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To ensure safe learning and teaching environment with the opening of the schools across the country, schools adopt innovative and strict COVID-19 protocols. Besides schools following the COVID-19 protocols like using mask, washing hands and maintaining social distancing, each schools have their own innovative and strict strategies to ensure safe learning and teaching environment for the students and the teachers. …

In an exclusive interview with Bhutan TODAY, Sherab Namgay, the Managing Director of Bhutan Board Products Limited talks about BBPL’s Wood Mulch Manure – ‘Greenure’, its pricing schemes, production capacity and the endeavor to complement the country’s National Organic Flagship Project, additionally, the Managing Director also talks about the automation of the plant to blend a greater yield of organic …

… The post started in 1960s. Puran Gurung To streamline public service delivery by stressing on professionalism, leadership and innovations in the local governance, the government decides to altogether wind-up the post of gaydrung (Gup’s clerk), a post synonymous to public service delivery, by coming month. Gaydrung’s job entails writing applications, dispatch works, and general office duties. This comes after …

Puran Gurung Pointing at the negligible intra-regional trade and investment sector developments within the Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) member states since the inception of the body, promoting it for the seven South Asian and Southeast Asian nations will be BIMTSEC’s ‘success story’. At the 5th BIMSTEC Summit hosted in virtual mode, the Summit’s theme “Towards …

Puran Gurung In the early hours of January 28, a 34-year-old woman hospitalized at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) for COVID-19 passed away. This is the fourth death in the country so far with over 4,430 individuals contracting the virus since the detection of the virus since March 5, 2020 in the country. According to the Ministry …

Puran Gurung Indian Ambassador to Bhutan Ruchira Kumboj says ‘India and Bhutan continue to build on present multi-faceted ties’ in an interview with Bhutan TODAY on the occasion of 73rd Republic Day of India. India has come a long way since 1947. What are some of the defining moments in the making of a sovereign socialist democratic republic Bharat as …

By Sangay Choden In line with the standard operating procedure on multi-sectoral response to trafficking inperson, 165 victims of trafficking were referred to National Commission for Women andChildren (NCWC) for psychosocial support. Earlier in 2020, under His Majesty’s Command, the government rescued 184 women fromthe Middle East – the government provided livelihood training, medical examination, shelterservices, and other necessities to …

Q&A with Tshering Wangchuk, STCBL CEO By Puran Gurung Question 1: As the country’s main trading arm – what are some of your plans for State Trading Corporation Limited of Bhutan (STCBL) in the coming years? One focus that the STCBL will undertake over the next few years is setting up Fuel Retail Outlets (FPO) in the 20 Dzongkhags. Apart …

By Puran Gurung/ Thimphu In light of various economic growth rate figures reflected by the government and other relevant agencies, the opposition party claim that the economy of the country has regressed by 10.08 percent in 2020. The Opposition Leader, Dorji Wangdi points that the economic growth figure of 2021 is not ready. Talking about economic growth of 2020, the …

By Puran Gurung In the rebuttal, the Royal Bhutan Police on the ongoing defamation case it lodged against a private businessman, Penjore Penjore submitted to the court that matters of public interest should be reported to the concerned authority and not post on Facebook. Reiterating the first hearing, the Royal Bhutan Police prosecutor argued that Penjore Penjore Facebook post may …