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Health ministry launches e-BMSIS
To have effective medical supply management system and to ensure non-interrupted adequate supplies to health facilities just in time across the nation, the Ministry of Health today launched...
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Monitoring child growth to get better
Growth monitoring of children aged five years and below has not picked up as expected in the country. Considering this, the Health Ministry recently issued an Executive Order to health centres across...
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OAG withdraws charges against 8 people involved in illegal repatriation of...
The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has withdrawn charges against eight individuals, alleged to have involved in illegal repatriation of Indian Currency or Rupees in Jaigoan, India by using...
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Flooding in Gangzur leaves trail of destruction
A flood destroyed over 12 acres of paddy fields and nearly 9 acres of dry land belonging to 22 households in Shawa and Somshing villages under Gangzur Gewog in Lhuentse. The flood occurred on the...
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Unemployed, out of school youth learn arts and crafts
About 150 more youth are now equipped with skills to make various indigenous arts and crafts products. Thanks to a three-month long training they just completed. While some of them are unemployed,...
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Japanese Opera singer encourages world peace through music
Encouraging world peace through singing, music brought Meiko Tsurusawa, an accomplished Japanese Opera singer in the country. The singer is currently on a world tour giving hope and encouragement...
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Woman gets 3 years for involuntary manslaughter
The Tsirang District Court has sentenced a woman from Mendrelgang to three years in prison for involuntary manslaughter. The 35-year-old woman, in self defense, stabbed her husband on his right thigh,...
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Water problem in Changzamtok to ease
The residents of Changzamtok and those living above the RICBL colony can look forward to receiving safe and adequate drinking water supply in about three months from now. This is because Thimphu...
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Berdoongma farm road in need of improvement
Berdoongma village of Thrimshing Gewog in Trashigang is connected by a farm road. But the 12.6 kilometre road has not been of much benefit to the villagers owing to its poor condition. It’s hard for...
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255 acres of maize damaged by windstorm in Monggar
A windstorm in Monggar destroyed 255 acres of maize fields belonging to 484 households on the evening of July 18. The affected Gewogs are Monggar, Chagsakhar, Drepoong,Tsakaling,Thang Rong, Ngatshang...
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His Holiness administers Wang in Bumthang
Thousands of devotees received Zhabdrung Darnami Wang from His Holiness the Je Khenpo at the Jambay Lhakhang in Bumthang today. It marked the end of the week long Moenlam Chenmo held in the...
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Electric fencing for Joenkhar village in Sagteng
The people in Joenkhar are helping the Sagteng Wildlife Sanctuary and agriculture officials in the installation of electric fencing in their village. The 11.5 kilometre fencing is expected to help...
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Minor acquitted in rape case
Tsirang Dzongkhag Court has acquitted a 17-year-old student from Patshaling Gewog of raping a 40-year-old speech-impaired woman. The verdict, pronounced on 18 July, stated it was rather a consensual...
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Evidence hearing of Pakshikha School warden case held
Chhukha District Court The evidence hearing for the battery case involving the warden of Pakshikha Central School was held at the Chhukha District Court on Tuesday. The school’s warden is charged with...
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Transforming Samazingkha ridge into Agroforestry landscape
The Samazingkha ridge in Thimphu will be converted to an Agroforestry landscape. To this effect, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests(MoAF) signed a grant agreement of Nu 15m with the Bhutan Trust...
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BEAR takes emergency health care a notch higher
The Bhutan Emergency Aero Retrieval (BEAR) is leading in emergency health care delivery in the country by jumping to the rescue of patients in need of critical care and saving lives that would...
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BAOWE proposes to open Women Chamber in Bhutan
The Bhutan Association of Women Entrepreneurs (BAOWE) highlighted the need to establish Women Chamber in Bhutan. The proposal was tabled during the two-day SAARC regional consultative meeting which...
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Wangchhu contaminated with E.coli bacteria
The Wangchhu in Thimphu is said to be contaminated with a bacteria known as E.coli. This was ascertained by Gobal Waterkeeper Alliance which recently examined the quality of the river. The Global...
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PM inaugurates Bhutan’s first-ever fabrication laboratory
Prime Minister Dasho Tshering Tobgay inaugurated the country’s first fabrication laboratory (Fablab) in the capital yesterday. The Fablab is a digital platform, which helps to translate ideas into...
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Indian Businessman asked to pay over Nu 14m for tax evasion
Phuentsholing Drungkhag Court Phuentsholing Drungkhag Court ordered the owner of JPLP, a departmental store in Phuentshogling, to pay over Nu 14 M as penalty for evading tax from 2011-14. The OAG has...
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