BHUTAN TODAY The New Perspective

Phurpa WangmoOn January 6, 2023, the Bhutan Council for School Examinations and Assessment announced the results for Class X. The overall pass percentage is 71.58%, which is a 1.46% improvement over last year’s 70.12%. The pass percentage has been calculated based on the number of candidates who passed in Dzongkha, English and three other subjects. Sonam Pema achieved the top …

…𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒊𝒏 𝑺𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 2022, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒖𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒙𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝑼𝑺𝑫 7.06𝑴 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑵𝒖 46.68𝑴 (𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝑼𝑺𝑫 570,000) 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝑫𝑭 Tenzin Lhaden Despite the drop in visitor numbers, 16,520 people have visited the country since it reopened in September 2022, which is better than what the tourism sector forecasted. According to records from …

Pelden Dorji, popularly known as Ata Pelden, a man who has played role of a “Ata”- an elder brother to aspiring youths in the film industry with his relentless guidance and support driven with decades of experience and wisdom in this field, and an affable figure known for his simplicity and humility. Ata Pelden is one of the founders of …

… 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕-𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒄, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 Tenzin Lhaden The tourism sector, one of the highest contributors to the country’s Gross Domestic Product, was hit the hardest and revealed how hard it had hit the country which relies so heavily on visitors. The tourism reforms changed the tourism business modus operandi impacting many …

…….𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒈𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔’ 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒏-𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔 Sonam Deki The government services going into digitization is attuned to global transformation of digitization which has eased and proved to be convenient for the service provider (Government) and for those who avail services (citizens). With E-governance, it is intended to make services simpler, effective and more …