The Bhutan government has imposed a nationwide lockdown starting from Tuesday after a locally transmitted COVID-19 case was reported
Rescued from Baghdad: Bhutanese woman narrates tale of woe
Sonam was 25. She had gone to a primary school and a nunnery. She had never heard of Iraq, forget Baghdad, the capital city of the war-torn country in the Middle East
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Build Bhutan Project engages 354 job seekers
Build Bhutan Project (BBP) has employed 216 job seekers under the direct engagement scheme as of yesterday
Bhutanese capital’s lockdown preparedness put to test
Three people – two men and a woman - test positive to COVID-19 outside the quarantine facility in Thimphu. With no recent travel history to India or abroad or without known contact with a positive patient, it marks the first local transmission in the capital
Biodiversity monitoring protocol to integrate conservation activities
Now with the biodiversity monitoring and social survey protocol in place, conservation activities in Bhutan are expected to be more integrated with systematic, coordinated, and consolidated biodiversity data
Bhutan government defends opening of tobacco outlets
The government has not breached the Tobacco Control Act or any provisions of the Constitution given the current situation, according to the Attorney General (AG)
Illegal entry cases along the border increasing in Bhutan
Samtse court sentenced a 16-year-old student from Gomtu to two years in prison for breach of public order and tranquillity and for criminal nuisance last month
Former Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay is a De-Suup
Former Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay is among 350 De-Suups who completed the 41st accelerated De-Suung training programme on August 1 from Jigmeling, Sarpang
Cellular mobile subscriptions in Bhutan jump in second-quarter
Mobile cellular subscriptions in Bhutan jumped by 24,558 in the second quarter of 2020, according to statistics published this week by the Ministry of Information and Communications
Government accused of breaching tobacco legislation
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged the Bhutanese government’s decision to open tobacco outlets in the country managed by the Bhutan Duty Free Limited
Health ministry formulating lockdown protocol in Bhutan
As residents geared up for another weekend last Friday, a rumour was rife of a COVID-19 community transmission and a possible lockdown of the capital city, quietly
Bhutan seeks to upscale domestic tourism as international tourism shut
While Bhutan remains closed to international tourists owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a renewed effort in promoting domestic tourism led by the Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB)
Bhutan Parliament session expected in November
The upcoming session of Parliament, which was supposed to be the summer session of 2020, is being postponed further to November due to COVID-19, the Speaker has indicated
Bhutanese schools will not re-open this month
Bhutan's schools will not open today, August 1. Amidst rumours on social media that the schools will reopen from this month, it was confirmed that the government has no plans to re-open schools for Classes VII-IX and XI as yet
