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January 24, 2020
To create awareness on the proposed Goods and Services Tax, Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering met with civil servants in Thimphu at the Youth Development Fund hall yesterday
January 23, 2020
Under-17 (U-17) national women’s team defeated Meghalaya’s U-17 3-0 in the FIFA friendly match at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Shillong, India, on January 21. The U-17 team will play the second friendly match against Meghalaya at the same venue tomorrow at 2:30pm (BST).
January 22, 2020
A 32-year-old excavator operator died on the spot when a tree fell on the excavator at around 2pm in Nabji, Trongsa on January 20. The excavator was excavating a farm road and the operator was alone at the time of the incident. The body of the operator was recovered at around 3pm yesterday. More than 40 people including Police, locals and forest officials helped in the recovery. Since the machine was covered with a huge tree and mud, it took some hours to extract it.
January 21, 2020
Inaccessibility: A patient who has been referred to the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral hospital from Mongar regional hospital recently was taken home in Serchenmo, Wangphu gewog, Samdrupjongkhar on a wooden stretcher to perform rituals before bringing her to Thimphu.
January 20, 2020
Zhung Dratshang’s Leytshog Lopon Sangay Dorji concluded the two-week Buddhist Tradition Orientation and Training Programme with the offering of Riwosangchoe (mountain-cleansing offering) at the Zilukha MSS ground yesterday. About 891 students from the schools in Thimphu attended the programme.
January 20, 2020
A fire that raged a temporary shed of open-air prisoners in Lingzhi, Thimphu on January 15 affected 10 individuals who lost all their properties. But no casualties were reported. The highlanders from the five chiwogs of Lingzhi gewog provided victims with mattresses, blankets, clothes and utensils. The cause of the fire is believed to be an electric short circuit. (Photo: Gewog administration, Lingzhi)
January 18, 2020
The Ambassador of Bangladesh to Bhutan, A.K.M Shahidul Karim presented credentials to His Majesty The King at the Tashichhodzong yesterday.
January 16, 2020
Education Minister JB Rai launched a book titled “Miracle One Day” authored by Karma Cheki, a teacher of Thimyul Lower Secondary School in Lhuentse yesterday in Thimphu. Choeky, a beautiful young girl meets her lover with a diary in her bag from which she knows a story of another girl. Her story has a lesson about overcoming the fears, which bring hope to a sleepless.
January 16, 2020
Republic of Korea Ambassador to Bhutan Kang-il Hu handed over seven protocol cars to Foreign Secretary Kinga Singye in Thimphu yesterday morning. Korea donated the cars to the foreign ministry under the small-scale grant assistance scheme. So far Bhutan has received 18 cars. The two countries enjoy warm and cordial relations since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1987.
His Majesty in southern Bhutan
/0 Comments/in Lead Story, News /by kuensel1His Majesty The King granted an audience to ICT teachers from across the country who are attending a 12-day coding training which started in Gelephu yesterday.