July of 1990

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Shemgang couple confess to murder charges

Crime

Jul 13, 1990 1 mins read 241 views
Concerned residents crowd hospital

Health Disease

Jul 13, 1990 2 mins read 241 views
Orientation for graduates

Sherubtse College and Graduates

Jul 13, 1990 0 mins read 251 views
Statistical Year book

Central Statistical Organisation (CSO)

Jul 13, 1990 0 mins read 255 views
SAARC summit

SAARC Summit

Jul 13, 1990 0 mins read 0 views
Bhutan observes World Population Day

World Population Day

Jul 13, 1990 2 mins read 218 views
Pemagatshel farmers tour

Dzongkhags

Jul 06, 1990 0 mins read 252 views
P/ling - Gomtu bus service

Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)

Jul 06, 1990 0 mins read 279 views
New centre to consolidate services

Bhutan - Trade

Jul 06, 1990 2 mins read 278 views
Yusipang centre hosts first field day

Agriculture Institutions

Jul 06, 1990 2 mins read 259 views
Farmer injured

Accident

Jul 06, 1990 1 mins read 0 views
Services not genuine

Letters to the Editor

Jul 06, 1990 0 mins read 251 views
Danger on roads

Letters to the Editor

Jul 06, 1990 1 mins read 251 views
New songs

Letters to the Editor

Jul 06, 1990 0 mins read 278 views
Vandals keep wrecking sign boards

Letters to the Editor

Jul 06, 1990 1 mins read 261 views
No national flower

Letters to the Editor

Jul 06, 1990 1 mins read 433 views
Correspondence courses will help

Letters to the Editor

Jul 06, 1990 0 mins read 217 views
Vegetable day needed

Letters to the Editor

Jul 06, 1990 1 mins read 224 views
Roads important for progress

Letters to the Editor

Jul 06, 1990 1 mins read 238 views
Good harvest in Bumthang

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

Jul 06, 1990 0 mins read 240 views
Training for drivers to begin soon

Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)

Jul 06, 1990 0 mins read 226 views
Hospital handed over

Health-Hospital/JDWNRH

Jul 06, 1990 1 mins read 263 views
Meeting

Dzongkhags

Jul 06, 1990 0 mins read 0 views
Programme to upgrade quality of cattle

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Jul 06, 1990 1 mins read 226 views
Irrigation channel handed over

Agriculture Irrigation

Jul 06, 1990 0 mins read 0 views
Cultural programme a success

Education- Schools

Jul 06, 1990 0 mins read 248 views
Typhoid outbreak in Mongar

Health Disease

Jul 06, 1990 0 mins read 242 views
Entreprenuers' workshop gives birth to new businesses

Training/Workshop/Seminar/Country

Jul 06, 1990 2 mins read 223 views
Prisoner stabs himself to death

Crime

Jul 06, 1990 1 mins read 212 views
Some vaccines produced in the country

Animal Husbandry Activities

Jul 06, 1990 1 mins read 280 views
Armed robbery on BCCL Project road

Crime

Jul 06, 1990 1 mins read 221 views
Teachers take oath

Education-Teacher

Jul 06, 1990 2 mins read 266 views
A weekend of sports

Sport

Jul 06, 1990 0 mins read 260 views
Basketball

Sport

Jul 06, 1990 0 mins read 0 views
Local Football

Sport

Jul 06, 1990 0 mins read 259 views
His Majesty visits Samchi and Gomtu

His Majesty the King, accompanied by senior officials of the royal government, visited Gomtu and Samchi last week. A security meeting was held in Gomtu with the civil administration and RBP officers of Samchi Dzongkhag and Phuntsholing Dungkhag. His Majesty also held a meeting with the gups, chimis, village elders and prominent members of the general public In Samchi.

Jul 07, 1990 3 mins read 257 views
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Court judgements still out of public reach

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Study records over 200 native fodder species in highland rangelands

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World off target in meeting Paris climate goals, warns UNEP report

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Gedu college targets 100 percent internship placement by December

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Sacred Buddha relics from India to arrive for Global Peace Prayer Festival

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Youth, gender and sport steer Bhutan’s SDG momentum at Sherubtse

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Drukair: History of Bhutan’s national airline

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Devotion knows no bounds

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National symposium explores AI as catalyst for 10X growth

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Amochu quarriers call for flood walls after millions in losses

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Honouring the legacy of the Great Fourth

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Nov 11, 2025 2 mins read 506 views
The urgency of civil service transformation

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Nov 10, 2025 3 mins read 2,444 views
Should we control social media?

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Nov 08, 2025 2 mins read 1,289 views
Need bold reforms to advance women in leadership roles

Bhutan has always taken pride in being a fairly egalitarian society. In many communities, women are heads of households,...

Nov 07, 2025 3 mins read 593 views
Fraudulent businesses must be punished

The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority is on high alert, not only investigating complaints but also penalising businesses that try to make easy money at the expense of consumers.

Nov 06, 2025 2 mins read 2,166 views
Safe spaces, unsafe realities

The opening of three new Safe Spaces for Women and Girls in Mongar, Pemagatshel, and Samdrupjongkhar marks a significant step forward in our effort to protect women and children from violence.

Nov 05, 2025 2 mins read 526 views
A small kingdom’s great prayer for the world

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Nov 04, 2025 2 mins read 680 views
Why agile governance and policy innovation matter

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Nov 03, 2025 2 mins read 677 views
One health, one future

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Nov 01, 2025 2 mins read 648 views
Preparing Bhutan for the AI era

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Oct 31, 2025 2 mins read 929 views
Happiness with Mr Bhutan

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Sep 22, 2025 4 mins read 2,726 views
Ask Mr Bhutan

Aug 26, 2025 2 mins read 6,918 views
Ask Mr Bhutan

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Aug 18, 2025 2 mins read 4,035 views
Bhutanese youth must prepare for GMC jobs

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Oct 30, 2025 2 mins read 2,953 views
Making ESP education loan more accessible

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Oct 29, 2025 2 mins read 1,245 views
A teacher’s gift to the nation

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Oct 28, 2025 2 mins read 1,868 views
Walking for those who cannot walk

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Oct 27, 2025 2 mins read 774 views
Are we hoarding alcohol and cigarettes?

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Recents

Honouring the legacy of the Great Fourth

The story of His Majesty the Fourth King is an extraordinary one in our history. At 16, His Majesty became King, following the untimely passing of his father, the Third Druk Gyalpo. His Majesty inherited a nation in transition, a country taking its first steps toward modernisation, while gradually coming out from years of isolation. Geo-politically, it was a time of turmoil and uncertainty.

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The selfless Warrior-King

The winter of 2003 would forever be etched in Bhutan’s history as the time when a King walked into the jungles of the south, especially in Samdrupjongkhar, not as a ruler commanding from afar, but as a warrior leading from the front. The air was cold, heavy with mist, and beneath the thick canopy of trees lay the sound of tension.  A nation’s patience was stretched to its limit.

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Tribute to His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo

Throughout history, the world has seen countless leaders, yet only a few have embodied the rare harmony of wisdom, compassion, and courage that defines true greatness. Bhutan is fortunate to have been blessed by such a leader in His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, a visionary Monarch whose reign ushered the nation into an era of peace, progress, and profound transforma

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King who sacrificed his youth to build a future for us

Among the many extraordinary acts of greatness that define the reign of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, what moves the heart most profoundly is something far more silent, far less seen: the quiet, invisible sacrifice of his own youth. It is a story etched deeply in the soul of the nation, for in giving up his own, he gifted a future to us.

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The Vajrayana King

As Bhutan reflects on its journey as the world’s last Vajrayana kingdom, it becomes ever more evident that the reign of His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, marks one of the most sacred and transformative eras in our history.

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