October of 1983

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NEW INDIAN AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO HIS MAJESTY

His Excellency Amar Nath Ram, the new Ambassador of India to Bhutan presented his credentials to His Majesty the King at T...

Oct 30, 1983 0 mins read 759 views
CATTLE SHOW AT LEKITHANG, PUNAKHA

Animal Husbandry Activities

Oct 29, 1983 1 mins read 594 views
TREK TO CHOMOLHARI BASE A GREAT SUCCESS

DANTAK/IMTRAT/BRTF

Oct 29, 1983 0 mins read 636 views
HAA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS DZONGKHA DRAMA

Education- Student

Oct 29, 1983 1 mins read 678 views
BHUTAN TO PARTICIPATE IN UNESCO CONFERENCE

UN Agencies

Oct 29, 1983 0 mins read 603 views
BHUTAN SIGNS A LOAN AGREEMENT WITH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Oct 29, 1983 1 mins read 643 views
VIJAYA DASHAMI CELEBRATIONS

Festival (A-Z)

Oct 29, 1983 0 mins read 636 views
FOREIGN MINISTER PAYS OFFICIAL VISIT TO SWITZERLAND

Visitors

Oct 22, 1983 1 mins read 549 views
TWENTY YEARS ON: THE DEVELOPMENT OF MULTILATERAL FOOD AID

WFP (World Food Program)

Oct 22, 1983 5 mins read 679 views
DIRECTOR GENERAL OF FAO'S STATEMENT FOR WORLD FOOD DAY

WFP (World Food Program)

Oct 22, 1983 5 mins read 650 views
BHUTAN COMMEMORATES WORLD FOOD DAY

WFP (World Food Program)

Oct 22, 1983 0 mins read 664 views
BHUTAN SIGNS COMMON FUND AGREEMENT

International Financial Organisations

Oct 22, 1983 1 mins read 588 views
20TH DZONGKHAG YARGYE TSHOGCHUNG - GAYLEGPHUG

Home Affairs

Oct 15, 1983 1 mins read 524 views
FIFTH RAISING DAY CELEBRATED BY IMTRAT

DANTAK/IMTRAT/BRTF

Oct 15, 1983 0 mins read 602 views
SECOND AIRCRAFT FOR DRUK-AIR

Druk Air

Oct 15, 1983 0 mins read 655 views
FEED ANALYSIS LABORATORY AT SERBITHANG

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Oct 15, 1983 1 mins read 524 views
UNV MISSION VISITS BHUTAN

Volunteers

Oct 15, 1983 1 mins read 547 views
DSCD EXPOSURE EXHIBITION

Exhibition

Oct 15, 1983 3 mins read 565 views
SIX STAMPS DEPICTING SIX RELIGIOUS OFFERINGS

Universal Postal Union

Oct 08, 1983 3 mins read 587 views
SCHOOL FARMING AT GONGDARA PRIMARY SCHOOL

Education- Schools

Oct 08, 1983 0 mins read 564 views
AGREEMENT SIGNED BETWEEN THE ROYAL GOVERNMENT AND VSO

Volunteers

Oct 08, 1983 0 mins read 627 views
BHUTAN OBSERVES 14TH UPU DAY

Universal Postal Union

Oct 08, 1983 1 mins read 574 views
BHUTAN ATTENDS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE

International Issues

Oct 08, 1983 2 mins read 600 views
FCB BOARD MEETING DISCUSSES MARKETING OF CASH CROPS

Food Corporation of Bhutan (FCB)

Oct 01, 1983 1 mins read 574 views
EXHIBITION AT TEACHERS' TRAINING CENTRE, PARO

Exhibition

Oct 01, 1983 1 mins read 543 views
TRANS-HIMALAYAN EXPEDITION ARRIVES IN THIMPHU

Bhutan- India

Oct 01, 1983 2 mins read 555 views
HIS MAJESTY THE KING VISITS PARO

According to a late information received from Dzongda of Paro, Dasho Rinchhen Tshering, His Majesty the King briefly visited Paro on September 16. During the visit His Majesty the King was pleased...

Oct 02, 1983 1 mins read 693 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།

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Recents

NC revisits reservations to the CRPD

The National Council today unanimously supported the already adopted reservations on Articles 23, 27, and 29 of the Amendment to the Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

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