July of 1985

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Foreign Minister Addresses Governing Council of the UNDP

Foreign Affairs

Jul 27, 1985 3 mins read 614 views
Dasho Shinkhar Lam Retires

Personalities

Jul 27, 1985 3 mins read 674 views
DECHHEN-PHODRANG MONASTIC SCHOOL CELEBRATES SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY

Monasteries

Jul 27, 1985 1 mins read 670 views
Haa Junior High School

Education- Schools

Jul 20, 1985 0 mins read 867 views
Dr. Y. T. Pemba Joins Thimphu General Hospital

Health/Doctors/Patients

Jul 20, 1985 0 mins read 752 views
National Women's Association Members in Nairobi, Kenya

National Women Association (NWA)

Jul 20, 1985 0 mins read 609 views
Danish Grant for Bhutan

Projects

Jul 20, 1985 0 mins read 677 views
KTS and YHS Declared Joint Winners

Sport

Jul 20, 1985 1 mins read 649 views
Animal Husbandry Activities in Chirang Dzongkhag

Animal Husbandry Activities

Jul 20, 1985 1 mins read 691 views
Foreign Minister's Tour Abroad

Foreign Affairs

Jul 20, 1985 3 mins read 594 views
AMBASSADOR OF BHUTAN TO BANGLADESH PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

Bhutan-Embassies

Jul 20, 1985 1 mins read 642 views
New Home Minister Appointed

Home Affairs

Jul 20, 1985 0 mins read 709 views
Dasho Sonam Rabgye Cremated

Diseased Personalities

Jul 13, 1985 2 mins read 624 views
Iodine Deficiency Control in Bhutan

BBS (Bhutan Broadcasting Service)

Jul 13, 1985 3 mins read 615 views
Indian Cultural Delegation visits Bhutan

Visitors

Jul 13, 1985 1 mins read 684 views
Bhutan Ratifies ICGEB Statutes

Lottery

Jul 13, 1985 0 mins read 576 views
Letter Writing Competition

Competition (A-Z)

Jul 13, 1985 0 mins read 0 views
Inter-School Football Tournament '85

Sport

Jul 13, 1985 0 mins read 602 views
FOOTBALL : The Second Most Popular Sport in Thimphu

Kuensel

Jul 13, 1985 3 mins read 573 views
Bhutan Party to Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty

Science/ Technology

Jul 13, 1985 0 mins read 633 views
Dasho Ugyen Dorji elected Football Federation President

Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC)

Jul 13, 1985 0 mins read 603 views
FOOTBALL : INTER-OFFICE LEAGUE '85

Sport

Jul 13, 1985 0 mins read 564 views
Sri Lankan Talks in Thimphu

Bhutan-Sri Lanka

Jul 13, 1985 0 mins read 616 views
Knitting Centre at Chengmari

Handicraft

Jul 06, 1985 0 mins read 643 views
Students Rescue Accident Victims

Accident

Jul 06, 1985 0 mins read 625 views
Death on the Road

Accident

Jul 06, 1985 0 mins read 609 views
Low Cost Solar House Project in Bhutan

Energy (Solar, Water, Wind)

Jul 06, 1985 4 mins read 605 views
HEALTH FOR ALL BY 2000

Health- Conference/Workshop/Meeting

Jul 06, 1985 3 mins read 659 views
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ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་མ་ལང་མི་དེ་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་ ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་ག་གི་འཐུས་ཤོར་ཨིན་ན།

༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལངམ་སྦེ་མེད་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ས་མཚམས་ཕྱི་ཁ...

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Recents

RAA uncovers major procurement lapses in the Nu 610M BITS projects

A Special Audit Report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has identified significant procurement, planning, and governance failures in the Bhutan Integrated Taxation System (BITS 1.0), concluding that the project failed to achieve its intended objectives and resulted in substantial wasteful and avoidable expenditure of public funds.

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What solutions for Amochu project?

Phuentsholing—Erratic climatic conditions combined with changing geological patterns have turned the developing Amochu township area into a recurring flood-prone zone in recent years, with the latest disruption occurring even before the onset of the monsoon.

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RCSC faces growing ‘missing middle’ amid exodus

A widening shortage of mid-career civil servants is creating what officials describe as a “missing middle” across government agencies, raising concerns about leadership succession, institutional continuity and the long-term resilience of the country’s public sector workforce.

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Reform or stay shut

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