Bhutan is exploring ways to provide an electronic tablet to each student of 12th standard in order to bridge the widening learning gap, especially after the COVID-19 situation, as per a report by Kuensel, the government-owned newspaper

Five foreign workers who were trying to enter Bhutan, hiding in a truck, were arrested by authorities for bypassing the established procedure and the strict COVID measures, Kuensel reported

Bhutan has witnessed a 36.6 percent increase in gender-based violence this year, Kuensel reported citing the data released by a reputed NGO, RENEW, which world for women empowerment in Bhutan

Bhutan and Germany on Wednesday established formal diplomatic relations by signing an agreement in New Delhi

Despite a slight decrease in overall cases of tuberculosis in the last decade, Bhutan has been witnessing an increased number of cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis over the years

With international flights to and from Bhutan still grounded, domestic air traffic in the country is gradually picking up pace, report Kuensel

Bhutan’s lower house of the parliament will reconsider its earlier resolution that sought to decriminalize homosexuality in 2019, Kuensel news reported

The National Commission for Women and Children (NCWC) in Bhutan has called for stricter punishment for the crimes like rape and sexual assaults if perpetrators are in a position of trust with minors, thekuensel.com reported

A report released by the National Statistics Bureau showed Bhutan reduced its trade deficit in 2019 by 32.42% in comparison to the previous year

Addressing the virtual International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Bhutan’s Information and Communication Minister Lyonpo Karma Donnenwangi hailed the expansion of the country’s online systems amid the COVID-19 pandemic, thekuensel.com reported

The World Wildlife Fund, Tarayana Foundation, and the Bhutan government would undertake a big conservation project worth € 0 million in southwestern Dzongkhags in the next eight years, thekuensel.com reported

Bhutan’s capital Thimphu will soon get a fully automated sewage system with a capacity to treat 12 MLD sewage by the beginning of next year, the Kuensel reported

Generations in the village have earned their livelihood and passed off their traditional skill of weaving cane baskets to the next generation, but for Tshering Legi, the one she is weaving right now could be the last such basket,  thus ending a thousand-year-old tradition in Banjar village of Tsamang Gewog block in Mongar district of Bhutan

Bhutan, a landlocked country in the eastern Himalayas in South Asia, which has 84 percent forest cover in its land, often gets admiration and accolade for preserving its environment and forest in the best possible way

As the waste from the Covid hospitals and quarantine centers don’t go to normal waste collection sites in Thimphu, it is currently being burnt in the open in Bhutan