The COVID-19 pandemic battered the economy, affected businesses and livelihoods to the extent that people applied for the Royal Kidu

Waste continues to be a growing problem in Bhutan, especially in the bigger population centres

Four jobseekers with Master’s Degree and 139 university graduates are among the 1,067 jobseekers registered with the Build Bhutan Project (BBP) that was launched last week

The relaxation of lockdown has helped manufacturing units and industries in Sarpang bring in raw materials, but the firms are facing a shortage of hands to continue business

The Tourism Stimulus Package (TSP) engaged 1,068 laid off people from the tourism sector in the first phase and has spent Nu 90 million (M)

Twenty-six foreign workers were apprehended at Pekharzhing (Pasakha), Phuentsholing on the evening of July 7, while trying to cross the international border into India

While some parents are concerned about students not getting the best of online education, teachers in the Bhutanese highlands are waiting for students to return from cordyceps collections to continue online education

Some of the Bhutan government’s top priorities have taken the backseat as development activities and programmes had to be reprioratisatised in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19-induced economic disruptions will not affect Bhutan’s plans to graduate from the club of the United Nations’ Least Developed Countries (LDC) in 2023, the prime minister said in an interview with Kuensel

While the country’s COVID-19 tally has been increasing, there has been zero death

Heterosexual act or sexual intercourse with the opposite sex is the common mode of transmission among the 34 new Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) cases detected in the last six months

The growth in employment opportunities fell behind the rise in the number of job seekers for years which was mainly due to the absence of an appropriate education system

As hotels lost businesses in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, one immediate step to cut cost was relieving staff on unpaid leave or slashing salary as high as by 50 percent

In an attempt to meet the shortage of workers in the construction sector due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the labour ministry launched Build Bhutan Project (BBP) yesterday

Schools closed right after the first Covid-19 case in the country. When the schools re-opened yesterday for Class X and XII, students and school administrations saw and felt the new normal