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Japan gifted Bhutanese farmers with the largest consignment of road construction machinery so far to forge their way into future yesterday. Japan’s Ambassador to Bhutan Kenji Hiramatsu handed over 30 excavators, 20 Backhoes, and other equipment worth USD 6.948 million (M) to the agriculture minister Yeshey Dorji in a modest ceremony in Bumthang yesterday.

With the discovery of pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) on June 26, Bhutan’s avian biodiversity count has reached 723. Senior forester with Jigme Dorji National park (JDNP) Pema Kuenzang, photographed the bird at Dangochong, Soe range, Thimphu around 3pm when he and his friend were on cordycep duty.

The Bongdeyma industrial estate in Mongar is expected to be developed by 2019, economic affairs minister Lekey Dorji said.

The urban tax paid by residents in extended areas of Rinchending and Pekharzhing under Phuentsholing Thromde from 2011 to 2015 would not be refunded, the works and human settlement minister Dorji Choden said at the meet the press session on August 4.

Bhutan Taxi Association (BTA) joined the ‘national drug awareness campaign’ organised by Chithuen Phendhey Association (CPA) in Thimphu yesterday. Some 40 members of BTA will provide free ride once every morning and evening to Kuenselphodrang for three days starting today.

The president and founder of Respect, Educate, Nurture and Empower Women (RENEW), Her Majesty the Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck and ambassador of Japan to Bhutan, Kenji Hiramatsu inaugurated a vocational centre at the Gawailing Happy Home at Selekha in Wangsisina yesterday.

Works and Human Settlement Minister Dorji Choden said that the Chukha-Damchu bypass would open to traffic by June 2018.

The annual Dorji Drolo Drupchen, which started a week ago at the Ugyen Dongag Chokhorling monastery in Yonphula, Trashingang ends today with Ngedrup Lawong or blessing to the public.

Labour ministry plans to facilitate 120 new business start-ups by youth by 2018 to achieve full employment at 97.5 percent as per the 11th Five-Year Plan.

The government is not worried about the power surplus in India, the education minister Norbu Wangchuk said during the recent meet the press session.

Following motor vehicle loan revision by the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) on August 1, the government said that it would not take fiscal measures to monitor vehicle imports in the country.

For the last six months, Karma Tshering and two of his colleagues have been living in a tiny apartment near project DANTAK campus in Kanglung.