July of 1980

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CHANGE OF NOMENCLATURE OF BHUTAN TRANSPORT SYNDICATE

Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)

Jul 27, 1980 0 mins read 713 views
WFP ASSISTANCE TO BHUTAN

WFP (World Food Program)

Jul 27, 1980 1 mins read 653 views
SOCIAL FORESTRY PROGRAMME

Forest Social/Project/ Afforestation

Jul 27, 1980 1 mins read 704 views
GIRDLING KILL TREES

Forest Timber/ Firewood

Jul 27, 1980 1 mins read 577 views
NEPAL FOREIGN SECRETARY IN BHUTAN

Bhutan- Nepal

Jul 27, 1980 0 mins read 664 views
INTER OFFICE LEAGUE FINAL

Sport

Jul 27, 1980 1 mins read 581 views
TRIP TO PHAJODING

Education- Student

Jul 19, 1980 1 mins read 640 views
3RD MEETING OF JIGME WANGCHUCK MEMORIAL CLUB

Club (A-Z)

Jul 19, 1980 0 mins read 602 views
F.C.B. AID TO FARMERS

Food Corporation of Bhutan (FCB)

Jul 19, 1980 0 mins read 616 views
TABLE TENNIS TOURNAMENT

Sport

Jul 19, 1980 0 mins read 728 views
SHOE MANUFACTURING UNIT AT SAMDRUPJONGKHAR

Factories A-Z

Jul 19, 1980 0 mins read 568 views
UG CABLES FOR TELEPHONES AT GAYLEGPHUG EXTENDED

Telecommunication Department

Jul 19, 1980 1 mins read 586 views
TRADE AND TRANSIT TALKS WITH INDIA

Bhutan- India

Jul 19, 1980 1 mins read 572 views
REORGANIZATION IN THE MINISTRY OF TRADE, INDUSTRY AND FORESTS

Bhutan - Trade

Jul 19, 1980 1 mins read 679 views
WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL AND CULTURAL EDUCATION

July 20, 1980 - A week-long workshop on Social and Cultural Education was organized by the National Council for Social and Cultural Promotion in Thimphu recently. The Wor...

Jul 20, 1980 3 mins read 1,075 views
DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING OF SAMDRUPJONGKHAR

Dzongkhags

Jul 12, 1980 2 mins read 560 views
LAND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR GAYLEGPHUG TO BE IMPLEMENTED SOON

Dzongkhags

Jul 12, 1980 2 mins read 591 views
YADI BASIC HEALTH UNIT

Health/ BHU/ Dispensary/ ORC

Jul 12, 1980 1 mins read 584 views
SHINGKHAR LAWREE IRRIGATION SCHEMES

Agriculture Irrigation

Jul 12, 1980 1 mins read 522 views
CYCLIST IN THIMPHU

Visitors

Jul 12, 1980 0 mins read 542 views
DAVID L. GUYER

UN Agencies

Jul 12, 1980 0 mins read 562 views
SAVE THE CHILDREN

UN Agencies

Jul 12, 1980 1 mins read 603 views
DANCE TROUPE RETURNS

Special Commission For Cultural Affairs/ Bhutan Music/ RAPA

Jul 12, 1980 1 mins read 577 views
SENIOR STUDENTS VISIT GIDAKOM LEPROSY HOSPITAL

Health-Hospital/JDWNRH

Jul 05, 1980 0 mins read 592 views
FUNCTION HELD IN HONOUR OF IBFA DELEGATION WHICH VISITED BHUTAN RECENTLY

Indo-Bhutan Friendship Association

Jul 05, 1980 0 mins read 621 views
MR. V.B. CHADHA LEAVING BHUTAN SOON

Personalities

Jul 05, 1980 0 mins read 556 views
PLANT PROTECTION WORK

Agriculture Activities

Jul 05, 1980 2 mins read 578 views
R.S.A. TABLE TENNIS KNOCKOUT TOURNAMENT

Sport

Jul 05, 1980 0 mins read 679 views
TRAINING FOR FCB OFFICIALS

Food Corporation of Bhutan (FCB)

Jul 05, 1980 0 mins read 574 views
NEW MEDICAL ZONE FOR GAYLEGPHUG CREATED

Health Policy

Jul 05, 1980 1 mins read 566 views
BHUTAN MOURNS THE SAD DEMISE OF MR. V.V. GIRI

Bhutan- India

Jul 05, 1980 0 mins read 574 views
VARIETY SHOW

Education- Student

Jul 05, 1980 0 mins read 0 views
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Amendment to CRPD reservation fails to secure support in NC

The amendment to the reservation on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was not adopted at the ongoing National Council (NC) session today as it failed to secure the required simple majority.

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Study to improve road construction in high-altitude passes

Recurrent failures of pavements along Dochula, Pelela, Yotongla and Thrumshingla passes are partly attributed to design...

Jun 09, 2026 2 mins read 3,416 views
Bhutan installs first high-altitude black carbon monitoring station

The National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM), in partnership with the International Centre for Integrated Mo...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 1,636 views
NC forwards Co-operatives and Farmers Groups Bill 2025 to National Assembly

The Co-operatives and Farmers Groups Bill of Bhutan 2025 has been reviewed by the National Council and forwarded to the...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 1,983 views
NC backs designated zones for meat shops, adopts Livestock Bill

Meat shops and meat sales outlets will be allowed to operate only from designated locations under the Livestock Bill of...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 4,928 views
Finance Minister to present revised block grant guidelines in winter Parliament session

Finance Minister Lekey Dorji will present revised guidelines for the annual block grant for local governments during the...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 2,275 views
New income tax regime reduces TDS deductions, increases take-home pay

Civil servants across all grade levels have seen a significant increase in take-home pay following recent tax reforms, a...

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 3,992 views
Renovated immigration building to ease congestion at Phuentsholing terminal

Phuentsholing—Tourists entering the country by road through Phuentsholing will experience faster and more comfortable se...

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 2,129 views
ACC drops cases against former JDWNRH president; family alleges wrongful implication

Family members of former President of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) Lhab Dorji have alleged...

Jun 06, 2026 5 mins read 2,711 views
The gift of children

Punakha—When Karma Namgay and Dechen Lhaden’s daughter turned four, the questions from relatives and friends became increasingly awkward to answer – why had they not had another ch...

Jun 06, 2026 3 mins read 1,958 views
NC endorses annual budget as per NA

The National Council yesterday deliberated on the National Budget Report for FY 2026–27, the Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2026–27, and the Supplementary Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2025–26.

Jun 09, 2026 2 mins read 1,481 views
Bhutan to pilot green finance taxonomy from June

Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before...

May 30, 2026 3 mins read 3,947 views
Stop recording, start living

Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.

Jun 06, 2026 4 mins read 650 views
Ask Mr Bhutan: “Money can’t buy happiness.” Is it true, when everything is dependent on money?

Once born into a physical body, there are certain absolute necessities without which most of us are incapable of experie...

May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,284 views
Duchen Nga Zom: What a butter lamp and a few flower petals can teach us

Duchen Nga Zom is a duzom—an auspicious convergence of sacred time within the Buddhist calendar, marked by the meeting o...

May 30, 2026 4 mins read 1,112 views
The virus, the fear, and the freedom beyond both

Hantavirus is not a single virus but a family of rodent-borne viruses that occasionally spill over into humans, sometime...

May 24, 2026 4 mins read 1,446 views
Whose face are you wearing?

The desire for happiness is universal, and beauty, prestige, and wealth have always been seen as pathways to achieve it. In that sense, this is nothing new.

May 16, 2026 4 mins read 1,874 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,462 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 2,213 views
Café by the waterfall

About six kilometres before Trongsa town, just past the Bjee Zam Bridge, a traditional one-storey house appears on the left of the highway. It is not easy to miss. This modest structure...

May 02, 2026 2 mins read 2,873 views
Where tradition meets treatment

In Bhutan, healing is not a choice between past and present but a collaboration between the two. Across the country, patients move between modern clinics and traditional medicine units with ease, guided as much by...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 2,621 views
Between Homes

When I first arrived in Australia last year, I thought I was prepared. I had spoken to people, watched videos, and tried to imagine what life would be like. Bu...

May 02, 2026 1 mins read 6,825 views
Overseas employment isn’t the solution

The conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment.

Jun 10, 2026 2 mins read 1,178 views
United for Project 108

Bhutanese, friends of Bhutan, and our well-wishers are willingly answering the call to fulfill the Royal vision of erecting 108 Jangchub Choetens along the Mao Chhu in Gelephu Mindfulnes...

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 591 views
Banks can unlock growth through affordable credit

Financial institutions are the lifeblood of any modern economy. They mobilise savings, allocate capital, manage risk, an...

Jun 03, 2026 3 mins read 1,888 views
A missed opportunity

The Thromde election process has begun, with the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) notifying registered voters in Thimphu and Phuentsholing thromdes who are eligible for postal v...

May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,625 views
Chain-link fencing: somebody’s gain, another’s loss

Chain-link fencing is perhaps one of the most viable solutions policymakers have managed to narrow down in the long and...

May 27, 2026 2 mins read 1,810 views
Fixing and fine-tuning GST regime

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime was never going to be an easy transition. Major tax reforms rarely are. Introduced in January this year, GST was envisioned as a modern tax system, replacing an outdated framework...

May 23, 2026 2 mins read 2,216 views
Insolvency law, a long overdue

Bhutan’s economy has changed dramatically since the Bankruptcy Act of 1999 was enacted. Back then, the private sector was small, cross-border trade was limited, and the financial system was far less complex.

May 20, 2026 3 mins read 2,142 views
GMC was a masterstroke

The conflict in the Middle East, which has disrupted the global economy and fueled uncertainties, has led investors to question whether oil-rich nations remain a safe haven. As the confl...

May 16, 2026 2 mins read 4,736 views
Fighting online scams

The digital age has transformed Bhutanese society in ways unimaginable in just a decade or two. Social media and online platforms have opened enormous opportunities for communication,...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 2,225 views
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...

May 11, 2026 6 mins read 2,810 views
Startups call for support beyond seed funding

The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support be...

Mar 21, 2026 3 mins read 6,583 views
National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.

Feb 25, 2026 2 mins read 7,909 views
Economy uncoils for strongest growth in years

The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...

Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 8,098 views
Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...

Feb 18, 2026 2 mins read 8,507 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 15,761 views
The true wealth of Dzambhala

The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his...

May 02, 2026 4 mins read 2,537 views
No amount of money can replace you

The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 5,069 views
You’re not what you think you are

You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness,...

Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 4,093 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a rela...

Apr 13, 2026 3 mins read 3,787 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 4,323 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,679 views
Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

Recent developments in the Middle East crisis suggest that a return to normalcy is still far away. Even if the war ends...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 3,695 views
Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country coul...

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 6,830 views
A bumper harvest shouldn’t brew a bumper crisis

This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...

Apr 25, 2026 2 mins read 4,091 views

Recents

Dungkar Dzong-an icon of Bhutan’s transformation

The Dungkar Dzong in Pangbisa, Paro, is a vivid living monument to the era of transformation in Bhutan. The structure represents Bhutan’s architectural splendour at its best. In function, it is an icon of change, an expression of times to come. The concept is an ingenuous demonstration of how a proud past welcomes an exciting future.

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Fourth thromde elections set for July 15

The dhamngoi zomdu (candidate selection meetings) for Thrompon candidates will begin for the fourth local government elections of Thimphu and Phuentsholing Thromde Tshogdes, scheduled for July 15, according to the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB).

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