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The 20-bed Riserboo Hospital at Wamrong in Trashigang, has been facing a severe nurse shortage for nearly five months. Only five staff nurses are managing the ward, far below the health ministry’s standard of 15 to 19 nurses for such a facility. The shortage began after several staff left for further studies, and others were transferred. The situation worsens when...

During the National Cadastral Resurvey Programme in 2012, lands covered with overgrown vegetation or situated in challenging terrain were left unsurveyed and categorised as TP plots. For more than a decade, many landowners have been unable to utilise these lands. At the recent Samtse Dzongkhag Tshogdu, local leaders raised the issue, calling for urgent solutions to a long-standing problem. Farmers...

Factory owners in Phuentshogling’s Damdara industrial area are calling for a deadline extension to relocate their factories to Dhamdum Industrial Park in Samtse. The Phuentshogling Thromde has set a relocation deadline for mid-next year. Worried about the time frame, business owners are planning to appeal to the prime minister. They are also asking for a freeze on the land lease...

Every year, artisans from across the country submit their best work of art for the National Design and Art Competition. Nearly 90 artisans competed in this year’s edition, a slight increase from last year. The annual competition, held under the Royal Patronage of Her Majesty Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck, intends to safeguard and promote the country’s unique cultural heritage through...