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About eight graduates will be vying for a job in the civil service this year. A total of 3,844 graduates have registered for the August 6 preliminary examination to compete for the 494 vacancies that the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) has announced. The vacancy is four less than last year.

The Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation (BTFEC) will provide Nu 28.956 million (M) to four environment conservation projects that will be implemented between July this year and June 2020.

Police in Pemagatshel is on the look out for the owner of a private firm, Drukyul Destiny, who in 2015, collected Nu 500 each from 250 households of Chimung, Chongshing, Khar and Yurung gewogs and allegedly absconded.

A windstorm on July 18 damaged 225 acres of maize fields and affected 810 households in Mongar.

Seventy-six schools under the popular School Agriculture Programme (SAP) have produced about 1.95 million eggs last year, an average 1,950 eggs every month.

To facilitate health staff to make appropriate inventory and timely stock requisition, an online inventory system ‘Electronic Bhutan Medical Supplies Inventory System (e-BMSIS) was launched July 19.

Phuentsholing drungkhag court yesterday ruled that Lal Chand of Jatan Prasad Lalchand Prasad (JPLP) departmental store has to pay Nu 14.487M against the evaded tax worth Nu 184M in four years from 2011 to 2014.

Farmers of the eastern dzongkhags are happy with potato prices. This auction time is Samdrupjongkhar, the highest price big potatoes get is Nu 19 per kg. Medium-sized potatoes fetch Nu at least Nu 12, and small ones Nu 10 maximum.

Tsirang District Court sentenced a 35-year-old woman from Mendrelgang to three years in prison for involuntary manslaughter.

The health ministry organised the training with support from WHO regional office for South-East Asia and country office for Bhutan.

Bhutan Toilet Organisation (BTO) conducted a fund-raising concert in collaboration with Misty Terrace at Lugar Theatre on 19 July in Thimphu.

Classes for 120 Bhutanese medical students in Sri Lanka have been disrupted for more than five months following protests against the educational and medical standards of the only private medical university, South Asian Institute of Technology and Management (SAITM).