During the Renewable Natural Resources (RNR) sector’s 12th Five Year Plan midterm review (MTR) yesterday in Thimphu, the agriculture ministry proposed to reduce the target of rice self-sufficiency to 43 percent from 60 percent and maize self-sufficiency from 92 percent to 87 percent.

More than a decade ago, in 2008, the education ministry drafted an Education Policy based on the constitutional commitment and policy documents of 1976 and 1982. The policy has so far remained a draft and will take time before it becomes the guiding policy.

The economic affairs ministry reported significant progress in the business infrastructure at the 12th Plan mid-term review (MTR) held on April 15 in Thimphu.  

In his fifth feature, ‘Looking For A Lady With Fangs And A Moustache’ which premiered on virtual cinema recently, the Bhutan-born lama and write-director Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Norbu weaves a quiet, deliberately paced and deceptively simple story of a man who on discovering he has just seven days to live is propelled on a nerve-racking spiritual journey.

Nearly 7,960 consumers out of 46,456 consumers in Thimphu received more than 100 percent increase in energy consumption in January and February this year compared with the same months of 2020, according to a joint study Office of the Consumer Protection (OCP) and Bhutan Electricity Authority (BEA) conducted recently.