the capital, Thimphu following the signing of the memorandum of understanding, to establish a bilateral consultation mechanism between the two foreign ministries in December 2018.

Themed, ‘Orange the world: generation equality stands against rape’, international day for elimination of violence against women was observed in Thimphu yesterday.