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Government to focus on professional development of teachers
This year, the government will focus on professional development of teachers in the country. This was the message the Prime Minister, Tshering Tobgay conveyed as the Nation celebrated Teachers’ Day, on...
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Bhutanese workers in Qatar not paid
More than 50 Bhutanese, working for Quality Hyper Market in Qatar, have not received their monthly salary since March, this year. Of the 50, 33 had been sent by the Global Recruitment Overseas...
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Basketball Championship attracts record number of participants
This year’s Thimphu B-league Basketball Championship saw the highest participation so far. Twenty nine teams, including seven in women’s category, are taking part. The women’s team had four last...
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Man allegedly cons a couple
A 30-year-old man is in Thimphu police custody for allegedly conning a couple, last month. He supposedly took Nu 200,000 from the couple promising them visa to work in the United States of America. The...
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Bhutan Toilet Org changing perception
Thanks to Bhutan Toilet Org, public toilets in the country are getting cleaner. It has been two years since the organisation came to being. The organisation’s founder, Passang Tshering, a former...
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Pema Gatshel’s local leaders want mining company to do their bit
The Dzongkhag Tshogdue in Pema Gatshel has asked Druk Satair Corporation to support maintaining the highway. The members say hundreds of trucks, carrying gypsum, ply the highway every day, damaging...
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Chhumig mini-hydropower to light Bumthang uninterrupted
Once the rehabilitation of Chhumig’s 1.7 MW mini-hydropower completes, locals in Bumthang will get uninterrupted power supply, even when there is a problem with the national grid. The rehabilitation...
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Viral earthquake message not from Rinpoche, says personal assistant
Dungsey Garab Rinpoche’s personal assistant said the message that went viral on a popular social networking application, Wechat was not from Rinpoche. “There is a high chance of earthquake around 12...
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Man caught for possessing 17 sacks of dried Marijuana
Samdrup Jongkhar police arrested a 38-year-old man for allegedly possessing 17 sacks of dried Marijuana amounting to 680 kilograms, at Jomotshangkha, yesterday. The man, who drives a school bus, was on...
View ArticleNCO police under custody for allegedly stabbing wife to death
A Non-Commissioned Police Officer, 36, is under Phuentshogling police custody for allegedly stabbing his wife to death, last night. The 26-year-old deceased succumbed to injuries on reaching...
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Drukair to resume flights to Gelephug
The National airline, Drukair will resume operating commercial flights to Gelephug from May 15. The airline had suspended flight operations to Gelephug since February owing to strong winds that might...
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Bhutan’s online marketplace makes it to global competition
An online marketplace for finding residential and commercial rental space in Thimphu, www.housing.bt is among the 30 finalists from around the world. It will compete in science and technology...
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Disappearing Bhutanese cuisines
Delicately-flavoured Narang roll, spicy Zhingtshey Ezay, and sumptuous Kogay, are in the list of traditional Bhutanese cuisines that could vanish from the country’s menu forever. A Trainer and Chef,...
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National Transport Policy to be put in place soon
To overcome the lack of coordination among different agencies, a National Transport Policy will soon be put in place. Two ministries, information and communications and works and human settlement, are...
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Draft Mineral Development Policy still not ready
The draft Mineral Development Policy has not been put up to the Cabinet even though it was to be submitted a year ago. Economic affairs ministry is still continuing consultations with relevant...
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Guidelines for earthquake resilient Bhutanese houses being worked on
Home ministry and consultants from Japan will come up with guidelines to construct Bhutanese houses that are earthquake resilience, in a few years time. There are no recorded data to know the...
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Thimphu hospital diagnoses 6,000 mental illnesses in 10 years
The number people suffering from mental illnesses have doubled in the last decade. National Referral Hospital in Thimphu alone diagnosed more than 6,000 cases in last 10 years. Mental illnesses include...
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Some dzongkhags yet to achieve infant mortality rate
About seven dzongkhags in the country haven’t been able to achieve the infant mortality rate. The health ministry had targeted zero infant mortality rate even though the Millennium Development Goal’s...
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DoR completes blacktopping 15 GC roads
Blacktopping of 15 gewog-connectivity roads has been completed. Department of Roads (DoR) under works and human settlement ministry has to blacktop 114 gewog-connectivity roads by the end of 11th plan....
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Sweden’s King and Queen to visit Bhutan
On the invitation of His Majesty the King, their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden will pay a three-day state visit to Bhutan beginning June 8. This is the first State Visit...
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